The unregulated billion dollar US Troubled Teen Industry has thrived for decades

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Perhaps it may be potentially more effective to address this in a way I actively avoid usually to illustrate the significance of the situation as a whole.

The following article(s) pertain to something current posted less than a day ago but this is overall something that has been occurring for a significant time. Typically I consider this really starting as far back as the 1960s.

CW: Child abuse, death, institutional abuse, torture

https://www.foxcarolina.com/2024/02/07/deputies-investigating-after-student-dies-trails-carolina/

I am also including a link to the daily mail only to illustrate the reach this one, recent story has had.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13059761/NC-wellness-camp-Trails-Carolina-boy-dies-investigation-mystery.html

This is what I have focused on and dedicated my life to addressing starting in a full time capacity over three years ago. The facility, a wilderness camp, mentioned in the above articles is one I have a folder on consisting of nearly 70 GB in just documentation alone and dates as far back as to when it originally opened. This very wilderness program is one I have thoroughly explored rather extensively and part of the nearly 600 other facilities that make up the collection of data.

It was and has been long overdue to properly acknowledge and address this issue. I did so in a way that proved to not only be able to have significant and numerous use cases but was literally ahead of the legislation introduced just last year.

I believe that for many I have discussed or shared this sort of topic with it just did not register because frankly, it seems almost unbelievable. When it does click one usually struggles with understanding that it has been happening and has never been properly addressed, not once.

To pace this I will wait to follow up on the significant role OSINT has played in what I have developed along with why specifically my involvement is incredibly relevant.

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https://www.blueridgenow.com/story/news/local/2024/02/07/child-dies-at-transylvania-county-sheriffs-office-investigating-death-at-therapy-camp-2nd-since-2014/72510050007/

https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/mep14/trailscarolina/trails-carolina-horror-stories-an-in-depth-investigation-to-unearth-the-shadows/

Their marketing. (preserved and archived on IPYT Index)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90bMfS8XWwc

using y2mate to download onto drive--save under NorthCarolina/TRAILS folder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2uoTUBKvjo
(archived -- originally posted in 2021)

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Update: I am currently writing an article for NYRA, the non profit I work with/facilitate, regarding this issue and how it was entirely preventable. This will provide the email for NYRA research to media covering this and may result in an influx of communication. Will post when finish.

@drifting silo follow-up/additional info here btw.

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keeping track of additional articles.
https://wlos.com/news/local/trails-carolina-camp-not-fully-cooperating-after-suspicious-death-of-12-year-old-boy-on-premesis-transylvania-sheriff-chuck-owenby
https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/boy-12-dies-one-day-after-enrolling-north-carolina-camp/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/12-year-old-died-less-24-hours-arrived-north-carolina-wilderness-camp-rcna138098
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/sort-of-like-a-military-uh-boot-camp-boy-12-dies-at-youth-therapy-camp-under-suspicious-circumstances-24-hours-after-he-arrives-police-say/
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2024/02/08/therapy-camp-death-investigation-nc
https://www.the-sun.com/news/10328866/boy-dies-after-day-at-controversial-wellness-camp/
https://wlos.com/news/local/trails-carolina-camp-therapeutic-wildnerness-program-cited-state-health-department-ncdhhs-deficiencies-juvenile-death-not-natural-lake-toxaway-failure-approval-training-staff
https://www.foxnews.com/us/preteen-boy-dies-1-day-after-enrolling-controversial-north-carolina-therapy-camp-suspicious-death

What is concerning and stressful for me in posting the update for NYRA is the risk of harassment continuing by a group who has basically taken over the coverage and efforts pertaining to the TTI. Included within this group is someone who is compromised my work, well-being, and ability to successfully continue.

Having only one interaction with them right as the current effort began I shared my experience and tech skill set. Upon mentioning OSINT they responded in a very dismissive manner and said You mean you just google? They had the authority and power at that time to basically spread a narrative akin to what bellingcat experiences being called psyops or a state funded operations. Where this differed is I had no existing support or ability to defend my credibility.

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it might be beneficial to establish an introduction and baseline understanding of the TTI as I do this and sort of weave the current event here into that to better illustrate, basically, how we got here and how did this happen.

A CULT, WEAPONIZED BABY JESUS, AND AVERSION THERAPY LEGITIMIZED
-Synanon, the drug rehab center established in California by Chuck Deitrich established some of the core models and practices echoed throughout the industry even to present day. The CEDU programs which later incorporated the usage of LGATs as a therapeutic milieu of sorts. Mel Wasserman founded the CEDU schools and it is argued that the name was due largely to his idolization of the Synanon founder standing for Chuck E. Deitrich University. Wasserman argued CEDU meant something akin to You see You do.
-IFB/Lester Roloff Homes were the religious aspect and often, due to the exemptions allowed by state lobbyists and legislators, were free from oversight entirely especially in states such as Texas, Florida, Missouri, and Mississippi.
-The Mormon/LDS involvement within the TTI is largely attributed to Provo Canyon School founder Dr. D. Eugene Thorne, head of Brigham Young University psychology department. ||He conducted electro-shock and vomiting aversion therapy experiments on admitted homosexual students.|| This is attributed to the Mormon influence on the industry and it was at Provo that staff members would meet and go on to open their own facilities with aggressive marketing tactics and litigious threats. This is where WWASP founders Ken Kay, Karr Farnsworth, and the Lichfield family all met who were later funded by billionaire J. Ralph Atkin.
-Happening simultaneously was the then Reagan administration continuation of the war on drugs which facilitated the federally funded anti-drug programs such as The Seed, KIDS, Straight Inc, and others. Due to being federally funded oversight was possible as was actionable consequences.

