CEDU STAFF CROSSOVER

 

Programs that hired CEDU staff or were founded by CEDU staff listed in alphabetical order: Academy at Swift River, Advantage Adolescent and Intervention Services, Aim House, Alldredge Academy, Amity School, Ascent (UHS), Ashby Academy, Aspen Health Services , Aspen Youth Services, Benchmark Young Adult School, Bill Lane and Associates Transport Services, Blue Ridge School, Boulder Creek Academy (UHS), Boundarylines, Brandi Elliott Consulting, Bridges Academy, Campbell Park, Caribou Ridge Intervention, Carlbrook School, Cascade School, Cherokee Creek Boys School, Clear View, Coeur Assessment Center, College Excel, Coronado Academy, Creekside Wilderness Academy, DeSisto School, Duckfarm, Earle Consulting, Echo Springs Transition Study Center, Ever Higher, Friends of Families Foundation, Glacier Mountain Expeditions, Hidden Lake Academy, Homelines, Innercept Residential Treatment Center, Integrated Interventions, Kidsview, King George School, Milestones for Young Adults, Monarch School, Mount Bachelor Academy, NATSAP, New Horizons for Young Women, New Leaf Academy, New Summit Academy, Next Step for Success, North Idaho Behavioral Health (Kootenai Medical Center), NorthStar Center, Northwest Academy (UHS), Northwoods Trailside School, NRM Consulting, Ohana House, On Track Wilderness Therapy, Padgett Consulting Services, Parent Coach Professionals, Pathfinders Wilderness Program, Powell and Elliott Collaborative, QuietStar Center for Transformation, Renaissance, Ridgecreek Wilderness Program, Sage Counseling and Wellness, San Cristobal Ranch Academy, Second Nature Wilderness Program, Shortridge Academy, SoulPath Alchemy, Squaw Valley Academy, SUWS, Three Rivers Montana, Valley View School, Ventures, West Shield Adolescent Services, Westport Family Counseling, Wilderness Quest, Woodbury Reports, and Woodhaven   

Academy at Swift River (1997-2013): 151 South Street, Cummington, Massachusetts 01026
1,000 Places You Don’t Want to be as a Teenager (#185: Academy at Swift River)
October 1997: Woodbury Reports, issue #48 (Opening this summer, the Academy at Swift River in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, will have John Powers as Headmaster, Glenn Bender as Admission Director, Brett Carey as Dean of Students, and Rea Kreider as Dean of Academics. Seven students from sister school Mount Bachelor Academy traveled cross country to Massachusetts to be joined by the new staff transferring from Oregon and Executive Director Tim Brace.)
December 1997: Woodbury Reports, issue #49 (The Academy at Swift River is a sister school of Mount Bachelor Academy)
April 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #51 (Brian Ray Joins Admissions at Academy at Swift River: Glen Bender, Admissions Director at Academy at Swift River announced Brian Ray has joined the school as Associate Dean of Admissions. Brian previously had been Assistant Director of Admissions at Hidden Lake Academy in Georgia.)
June 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #52 (Academy at Swift River Staff Changes include Rudy Bentz as Dean of Student Life. Rudy has 17 years experience with the CEDU Schools in California, and Hidden Lake Academy in Georgia. Also Jill Bentz is the Director of Training. Jill also had worked for 17 years in key positions at the CEDU Schools and Hidden Lake Academy. Other hires include Brian A. Ray as Associate Dean for Admissions, formerly with Hidden Lake Academy, Andrew Locke, Bill Mercier, and Dominique Bressi as Teacher/Mentors, Jeremy McGeorge as experiential educator, formerly with Aspen Achievement Academy, Erica Ray, as intake counselor, and Vince Schmidt as Lower Division Head, formerly a therapist at Hidden Lake Academy.)
September 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #61 (Director of Admissions Brian Ray announced Academy at Swift River now has 80 students, are anticipating the completion of the remodeling of their Academic Building, and on August 27th graduated their second peer group, which was the first group to graduate from their new 14-month program)
September 10, 2001: The New York Times (Desperate Measures--A special report.; Embattled Parents Seek Help, at Any Cost)
July 27, 2006: Struggling Teens (Academy at Swift River described by educational consultant Stephen Migden)
February 23, 2007: Fornits (Academy at Swift River: Private School or Residential Treatment Center)
2007: Surviving CEDU (Rudy Bentz and the Academy at Swift River)
September 22, 2008: The New York Times (Death of Michael Joshua Reuben)
September 24, 2008: Wicked Local Sudbury (Dad Helps Others After Son’s Struggle with Addiction)
July 10, 2009: Fornits (RIP Frankie Laurita, Academy at Swift River)
September 15, 2009: Fornits (John Reuben Killed Michael with Academy at Swift River and SUWS)
September 27, 2010: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Lawsuit involving Academy at Swift River and King George School)
May 22, 2013: VICE (Teens Are Being Trapped in Abusive ‘Drug Rehab Centers’ [Academy at Swift River described by Nick Quinn])
July 17, 2013: Adirondack Daily Enterprise (Aspen Education Group closes Adirondack Leadership Expeditions, SUWS, Academy at Swift River, Talisman Academy, and Stone Mountain School)
July 26, 2013: Secret Prisons for Teens (Academy at Swift River, Talisman Academy, Stone Mountain School, SUWS Adolescent and Youth Programs, and Adirondack Leadership Expeditions)
September 29, 2016: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Former Academy at Swift River reopening as drug treatment center)
2016: Reddit (I went to Academy at Swift River. I believe I was gaslighted and brainwashed into believing I was an addict when I wasn't. I am now living with the repercussions and am exhibiting all the symptoms of having survived a cult.)
Swift River Transitional Services
HEAL (Academy at Swift River)
Advantage Adolescent and Intervention Services (10/2005-present): 21044 North Camper Road, Rathdrum, Idaho 83858
1996: CEDU Family of Services (CEDU Transportation Contract for a minor to be transported to Ascent by Brenda and Chuck Selent)
December 1999: The Rocky Mountain Times (I’m sure that you have heard of Chuck Selent. He is the guy who will find you no matter where you go.)
October 11, 2005: Fornits (What Chuck Selent is Doing)
August 21, 2007: Fornits (Advantage ISS: Escort, Intervention, Interim Care)
November 12, 2007: Struggling Teens (Do I take my child or do I hire strangers?)
July 16, 2008: Struggling Teens (Advantage Adolescent and Interim Services is owned by former CEDU escorts Brenda and Chuck Selent)
April 23, 2009: Boundary News (Advantage ISS: Chuck Selent and David DeSpain are ready to keep an eye on things)
January 7, 2010: Fornits (Advantage Investigations Security Services)
January 7, 2010: Fornits (Caroline the Wolf Strikes Again)
January 8, 2010: Fornits (Chuck Selent Talks About Caroline the Wolf)
Zoom Info (Advantage ISS)
Zoom Info (Chuck Selent is Program Manager at Innercept)
Youth for Tomorrow
Aim House (1999-present): 888 13th Street, Boulder, Colorado 80302
Aim House (Founders: Mae and Danny Conroy)
DannyConroy.com
Alldredge Academy (1999-12/31/2008): 1080 William Avenue, Davis, West Virginia 26260
April 1997: Woodbury Reports, issue #45 (L. J. Mitchell, founder of SUWS Adolescent Program and now retired from active management of that wilderness program, is talking about establishing a new boarding school which he tentatively plans to call Alldredge School)
December 1997: Woodbury Reports, issue #49 (The Alldredge Academy is presently seeking a site for a residential therapeutic-academic boarding school. Need to acquire property ASAP. Maximum purchase price of $2,000,000, 200+- acres, unless it’s adjacent to large BLM or other use-permit tracts, and land separated by natural boundaries if possible. Existing building or buildings critical. 2 hrs or less from major airport, 30 minutes from good town for staff. Aesthetic, attractive. Educated Talent Pool nearby: [social workers, therapists, college grads, teachers] Climate: temperate, little cold or snow.)
August 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #60 (Lance Wells, Vice-President of Alldredge Academy, Inc. & Semester Back Program, Davis, West Virginia, 877-253-7334, announced they now have their staff trained for their 62-day program which operates in the wilderness area of West Virginia, as well as their 102-day Semester Back program which also includes their copyrighted curriculum and academic model designed to prepare students to return to their previous schools. He also announced construction is progressing smoothly and they are also accepting long-term students at their custom made boarding school which includes intense one on one mentoring.)
December 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #64 (Alldredge Academy)
January 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #65 (Alldredge Academy announced their “Semester Back” program has had 75 graduates since the academy opened last May)
January 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #65 (Alldredge Academy “Semester Back Program”)
February 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #66 (Alldredge Academy Welcomes Dr. Rae Gillam as New Academic Director)
December 20, 2002: Unmarried America (Alldredge Academy: Son Dies at Wilderness Camp, Parents Sue)
December 16, 2008: Struggling Teens (Alldredge Academy to close December 31st)
January 5, 2011: West Virginia News (Alldredge Academy: Did Judge’s Decision Leave Corporate Officers Free To Continue Abusing Troubled Children)
May 2, 2016: Brown Political Review (Alldredge Academy: Teen, Interrupted)
June 12, 2017: Fornits (Former Alldredge Academy employee in a new firm and again deaths start to occur)
November 21, 2017: Charleston Gazette-Mail (Two deaths reported at WV young-adult transitional living program)
Amity School (1985-1994): Villa La Striscia, Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy
Secret Prisons for Teens (Amity School)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want To Be As A Teenager (#362: Amity School)
October 1994: Woodbury Reports, issue #30 (Amity School Closes)
April 1996: Woodbury Reports, issue #39 (Director of U.S. Admissions Brooke Jackson is listed in Peterson's Guide)
August 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #72 (In Memoriam of John Padgett)
December 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #76 (Marci Padgett works as Headmistress at New Leaf Academy Green Ridge while supervising therapeutic programs at Green Ridge and Rock Mesa)
October 8, 2002: Fornits (Has anyone ever heard of Amity School in Italy?)
