Want More?


Saturday, June 30, 2012

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!

Friday, June 22, 2012

Warning Signs of Illegal Marketing of Abusive Programs

When searching for a program or a boarding school that you want to fit the needs of your child, one of the first things you come up with on your search engine is marketing pages for for-profit therapeutic boarding schools and/or wilderness programs and boot camps. The reason for this is that they are owned by major corporations who make big money and use it to open up new facilities and are hungry for some more. Most of them will be up in the face of desperate families and will lie to them about the program structure, length of stay, academics, accreditation, and even encourage the parents to lie to the child or the other parent. Some will even encourage the use of a so-called escort service to come and kidnap their child by surprise in the middle of the night.