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ADDITIONAL ELEMENTS OF THE INDUSTRY FACILITATING ITS OPERATION
-Educational Consultants are referral agencies to different boarding schools and can sometimes assist with college prep or addressing specialty programs for areas of study. The more nefarious element is the referral to TTI adjacent programs using Individual Education Plans or IEPs.
-Transport Agencies or Escorts are used to transport youth from the home to the program when parents feel their child would be resistant as this is not a consenting choice. Often arriving during the night and including a group of 2-4 grown men with zip ties or hand cuffs to remove the child from the home. This is a clearly distressing experience usually for both child and parent(s).
-Accrediting Agencies are used as legitimizing facilities by issuing a sort of clearance or approval and tend to give the illusion of being a sound program. Examples are the Joint Commission, CARF, cognia, and others.
-Trade Organizations primarily NATSAP or the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs are a group of members who are founders or administrators of private programs themselves presenting themselves as establishing and overseeing a standard of care despite this not being the case. One founding member, Jan Moss, was questioned during the 2007 Congressional Hearing by Sen. George Miller and Sen. McKeon after it was established how little they address the existing concerns and even excuse them by their deceptive marketing practices.
-Marketing/Referral Agencies facilitate distributing advertising material and newsletters over the industry as to legitimize its existance and image. Initially this was rather limited online but a good example is the Woodbury Reports, Teen Help, and Aspen Education Group. Presently are online directories created by industry groups to improve SEO.

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Here...to better facilitate some interest and a way to better introduce an element of this issue let me Tarantino this a little bit.

THIS IS THE CULT PART-LIFESPRING, THE LDS, & BRAINWASHED BREAKTHROUGHS
https://www.businessinsider.com/unearthed-footage-shows-ginni-thomas-discussing-departure-from-a-cult-2022-4

Lifespring is the Large Group Awareness Training (LGAT) Ginni Thomas is disclosing in the video above posted by one of the handful of cult experts I have overlap with, Steve Hassan. LGATs are self-help based seminars and originated by splitting off from Scientology during the Human Potential Movement. Starting with the MLM Holiday Magic its salesforce were required to go through one of its brutal marathon trainings of Mind Dynamics or Leadership Dynamics. After the MLM was shut down several went on to create their own repackaged technology simply recreating the same exercises and experiences with slight changes. These were:

-est (erhard seminars training)/Landmark Forum
-Lifespring
-PSI
-Avatar
-Impact
-(literally numerous others that continue to replicate)

Lifespring is most relevant here.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/lifespring/main.htm

Unfortunately there is contention between two of the most known experts and some rather excessive in-fighting or rather, out fighting? Its very public.
https://cultnews.com/2022/04/exploiting-painful-cult-experience-ginni-thomas-wrong/

The 1987 WaPo article I Cried Enough to Fill a Glass
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1987/10/25/i-cried-enough-to-fill-a-glass/c75b0dda-e8ea-46f9-8aea-8e4afdd0cfbe/

Why is Lifespring relevant to the TTI?
One answer: Resource Realizations and David Gilcrease, former Lifespring trainer and creator of the LGATs used by WWASP facilities on troubled youth ages 12-17. Lifespring and other LGATs only had adult trainings and technically you could leave. Within the TTI you were a minor with no choice.

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This is Steve Hassan and John Hunter, the latter of which I have collaborated with directly and has done some of the peer review over my research. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huT7z2TcBhA

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But dare I say the GOAT of it all...Robert Jay Lifton.
https://youtu.be/4UAz5EmG00I

https://freedomofmind.com/surviving-our-catastrophes-celebrating-the-resilience-and-renewal-of-survivors-with-robert-jay-lifton-m-d/
Elaborating on the concept of triumph over tragedy but lets get into the core of Liftons work and its relevance to not only the TTI but my work and experience directly.

In the above interview Lifton says specifically his interest in being able to ensure his work is helping young people. That has already happened in a way that he is not yet aware of.

Liftons primary work is covered here https://freedomofmind.com/robert-jay-liftons-eight-criteria-of-thought-reform-brainwashing-mind-control/ and is from Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China which is based on his research covering ideological totalism in 1956.

CRITERIA FOR THOUGHT REFORM
 Milieu control
 Mystical manipulation (or planned spontaneity)
 The demand for purity
 The cult of confession
 Sacred science
 Loading of the language
 Doctrine over person
 Dispensing of existence

The essay from which this selection is taken is entitled “Cults: Religious Totalism and Civil Liberties.” In it, Lifton frames his comments in relation to what he calls ideological totalism. This was the environment in which Chinese thought reform was practiced, as Lifton came to know of it from the Korean War and afterward.```

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Initially I introduced a very recent example of a program with its own horrible legacy leading up to its now 2nd causality. But allow me to come full circle and demonstrate the application of being able to seek truth and understanding even when it is likely the hardest to be able to sift through and effectively analyze.

SPRING RIDGE ACADEMY -- 1996-2023
Facilities responsible for egregious violations that can be found in OSINT sources, although it was immensely difficult and required a fight, usually never face any real repercussions. Take for example the story of Aaron Bacon whose father testified at the 2007 Congressional Hearing that addressed the TTI after the WWASP programs were being exposed by British Television not U.S. Aaron died after being sent to a wilderness program from extreme neglect and abuse and I believe no one even saw jail time. As a matter of fact despite the facility was shut down but the operators successfully relocated in another state.

Spring Ridge Academy tried this albeit unsuccessfully I might add likely due to someone making sure that never happened. How they were shut down in the first place is not a clear cut answer but it certainly has something to do with the lawsuit filed against them in January of 2021, Sweidy vs. Spring Ridge Academy, et al.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg2dVVVO66w

Lifton talks about dis/misinformation and the cult of Trump recalling history as he knew it.

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SRA opens as mentioned on early TTI marketing site strugglingteens.

From expert witness statement written by Rick Alan Ross wherein he assesses their practices and compares them against Liftons criteria.

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The Lawsuit--More Recent Docket
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-azd-3_21-cv-08013/summary

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Lifton's criteria and the structure of most standard LGAT seminars within the TTI.

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After the correspondence above came the 2007 Congressional Hearing addressing the abuse found within private residential treatment programs and the violation of both civil and human rights of youth. An additional hearing on 2008 addressing the industry took place discussing the deceptive marketing tactics and introduced the first of many failed pieces of legislation regarding this industry's practice.

There are a few clips I refer to from the hearing however I have to admit that this one is particularly healing for me. This is where then NATSAP administrator Jan Moss is absolutely grilled and held accountable for the absolute failure their organization has assisted in allowing. Why this is significant for me is because of who Jan Moss is.