November 16, 2002: Fornits (Genealogy of Straight, CEDU, WWASPS)
2005: Oh, the Glory of it All (a memoir about Cascade School and Amity School by Sean Wilsey)
April 23, 2007: Fornits (Cascade/CEDU Staff Overlaps)
October 27, 2007: Fornits (Running Springs Staff of 1980)
October 29, 2007: Fornits (John Padgett Bites the Big One)
April 10, 2009: Fornits (Staff You Hate)
July 6, 2010: Struggling Teens (Marci Padgett Consulting Services)
Bend Belluno Sister Cities Cultural Exchange (Marci Padgett: “Living and Laughing in Tuscany”)
Reddit (CEDU Clones)
Ascent, Universal Health Services (2005-?): Ruby Ridge, Idaho
Secret Prisons for Teens (Ascent)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want To Be As A Teenager (#131: Ascent)
Wilderness Therapy Information (Ascent)
October 7, 2005: Struggling Teens (Ascent Preps for Grand-Opening)
October 10, 2005 UHT (Universal Health Services announced that it has acquired four therapeutic boarding schools and one outdoor intervention program from the Brown Schools of Austin bankruptcy. The five facilities include the 100-bed Boulder Creek Academy and the 120-bed Northwest Academy in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, the 80-bed Rocky Mountain Academy and an outdoor intervention program located in Naples, Idaho, and the 90-bed King George School in Sutton, Vermont.)
February 5, 2009: Fornits (My Tale: A Story of North Idaho Behavioral Health, Innercept, and Ascent)
2020: Reddit (Ascent)
Ashby Academy (2006-8/31/2007): 250 Spring Hill Road, Ashby, Massachusetts 01431
Struggling Teens (Former CEDU staff Chris Carlin leaves his job as Clinical Director at Valley View School to be Dean of Students at Ashby Academy)
July 19, 2006: Struggling Teens (Dr. Alfred Allen is appointed as Head of School for Ashby Academy, an innovative new therapeutic junior boarding school for boys 10-14)
September 5, 2007: Fornits (Another One Bites the Dust: Ashby Academy)
Benchmark Transitions (2009-present): 1971 Essex Court, Redlands, California 92373
Benchmark Transitions (Benchmark Young Adult School was founded on September 9, 1993 by Jayne Selby‐Longnecker, and in 2009, Benchmark added the designation of Benchmark Transitions)
January 26, 2019: FaceBook (A letter from Jaynie Longnecker about the passing of Jim Powell)
Benchmark Young Adult School (9/9/1993-present): 1971 Essex Court, Redlands, California 92373
October 1993: Woodbury Reports, issue #24 (Benchmark is opened)
April 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #33 (Benchmark Behavioral & Educational Services has opened its warehouse and is accepting donations for it)
April 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #33 (Benchmark Young Adult Living Program)
December 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #37 (Benchmark Purchased 19 Unit Apartment Building)
June 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #52 (Benchmark Young Adult School)
August 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #60 (Benchmark Young Adult School announced that 17 students received their high school diploma in graduation ceremonies. The total of 76 graduates is the largest graduation class in Benchmark’s history)
September 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #61 (Benchmark Young Adult School notified Woodbury Reports that the report of 76 graduates that appeared in Seen n’Heard, Issue #60, was an error. The correct number of graduates was 17)
November 4, 2008: Fornits (Benchmark Young Adult School Loses Lawsuit)
December 17, 2008: Fornits (My Lawyers on the Benchmark Win)
Bill Lane and Associates Transport Services (3/28/2005-present): 720 Seagirt Court, San Diego, California 92109
October 12, 2008: Visions Teen (Bill Lane recommends Visions Adolescent Treatment Center)
October 14, 2008: Visions Teen (Bill Lane and Associates)
April 7, 2015: All Kinds of Therapy (What is a transport?)
May 23, 2018: Woodbury Reports (Lon Woodbury interviews Bill Lane about Synanon and CEDU)
November 9, 2018: Woodbury Reports (Lon Woodbury discusses CEDU’s name and medicating students with Bill Lane)
March 14, 2019: The Sun (Obituary: William Francis Lane, Jr., “Bill”)
March 14, 2019: The San Diego Union Tribune (Obituary: William Francis Lane, Jr., “Bill”)
February 7, 2020: PacerMonitor (Bill Lane and Associates Declare Chapter 7 Bankruptcy)
February 7, 2020: Inforuptcy (Bill Lane and Associates Declare Chapter 7 Bankruptcy)
All Kinds of Therapy (Bill Lane and Associates)
Zoom Info (Bill Lane and Associates)
Blue Ridge School (1909-present): 273 Mayo Drive, St George, Virginia 22935
HEAL (Former CEDU staff Glenn Bender was employed at Blue Ridge School in Virginia)
Boulder Creek Academy, Universal Health Services (2005-present): 147 Emerson Lane, Bonners Ferry, Idaho 83805
Secret Prisons for Teens (Boulder Creek Academy)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want To Be As A Teenager (#133: Boulder Creek Academy)
October 10, 2005 UHT (Universal Health Services announced that it has acquired four therapeutic boarding schools and one outdoor intervention program from the Brown Schools of Austin bankruptcy. The five facilities include the 100-bed Boulder Creek Academy and the 120-bed Northwest Academy in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, the 80-bed Rocky Mountain Academy and an outdoor intervention program located in Naples, Idaho, and the 90-bed King George School in Sutton, Vermont.)
Association for Experiential Education (Position: Admissions Director)
Indeed (Employee Reviews)
Reddit (Is BCA a Continuation of CEDU?)
HEAL (Boulder Creek Academy)
Boundarylines Crisis Intervention (1990-?)
August 1990: Woodbury Reports, issue #5 (Richard Armstrong worked at Pathfinders before starting Boundarylines)
June 1993: Woodbury Reports, issue #21 (Boundarylines Crisis Intervention)
August 1993: Woodbury Reports, issue #23 (Boundarylines)
April 1994: Woodbury Reports, issue #27 (Boundarylines)
June 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #34 (Boundarylines Crisis Intervention is being restructured to emphasize transports and de-emphasize running a program)
October 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #36 (Boundarylines Crisis Intervention refocuses on running a program and plans to taking four students at a time to build log cabins)
June 3, 1996: The Spokesman-Review (A 6 foot 5 inch Persuader ‘Intervention Specialist’ Will Retrieve Rebellious Teens, Take Them to Programs)
November 7, 1996: The Spokesman-Review (Former Rocky Mountain Academy staff and owner of Boundarylines Crisis Intervention Richard Armstrong is accused of raping and sodomizing former Rocky Mountain Academy staff and Boundarylines Crisis Intervention co-worker Twila Stephenson)
February 1997: Woodbury Reports, issue #44 (Former Rocky Mountain Academy staff and owner of Boundarylines Crisis Intervention Richard Armstrong counter-sues former Rocky Mountain Academy staff and Boundarylines Crisis Intervention co-worker Twila Stephenson in rape case)
October 30, 1999: The Spokesman-Review (Federal Jury Sides With Woman in Rape Lawsuit Employer Ordered to Pay $164,595; prosecutor Denise Woodbury hasn’t Filed Criminal Charges)
December 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #64 (A federal jury ordered former Rocky Mountain Academy staff and owner of Boundarylines Crisis Intervention Richard Armstrong to pay $164,595 to former Rocky Mountain Academy staff and Boundarylines Crisis Intervention co-worker Twila Stevenson in a civil action brought by Stevenson for sexual assault)
August 21, 2009: Fornits (Former Rocky Mountain Academy staff Richard Armstrong who was found guilty of raping Boundarylines Crisis Intervention co-worker Twila Stephenson opens new program Homelines)
August 26, 2009: Fornits (CEDU Watch Updated List)
December 9, 2013: Bonners Ferry Funeral Home (Richard Alan Armstrong’s Obituary)
Brandi Elliott Consulting (2004-present) 817 Dom Way, Lake Arrowhead, California 92352
October 10, 2004: Fornits (Brandi Elliott Fired)
May 16, 2005 Fornits (I hate Brandi Elliott and CEDU Middle School)
March 10, 2006: Struggling Teens (Brandi Elliott and Jim Powell in charge of admissions at Campbell Park in New Zealand)
Lake Arrowhead Communities Chamber of Commerce (Brandi Elliott, LLC)
Friends of Families with Children in Crisis Foundation (1998-present): Post Office Box 825 Lake Arrowhead, California 92352
Friends of Families with Children in Crisis Foundation (Brandi Elliott is representative of The Friends of Families Foundation which used to be known as The Friends of CEDU Foundation)
FaceBook: Friends of Families with Children in Crisis
May 10, 2008: Struggling Teens (Dozens of Children Helped by Friends of Families Foundation)
Powell and Elliott Collaborative (Co-owner: Brandi Elliott)
LinkedIn: Brandi Elliott (Powell and Elliott Collaborative)
Contact Out (Powell and Elliott Collaborative)
Manta (Powell and Elliott Collaborative)
All People (Powell and Elliott Collaborative)
Buzzfile (Powell and Elliott Collaborative)
January28, 2008: Struggling Teens (Jim Nolan and Mike Balotti of Jim Nolan & Associates and Access Education International in collaboration with Dr. Jim Powell of Powell & Elliott Collaborative, LLC are accepting clients in the Las Vegas, Nevada area)
May 26, 2011: NewsWire (Brandi Elliott attends the Woodbury Reports annual Northwest Get Together)
January 26, 2019: Benchmark Transitions FaceBook (Brandi Elliott and Jim Powell had an educational consultant business together called Powell and Elliott Collaborative, LLC)
Bridges Boys Academy (1997-1/13/2017): 67030 Gist Road, Bend, Oregon 97701
Secret Prisons for Teens (Bridges Boys Academy)
HEAL (Bridges Academy)
February 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #66 (Bridges Academy Attributes Enrollment Increase to Website)
January 5, 2017: Struggling Teens (Bridges Academy Closes)
Campbell Park (9/16/2006-3/9/2007): 408 Special School Road, Otekaieke 9494 New Zealand
Secret Prisons for Teens (Campbell Park)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want to be as a Teenager (#394: Campbell Park)
April 24, 2006: Struggling Teens (Former Rocky Mountain Academy staff turned educational consultant Lon Woodbury writes about his visit to Campbell Park)
July 30, 2006: Struggling Teens (Nathan Tompkins announced that Jarleth Kelly is the new Director of Education. Kelly is a first generation New Zealander with a BS in Chemistry and Zoology from Otago University and a teaching credential from Dunedin Teachers College.)
