New 'Teen Trouble' Show Markets Abusive Programs!

Lifetime Network is airing a new troubled teen reality show called "Teen Trouble" that's scheduled to go on the air sometime in 2013. The man running the show is Josh Ship. By the looks of it he is NOT a licensed psychologist or family councilor and is more like a younger version of Dr. Phil. In the episode preview, he works with a troubled kid and sends him away to an Aspen Program called "Outback Therapeutic Expedition". In other words, THIS IS A MARKETING TOOL FOR ABUSIVE PROGRAMS!. Sometime in the future there will be a petition promotion to demand Lifetime not to air this program because it's endorsing and marketing fraudulent programs that are a danger to the teens placed there. Plus the kid on this sampled episode needs REAL professional and government welfare services (if any exist under the Afordable Care Act)

I'm betting that it's Aspens way of lashing back after Mitt Romney who profits from them lost the recent election. So as a result, he can not give the edge to these programs and his trophy wife will not be able to work with troubled teens as she promised as First Lady.

A Need or a Privilege?

A lot of these programs have a philosophy that take behavior modification to the extreme. Too extreme to the point that peoples basic daily needs are often considered privileges such as sanitation of food and water, hygiene, shelter, and physical comfort. These are the things that are granted in prisons because they are human rights. What inmates are not granted is TV, Recreation Sports, and snacks because they are privileges that are earned.

Owner of Copper Canyon Opens up a New Facility for Boys

The founder of Copper Canyon Academy Tammy Behrmann has opened up an all-male equivalent on the property of Robert Lichfield's old mansion in St. George Utah. The WWASPS founder apparently sold the property to Aspen Education (which owns CCA) to open up a new facility that is bound to be abusive.

The school is called Ashcreek Ranch Academy and it just opened last month and is now included in the "Targeted Facilities" list. As usual, the website has a whole list of teenage traits they consider "serious issues". There has to be as many people as possible to close this place down ASAP because it's only a matter of time before one of the boys dies in this program.

And this B!tch Tammy Behrmann should be arrested along with the closure of CCA.

Children’s Mental Health Accessibility Act is Just What we Need!

This seems like a dream come true for industry survivors and kids in need of mental health services outside of institutions. Two Senators proposed a bill called the Children's Mental Health Accessibility Act of 2012 to expand Medicaid Home Services to include youth that would otherwise need placement in a residential treatment facility's instead of a psychiatric hospital. As there are many teens who's issues do not require in patient care, for many years they were forced to go into some other facility as no government programs yet exist.

This bill will also cost taxpayers a lot less money if fewer people are housed in State Hospitals (where most survivors of youth residential centers eventually end up). And the government will have to spend less money too. More information about the bill can be read about here.

Bain's CRC Health uses cheap labor to sell out

The CRC Health Group and Aspen Education were both purchased by Bain in 2006 after several investments were made. It's interesting that Bain would purchase companies that were already abusing kids with untrained staff and innepropriate therapy. These cases of abuse had spiked after Bain took over and more people died like in the case of Brendan Blum back in 2007. He died a VERY agonizing death from a twisted bowel when staff in the program believed that he was faking.