Let's wrap back around to Spring Ridge Academy, the program sued in 2021 and later closed in 2023 that started as a WWASP offshoot. Founded by Jean Courtney, ex-wife of Lifespring facilitator David Gilcrease (from depositions above) and co-founded by colleague Jan Moss. Jan Moss was a part of the administration that founded and ran Spring Ridge Academy. Her role at NATSAP was as a founding member as well where she represented Spring Ridge Academy in her role.

https://youtu.be/gtQJ8MWINtM?si=6rynnPAibE8qcL7b

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SPRING RIDGE ACADEMY AND THE ROLE OF OSINT IN ITS CLOSURE
There is significant reason why I refer back to this recent (albeit still ongoing) litigation pertaining to this particular facility. For one it bridges a gap in what many pro-TTI supporters try to maintain distance in affiliation. Spring Ridge Academy ("SRA") is an example of how a facility continues to operate despite allegations and reports of violations, complaints, and even criminal convictions. Along with being directly connected to what even NATSAP itself tries to publicly shun as the "bad apples" in the industry SRA is an example of how this is simply history repeating only with better marketing.

The research that assisted the lawsuit was all done following OSINT methodology and best practices (re: Berkeley Guide) including the FOIA and PRR (public record requests). The only real barrier present was financial however in this case that was not difficult to address.

The complaint is filed by Kimberly Sweidy, a parent of a child who was sent to SRA and kept their through a manipulation of the family court system and the divorced father. This is actually not an uncommon tactic. When the parents are more than able to afford the $10k/month tuition SRA is eager to placate them as much as necessary.

Sorting through previously known TTI sites and orgs with the wayback machine and additional archival tools made presenting the claims possible. Combine this with both the more recent and complete records received by the local Sheriff's department and the state department of Health and Human Services and a foundation for establishing SRA's practices could be created.

Why this is not only a valuable use of OSINT in application but in understanding that process is due to how such an investigation occurred and the circumstances surrounding this.

Survivor wisdom.

I spent almost three years there as a youth from 1999-2002. Entirely self-taught in tech, I learned OSINT to survive until I saw justice.

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CREATION OF PRESENT WORK: OSINT, DATABASE SYSTEM, RESULTS ACHIEVED

A little over a year ago I managed to pull the still existing bravery I had and entered Bellingcat's hackathon, the first one I have EVER entered. I felt there was some opportunity to create a tool I had learned would be of massive legal utility regardless of how efficient a law firm may think it is. Those who worked with me on this I am eternally grateful towards.

It is likely that, despite my awareness of how much this user-friendly/accessible tool was needed it wound up covering over the work I spent 2.5 years building.

The IPYT Index (Industry of Programs and Practices for Youth Treatment) aimed to be the very thing that has lacked in collecting and presenting usable data on the TTI.

https://www.youthrights.org/using-osint-a-digital-research-approach/

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>>FACILITY DATABASE: SQL/SQLITE SOLUTION FOR RELATIONAL CONNECTIONS
For every facility, past and present, documenting basic data such as address, founder, years open, online presence, and marketing materials. This aims to provide as objective of an overview of the facilities and who runs them as nepotism is alive and well in the TTI. For data such as presenting statistics and spotting correlations a relational database seemed ideal.

>>REFERENCE LIBRARY: NoSQL THAT EXPLORES RECORDS & DOCUMENTATION
Certainly the more easily implemented part and likely where one would start having minimal or limited understanding of the Industry. This acts as a preservation archive, digital media library, congressional/legislative (in)action, and even the very recent SICAA bill.

THE RELEVANCE AND TIMING OF SICAA BILL
As the hackathon previously mentioned had come to a close the introduction of a bill that went beyond the usual scope of TTI reform; to be honest it was a bill centered around...data collection. I suppose when Paris Hilton pushes for legislation people pay attention and none of that surprises me. What does is truly how uninvolved I have been considering what my work accomplishes already and what the bill is defining.

for those who are a bit more normal and don't spend their free time reading legislation I will point out what is relevant, page 4-8 but the first 8 if possible
https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/khanna-merkley-cornyn-tuberville-and-carter-introduce-bipartisan-legislation

specifically DUTIES.--The Work Group Shall--
https://www.merkley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/imo/media/doc/sica_bill_text.pdf

My work was, in spirit, brought to the hearing by then operational We Warned Them which consisted almost entirely of former NYRA members. However one person who did pass the word along was not tech-savvy but a website was up as was the one which had originally stolen my concepts for creating such an infrastructure.

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https://youtu.be/6ZK610-n1vo?si=wbxhp0l6gn-_hFud

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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/05/entertainment/the-program-cons-cults-and-kidnapping-review/index.html

@hearty fractal Nice to see this topic getting some attention 🙂

The director of that Netflix program is a victim of this f*cked up system too.

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https://thedirect.com/article/the-program-cast-2024-netflix-people-ivy-ridge-documentary-series
this series that just released I have all of the research for...and have had it for about 2 years...

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How did you find the series actually?

Haven’t watched it myself yet, plan to, but curious how you see it as someone who has followed the issue for a while.

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I can't. First off none of it would be news to me anyhoots and secondly I'd know too much about what it took to get made.

the data I've collected over the years has all been open source or what I've been given. was handed a large, large zipped folder and told that I'd be trusted with it and held onto it. It's got more in it than most places but its also data I can't technically use but someone else could certainly for their own purposes.

I always thought having a warranty on your child was amusing.

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the trailer for the series. It has become clear to me that I need to start creating content again despite how terrifying it may be as I certainly can. It is incredibly hard to get others to understand what this actually is because it seems so foreign. More specifically I realize I need to very deliberately show how OSINT is not only immensely relevant but played a key role in what I developed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUvj2dzBpcI

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TRACING BACK TO THE ORIGINAL INSPIRATION-1ST PIECE OF RELEVANT LEGISLATION (2008)

Ultimately the work you see coming together was inspired long before any recent legislative efforts despite how eerily similar they may be. It was the legislation drafted after the 1st Congressional Hearing and presented at the 2nd in 2008. Even back then it seemed pretty clear what could be done despite the drafted bill being rather ambitious at 32 pages.

