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!

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.

Prepare to meet your Doom JRC!

As a horrific video recording from 2002 of a student being tortured after acting out was released. As many of you know, The Judge Rotenberg Center operates just like any other program for troubled teens with the exception of using electric shocks and the wider range of students they serve. People are now jumping on the "Close the JRC" bandwagon. A campaign from the Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth (CAFETY) is starting a movement called "Occupy the JRC".

• There is a news article along with a graphic video of that same student strapped to a restraint board and screaming for help as he's being shocked. http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/undercover/video-of-teen-restrained-shocked-for-hours-to-be-played-in-court-20120410

Here is a message from Anonymous about the shock torture at the school.

Hospital and behavior modification centers regarding Rick Santorum

A recent article on Republican candidate Rick Santorum and his views on the health care and troubled teen industry. He decides that people can make their own decisions and not government organizations. Unfortunately in the case of minors, it's the parents that provide placements for them and their often NOT suitable places because the government cannot provide it for them. It shares the stories of abuse of two teenager girls in two different Texas RTC's.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/rick-santorum-uhs-hospitals-patient-rights_n_1276403.html

Proof of what prolonged neglectful punishments can do!

A case of child abuse resulted in the death of a 9-year old girl from Alabama who was forced to run laps non-stop as a form of punishment outside her house. She later collapsed from dehydration and low sodium and blood sugar levels.

These are the exact kinds of punishments being used at private therapeutic programs specifically designed for teens. Their primitive, prolonged torture is used for therapy in many wilderness programs. If you have had no idea about what such punishments can do, this case is a clear example of what exactly happens in remote locations where these is no help from the outside world. Unlike the troubled teen industry there were witnesses, and police later criminalized that young girls care takers. If only there were witnesses of abuse in troubled teen schools and programs, just imagine the amount of media attention they would get  based on the disturbing story of this innocent girl.

Video Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/alabama-family-charged-in-girls-running-death-15774533