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.

More insight to Mitt Romneys connections to Asped Education Group and Bain Capital

Mitt Romney seems to be the voice of freedom and hope and not for other demographics. This mainly have to do with young people enrolled in for-profit education programs including programs for so-called troubled teens. Bain Capital has acquired both CRC Health and Aspen Education Group which Bain later merged the two together.

This article tells more about the notoriously abusive facilities and people who have died in these places. Because of Aspen Education Group being a part of Bain Capital, it has now been able to open more abusive facilities while making more money than ever. Hopefully those facilities won't last long as the whole industry was based off of the Synanon module of therapy which should be banned nationwide.

Now taking requests for targeted facilities

People are not really sure exactly how many abusive treatment facilities there are. So if anyone knows about some places that are not on the "Targeted Facilities" list at the bottom of the page, put them in the comment section of this update. You can however cite some proof on weather or not their abuse is top notch or from your own experience if your a survivor.

This list really counts to let the general public know about these abusive for-profits. The bigger the list, the better!

Utah Wildfires Effects on Residential Programs

Many of you know about the wildfires burning down entire neighborhoods in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. Your probably wondering what this has to do with residential programs. Well one of the affected states ,Utah, has the largest collection of fraudulent residential treatment programs for teens and in some cases young adults.

In turn, crews continue to battle wildfire near Hurricane where Diamond Ranch Academy is located. DRA has been severely abusive for several years and don't even be fooled by it's flashy website. This is deceptive marketing at it's worst. Let's hope that the advocates and other DRA survivors have high hopes that the wildfires reach the facility and the owner's estate. We can think of it as a "spiritual arson" that destroys the bad guys so that they can't do anymore evil to these innocent teens and their parents. The same goes for other abusive programs in Utah that have failed to shutdown or be inspected by the state government.

We can feel sorry for the other people who've lost their homes in the flames as they mourn over the foundation, but not in the case of DRA. We cannot feel sorry for the owners of these programs and their facilities because they're getting what they deserved!