H.R. 5876 - ‘‘Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act of 2008’
https://drive.proton.me/urls/2AHXBQV1DW#w9l4xobKSmC7

Comparing this to what existed in the marketing realm of the industry it appeared there was a way to make this work: remove the subjective/personal interest found in these marketing websites and simply lay out the facts as they are. Such marketing websites are incredibly easy to find and even easier to prove that it is marketing such sites are aiming to do. Earliest example of this was Struggling Teens run by Lon Woodbury with an archive dating back to 1991. A more current example is All Kinds of Therapy which appears at first glance to be a 3rd party but when listings are paid for by facilities and their administrative staff it simply cannot be objective whatsoever.

Several clips from the 2008 Congressional Hearing address the unexpected pushback received mentioned by the bipartisan support and politicians working on making this achievable. Little did they know that never has it been the case for the TTI to have this sort of oversight enforced and they deliberately want it left up to each state.

Surely you can see why this is a benefit. There is a reason the TTI thrives in states such as Utah, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, North Carolina, Missouri, and several others. The regulation, if existant, is by default incredibly lax.

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GAO INVESTIGATIONS
Any sort of investigations or research that I have conducted, while not nearly of the same length and caliber, are ones I hope to uphold the same criteria set forth by the GAO (Government Accountability Office). It was the GAO reports that allowed for such substantial findings to be presented as a part of the Hearings. Of course not everyone was pleased with the reports and the rebuttal by Industry "leader" NATSAP certainly says as much.

2007 GAO Report--Concerns Regarding Abuse and Death
https://drive.proton.me/urls/2B9GT73FDC#cQ591B8bCIs2

2007 NATSAP Rebuttal to GAO Report
https://drive.proton.me/urls/RG10D6N3RC#3YtjsTtsmQvz

2007 Program Rebuttal to GAO Report: Catherine Freer
https://drive.proton.me/urls/WRDS9ZNDBW#Oi7llblTfASw

There were several other investigations held by the GAO during this time pertaining to several different matters of concern addressed of the Industry. The latest GAO report done in 2022 updates several initial findings as well as proposes a suggestion that is neither new or unheard of by legislators and advocates. Ultimately this is one of the building blocks to establish having data collected and shared with the proper federal work group to better disseminate and develop a proper understanding of the industry at present.

(2022) GAO CHILD WELFARE: HHS Should Facilitate Information Sharing Between States... https://drive.proton.me/urls/1HMDDK11SM#6sBmEvfFLxGQ

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I am not sure the appropriate way to alert those in here of an update but hopefully a post in itself is sufficient.

Today I will be presenting at a Stage Talk (of which I am immensely thankful for the opportunity, I cannot express this enough) about this subject. However the focus is to be on the solution and how OSINT played that role very specifically. That does not mean the material here is no less important; it is, I'd argue, still as important to understand as it answers the the very important, "why?".

Of course I understand that the common denominator for issues addressed here, by Bellingcat, by those in OSINT, is how that adds value. I do not want to fail in addressing the severity of the issue so I encourage you to read through this material and what will be continually added as I have the security to publish such.

To reiterate the way in which I will address this is from the presently available (much has yet to be publicly accessible for the aforementioned reasons) explanation of the following Intelligence Cycle.

Further explained, as intended for the general user with no prior understanding of OSINT is what is used and thus was is accepted as submission. Of note is that all current collected data less than 1% was ever user submitted. The data is not something I "own" and I mention this as it was a question posed to me by a fellow survivor some time ago. It is unfortunate that this effort has been so mired by the betrayal of those who usurped the power and authority to make decisions or an egregious lack therefore.

I informed the user that this is simply a centralized collection of information for which the use is to extrapolate data points providing useable information from what has been collected. This data goes back to as far as the 60s from newspaper clippings to early the early internet era of the mid 90s. Their efforts will not go unmentioned as it was significant and valuable to keep alive.

Even moreso the reason for my lack of identity or highlighting my role in some significant way is intentional; this is not about my ego, my need for fame, or a desperate effort to practice moral outrage. This is about providing a solution to a problem that has long needed one and I plan to do such as ethically and as successfully as possible.

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So the stage talk is about a private data collection,you never published anything?

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can you elaborate further?

So I can answer appropriately as to why I have not been able to publish and address accurately what is meant by "private" data collection

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OK I will assume for now...I couldn't publish anything and for a few reasons.

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Are you wondering if this research has been published somewhere?

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Thx

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lmk if any clarification is needed still...i can answer poss during the talk. i do look forward for a lot of my work soon being possible, its just been risky and frightening as a team of one mostly.

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@hearty fractal On from the Stage talk (and hopefully more people join here), what is the most common demographic of people sent to these places?

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I missed your stage talk (trapped at work unfortunately), but I'll definitely listen to the recording once it's published! Thanks again for taking your time to tell us about this topic!

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Glad you got to hold the talk. I was also happy to see the huge turnout and judging from the great questions coming from the audience you won't have a shortage of people to help.
I really want to see you publish! if you need any help in your research to close some gaps, I'm sure all you gotta do is ask and you'll find people willing to dig.

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I sincerely appreciate this. There are a few things and I might start sharing what has been the roadblocks thus far. Admittedly a lot of it is financial but not where one would expect. Also solving some of that may not require typical finances; at times companies have been down to support and contribute by offering either discounts or prolonged trials.

An example...
I want to make short form videos that comprise different topics but I'd like to not always show the really intense media ( @drifting silo is aware of some of this.) There's a youtube channel called "Horses" that does video essays and supplements with art styles used from Midjourney. This tackles several things 1. efficiency in video creation, 2. a respectful artistic/creative approach in regards to sensitive topics (Horses' channel is a great example of this) and 3. a format that engages an audience and successfully conveys the issue.

I can actually edit videos rather well. My partner agreed to swapping and letting me use his new 4060 since all he does is game. Otherwise I have a beefy PC.

There's also several articles I can write wherein OSINT was used to explore something more specific like linking a lobbying group to being directly a part of the industry themselves and the 501c6 they used as a front to do so without showing their faces...so they thought. (It was all recorded and legit there was a dude in the background picking his nose)

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so that can vary but lets say it's one of two groups...
The TTI I speak of, the private, for-profit type, is targeting upper-middle class to upper class. I was kind of in the former but barely. I was also a kid so I didn't really experience what that meant. As soon as I turned 18 I was livin that "hobo lyfe".
Then there's the other side which is the hybrid of foster care/TTI and can affect those who "fall between the cracks" as it were. Often times they will front as a sort of charitable group or "save the children" effort when it is anything but.
The Sequel group of schools is an excellent example of this regarding the death of Cornelius Fredericks.