August 31, 2006: Struggling Teens (Campbell Park’s staff of 20 are ready for the school’s grand opening)
September 28, 2006: Struggling Teens (Campbell Park opens with five students from the United States, Vietnam, and New Zealand)
December 26, 2006: Fornits (Why would a normal school from New Zealand which is not run by US expats advertise on Struggling Teens?)
March 26, 2007: Fornits (New Zealand Offspring Closed)
August 4, 2012: Otago Daily Times (Interest but no buyer yet for Campbell Park Estate)
April 22, 2014: Otago Daily Times ('Unusual' move to buy old school)
November 6, 2015: Domain (Historic New Zealand estate with country’s oldest castle hits the market)
January 26, 2019: Benchmark Transitions FaceBook (A tribute to former CEDU and Campbell Park staff Jim Powell)
July 24, 2019: Otago Daily Times (Campbell Park Claims Persist)
CompaniesNZ (Nathan Tompkins)
OpenCorporates (The Campbell Academy Limited)
Reddit (CEDU Clones)
Caribou Ridge Intervention, Universal Health Services (2014-2018): Ruby Ridge, Idaho
October 7, 2005: Struggling Teens (Universal Health Services reopens Ascent as is before renaming it Caribou Ridge Intervention)
October 10, 2005 UHT (Universal Health Services announced that it has acquired four therapeutic boarding schools and one outdoor intervention program from the Brown Schools of Austin bankruptcy. The five facilities include the 100-bed Boulder Creek Academy and the 120-bed Northwest Academy in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, the 80-bed Rocky Mountain Academy and an outdoor intervention program located in Naples, Idaho, and the 90-bed King George School in Sutton, Vermont.)
August 3, 2015: Struggling Teens (Caribou Ridge Intervention)
Association for Experiential Education (Hiring Intervention Specialist)
Carlbrook School (2002-12/2015): 3046 Carlbrook Road, South Boston, Virginia 24592
Secret Prisons for Teens (Carlbrook School)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want To Be As A Teenager (#633: Carlbrook School)
December 10, 2015: South Boston News & Record and Mecklenburg Sun (Enrollment on the wane, Carlbrook School will close)
Reddit (CEDU Clones)
August 22, 2005: Fornits (Carlbrook)
August 31, 2009: Fornits (CEDU Watch Updated List)
Cascade School (1984-2003): 12069 Tintagel Lane, Whitmore, California 96096
Secret Prisons for Teens (Cascade School)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want To Be As A Teenager (#60: Cascade School)
August 1990: Woodbury Reports, issue #5 (Cascade School reports graduating 34 students August 11th, leaving 130 still in the program)
August 1991: Woodbury Reports, issue #11 (Cascade School)
June 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #34 (Judy Tofflemire, Admissions at Cascade School in Whitmore, California, becomes Judy Becks! She was married.)
April 1996: Woodbury Reports, issue #39 (Director of U.S. Admissions Brooke Jackson is listed in Peterson's Guide)
October 1996: Woodbury Reports, issue #42 (Britten Poulson, M.A., has joined the admissions staff at Cascade School in Whitemore, California)
April 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #57 (Cascade School announced they had 54 graduates in 1998)
August 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #60 (Cascade School, a coeducational college prep boarding school founded in 1984 that specializes in working with adolescents with problems, located in northern California, has positions open for emotional growth counselors)
April 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #68 (Gayle Tilles retires from Cascade School)
2005: Oh, the Glory of it All (a memoir about Cascade School and Amity School by Sean Wilsey)
2005: Oh, the Glory of it All (a memoir about Cascade School and Amity School by Sean Wilsey)
October 30, 2006: Struggling Teens (Christy Slate Leach started her career at Cascade School in 1994 and then went onto work at Rocky Mountain Academy, Northwest Academy, and then San Cristobal Ranch Academy)
June 26, 2007: Gone to the Crazies (a memoir about Cascade School by Alison Weaver)
June 22, 2018: Beyond Therapeutic: A Story that is Both Shocking and Inspiring (a memoir about Cascade School by Paula Rudy)
2019: Malka & Drucker (The Story of One Student’s Journey: a mother’s view of sending her son to Cascade School & Pathfinders Wilderness Program)
October 13, 2020: Let’s Talk Podcast (Cascade School described by Bink Griffith)
December 10, 2020: Survivors Breaking Silence (former Cascade student Paris Hilton’s investigative team goes public with a website that consists of survivor stories related to the troubled teen industry)
December 10, 2020: Survivors Breaking Silence (CEDU School, Ascent, Cascade School, and Provo Canyon School described by Paris Hilton)
September 22, 2004: Fornits (CEDU and Cascade are related, there was a walk out at Cascade)
October 15, 2004: Fornits (Cascade School)
April 11, 2005: Fornits (Cascade/CEDU)
December 26, 2005: Fornits (Emotional Abuse Charlatan Deceives Parents and Manipulates Teens)
2014: Reddit (Looking for info on CEDU and Cascade School: Troubled Teens)
2018: Reddit (CEDU Clones)
2019: Reddit (Survivors of Cascade School)
2020: Reddit (I’d like to make a direct comparison-the Synanon cult-CEDU-Cascade School)
Cherokee Creek Boys School (2003-present): 198 Cooper Road, Westminster, South Carolina 29693
Founders of Cherokee Creek Boys School: Beth and Ron Black
LinkedIn (Beth Black)
FaceBook (Beth Black)
YouTube (Beth Black)
Pinterest (Beth Black)
Executive Director of Cherokee Creek Boys School: David LePere
LinkedIn (David LePere)
FaceBook (David LePere)
Instagram (David LePere)
Twitter (David LePere)
December 2003: Woodbury Reports, issue #111 (Beth Black is part of leadership team at Cherokee Creek Boys School)
October 24, 2007: Struggling Teens (Beth and Ron Black hire David LePere as Cherokee Creek Boys School Executive Director)
November 17, 2008: Fornits (Mount Bachelor Academy’s own version of its history)
April 14, 2009: Fornits (Russ Decker Goes to Trial)
May 24, 2009: Fornits (CEDU Watch Updated List)
May 24, 2009: Fornits: (Cherokee Creek Boys School)
HEAL (Cherokee Creek Boys School Staff)
Clear View
November 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #63 (Clear View announced Kris Armstrong as Counselor and Assistant Director. Previously Armstrong had been at Ascent. They also have been licensed by the State of Idaho for Foster Care.)
Coeur Assessment Center (2020-present): 1115 Ironwood Drive, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83814
College Excel (2003-present): 1458 NW College Way, #201, Bend, Oregon 97702
Parent Coaching Program: Barb Cass
LinkedIn (Barb Cass)
FaceBook (Barb Cass)
October 26, 2005: Struggling Teens (Barb and Craig Cass are hired at College Excel)
Coronado Academy (2002-2004): Playa Esterillos, Costa Rica
LinkedIn (Saul Rudman)
FaceBook (Saul Rudman)
Twitter (Saul Rudman)
Pinterest (Saul Rudman)
April 10, 2003: Woodbury Reports (Coronado Academy)
January 19, 2005: Woodbury Reports (Saul Rudman’s letter to Coronado Academy supporters about closure)
Family Light (New Summit Academy takes Coronado Academy’s students after closure)
June 13, 2003: Fornits (Coronado Academy-Costa Rica)
May 24, 2009: Fornits (CEDU Watch Updated List)
May 25, 2009: Fornits (Jackson Culotta)
May 3, 2010: Fornits (Costa Rica???)
Creekside Wilderness Academy (1/2009-?): 830 Hidden Lake Road, Dahlonega, Georgia 30533
Secret Prisons for Teens (Creekside Wilderness Academy)
DeSisto School (1978-2004): Rural Route 183, Post Office Box 369, Stockbridge, Massachusetts 01262
Secret Prisons for Teens (DeSisto School)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want To Be As A Teenager (#2: DeSisto School)
April 1996: Woodbury Reports, issue #39 (Director of Recruitment Beth Paulin is listed in Peterson's Guide)
February 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #56 (DeSisto School held the first in what they hope to be a series of Symposiums on Raising Boys)
April 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #57 (DeSisto School announced their Summer ’99 Cabaret opens on July 4th weekend)
October 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #62 (Maggi Sanderson replaces Connie Real as head of The DeSisto School admissions department. Karla Geoffroy and Fred Simmons will be assisting in the admissions office. Connie will continue working part time as Alumni Coordinator.)
