Once again Heartlight Ministries is in the spotlight.
Back in 2009 people fought to get a 16 year old boy named Nathan released from the facility. While the facility is not a lockdown facility it is located in a remote area and escape is difficult.
Early 2013 two teenagers ran from the facility but they were returned soon after. A little research into Facebook shows that the girl was released not so long after, so maybe the emotional damage inflicted was so little that she has a chance to move on in life. The boy had to wear an orange jumpsuit just as in prison but is also back in MS again.
Now there is a new case and it is worrying.
The recent "Agnes of God" case from River View Christian Academy (formerly Julian Youth Academy) shows that restricted Christian boarding schools don't equip teenagers and young adults to the modern world. People end up getting hurt or emotional damaged so they cannot participate in the activities surrounding colleges and other educational institutions like universities.
When one of your families members are in dangerous of being sent away or has been sent please reach out and offer housing for the teenager involved. All too often the banishment is the result of an advice made by an educational consultant who lives of referral fees from the boarding schools and wilderness programs teenagers are sent to rather than the need of the teenager. Of course the parents desperate in need of help pay the educational consultant too but it is the referral fees which are the core of the consultants business.
Your reaching out can make the difference for a family member!
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Sunday, November 30, 2014
Monday, November 24, 2014
Once again relatives fight for the freedom of a family member
This time it is a girl being hold at Elevations RTC - previous known as Island View Treatment center in Syracuse, Utah.
Her testimony is needed back home in a domestic case. However by holding her locked up this so-called treatment center the outcome of this case could be impacted by the so-called therapy enforced upon her.
Above a video from the girl can be seen:
It looks like the Free Chandra case years ago where family member successfully got a girl released so she could move on as a graphic designer.
It is not the only case where children are held hostage in treatment cases where their testimonies is needed in their home state.
What Elevations RTC is doing is not treatment. It is juridical work done for the father. Should juridical work be done disguised as treatment?
We say no.
Please support this girl so she can be released and move on in life.
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Her testimony is needed back home in a domestic case. However by holding her locked up this so-called treatment center the outcome of this case could be impacted by the so-called therapy enforced upon her.
Above a video from the girl can be seen:
It looks like the Free Chandra case years ago where family member successfully got a girl released so she could move on as a graphic designer.
It is not the only case where children are held hostage in treatment cases where their testimonies is needed in their home state.
What Elevations RTC is doing is not treatment. It is juridical work done for the father. Should juridical work be done disguised as treatment?
We say no.
Please support this girl so she can be released and move on in life.
Sources:
- ELEVATIONS RTC IN UTAH: FREE HANNAH!
- Testimony from a patient who were there while it was called Island View (The conditions might have been changed)
- IamA survivor of Island View RTC, an abusive program like many others in Utah. AMA (Reddit)
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Diamond Ranch Academy against the free speech
We believe that former residents at any group home, therapeutic boarding school, boot camp, treatment center and wilderness programs have the right to speak out against their stay if they believe that they were treated in an unjust manner.
That is what a number of former students at Diamond Ranch Academy located near Hurricane in Utah have done.
Human rights organizations like our have aided them to get individual testimonies syndicated because we know that even a large number of individual testimonies cannot be heard in a time where Search Machine Optimizing matters.
Now Diamond Ranch Academy is targeting both former students and the humanitarians who have aided to the syndication process.
We fear that the voices of the former students can be silenced. We fear that the losses of lives which today at Diamond Ranch Academy has been numbered to 2 will rise in the future.
We know that unjust in this area only can be fought with information and knowledge. In Denmark the trial against the group home Solhaven was the result of a 10 years effort of former students to get their side of the story heard. They had to fight both local political interests like creating jobs because Solhaven was by far the largest employer in area. They have to blow the cover co-workers of social workers had put in place to prevent outing of social workers who had neglected their duties when they heard of manual restraints of residents which were not reported in the way the law dictated. They had to find police officers who were not of the gift present list.
It took some years to achieve that. Now there is a trial ongoing.
For them to get heard websites in the United States aided the Danish blogs to be found first when someone searched on the Internet in exchange for Danish site to aid the US sites doing the same.
And that is what we will do right now. We will aid former students from Diamond Ranch Academy to get their statement out. Free speech must never be silenced. In Denmark we fought and won the Cartoon war. We are veterans in taking down people on the Internet. So Diamond Ranch Academy! Please watch out. We will be here, there and everywere battling for the right to free speech among your former students.
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That is what a number of former students at Diamond Ranch Academy located near Hurricane in Utah have done.
Human rights organizations like our have aided them to get individual testimonies syndicated because we know that even a large number of individual testimonies cannot be heard in a time where Search Machine Optimizing matters.
Now Diamond Ranch Academy is targeting both former students and the humanitarians who have aided to the syndication process.
We fear that the voices of the former students can be silenced. We fear that the losses of lives which today at Diamond Ranch Academy has been numbered to 2 will rise in the future.
We know that unjust in this area only can be fought with information and knowledge. In Denmark the trial against the group home Solhaven was the result of a 10 years effort of former students to get their side of the story heard. They had to fight both local political interests like creating jobs because Solhaven was by far the largest employer in area. They have to blow the cover co-workers of social workers had put in place to prevent outing of social workers who had neglected their duties when they heard of manual restraints of residents which were not reported in the way the law dictated. They had to find police officers who were not of the gift present list.
It took some years to achieve that. Now there is a trial ongoing.
For them to get heard websites in the United States aided the Danish blogs to be found first when someone searched on the Internet in exchange for Danish site to aid the US sites doing the same.
And that is what we will do right now. We will aid former students from Diamond Ranch Academy to get their statement out. Free speech must never be silenced. In Denmark we fought and won the Cartoon war. We are veterans in taking down people on the Internet. So Diamond Ranch Academy! Please watch out. We will be here, there and everywere battling for the right to free speech among your former students.
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