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Ah that makes sense 🙂 Thanks for your answer

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There should be a wonky "yarrr" style copy on youtube of a series that aired in the UK called brat camp. One of the seasons covers Turn About Ranch. afaik they still run everything just as you see it in the footage and I guess they had no idea that was still publicly accessible because...interwebz. I'm sure you can figure out what keyterms will result in it but you will get a video thats like, in the corner and at a weird speed.

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Ahhh, they unironically thought they were doing nothing wrong and were happy to do it in public

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This was from Brat Camp UK circa 2004? I'm sure someone else can help identify and also if these youth fit into a certain demographic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAVF04jAG5A

notice they are specifically wearing red, there is a reason for this. It's easy to spot in the desert. There's also a research article with the title "When You Get There - You Wear Red". It's a rather shaming effect and I think that's certainly intentional.

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This reminds me of prison in no way at all.

(Respectful sarcasm, ofc)

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Oh they can put you in orange too...

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Ugh, fucked.

By the way, how do you run your database, I’m no techy but I’m curious.

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Think of red as level 1 and orange as level 0. There are numerous parent manuals from different facilities and they all do this. The reasons for why is really screwy.

So...few solutions for that. You interested in the directory (state by state facility index) part or the reference library part or both?

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Both 🙂

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Red - You hate your kid

Orange - You really hate him your kid.

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So there is an answer mentioned above that I'll see if I can pin

[dim oracle]

Ah, I’m blind, sure.

[hearty fractal]

nah it was brief and I can't pin so let me start here:

For every facility, past and present, documenting basic data such as address, founder, years open, online presence, and marketing materials. This aims to provide as objective of an overview of the facilities and who runs them as nepotism is alive and well in the TTI. For data such as presenting statistics and spotting correlations a relational database seemed ideal.

>>REFERENCE LIBRARY: NoSQL THAT EXPLORES RECORDS & DOCUMENTATION
Certainly the more easily implemented part and likely where one would start having minimal or limited understanding of the Industry. This acts as a preservation archive, digital media library, congressional/legislative (in)action, and even the very recent SICAA bill.

[gentle sage]

Hmmmm, interesting this is uploaded by an Ukrainian account name (Yuliya Hordiyenko) and it's only this video

[dim oracle]

Ah, thanks thanks. 🙏

[hearty fractal]

it was several years ago...think its just coincidence?

[gentle sage]

It just bugged me, felt like really random

[hearty fractal]

uploaded 7 yrs ago, but comment 3 months ago however the comment makes sense.

this is their attempt at marketing. video uploaded 9 yrs ago https://youtu.be/FNXIqWLlifA?si=5YjtbQ4NjtkA4adS

[gentle sage]

Yeah, the comment is something else, I'm just wondering how the video ended being uploaded like that

[dim oracle]

This reminds me of the teen swap tv shows

From the 2000s

[hearty fractal]

its the same vein i think...

[dim oracle]

Worlds Strictest Parents

[gentle sage]

Interesting, so you're doing some dummy coding (0 and 1) or is it a scale?

[hearty fractal]

youll spot Wayne Stinton a lot in this but pay more attention to the language used.

[hearty fractal]

no no, this is what the programs use like, the facilities, to show what level and privileges a "student" has.

program=Turn About Ranch in this case.

[gentle sage]

Ah, ok ok, I misunderstood, thanks (:

[hearty fractal]

np

[dim oracle]

“Meaningful work”

[hearty fractal]

usually programs have phases 1-4 with the 0 phase left unmentioned.

[dim oracle]

🤮

[hearty fractal]

some have 6 phases but thats mostly been...."phased" out. >.>

[gentle sage]

I see, I saw that you were talking on db's and I though that you were coding some variables to do some sort of analysis, my bad 😅

By analysis I mean statistical analysis

[hearty fractal]

no worries, i am about to share some of that too. Where I've been stuck is on the implementation of the db. I've only been able to explore what results I get with different utilities and how the data can best be explored. Fortunately I've been able to speak and meet with Simon Willison several times and share my research (even over a year ago) and he told me Datasette would work very well with it.

i can DM you some of the CSV/JSON that shows what I started on if you want

[gentle sage]

Sure, I will give it a look, but I have quite a bit on my plate to do something deep into it unless something really stands out on me

[hearty fractal]

this is for the reference library and is certainly more minimalistic

[dim oracle]

If you need help with cleaning data by the way

[hearty fractal]

that was just a sample to send to someone. or that one time i had an intern...

[dim oracle]

Which I know is painful and time consuming

I humbly offer my services 🙂

Cleaning as in going through stuff and checking spellings and whatnot

[hearty fractal]

what i wanted to do was have a specific search utility and AI function that is specifically trained on the data put into the reference library, lemme dig up what i picked as ideal for that...

[gentle sage]

I mean, it looks already quite well structured

[hearty fractal]

https://docgpt.io/

[gentle sage]

(Makes sense since that's json)

[hearty fractal]

what i did was i went through all of the research articles (initially i picked 25 to demonstrate) and used GPT to summarize the document and then collect authors, title, pages, size, date of pub, keywords, etc.

I wanted all of the research to be accessible through AWS S3 and not just a data dump from a google drive.

(this part is easier to explain because I caught onto mongodb/NoSQL much faster)

[gentle sage]

Hmm, that's fine but I fear that GPT could start to include stuff that is not in the documents

So it's good to review just in case

[hearty fractal]

thats the plan

[proud remnant]

This definitely happens.

And as it isn't natively designed for search rank and relevance it can also pull a ton of irrelevant answers and miss plenty of valid ones.

[hearty fractal]

this is a note to self as I am taking day off today kind of but there is a webinar being run by the ABA on the 18th. I would like it if anyone able to attend this...2 people maybe? to join. I will post how relevant this is and even cite the references I actively made in the stage talk to what this talk is going to be addressing.

[hearty fractal]

Also ty to the engel that helped me obtain a midjourney account to create some video/visual material over the next month (its just an account for 1 month) so that I am able to show the value of this kind of material for creating videos valuable to the general public. A channel that did this with video essays called Horses did some really beautiful work this way and presented some topics that were engaging and allowed to be presented creatively without undermining or exploiting the sensitive topics explored.