February 9, 2007: Cult Education Institute (Many Painful Years at DeSisto School)
February 1, 2016: Rally Ethics For Orphans and At Risk Minors (How Could You? Hall of Shame-DeSisto School)
March 6, 2012: I am Lauren Leonardi (DeSisto School described by Lauren Leonardi)
January 26, 2016: ABC News (School Discipline was Torture)
Scribd (Exhibits in Desisto Investigation)
Earle Consulting (January 2010-present): Post Office Box 3222, Oakland, California 94609
Earle Consulting (Founder: Timothy Earle)
FaceBook: Earle Consulting
LinkedIn: Timothy Earle
FaceBook: Timothy Earle
Instagram: Timothy Earle
August 23, 2004: Fornits (Staff You Hate)
Echo Springs Transition Study Program (5/1993-present): 3210 Kootenai Trail Road, Bonners Ferry, Idaho 83805
June 1993: Woodbury Reports, issue #22 (Former Rocky Mountain Academy staff Doug Kim-Brown starts Echo Springs Transition Study Program)
October 1993: Woodbury Reports, issue #24 (Echo Springs Transition Center)
February 1994: Woodbury Reports, issue #26 (Echo Springs)
October 1994: Woodbury Reports, issue #30 (Echo Springs Announces One Year Anniversary)
April 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #33 (Echo Springs)
December 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #37 (Echo Springs Opens Phase 2 Office)
February 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #56 (Plaintiff Echo Springs Center for Transition Studies v. defendant CEDU Educational Services was dismissed since the parties settled out of court)
August 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #60 (Echo Springs Activities)
October 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #62 (Echo Springs Alaskan Adventure)
November 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #63 (Doug Kim-Brown, Founder and Director of Echo Springs Transition Study Center, stopped by Woodbury Reports to introduce two of his students, Jay Tagliapeitra and Zach Lindy, both from California)
December 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #64 (Echo Springs Transition Study Center moved to a new building 3.5 miles outside Bonners Ferry)
May 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #69 (Mike Cooke of Echo Springs Visits)
Ever Higher, Inc. (2003-?): 7203 SW McVey Avenue, Redmond, Oregon 97756
December 2003: Woodbury Reports, issue #111 (Former Director of Family Education and Support for the CEDU Schools Bill Valentine forms a consulting service to emotional growth schools and programs called Ever Higher, Inc.)
Friends of Families with Children in Crisis Foundation (1998-present): Post Office Box 825 Lake Arrowhead, California 92352
FaceBook
May 10, 2008: Struggling Teens (Dozens of Children Helped by Friends of Families Foundation)
Glacier Mountain Expeditions (1996): Cocolalla, Idaho
Secret Prisons for Teens (Glacier Mountain Expeditions)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want To Be As A Teenager (#136: Glacier Mountain Expeditions)
April 1996: Woodbury Reports, issue #39 (Glacier Mountain Expeditions)
October 1997: Woodbury Reports, issue #48 (Glacier Mountain Expeditions)
August 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #60 (Glacier Mountain Academy names Ellen Weissman as the new Director of Admissions and Ramona Slover as a new therapist)
September 5, 1999: The Spokesman-Review (Troubled Homes Academies for Wayward Youths have Their Own Problems with Rules)
October 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #62 (In a front page article in the North Idaho edition of the Spokane Washington based Spokesman-Review, “Troubled Homes Academies For Wayward Youths Have Their Own Problems With Rules,” writer Susan Drumheller itemizes the complaints and repeats exaggerated rumors a few rigid critics are presenting against Elk Mountain Academy and Glacier Mountain Inc, schools for at-risk youth based outside Sandpoint, Idaho, while doing a limited and lack-luster job of presenting the schools’ side.)
Hidden Lake Academy (1994-2011): 830 Hidden Lake Road, Dahlonega, Georgia 30533
Secrets Prisons for Teens (Hidden Lake Academy)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want to be Sent as a Teenager (#125: Hidden Lake Academy)
1994: Academic (Hidden Lake Academy)
October 1994: Woodbury Reports, issue #30 (Hidden Lake Academy)
October 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #36 (New Director Of Admissions At Hidden Lake Academy: Scott Canter has been named the new Director of Admission at Hidden Lake Academy in Dahlonega, Georgia, replacing Todd White)
December 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #37 (Hidden Lake Academy)
December 1996: Woodbury Reports, issue #43 (Hidden Lake Academy)
April 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #51 (Brian Ray Joins Admissions at Swift River Academy: Glen Bender, Admissions Director at Swift River Academy announced Brian Ray has joined the school as Associate Dean of Admissions. Brian previously had been Assistant Director of Admissions at Hidden Lake Academy in Georgia.)
June 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #52 (Swift River Academy Staff Changes include Rudy Bentz as Dean of Student Life. Rudy has 17 years experience with the CEDU Schools in California, and Hidden Lake Academy in Georgia. Also Jill Bentz is the Director of Training. Jill also had worked for 17 years in key positions at the CEDU Schools and Hidden Lake Academy. Other hires include Brian A. Ray as Associate Dean for Admissions, formerly with Hidden Lake Academy, Andrew Locke, Bill Mercier, and Dominique Bressi as Teacher/Mentors, Jeremy McGeorge as experiential educator, formerly with Aspen Achievement Academy, Erica Ray, as intake counselor, and Vince Schmidt as Lower Division Head, formerly a therapist at Hidden Lake Academy.)
August 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #53 (Arnold Zilberkant is named Associate Director of Counseling, and Michael Webster is named Assistant Director of Academics at Hidden Lake Academy)
February 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #56 (Hidden Lake Academy announced several recent improvements to the school’s curriculum. These include AP courses in English and U.S. History, Honors courses in English, Mathematics, Science and Social Science along with continuing Fine Arts courses in Art, Drama, and Music. Aaron Kanner, an ex pro-football player with the Chicago Bears, is managing the sports and physical education programs.)
October 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #62 (Hidden Lake Academy announced the new girls dorm was opened in August, allowing the girls to move from the bottom of the Academic Building. The girls’ old rooms have been converted into eight additional classrooms, the audio-visual room and an expanded computer room. They celebrate their fifth year in September and report the average tenure for Department Heads is 4 years, 3 months.)
January 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #65 (Hidden Lake Academy Accreditation)
October 2001: Woodbury Reports, issue #86 (Hidden Lake Academy, Dahlonega, Georgia, a therapeutic coed boarding school for ages 13–17, has been “approved for accreditation with Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) as a traditional, nonpublic school)
September 19, 2009: The Guardian (The Last Days of Hidden Lake Academy Student Dash Snow)
August 4, 2011: Secret Prisons for Teens (Last Chapter of Hidden Lake Academy & Ridge Creek School?)
2013: Scrambled Gregs (a website about Hidden Lake Academy created by Greg Cayea)
September 19, 2016: No Direction Home: The Drifter Chronicles (a memoir about Hidden Lake Academy by Greg Cayea)
July 29, 2019: The Dahlonega Nugget (Filmmaker is focusing on Hidden Lake Academy)
September 14, 2020: Brooke Beard breaks code silence about Hidden Lake Academy
Search (Hidden Lake Academy and Ridge Creek School)
Homelines (2001-?): Moyie Springs, Idaho
February 12, 2009: Struggling Teens (Openings at Homelines)
August 19, 2009: Struggling Teens (Homelines Offers Reduced Rates)
August 21, 2009: Fornits (Homelines)
Innercept Residential Treatment Center (2004-present): 1115 Ironwood Drive, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83814
Secret Prisons for Teens (Innercept)
March 5, 2008: The Spokesman-Review (Neighbors Complain About Group Homes)
March 5, 2008: Argus Observer (Group homes for troubled young people worry Hayden-area residents)
February 5, 2009: Fornits (My Tale: A Story of North Idaho Behavioral Health, Innercept, and Ascent)
May 27, 2013: Teen Death Trips (Innercept)
October 21, 2020: Survivors Breaking Silence (Innercept described by anonymous survivor)
Teen Death Trips (Innercept)
Scribd (Innercept described by Dan Hopkins)
Indeed (Innercept Employee Reviews)
Zoom Info (Chuck Selent is Program Manager at Innercept)
Reddit (CEDU Clones)
Integrated Interventions (2013-present): 2482 East Glacier Road, Hayden, Idaho 83835
Integrated Interventions (Bio: Greg Hitchcock)
King George School (9/15/1998-6/4/2011): 2684 King George Road, Sutton, Vermont, 05867
1,000 Places You Don’t Want To Be As A Teenager (#631: King George School)
August 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #53 (King George School Opens)
February 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #56 (King George School announced Property Manager Steve Barrett is working with the students in the collection and distillation of sap from the school’s maple grove. “Using the campus maple sugaring house, students will receive credit in Biology and Botany.”)
June 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #58 (Brown Schools: King George School announced their six-week summer session called “The Natural Artist.” This wilderness based summer program for students ages 14-18 starts July 11 and lasts to August 22.)
October 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #62 (Brown Schools: King George School announced the school celebrated its first anniversary on September 6th with 25 students in grades 9 to 12. “Students represent 2 countries, twelve states, and all major geographical regions within the U.S.”)
