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Anon, two years huh?  How are you doing, besides the anxiety and nightmares?  Do you get along with your parents?  Are you in school, or working, or ??
Are you able to make friends and trust them?  
Please let us know how you're doing, I'm interested.

First thing that comes to mind is that he *always* has an escape plan, no matter where he is or what he's doing.  He never was like that before.  He talks semi-often about things such as "if I had to, I could kill someone".  He always has a knife on him, and a big one by his bed, he didn't have the *need* for that before.  I can't come up behind him and hug him, he still jumps and turns around quickly in a really defensive (and scarey) manner, he certainly didn't do this before.  He takes the longest and hottest showers of anyone I've ever known; guess he's still compensating for those 2 min's of cold water.  
How could I forget: he *could NOT* fall asleep after he got out, not without dropping from exhaustion.  His brain would race if he'd lay down. He'd wake up frequently, then not be able to go back to sleep, he'd have horrendous nightmares, reinforcing that he didn't want to go back to sleep.  He's on medication for sleeping now and it's much better.  
This is just some of the stuff I could think of quickly after reading your post.  If I think of more, I'll post them later.

It's coming up on the one year anniversary of Casa by the Sea being shut down! Anyone from there have anything to say now that they've been free for a year?  I'd love to hear from some of those kids.

Hey, what happened to these guys?  Their website was up and running one day, gone the next. Kind of like the stories and features they had, one day they were there, the next they were gone.  Hmmm....wonder what happened to them?

"Investigative agency"?  Hmm, is this anything like the *kidnappers*, I mean "transport agency" that brings the kids to that place?  
Wonder why they didn't just count on the police-in-their-pocket to find the boys?

What I heard, if I remember right, is something about the head guy flipped out and was sending the girls to wilderness or something, where they basically sat in the woods, silent, all the damn day long, for days.  Creepy stuff like that, and I think he also hit some girl or slapped her.  Something about a fight, too.  The teacher was I think, Miss Cheryl?  Does that sound familiar to you?
By the way, were you there?  When?

"Think how the parents feel" would be assuming that this information is actually correct!  
The post seems fishy, y'know, like a program person putting major spin and perhaps twisting facts to slam the "helper" (in this case Joyce Harris) instead of finding out why help was needed, i.e. question the program.
Do we really think someone gave someone else's kids airline tickets to a rock/drug concert in another state?  I'm having a hard time believing that, coupled with the way that post was written.
But, as Dennis Miller used to say "that's just my opinon and I could be wrong...."

Interesting article and interesting comments from those who run it!  Particularly,
"with the expulsions, the school had shed its most troublesome residents."
Pardon me, but doesn't this place advertise itself as a means to help "troublesome" kids?  But they "shed" the troublesome residents?
And what about the kids picked at the end of the article to answer questions?  The *school* picked 4 and the report picked 2.  The only *problem* with this is, all the kids were in a room together, no one was interviewed alone.  Not only that, but as everyone here already knows, those kids will suffer if they told the truth.  I mean, c'mon, the last kid, there only a few days, made their 'statement' without eye contact with the interviewer and made some 'program-like' comment.  
Hopefully, though, this article will help.