[fallow badge]

@hearty fractal this book might be of intrest too you

https://archive.org/details/caringforkidswit00pete

Some editors were Educational Consultants including Mr Woodbury

[dreamy quail]

photo of my final day at wingate wilderness therapy before being funneled to monuments RTC for a year.

funnily enough both programs were NATSAP although they have both since been shut down

[fallow badge]

which gives a question how many deaths at natsap affilated programs

[dreamy quail]

well actually i think monuments is still active but they had a change in leadership after i left

[dreamy quail]

no clue. i remember hearing overhearing gordon (owner of monuments and active natsap memeber) talking about a program in hurrican that had a death

i think it might have been diamond treatment center?

something like that

[fallow badge]

diamond ranch academy?

[dreamy quail]

YEAH

that one

apparently they had a few there

i remember the name becuase a kid in my wilderness group got sent there

[fallow badge]

DRA had 3 and only lost it's licensed no one proscuted

carlbrook 1 unsolved disapperence and cedu 3 disappernces.
think mingus mountain had one

[dreamy quail]

i dont know anything about natsap deaths besides wilderness quest (which gordon is associated with in some way, i remember talking to a staff about it but apparently he had a disagreement with the old owner so i have no clue if he is responsible for the deaths that happened there) i do remember that kid in my wilderness group broke his ankle? leg? and didn't get medical support untill a day later

they made him hike on it

he got vanned out and i never saw him again

he was the longest staying kid in vish (the group i was in) he had been there for 9 months

average stay was 3 months

i was there for around 4 1/2 if i recall correctly

[fallow badge]

I've seen heard of people doing 150 days in wilderness and there was person who 90 day visa and had to fly back uk then back utah

[dreamy quail]

yeah it's crazy

wingate had a 18+ program that a kid in my group got sent to near the end of my stay. apparently you're allowed to walk away without staff tackling you but since it's in the middle of the escalante (closest place was zion NP around 100 miles south) you basically couldn't walk. he stayed in 18+ group for around 3 months for a total of 7 months there before being vanned out

[fallow badge]

Open sky they forced the people in young adult program to walk 20 miles there have been posts about that on reddit.

[dreamy quail]

longest hike we did in wingate was 18 miles

if a kid in the group refuses to hike the planned hike gets turned into a double hike which means the length gets doubled

a kid came in with junior arthritis and refused to hike for 3 days becuase his knees couldnt handle it

so we had this longass hike down this road in the open sunlight

brutal

[fallow badge]

that's fucking sick I've known people with that condition the inflmation would have been for them.

[dreamy quail]

injuries were very common there

usually rashes sprains and burns

they would make you hike no matter what though

[fallow badge]

there is a cruelty and insanity

[hearty fractal]

note: waiting on appt/medical shenanigans still, will be around more when that is resolved

but I see you survivor.

@fallow badge im so happy to see you. i sent you a msg and fr. request. ty for being here.

💜

[hearty fractal]

I am back around and functional. I'm glad the podcast got the reach that it did. I am working on updating the site which features the IPYT Index to give more information and explain what people can do to support it while I work out other options. (Gifting subscriptions to things being used in it's development is really the only thing I can direct people towards doing for now so it would just be credit or access to periodicals and such)

As @fallow badge has posted theres a lot of use of newspapers.com for things but its a pretty hefty $20/month paying by the month. However that is an insanely rich resource for collecting data on the TTI regarding its history and the more small town presence a lot of these places have.

[hearty fractal]

@elfin swallow is one of the developers who assisted with the initial advanced tools for the index so he will be able to contribute to that part as well.

[elfin swallow]

👋 hey everybody

[hearty fractal]

i think to keep the OSINT part in focus you might be able to help me hone in on an initial way to introduce some of the things ive done during development where that was rather instrumental. you understand the SQL part much more than i do but especially where it became useful in seeking the connections across the industry.

[hearty fractal]

So, I had posted this previously but I will do so again and attempt to summarize the most relevant aspects as it is a 220 page complaint. This is the lawsuit that was filed against the facility I attended. This is fairly public and routinely reposted but I don't think many are able to parse through it so I will do my best. This is where I can start in also how I developed many of the approaches used for investigating the industry as a whole.

SWEIDY VS. SPRING RIDGE ACADEMY ET AL (filed Jan. 21, 2021)
https://drive.proton.me/urls/Z53TAWQV0C#3GPdE2dfDbaD

Pgs 1-125 are of the actual complaint. The remainder are Exhibits.

Ex. A is the application for enrollment
Ex. B is Parent Challenge, the LGAT seminar created for parents to attend as a part of the program. Students went through this and 2-3 additional seminars however the version of Challenge for students was much more intense and abusive.
Ex. C is the Parent Manual received after enrolling your child in the program
Ex. D is an agreement meant for parents who are divorced or separated

For reference this is the training/seminar paperwork for what was given in WWASP https://drive.proton.me/urls/VRBPSSVK1C#ecjQyNgwnNWQ

The WWASP programs relied upon these seminars to exist and have any kind of model to sell. It's the "therapy" present and the "program" that is to be completed. The first WWASP facility was the Cross Creek programs and is explained here in an archived article from none other than the Woodbury Reports:

Below is Jean Courtney who founded Spring Ridge Academy. This is her with ex-husband David Gilcrease at Cross Creek.

@elfin swallow do you remember how we met originally? The discord we found each other in because the person who started it didn't know how to run discord?

You and I were the "techies" out of everyone we discovered but I was the techie that was also a survivor.

This substack article features the Congressional hearings I often refer to (and did in the talk) and shows one of the larger and older corporate groups Devereux. What I noticed were the writers/researchers...
https://martyg.substack.com/p/rockys-horror-show-stallone-backed

The information currently being published about the TTI appears to also, in itself, be incredibly gatekept and continues circling back around to the same people as sources. There is a reason this alarms me: they have been people who either played a direct role in preventing data collection or supported those who did.

The focus on a single facility or group, while this holds merit, isn't what ultimately needs to be happening. Of course here I am focusing on one specifically but this is where I figured out how to then transfer that same process and ensure it was also able to achieve results elsewhere.