November 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #63 (Brown Schools: King George School)
December 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #64 (King George School announced the school has been approved to issue the I-20 form to international students)
January 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #65 (Admissions Change at King George School)
March 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #67 (King George School announced in January the school added a culinary arts program, including preparing a five-course meal for 50 people. For their winter performance, students adapted Oscar Wilde’s “The Nightingale and the Rose” for the stage.)
May 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #69 (King George School Website Online. College acceptances for their graduating seniors include Bennington College, Rollins College, Stetson University, Union College, Georgia Tech, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Rensselaer.)
October 2001: Woodbury Reports, issue #86 (Dareios Trust Fund for Linda Houghton, founder of Mount Bachelor Academy and King George School, to help in the expenses associated with her battle with cancer)
April 3, 2005: I Speak of Dreams (CEDU's King George School's Head Thinks on Feet, Stays Open Despite Order to Close)
May 3, 2005: Struggling Teens (King George School, Sutton, VT)
May 3, 2005: Struggling Teens (King George School, Sutton, VT)
August 12, 2005: Struggling Teens (King George School Lives On)
October 10, 2005 UHT (Universal Health Services announced that it has acquired four therapeutic boarding schools and one outdoor intervention program from the Brown Schools of Austin bankruptcy. The five facilities include the 100-bed Boulder Creek Academy and the 120-bed Northwest Academy in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, the 80-bed Rocky Mountain Academy and an outdoor intervention program located in Naples, Idaho, and the 90-bed King George School in Sutton, Vermont.)
Milestones for Young Adults (4/1/2005-present): 264 Hilgren, Hayden Lake, Idaho 83835
2005: Strugglingteens.com (Milestones for Young Adults)
February 18, 2009: Strugglingteens.com (Milestones for Young Adults)
February 24, 2009: Strugglingteens.com (Milestones for Young Adults)
Caring 4 Youth (Milestones for Young Adults)
Open Corporates (Milestones for Young Adults)
Manta (Milestones for Young Adults)
Monarch School (9/2000-9/2017): 26 Aspen Lane, Heron, Montana 59844
Secret Prisons for Teens (Monarch School)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want To Be As A Teenager (#233: Monarch School)
February 14, 2012: Tales From the Black School (Jordan McClure at the Monarch School)
May 22, 2013: VICE (Teens Are Being Trapped in Abusive 'Drug Rehab Centers')
October 12, 2017: The Reader (Monarch School closing leaves some with more questions than answers)
September 20, 2018: Great Falls Tribune (Owners of defunct Montana boarding school settle lawsuit)
September 25, 2018: Medium (Monarch School described by Michael Atterbury)
August 1, 2019: Missoulian (Monarch School: NW Montana therapeutic boarding school to pay families nearly $1 million)
January 23, 2020: Breaking Code Silence (Wilderness & Monarch School described by Rebecca Moorman)
January 24, 2020: Breaking Code Silence (Wilderness & Monarch School described by Rebecca Moorman)
Reddit (Monarch School)
Reddit (Patrick McKenna, owner of Monarch School in Montana (now shut down), has been successfully sued)
Reddit (Monarch School in Montana closes with 2 days notice for "financial reasons")
Reddit (Second Nature and Monarch School)
Reddit (CEDU Clones)
Mount Bachelor Academy (1987-11/3/2009): 33051 NE Ochoco Highway, Prineville, Oregon 97754
Secret Prisons for Teens (Mount Bachelor Academy)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want to be as a Teenager (#316: Mount Bachelor Academy)
January 1990: Woodbury Reports, issue #2 (As of early December, Mount Bachelor Academy was at 43 students)
February 1991: Woodbury Reports, issue #8 (The emotional growth at Mount Bachelor School was influenced by CEDU)
April 1993: Woodbury Reports, issue #21 (Mount Bachelor Academy Summer Venture)
April 1994: Woodbury Reports, issue #27 (Tim Brace has accepted the position of Executive Director of Mount Bachelor Academy)
June 1994: Woodbury Reports, issue #28 (Rea Kreider is the new Academic Dean for Mount Bachelor Academy)
June 1994: Woodbury Reports, issue #28 (Mount Bachelor Academy announced their fifth Annual Professional Forum and Retreat)
August 1994: Woodbury Reports, issue #29 (Linda Houghton, past President of Mount Bachelor Academy, announced Summer Asclepian)
October 1994: Woodbury Reports, issue #30 (Sarah Koalkin, Director of Admissions at Mount Bachelor Academy, marrys David Persha)
February 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #32 (Mount Bachelor Has New Staff Members: Headmaster Tim Brace hired the following staff in 1994 for Mount Bachelor Academy in Bend, Oregon: Dean Bonanno, Conquest School Head; Brett Carey, Lower School Head; Lisa Carey, Mentor; David Johnson, Teacher/counselor; Lorenzo Johnson, Wilderness Instructor; Nina Boismier, Teacher/Counselor; Cheryl Mesher, Program Assistant; MBA alumni Sarah McKenzie, Peter Jacoby and Becky Rutland, Program Assistants; Loyd Morrow, Mathematics Teacher; Malia Mullahey, Program Assistant and Mentor in Lower School; Kathleen Brace, Scheduler; Gina Cooper, Kitchen Assistant; Diane Hoke, Kitchen Assistant; and Chris Pratt, Maintenance Head)
February 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #32 (Common Sense in Education reprinted from The Looking Glass, a publication by Mount Bachelor Academy)
April 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #33 (Mount Bachelor Academy Announces Their Sixth Annual Summer Program)
December 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #37 (Mount Bachelor Academy announced the opening of their Bend Campus: a transitional program for students 18 and older)
June 1996: Woodbury Reports, issue #40 (Mount Bachelor Academy announced Seventh Annual Summer Venture)
December 1997: Woodbury Reports, issue #49 (SUWS Admissions Moves to Idaho: Sue Crowell, Executive Director of the SUWS Adolescent Program announced their Admissions Office will move to Gooding, Idaho on Nov. 17, 1997. The purpose is to help admissions people be in closer touch with the program and the progress of the students they enroll. Sue also announced that Jeff Johnson will be the new Admissions Director. Jeff is well known in the network by his several years of admissions work at Mount Bachelor Academy in Bend, Oregon. Jeff is joined at SUWS by his wife, Dori Them, who will be their newest Field Supervisor. The admissions team in Gooding will be rounded out by Kathryn Shannonhouse and Michael Ervin. Linda McKinney will remain in southern California as Director of Marketing and Business Development.)
December 1997: Woodbury Reports, issue #49 (The Academy at Swift River is a sister school of Mount Bachelor Academy)
February 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #50 (Renaissance, Mount Bachelor Academy’s transitional program for young adults, ages 18-22)
April 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #51 (Mount Bachelor Academy Summer Venture program will be done in cooperation with the SUWS Adolescent Program)
April 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #51 (A Fortunate Opportunity by Tim Brace, Executive Director of Mount Bachelor Academy)
June 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #52 (Mount Bachelor Academy held a training session on basic elements of adolescent development)
June 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #52 (Mount Bachelor Cleared)
February 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #56 (Chip Huge, former Assistant Admission Director of Mount Bachelor Academy accepted the position of Admission Director for the NorthStar Center formerly held by Jane Stewart, now NorthStar’s Program Director)
February 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #56 (Mount Bachelor Academy’s Admission Director Sarah Persha is replaced by Genelle Boggemann)
July 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #59 (Mount Bachelor Academy announced the 100-student school would have nine graduates in a June 27, 1999 ceremony)
November 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #63 (Mount Bachelor Academy announced starting January 2000, the school will be implementing ways to make the median length of stay 14-16 months instead of the current 20-30 months.)
January 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #65 (Mount Bachelor Academy Graduated 12 Students)
April 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #68 (Jeff Johnson has been working at Wilderness Quest for about a month, doing marketing and admissions along with Anngela Ritter. Jeff previously worked in admissions for SUWS, and before that was with Mount Bachelor Academy.)
October 2001: Woodbury Reports, issue #86 (Dareios Trust Fund for Linda Houghton, founder of Mount Bachelor Academy and King George School, to help in the expenses associated with her battle with cancer)
March 15, 2009: Mental Health PDX (The story behind Mount Bachelor Academy’s closure)
April 8, 2009: Surviving CEDU (Mount Bachelor Academy)
April 17, 2009: Time (Mount Bachelor Academy: An Oregon School for Troubled Teens Is Under Scrutiny)
April 17, 2009: Jezebel (Does This Look Like Mental Health Counseling To You?)
November 4, 2009: Mother Jones (School Using Lap Dances to Treat ADD Closed, Your Tax $ Involved, but will it Re-Open?)
