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The Troubled Teen Industry / Re: Where should I send my troubled teen?
« on: November 12, 2010, 01:47:05 PM »Quote from: "queenmom"
Hi,
I am looking for a therapeutic residential school, can anyone recommend any good ones?
Is there anyplace to find the top 10 list of therapeutic boarding schools anywhere in the US or Canada?
All suggestions welcome.
You have your work cut out for you. I left a program over 10 years ago, it was a WWASPS program. They are still around and are one of the worst and most abusive. If you want to help your kid do your research. Many of these programs lie about their licenses and accreditations. They will tell you they are accredited but they have accreditations from organizations that they created and are not recognized by the government.
A few tips,
1. Stay away from WWASPS and Aspen Education, this is difficult because they are hidden benefactors, check who owns the land that the program is on. That is a good way to find out who the program is asscociated with.
2.Stay away from any program that does mass therapy sessions, they are called by many different names, usually there are at least 2 and up to 5 different "seminars" required for graduating a program.
3.I would be wary of any program listed with NATSAP, google NATSAP and they have lists of hundreds of programs, I have found several that were closed due to abuse.
4.Any program that wants to cut off your communication with your child. They will say that you can receive mail but no phone calls until a certain level of achievement, in my experience this is to assimilate the child to abusive conditions.
5. Any program that has roots or connections in Utah. Utah has different child welfare laws and can get away with alot more abuse. Even if the program is not in Utah, affiliation with any agency in Utah is a warning sign.
6. DO NOT send your kid to another country!!! To me this is a sure sign that your child will be abused.
I do not know of a single program I can recommend, I have not found one that is anything more than a scam preying on troubled parents.