It is important that the ENTIRE picture is captured, not spots here and there. There is value in the investigation of individual facilities I think that goes without saying but no one is tackling this from the broad scope in which it needs to be handled. By continually failing to do that the narrative that "its not all programs" thrives and also continues to be the focus.

As I lay this out hopefully those reading can contribute feedback on the best angle to approach this comprehensively. While I will explore specifics to Spring Ridge Academy here and in it's own work that's not what I would want to focus on presenting to a larger audience.

[cerulean pelican]

@hearty fractal did you get the midjourney subscription sorted? Support should have arrived.

[hearty fractal]

on it. had to make sure other things were handled first (irl "subscription" stuff) but am signing up when alarm goes off and its "morning" here.

[fallow badge]

Are you including School District contracts were public tax money is being used to place children and adolescents in these facilities?

[hearty fractal]

I would collect that yes. How it fits into the overall development and structure would vary but its something I would certainly incorporate if there is a data source which presents this information

do you have an example of one of these contracts and if so is it open source?

[hearty fractal]

So rad update...
Continuing plan to utilise Datasette (Simon Willison's open source project - https://datasette.io) for the DIRECTORY section of the site. This appears to be a mutual benefit as it helps Simon demonstrate a very effective use case. Introductory material for IPYT can be assisted by the demonstration of this tool.

The REFERENCE LIBRARY will still, at this time, be used in mongodb but Simon has an interest in having it work with Datasette also. So long as someone else is willing to manage that I am down because I hate using SQL/SQLite. (Also the less I'm spread thin obviously the better).

LOTS of previously gathered data collected on programs. It's dated but it's still a thing. Will share here shortly.

[wispy tapir]

I deleted the file.

Please don't upload files directly, especially not potentially dangerous files like Excel files.

[hearty fractal]

Oh my apologies. Let me work on making that accessible in a graph on a webpage then. that work?

[wispy tapir]

That's fine!

[hearty fractal]

here this'll hopefully work for now...

[dreamy quail]

i know this post isn't how information is supposed to be organized in this channel, but i found a very nice chunk of info about NATSAP on the troubled teens reddit page https://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/comments/1c9aenp/this_is_who_natsap_really_is/

worth a look at if you're looking into NATSAP facilities

[fallow badge]

thankful most there directories can be found by google dorking
natsap directory filetype:pdf

[fallow badge]

this may of intrest

https://www.webactivism.com/trails-carolina-investigation-for-fraud-impersonation-and-perjury-fake-dmca-12224947/

[fallow badge]

https://www.gov.bm/theofficialgazette/notices/gn00462024

https://www.royalgazette.com/politics/news/article/20240122/island-spends-1-8m-sending-vulnerable-children-to-us/

[hearty fractal]

ty and remember to save all of this. if necessary i can store more when you are unable. goal is to get an S3 account.

[hearty fractal]

you and ninja both reminded me with a swift kick there that I need to sort through the NATSAP stuff and potentially prioritize it as an explainer. it needs to be all connected and done so correctly.

[hearty fractal]

well I think I have a way of getting people's attention on the troubled teen industry...
forget how i came across what I did but was looking into Trump's childhood/early life.

He was sent to a military school from 13-18 (graduation)

ah yes started with this. I'll cross post from here to TTI thread..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFGE3X6Yhj0

[round current]

just catching up on your stage talk! super interesting stuff, i imagine you Have thought about this also but i bet there's a bunch of potential for the use of satellite imagery and these super remote places

(additionally, not a TTI survivor myself, but from a community where industrial boarding schools and family removals were used to target us - the Home Children program especially targeted Gypsies and Travellers in the UK in the 20th century and sent kids to residential and industrial schools in Canada - i wish you all the best with this project, tear down the entire industry, let me know if there's any 'grunt' work that needs doing and i'll bang on a podcast in the background and help out <3 )

[fallow badge]

The Association of Experiential Education Council pulled Trails Carolina after child died there

https://wlos.com/news/local/trails-carolinas-accreditation-halted-after-boys-death-in-wilderness-therapy-program-association-experiential-education-council-accreditation-agency-adventure-outdoor-behavioral-health

[dusky chasm]

@hearty fractal I was wondering if you've found any overlap between people running troubled teen stuff and learning disability schools? I just read this article and it seems like there's a lot of overlap between how they operate https://www.propublica.org/article/shrub-oak-school-autism-new-york-education-oversight

And I'm curious about doing more research into how widespread public funding of stuff like this is

[fallow badge]

@dusky chasm there is overlap special education students are being placed some school districts have contracts for them in troubled teen programs such as provo canyon school

[hearty fractal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j54lMGZJftQ

[hearty fractal]

Yes and a huge example is Rotenberg Center

[tawny trout]

I am curious about the role of TV presenters in promoting these services to a mass audience. I recently learned about a 16-year-old getting sent to a rehab program promoted by Dr. Phil (a TV celebrity psychologist who has not been licensed to practice since 2006). The parents thought it was just some kind of tough love, but it turned out to be a Mormon indoctrination camp.

[tawny trout]

Fortunately, the parents traveled to the camp and met with their kid and learned how bad the place was. The facility was not at all transparent even to the parents who paid it.

[bitter basin]

That's lucky. But yeah, dr Phil is quite notorious for bad advice (tm)

I remember in the first Sims if the kid(s) misbehaved they'd get sent to army school. I always thought that was weird (prob because not from the US) so I also think the whole concept of sending kids away to be 'straightened out' probably is alive in the american psyche somehow

[fallow badge]

remember there is thousands of episodes so the number of adolescents sent to programs is easily over 100

[south pilot]

Apologies if this has been mentioned previously: But how does a parent pay for these services/Industry? Through a bank transfer/credit card? As I wonder whether its worth seeing if you can put pressure on the banks to "de-bank" these institutions due to the risk(s).
Primer on debanking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-banking

[fallow badge]

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/resources/newsletters/childrens-rights/spring2024-abuse-by-proxy/

[fallow badge]

I think this article demostrates the sheer insanity of troubled teen industry.