December 2010: Alliance for the Safe, Therapeutic & Appropriate Use of Residential Treatment (Case Charging Abuse of Students at Mount Bachelor Academy Closes [The State of Oregon Concludes That There was “Reasonable Cause to Believe that Abuse or Neglect Occurred”])
July 7, 2011: Courthouse News Service (Torture Alleged at Shuttered Boarding School [Mount Bachelor Academy])
July 12, 2011: Time (Students Sue ‘Troubled Teen’ School for Systematic Sexual, Emotional Abuse [Mount Bachelor Academy])
August 25, 2011: KBND (More Claims Against Mount Bachelor Academy)
November 28, 2011: Buyout Insider (Bain-Backed Company Faces Charges of Abuse)
July 18, 2012: Salon (Dark Side of a Bain Success)
February 27, 2013: Central Oregonian (Mount Bachelor Academy motion to dismiss is denied)
May 22, 2013: VICE (Teens Are Being Trapped in Abusive 'Drug Rehab Centers')
September 3, 2019: Ranker (10 Terrifying Teen Rehab Horror Stories of Abuse and Death)
September 8, 2020: Breaking Code Silence (Mount Bachelor Academy described by Elizabeth Anderman)
Reddit (CEDU Clones)
National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP, 1/1999-present): 5272 River Road, Suite 600, Bethesda, Maryland 20816
Secret Prisons for Teens (NATSAP)
NATSAP Membership
2020 NATSAP Annual Conference Attendee List
Academic (National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs)
Unbroken (More Information on Institutional Child Abuse)
HEAL (NATSAP)
WWASPS Survivors (Red Flags)
February 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #56 (The newly organized Board of the newly formed National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP) hired John Reddan of Santa Barbara, California)
April 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #57 (NATSAP has about 53 applications for membership so far)
April 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #57 (NATSAP announced the organization’s First Annual Conference will be held September 16-18, 1999 at The Westin-Innisbrook Resort in Tampa, Florida)
April 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #57 (NATSAP Launched)
June 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #58 (NATSAP Educational Meeting)
August 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #60 (Abusive Parental Behaviors Seminar Featured at NATSAP)
November 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #63 (The Governor of California signed the bill entitled AB 705 that has the intent of providing regulation of transport services in California. The original bill as passed by the Assembly was interpreted by the industry as essentially putting transport companies out of business since it appeared a child couldn’t be transported without his/her permission, regardless of the behavior of the child or the wishes of the parents. Under the leadership of Al Cordoza of West Shield Adolescent Services and a loosely knit association called Parental Rights Association, with support from industry organizations including OBHIC and NATSAP, the bill was amended in the California Senate in a way that people in the industry interpreted would allow legitimate firms to continue operating, while giving some ability to act against those whose operations were questionable)
April 24, 2008: Hearing Before the Committee on Education and Labor (Child Abuse and Deceptive Marketing by Residential Programs for Teens)
August 12, 2014: The Atlantic (When Wilderness Boot Camps Take Tough Love Too Far)
November 12, 2015: Rolling Stone Magazine (Life and Death in a Troubled Teen Boot Camp)
December 15, 2015: ProPublica (Kids Get Hurt at Residential Schools While States Look On)
January 27, 2019: Missoulian (Montana isn't alone in failure to beef up regulations of programs for troubled teens)
January 29, 2020: UNDARK (Does Science Support the ‘Wilderness’ in Wilderness Therapy?)
February 28, 2020: Sage Journals (Troubling the ‘troubled teen’ industry: Adult reflections on youth experiences of therapeutic boarding schools)
November 24, 2020: The Daily Free Press (CAS student shares personal experience with ‘troubled teen’ industry)
December 2, 2020: Breaking Code Silence (Megan Stokes, the director of NATSAP, advised member programs to deny requests for records in leaked phone call)
December 2, 2020: The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah’s ‘troubled-teen industry’ warned about investigation launched by Disability Law Center)
New Horizons for Young Women (2001-10/10/2008): Springfield, Maine
Secret Prisons for Teens (New Horizons for Young Women)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want to be Sent as a Teenager (#182: New Horizons for Young Girls)
October 2001: Woodbury Reports, issue #86 (New Horizons Offers American Family Plan [September 21, 2001]: Audrey Peavy, Admissions Director, expressed their concern for families during this uncertain time. “We want to extend, until December 1, 2001, a significantly reduced price plan...The American Family Plan...which “will frankly just cover operating costs. It is being offered because “as frightening as the threat of terrorism is, for many of these young women, the greatest threat they are still facing is their own dangerous, self-destructive behavior.” New Horizons is now also offering a transportation service for their clients.)
October 17, 2002: New York Post (Former RMA graduate Jacqueline Guber and her mother Barbara Walters open up about why she was sent away and New Horizons Wilderness Program which Jacqueline founded in 2001)
October 18, 2003: NBC News (A Daughter’s New Horizon)
April 5, 2004: Cape Cod Times (Where Outward Bound meets Dr. Phil: New Horizons for Young Girls)
April 6, 2004: Bangor Daily News (Wilderness School Offers New Horizons to Girls)
April 11, 2004: Fornits (New Horizons for Young Girls)
February 3, 2007: Fornits (New Horizons for Young Girls)
October 10, 2008: Struggling Teens (New Horizons For Young Women Closing)
New Leaf Academy of Oregon (5/1997-present): 63140 Dickey Road, Bend, Oregon 97708
Secret Prisons for Teens (New Leaf Academy)
December 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #76 (New Leaf Academy opens second location referred to as Rock Mesa)
July 7, 2004: Woodbury Reports (Christy and Craig Christiansen sell New Leaf Academy to Aspen Education Group)
July 9, 2004 Woodbury Reports (Aspen Education Group Acquires New Leaf Academy in Oregon)
March 24, 2011: Struggling Teens (Aspen Education Group announce plan to discontinue operations at five locations: Bromley Brook School [Manchester Center, Vermont], New Leaf Academy [Bend, Oregon], NorthStar Center [Bend, Oregon], Aspen Ranch [Loa, Utah], and SunHawk Adolescent Recovery Center [St. George, Utah])
June 13, 2011: Struggling Teens (New Leaf Academy to Remain Open)
August 9, 2012: Struggling Teens (New Leaf Academy described by educational consultant Kristie Campbell)
New Summit Academy (1/1/2005-present): Barrio Fátima, Alajuela Province, Atenas, Costa Rica
LinkedIn: New Summit Academy
FaceBook: New Summit Academy
January 19, 2005: Woodbury Reports (Saul Rudman’s letter to Coronado Academy supporters)
June 6, 2007: Struggling Teens (Loi Eberle visits New Summit Academy)
July 10, 2008: Family Light (New Summit Academy was created by the key staff who along with Saul Rudman were responsible for the now defunct Coronado Academy)
May 24, 2009: Fornits (CEDU Watch Updated List)
May 25, 2009: Fornits (Kid says he’s in a program, New Summit Academy, Costa Rica?)
North Idaho Behavioral Health, Kootenai Medical Center: 2301 North Ironwood Place, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83814
February 5, 2009: Fornits (My Tale: A Story of North Idaho Behavioral Health, Innercept, and Ascent)
NorthStar Center
February 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #56 (Chip Huge, former Assistant Admission Director of Mount Bachelor Academy accepted the position of Admission Director for the NorthStar Center formerly held by Jane Stewart, now NorthStar’s Program Director)
Northwest Academy, Universal Health Services (2005-9/26/2018): 139 Success Lane, Naples, Idaho 83847
Secret Prisons for Teens (Northwest Academy)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want to be as a Teenager (#724: Northwest Academy)
Century 21 (Northwest Academy and Ascent campus for sale for $1,500,000)
October 10, 2005 UHT (Universal Health Services announced that it has acquired four therapeutic boarding schools and one outdoor intervention program from the Brown Schools of Austin bankruptcy. The five facilities include the 100-bed Boulder Creek Academy and the 120-bed Northwest Academy in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, the 80-bed Rocky Mountain Academy and an outdoor intervention program located in Naples, Idaho, and the 90-bed King George School in Sutton, Vermont.)
February 9, 2007: Boundary News (Former Clinical Director of the Ascent Wilderness Program John Schrom heads Northwest Academy after Ruth McKnight retires)
September 21, 2011: Court Records and Sheriff’s Log (A runaway was reported from Northwest Academy at 12:44 a.m.)
