Peninsula Village Q/A thread

[psy]

I can see that you two have a kind of back and forth thing going right now, but I just wanted to interject with a general question about this forum.  I'm new and would like to tell my story.  I assume that starting a new topic would be the best way to go about it.  My question is: Are there any reasons, legal or otherwise, for me not to call out specific staff by their first and/or last names when I am describing my time there?

Nope.  I encourage it.  Especially if those staff work there.  As long as what you say is true you have nothing to fear.

I certainly have no intention of slandering anyone; the offenses and slights I suffered at PV are horrific enough on their own and need no exaggeration or embellishment.

A lot of people (stupid people) who read this forum think "oh this is just a bunch of fucked up program failures with grudges who exaggerate and manipulate".  What they don't undestand is exactly what you just said.  There is no need to exaggerate to show precisely how bad these programs are.  Don't be afraid to speak out.  Programs will threaten a lot of legal action but will rarely, if ever take you to court.  It usually ends bad for the program (people with similar experiencs come forward... staff come forward.. subpoeans start flying around and internal documents hit the press...)

It will take me awhile, I imagine, to convey my experiences there but I am anxious to share with those of you who have suffered similar experiences or love someone who had to suffer them.

Ya.  I was not in PV, but I was in a program.  There are an increasing amount of ex-PV ppl showing up here.  The more you speak out, the more courage others will have to do the same.  It's like a chain reaction.

Welcome to Fornits

[milkblood]

i found a schedule from PV in my PV notebook. it gives a great idea to how structured our time was. the schedule was pretty much the same every day (wake up times, eating times, group therapy) but the activities like Tai Chi and washing the van were different each day. (This is from the cabins)

Wednesdays

6:00am- Wake up
6:15am- bathhouse/hygiene/pray
6:35am- lanterns/trash
6:45am- Meditation @ YC (the dining hall)
7:00am- breakfast
7:28am- clean up/split rotation/porta/dump and fill gott (porta is short for porta john. there was no running watter in the cabins so we had to use porta johns. There were restrooms at the YC, bathhouse and school, though.)
8:00am- voc/toolshed
11:30am- clean up/toolshed
11:55am- line up/geloha (gelohas set the table for dining.)
12:00pm- lunch
12:33pm- clean up/rotation/porta
1:00pm- group therapy @ cabin
2:00pm- cabin jobs/shower clothes
2:35pm- voc/toolshed
4:45pm- clean up/toolshed
5:10pm- line up/geloha
5:15pm- dinner
5:43pm- clean up/split rotation/lanterns
6:00pm- CD Work (CD work was our AA and NA 12 step work)
6:30pm- consequences
7:00pm- Tai Chi
7:15pm- pirority work/work on skit/consequences
8:15pm- meds @ nursing
8:30pm- showers
9:30pm- wrap up/last porta
10:00pm- bedtime

[nimdA]

How long did you spend in the STU?

[milkblood]

I was in STU for 4 months and in the cabins for 4 months

[Covergaard]

Just to clarify it for the PV-page on secretprisonsforteens:

Porta = Portable toilet or was it more rustic like a metal container, which has to be remove from underneath a latrine

[milkblood]

they were porta johns, three in total. they were cleaned out by a company every Tuesday night.

I looked on your page and there were no wells at the cabin. We had water in the 5 gallon Gott we carried around all the time. we were not allowed to drink water while we were in for the night, unless the staff was asked and allowed us to. Sometimes they did, sometimes they didn't.
I saw that you had linked my old diaryland diary on your page!

[nimdA]

Covergaard use Private messages to conduct your secret prison business in the future.



moving along:

I noticed that school didn't seem to be offered on that schedule. Is there a reason for that?

[Kreflo]

Damn Boy, It look like Slim Pickens be ridin that nucular bum all the way down to PV. The PV war room is only partially underground. Maybe Mr. Sir needs to get those cabin crews on some REAL hole digging.

[milkblood]

I noticed that school didn't seem to be offered on that schedule. Is there a reason for that?

we did not have school on wednesdays. I cannot remember how many times a week we were doing schoolwork, but  it was at least 2 days a week.

[nimdA]

What sort of school work, teachers, classroom was provided for this twice a week of education?

[milkblood]

What sort of school work, teachers, classroom was provided for this twice a week of education?

 The schoolhouse was a one room building with a bathroom.There were 5 teachers when i was there. 1 was the "principle". The 'classrooms' were maybe 4 or 5 rows of student desks placed in front of the teacher's desk. The classes offered were the basics you find in high school: science, mathematics, literature. The work was pretty independent. there was no real teaching to a class going on. if you had a question you approached the teacher's desk and asked for help.

In STU one teacher comes to the unit and all the girls collect their schoolwork. Level 2s and 3s get to sit at the table in the center of the room and do their schoolwork. level 1 did their work on their beds. If you had a question for the teacher you raised your hand (which is how you are able to talk all the time, except in group therapy or dining at the table if you are not a level 1).


the desks were not like that, though. the chair was attached to the desk and there was nowhere to put things inside of it.

[nimdA]

Did any of the students have any special education needs? If they did were those needs attended to by a licensed special ed instructor?

[milkblood]

no, none of the students, while I was there, needed any special education.

[nimdA]

Do you feel your educational needs were properly tended to?


also..

On page 8 9 and 10 hrt2break describes the therapy of PV. Could you add anything to the following sections:

What was the individual therapy like?

What was the group therapy like?

[milkblood]

i do feel that my educational needs were tended to properly. i was doing the schoolwork that i needed to be doing at that point in my life. i did not graduate school from PV though because I was doing 11th grade work.

each girl in the cabins was given a individual therapist that we saw once(?) a week. we were taken out of class for it.  we were driven in a van by a staff member down the main road to the  admissions unit, (where all the therapists are). you have a one hour session with your therapist and then the van comes to transport you back to the schoolhouse. we talked about individual issues, but a lot of the things I talked about with my therapist were things that were going on around campus.
i cannot really recall how often we had group therapy. some days it was once a day and some days it was twice. we had a special group therapy sometimes when the psychiatrist would sit in on, some where the addiction specialist would sit in on, and some where the other doctor would sit in on. the group therapy sessions would vary from being at the schoolhouse or the cabins.