"In 1978, a Florida state's attorney investigated allegations by former Straight counselors that a participant was threatened with a handgun and others were forcibly detained. The investigation ened without legal action."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1982/07/28/straight-to-open-area-chapter/addbe202-dd2e-4b5b-9698-751b34bcf3ff/

[fallow badge]

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/05/28/utah-troubled-teen-facility-sued/

[keen lantern]

I’m a little late to the thread but I’m more than happy to help a bit with OSI stuff if someone ever needs it

No personal connections luckily (indirectly a couple friends of friends) but know enough of some of the worse camps to happily do whatever I can

[dusky chasm]

I am also, haven't been but have time and stuff now

[bitter basin]

Reveal did a podcast episode on this (I missed it) on 30 March "Cashing in on troubled teens" https://revealnews.org/podcast/cashing-in-on-troubled-teens/

[fallow badge]

Arianna Duenez died on July 2, 2023

https://www.fox13now.com/news/fox-13-investigates/girl-who-died-in-troubled-teen-facility-was-dead-for-up-to-10-hours-before-staff-realized

[fallow badge]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/residential-treatment-centers-senate-report-rcna155177

https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/rtf_report_warehouses_of_neglect.pdf

[fallow badge]

Redliff Ascent previously tweeted this map years and they still use same area

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DB6AQ7EXoAAw63J.jpg

There is on street view from 2014 it's near the site marked "outpost"

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Lc5BHBK8bNJQDbUR6

[fallow badge]

https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/trails-carolina-camper-death-ruled-homicide-by-asphyxiation-autopsy-shows/

[bitter basin]

This is maybe a weird question, but is there a sort of continuity of people between the nuns of the good shepherd (which was the normalized troubled girls grift for a century) and these groups? The last laundry closed in 1996 and they were arguably at their largest (country dependent of course) between 1950 & 1970 -ish)

[bitter basin]

Latest behind the bastards podcast episodes (2) about the founder of the wilderness camps https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-inventor-of-those-219696797/

[hearty fractal]

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/column-troubled-teen-industry-scrutiny-builds-litigation-follows-2024-07-12/

That may be changing.

This was the case I worked on, built my work around, and challenged as someone who spent three years there and I did it almost entirely with OSINT methodology.

That case not only achieved a historicial mile marker alone but due to how it was able to yield the outcome it did is being used as an example for other cases.

Those other cases are going to be based off of an OSINT investigative model.

@cerulean pelican @elfin swallow

https://azmirror.com/2024/07/15/it-was-a-cult-traumatizing-troubled-teens-spring-ridge-academy/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tried-everything-break-boarding-school-130202658.html

To reiterate...
The lawsuit represents a rare legal victory against the multibillion-dollar troubled teen industry, according to attorneys familiar with the issue. Though many lawsuits were filed against residential treatment providers in recent history, most that have succeeded involved a fatality.

Courtney, the school’s founder, said in court documents that some of the school’s workshops were modeled after Lifespring, a for-profit “human potential” organization that has received wide criticism from former participants that labeled it a cult and pyramid scheme.```

Lifespring is the LGAT mentioned and is where the strongest and most blatant connection to Scientology can be easily established (this has legal importance). Prior to Lifespring was other similar groups whose founders were initially involved in Scientology to some extent. This involvement was so significant that LRH had the organization and certain members named as a part of it's investigations into "suppressive persons" and that these founders had "stolen tech used in Scientology" passing it off as their own. This isn't particularly inaccurate.

Werner Erhard, Alexander Everett, and John Hanley repackaged exercises and practices from others and from each other with Scientology at the very start of that established foundation. Methods to control, coerce, manipulate, and give a false sense of purpose present in Scientology were duplicated and adjusted to suit the "seminar circuit".

[oak sandal]

Back in 2004 I posted a link to an article on Tranquility Bay on my blog (http://lemonodor.com/archives/2003/07/tranquility_bay.html). It quickly became a place for kids who had been there (or other programs) to post their experiences, try to re-connect, grandparents tried to get info about thei grandchildren, etc. I assume there are more resources for that sort of thing now, but I don't think it was common back then.

[hearty fractal]

There is a reason why there are complications and difficulties of survivors finding resources (first being they don't exist, second that the TTI already sounds hardly like it is even legal/possible at all) but there are no safe options presently imo. Its why I have not shut up about this issue and the work I've done around it.

Also thank you for contributing to the conversation...I know that it was started a while ago but I hope that it becomes insanely clear how important the way I approached this work was in getting the result that occured.

[fallow badge]

yet again staff won't be proscuted for child's death at trail carolina

https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/no-charges-to-be-filed-in-death-of-child-at-embattled-north-carolina-wilderness-camp-da-says/

[cerulean pelican]

"Protocols at Trails Carolina required camp counselors to put new campers in a personal sleeping bivy outfitted with a sleeping bag on their first night of camp. The bivy is zipped closed and has an alarm on it to alert staff if the camper tries to open it."
At some point, some staff meeting happened where it was outlined kids were to be stored in closed plastic bags over night. And nobody stood up and said hey - this would probably be a bad idea.

[oak sandal]

oh man. i know people who went camping with someone who apparently accidentally suffocated in their sleeping bag.

[cerulean pelican]

it's really hard to accidentally suffocate. Breathing is the most powerful human reflex, works in almost any state of consciousness. I could imagine that once the panic sets in it's too late to do anything that requires fine motor skills, but 'accidentally' suffocating... hmmm....

somehow feels wrong

[hearty fractal]

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/former-students-describe-spring-ridge-academy-treated-like-we-were-criminals

[fallow badge]

Can anyone help me look into website I believe it's connected
to World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools

https://youthprograms.com/

The website is owned by Narvin Lichfield brother of Robert Lichfield who owned World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools

Narvin ran several programs himself Academy at Ivy Ridge
Academy at Dundee Ranch

[olive plover]

SICAA or the "Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act" passed as was enacted into law December 23, 2024.

SICAA was first introduced on capitol hill April 27th, 2023. This was right after the presentation of work reflecting the contents of the bill was shown to Bellingcat as it related to the Hackathon being held.

Improving data collection is the sole purpose of the Act. Despite multiple efforts to make those involved with SICAA aware of the existing and ongoing development already doing this no response was ever received.

Instead credit is being given almost entirely to Paris Hilton. Hilton and her impact team are fully aware of the existing work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JAPXbxrdnQ

https://stopinstitutionalchildabuse.com