August 22, 2018: Struggling Teens (Northwest Academy to Close)
August 30, 2018: The Reader (Northwest Academy Closing)
2018: Reddit (Northwest Academy Closing)
Practice Link (Boulder Creek Academy, Northwest Academy, and Ascent)
Academic (CEDU)
School Refusal Hope (Northwest Academy)
Help Your Teen Now (Northwest Academy)
Best Rehabs (Northwest Academy)
Rehab.com (Northwest Academy)
HEAL (Northwest Academy)
Indeed (Northwest Academy Employee Reviews)
Urban Dictionary (Northwest Academy)
Northwoods Trailside School (1993-present): 6889 Apple Alley, Bonners Ferry, Idaho 83805
November 1989: Woodbury Reports, issue #1 (Northwoods at Shiloh is starting to take form)
August 1990: Woodbury Reports, issue #5 (Dave Yeates, most recently with Pathfinders and before that with Rocky Mountain Academy, founded Northwoods)
April 1993: Woodbury Reports, issue #21 (Former Rocky Mountain Academy staff David Yeats creates Northwoods Trailside School)
April 1994: Woodbury Reports, issue #27 (Northwoods Trailside School)
September 5, 1999: The Spokesman-Review (Troubled Homes Academies for Wayward Youths have Their Own Problems with Rules)
NRM Consulting (11/2018-present): 3128 Natalie Circle, Augusta, Georgia 30909
Linkedin: Ned Murray
Facebook: Ned Murray
Do You Buzz: Ned Murray
October 26, 2004: Fornits (Ned Murray in the Rocky Mountain Academy Sauna)
January 7, 2007: Augusta Chronicle (Ned Robert Murray is arrested for a DUI)
April 26, 2007: Fornits (Ned Murray and Fred Thompson Blew Me Off)
October 28, 2020: Metro Spirit (Episcopal Day School Parents Concerned over Recent Development with Staff including Former Rocky Mountain Academy Staff Ned Murray)
November 1, 2020: Metro Spirit (Episcopal Day School in Augusta, Georgia Issues Statement Regarding Family Demanding Termination of Headmaster and Former Rocky Mountain Academy Staff Ned Murray)
Nonprofit Architect Podcast (What is the Governance System? An interview with Ned Murray)
Manta (NRM Consulting, LLC)
Ohana House (?-present): 655 NW Ogden Avenue, Bend, Oregon 97701
May 17, 2010: Woodbury Reports (Ohana House)
On Track Wilderness Therapy: Mason County, Texas
June 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #52 (On Track: Brown Schools Wilderness Program)
April 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #57 (On Track Wilderness Program)
October 17, 2002: Fornits (Death in Texas at "On Track" Wilderness)
May 18, 2003: American Statesman (When Discipline Turns Fatal)
Padgett Consulting Services: Bend, Oregon
July 6, 2010: Struggling Teens (Marci Padgett Consulting Services)
Secret Prisons for Teens (Amity School)
October 1994: Woodbury Reports, issue #30 (Amity School Closes)
August 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #72 (In Memoriam of John Padgett)
December 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #76 (Marci Padgett works as Headmistress at New Leaf Academy Green Ridge while supervising therapeutic programs at Green Ridge and Rock Mesa)
April 23, 2007: Fornits (Cascade/CEDU Staff Overlaps)
October 27, 2007: Fornits (Running Springs Staff of 1980)
October 29, 2007: Fornits (John Padgett Bites the Big One)
Bend Belluno Sister Cities Cultural Exchange (Marci Padgett: “Living and Laughing in Tuscany”)
Parent Coach Professionals (May 2011-present): Bend, Oregon
Parent Coach Professionals (Owners: Barb Cass and Vicki Jones)
Pathfinders Wilderness Program (?-7/8/1996): Corrales, New Mexico
Secret Prisons for Teens (Pathfinders Wilderness Program)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want To Be As A Teenager (#79: Pathfinders Wilderness Program)
August 1990: Woodbury Reports, issue #5 (Dave Yeates, most recently with Pathfinders and before that with Rocky Mountain Academy, founded Northwoods)
August 1990: Woodbury Reports, issue #5 (Richard Armstrong worked at Pathfinders before starting Boundarylines)
August 1996: Woodbury Reports, issue #41 (Pathfinders Wilderness Program Disbanded by Colorado DHS)
September 2, 1996: SFGate (Pathfinders Wilderness Program: Where Parents' Rights Leave Off / A Palo Alto teenager sues to give children some muscle in abduction-for-hire cases)
August 2, 2000: Find Law (West Shield Investigations and Security Consultants v. Superior Court)
December 13, 2005: Fornits (Pathfinders and Mike Parr)
2019: Malka & Drucker (The Story of One Student’s Journey: a mother’s view of sending her son to Cascade School & Pathfinders Wilderness Program)
August 1990: Woodbury Reports, issue #5 (Former CEDU staff Richard Armstrong worked at Pathfinders before starting transport company)
2013: Reddit (Anasazi and Pathfinders)
Powell and Elliott Collaborative (2010-?): 817 Dom Way, Lake Arrowhead, California 92352
Powell and Elliott Collaborative (Co-owner: Brandi Elliott)
LinkedIn: Brandi Elliott (Powell and Elliott Collaborative)
October 10, 2004: Fornits (Brandi Elliott Fired)
May 16, 2005 Fornits (I hate Brandi Elliott and CEDU Middle School)
Friends of Families with Children in Crisis Foundation (Brandi Elliott is representative of The Friends of Families Foundation which used to be known as The Friends of CEDU Foundation)
Contact Out (Powell and Elliott Collaborative)
Manta (Powell and Elliott Collaborative)
All People (Powell and Elliott Collaborative)
Buzzfile (Powell and Elliott Collaborative)
January28, 2008: Struggling Teens (Jim Nolan and Mike Balotti of Jim Nolan & Associates and Access Education International in collaboration with Dr. Jim Powell of Powell & Elliott Collaborative, LLC are accepting clients in the Las Vegas, Nevada area)
Brandi Elliott Consulting
Lake Arrowhead Communities Chamber of Commerce (Brandi Elliott, LLC)
Provo Canyon School (1971-present): 4501 North University Avenue, Provo, Utah 84663
LinkedIn: Mike Naylor
FaceBook: Mike Naylor (Employed by Provo Canyon School, Charter Medical Group, and CEDU Schools)
Instagram: Mike Naylor
September 23, 2003: Woodbury Reports, issue #109 (After working at CEDU Schools, Katie Jochum became Provo Canyon School’s Director of Business Development)
QuietStar Center for Transformation (March 1990-present): 1248 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, California 93401
QuietStar Center for Transformation (Co-founder bio: Elaina Geltner)
SoulPath Alchemy
SoulPath Alchemy (Founder bio: Elaina Geltner)
FaceBook: SoulPath Alchemy
Higher Self-Spirit Guides Course (facilitated by Elaina Geltner)
Renaissance Transitional Program (1997-?): Bend, Oregon
February 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #50 (Renaissance, Mount Bachelor Academy’s transitional program for young adults, ages 18-22)
Ridgecreek Wilderness Program: 830 Hidden Lake Road, Dahlonega, Georgia 30533
October 2001: Woodbury Reports, issue #86 (Ridge Creek Announces Class Dates and recently constructed an Alpine Tower)
Sage Counseling and Wellness (2016-present): Lexington, Virginia 24450
Sage Counseling and Wellness (founded by Adele Logan O’Keefe)
San Cristobal Ranch Academy (2001-?): 176 Cam Del Medio, San Cristobal, New Mexico 87564
HEAL (San Cristobal Ranch Academy)
June 1, 2002: Struggling Teens (Lon Woodbury visits San Cristobal Ranch Academy)
October 30, 2006: Struggling Teens (Christy Slate Leach started her career at Cascade School in 1994 and then went on to work at Rocky Mountain Academy, Northwest Academy, and then San Cristobal Ranch Academy)
October 2007: Woodbury Reports, issue #158, page 30 (Katryn Cross is announced as new Admissions Director of San Cristobal Ranch Academy)
January 21, 2011: Addiction Professional (Scott Gilbert is hired as vice president of business development and Mike Baldassare is hired as director of outreach and web development at San Cristobal Ranch Academy)
Struggling Teens (Dave Johnson joins San Cristobal Ranch Academy as CEO and Owner)
October 12, 2010: YouTube (Message from CEO and owner of San Cristobal Ranch Academy Dave Johnson)
Jack Haigis Film (Documentary on San Cristobal Ranch Academy)
OutdoorEd (San Cristobal Ranch Academy)
Manta (San Cristobal Ranch Academy)
Second Nature Wilderness Program: Salt Lake City, Utah
Secret Prisons for Teens (Second Nature Wilderness Program)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want To Be As A Teenager (#327: Second Nature Wilderness Program)
June 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #52 (Caroline the Wolf [former CEDU student & staff] is hired as Admissions Director of Utah location)
February 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #56 (Scott Canter [former CEDU student & staff] announced he has joined Second Nature Wilderness Program)
April 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #57 (Second Nature Wilderness Program announced the program is moving to single gender groups)
August 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #60 (Rick Meeves has joined the Second Nature Therapist Team)
October 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #62 (Scott Canter announced the formation of a Quest Treatment Group (1 to 4 students) designed to accommodate emergency admissions)
November 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #63 (Second Nature Adds “Co-Therapist” Scott Canter [former CEDU student & staff], Director of Admissions for Second Nature, a clinically oriented short-term wilderness program operating in Utah. This means two therapists will now work with each group. Each student will still have a primary therapist, but will benefit from having a second one available also. This allows a reduction in each therapist’s caseload, and students and families will receive more quality time with their primary therapist.)
December 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #64 (Scott Canter announced their new website developed in effort to increase customer service)
December 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #64 (Second Nature Wilderness Program)
February 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #66 (Second Nature to Start Fourth Group)
July 7, 2016: Vox (Second Nature Wilderness Program: I went into the woods a teenage drug addict and came out sober. Was it worth it?)
Selkirk School (1978-present): 11014 West Pine Street, Sandpoint, Idaho 83864
August 1993: Woodbury Reports, issue #23 (Rea Kreider leaves his position as assistant headmaster of Rocky Mountain Academy to become Director of the Selkirk School)
Shortridge Academy (2002-present): 619 Governors Road, Milton, New Hampshire 03851
Secret Prisons for Teens (Shortridge Academy)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want to be Sent as a Teenager (#265: Shortridge Academy)
August 20, 2008: Fornits (Shortridge Academy)
July 14, 2011: Strugglingteens.com (Shortridge Academy)
May 14, 2012: Tales From the Black School (Disowned after a stay at Shortridge Academy)
January 1, 2020: Reddit (Do Not Go to Shortridge Academy)
SUWS (1981-2013): 911 Preacher Creek Road, Shoshone, Idaho 83352
Secret Prisons for Teens (SUWS)
1,000 Places You Don’t Want To Be As A Teenager (#140: SUWS)
June 1992: Woodbury Reports, issue #16 (SUWS)
December 1992: Woodbury Reports, issue #19 (SUWS Methodology)
June 1994: Woodbury Reports, issue #28 (College Health Enterprises who owns Mount Bachelor Academy and Aspen Achievement Academy acquires SUWS)
October 1994: Woodbury Reports, issue #30 (Former Rocky Mountain Academy staff Ranel Hanson is hired as Director of Enrollment Services at SUWS)
August 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #35 (Ranel Hanson leaves SUWS and returns to CEDU as Co-Director of Consultant Relations to work alongside other Co-Director Saul Rudman)
June 1996: Woodbury Reports, issue #40 (SUWS Adolescent Program described by educational consultant Deborah Trounstine)
February 1997: Woodbury Reports, issue #44 (SUWS Creates Younger Adolescent Program [11-13 years old])
April 1997: Woodbury Reports, issue #45 (L. J. Mitchell, founder of SUWS Adolescent Program and now retired from active management of that wilderness program, is talking about establishing a new boarding school which he tentatively plans to call Alldredge School)
December 1997: Woodbury Reports, issue #49 (SUWS Admissions Moves to Idaho: Sue Crowell, Executive Director of the SUWS Adolescent Program announced their Admissions Office will move to Gooding, Idaho on Nov. 17, 1997. The purpose is to help admissions people be in closer touch with the program and the progress of the students they enroll. Sue also announced that Jeff Johnson will be the new Admissions Director. Jeff is well known in the network by his several years of admissions work at Mount Bachelor Academy in Bend, Oregon. Jeff is joined at SUWS by his wife, Dori Them, who will be their newest Field Supervisor. The admissions team in Gooding will be rounded out by Kathryn Shannonhouse and Michael Ervin. Linda McKinney will remain in southern California as Director of Marketing and Business Development.)
