This was from the May 25,2003 Salt Lake Tribune.
Robert Lichfield, founder of WWASP got his start in the behavior modification industry at Provo Canyon School. The school was shut down for child abuse but is still in operation today - one of the largest problem youth programs in Utah.
Founded in 1998 as a nonprofit organization, World Wide and its tangle of affiliated businesses is the largest provider of services for troubled children in the country, according to Kay.
Its roots reach back to the Provo Canyon Boys School, which the state of Utah closed down in the late 1970s because of abuse, neglect and maltreatment of clients.
Robert Lichfield had been director of residential living at Provo Canyon, but eluded the school's legal troubles. He moved to La Verkin, a rural town in southern Utah, and with partner Brent Facer opened a new school in 1988 -- Cross Creek Manor, this time focusing on girls.
It promised, as Provo Canyon had once done, to turn around the lives of teenagers who were self-destructing -- a pledge made by all of World Wide's nine schools, including two in Utah.
There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
-- John Muir