February 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #50 (SUWS)
April 1998: Woodbury Reports, issue #51 (Mount Bachelor Academy Summer Venture program will be done in cooperation with the SUWS Adolescent Program)
April 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #68 (Jeff Johnson has been working at Wilderness Quest for about a month, doing marketing and admissions along with Anngela Ritter. Jeff previously worked in admissions for SUWS, and before that was with Mount Bachelor Academy.)
December 2, 2004: Fornits (A Dr. SUWS Story)
August 21, 2006: Fornits (Death at SUWS Idaho)
February 23, 2007: Fornits (Death at SUWS)
2012: Reddit (I am a person who escaped from camp SUWS)
July 12, 2013: Fornits (5 Aspen Programs Close: Academy at Swift River, Talisman Academy, Stone Mountain School, SUWS, and Adirondack Leadership Expeditions)
July 26, 2013: Secret Prisons for Teens (Academy at Swift River, Talisman Academy, Stone Mountain School, SUWS Adolescent and Youth Programs, and Adirondack Leadership Expeditions)
HEAL (SUWS Program Staff)
Three Rivers Montana
Secret Prisons for Teens (Three Rivers Montana)
June 2, 1996: The Spokesman-Review (Importing Troubled Teenagers Behavior Camps Become Big Business In Region)
Fall 2006: Outside Bozeman (Three Rivers Montana: Making Magic in the Wilderness)
Valley View School (1970-present): 91 Oakham Road, North Brookfield, Massachusetts 01535
Struggling Teens (Former CEDU staff Chris Carlin leaves his job as Clinical Director at Valley View School to be Dean of Students at Ashby Academy)
May 13, 2010: Fornits (Valley View School Abuse)
West Shield Adolescent Services
October 1994: Woodbury Reports, issue #30 (Former CEDU School student and Rocky Mountain Academy staff Caroline Wolf is working with West Shield Adolescent Services)
August 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #35 (West Shield Adolescent Services)
October 1995: Woodbury Reports, issue #36 (West Shield Announces New Full-Time Manager Al Cardoza, President of West Shield Adolescent Services announced that Steve DeTata is the new full-time manager responsible for all operations. Ollie Perkins and Caroline the Wolf [former CEDU student & staff] have been promoted to field directors)
August 1996: Woodbury Reports, issue #41 (Allen Cardoza, President of West Shield Adolescent Services, announced their expansion into the Northern Idaho/Spokane, Washington region)
November 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #63 (Allen Cardoza, President of West Shield Adolescent Services, Dan Koller and numerous other parents, concerned with the eroding rights of parents, are forming the Parental Rights Association to promote a healthy relationship between parents, families, and government)
March 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #67 (Allen Cardoza, President of West Shield Adolescent Services, announced that Assembly Bill 705, passed by the California legislature in October)
August 2, 2000: Find Law (West Shield Investigations and Security Consultants v. Superior Court of Santa Clara County)
Westport Family Counseling (2005-present): 250 Post Road East, Suite 106, Westport, Connecticut 06880
Westport Family Counseling (Danny Conroy’s bio)
Woodbury Reports (1989-present): 7119 2nd Street, Bonners Ferry, Idaho 83805
Woodbury Reports Archives
Bizapedia (Woodbury Reports)
November 7, 1996: The Spokesman-Review (Boundary County, Idaho prosecutor Denise Woodbury refuses to try rape case against former Rocky Mountain Academy staff turned transport agent Richard Armstrong)
February 1997: Woodbury Reports, issue #44 (Former Rocky Mountain Academy staff turned transport agent Richard Armstrong Counter Sues former Rocky Mountain Academy staff turned transport agent Twila Stephenson in Rape Case Boundary County, Idaho prosecutor Denise Woodbury Refused to Try)
October 30, 1999: The Spokesman-Review (Federal Jury in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Sides with Former Rocky Mountain Academy Staff Turned Transport Agent Twila Stephenson in Rape Lawsuit against Former Rocky Mountain Academy Staff Turned Transport Agent Richard Armstrong after Boundary County, Idaho Prosecutor Denise Woodbury Refused to Try the Case)
December 1999: Woodbury Reports, issue #64 (Federal Jury in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Sides with Former Rocky Mountain Academy Staff Turned Transport Agent Twila Stephenson in Rape Lawsuit Against Former Rocky Mountain Academy Staff Turned Transport Agent Richard Armstrong after Boundary County, Idaho Prosecutor Denise Woodbury Refused to Try the Case)
February 2000: Woodbury Reports, issue #66 (Kristen Woodbury Vollar Henley Campbell “Kristie Campbell” talks about how she would have ended up dead or in jail if Denise and Lon Woodbury had not sent her to Explorations Wilderness Assessment Course and Mission Mountain School)
December 2002: Woodbury Reports, issue #100 (From Woodbury, to Vollar, To Henley)
December 12, 2002: Bonners Ferry Herald (Melanie Woodbury dies in car accident [daughter of Sarah Jorgenson and Lon Woodbury])
January 2007: Woodbury Reports, issue #149 (Kristen Woodbury Vollar Henley Campbell “Kristie Campbell” takes over Woodbury Reports)
October 17, 2008: Hearing Before the Committee on Education and Labor U. S. House of Representatives One Hundredth Tenth Congress Second Session (Kristen Woodbury Vollar Henley Campbell “Kristie Campbell” Defends Troubled Teen Industry to Congressman Miller at a Hearing on Abuse in Residential Treatment Centers, Emotional Growth Schools and Programs, Therapeutic Boarding Schools, Wilderness Camps, etc.)
October 17, 2008: Hearing Before the Committee on Education and Labor U. S. House of Representatives One Hundredth Tenth Congress Second Session (Kristen Woodbury Vollar Henley Campbell “Kristie Campbell” Defends Troubled Teen Industry to Congressman Miller at a Hearing on Abuse in Residential Treatment Centers, Emotional Growth Schools and Programs, Therapeutic Boarding Schools, Wilderness Camps, etc.)
May 26, 2011: NewsWire (The Woodbury Reports 6th Annual Northwest Get Together was well Attended and very Successful)
December 3, 2011: Bonners Ferry Funeral Home (Ruth Ellen Woodbury dies of Melanoma [daughter of Sarah Jorgenson and Lon Woodbury])
December 5, 2011: Rural Northwest (Ruth Ellen Woodbury dies of Melanoma [daughter of Sarah Jorgenson and Lon Woodbury])

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  1. Lathrop Lybrook November 24, 2020 Reply

    If you are aware of any articles or videos about CEDU spinoff programs that are not listed above, please leave the link in either a comment or send it through the contact page. If there is a CEDU spinoff program that is not listed, please let me know and include information about why it is a CEDU spinoff: Academy at Swift River, Advantage Adolescent and Intervention Services, Aim House, Alldredge Academy, Amity School, Ascent (UHS), Ashby Academy, Aspen Health Services , Aspen Youth Services, Benchmark Young Adult School, Bill Lane and Associates Transport Services, Blue Ridge School, Boulder Creek Academy (UHS), Boundarylines, Brandi Elliott Consulting, Bridges Academy, Campbell Park, Caribou Ridge Intervention, Carlbrook School, Cascade School, Cherokee Creek Boys School, Clear View, Coeur Assessment Center, College Excel, Coronado Academy, Creekside Wilderness Academy, DeSisto School, Duckfarm, Earle Consulting, Echo Springs Transition Study Center, Ever Higher, Friends of Families Foundation, Glacier Mountain Expeditions, Hidden Lake Academy, Homelines, Innercept Residential Treatment Center, Integrated Interventions, Kidsview, King George School, Milestones for Young Adults, Monarch School, Mount Bachelor Academy, NATSAP, New Horizons for Young Women, New Leaf Academy, New Summit Academy, Next Step for Success, North Idaho Behavioral Health (Kootenai Medical Center), NorthStar Center, Northwest Academy (UHS), Northwoods Trailside School, NRM Consulting, Ohana House, On Track Wilderness Therapy, Padgett Consulting Services, Parent Coach Professionals, Pathfinders Wilderness Program, Powell and Elliott Collaborative, QuietStar Center for Transformation, Renaissance, Ridgecreek Wilderness Program, Sage Counseling and Wellness, San Cristobal Ranch Academy, Second Nature Wilderness Program, Shortridge Academy, SoulPath Alchemy, Squaw Valley Academy, SUWS, Three Rivers Montana, Valley View School, Ventures, West Shield Adolescent Services, Westport Family Counseling, Wilderness Quest, Woodbury Reports, and Woodhaven.

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