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PRESS RELEASES

10/10/07	PRESS RELEASE: GAO Report Finds Thousands of Allegations of Child Abuse at “Boot Camps”	(click here)
7/07	A Summary of Participant Perspectives	(click here)
12/21/06	WWASPS Attacked Again in Federal Court	(click here)
10/16/06	Troubled Teen Programs - 25 Plaintiffs Join in Lawsuit Against WWASPS, Cross Creek Manor, Robert Lichfield, and Associates – More Expected to Join In	(click here)
08/26/06	WWASPS BACK IN COURT, AGAIN: Prominent and Prestigious Turley Law Firm and Famed Attorney Richard Henriksen File Lawsuit Against WWASPS	(click here)
08/02/06	Death of 7-year old Angellika Arndt results in closure of Northwest's Rice Lake Clinic	(click here)
07/28/06	WWASPS Back in Court: 25 Parents File Class-Action Law Suit Alleging Fraudulent Tactics	(click here)
07/10/06	Coalition Against Institutionalized Child Abuse Expands!	(click here)
06/23/06	Spring Creek Lodge withdraws from the WWASP	(click here)
05/06/06	State Attorney's Investigation re the Death of Martin Lee Anderson and Statement by State Attorney, Mark Ober	(click here)
04/05/06	To prompt a thorough investigation into the restraint death of Giovanni “Joey” Aletriz	(click here)
01/06/06	Juvenile offender passes away in Pensacola	(click here)
01/05/06	Boot camp offender receives medical care	(click here)
04/20/05	Representative Miller Introduces Legislation to Curb Child Abuse in Residential Treatment Programs	(click here)
03/15/05	Activists Fight Gulag Schools: Isabelle Zehnder, Tom Coleman, and former Majestic Ranch employees commended for their efforts to expose abuse at WWASP facility, Majestic Ranch	(click here)

FEATURED ARTICLES
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07/29/06	Michael Niesen Ticket to Murder Part I
07/28/06	Families Claim Fraud in $100 Million Lawsuit Against WWASP, Ivy Ridge, and others
07/24/06	I Called Her My Miracle
Ongoing	NYRA Freedom: Featured articles
06/26/06	The Short Life of Angellika Arndt - 7-year old little girl dies after being restrained; she was restrained for gargling milk!
05/27/06	What Can Be Done to Protect Children and Families?
05/22/06	A Question of Tough Love or Torture, by Scott Allen, Boston Globe
050/6/06	DATELINE: Teen Internet Addiction
05/06	Proposed Resolution to Protect Children, Arlington, Massachusetts, by Susan Lawrence (from Jordan Riak)
02/21/06	Tough Love: It's Gotten Too Tough, by Isabelle Zehnder, Coalition Against Institutionalized Abuse
01/23/06	No More Nightmares at Tranquility Bay?, byJohn Gorenfeld, AlterNet
2005	In the Name of Treatment: by the Alliance to Prevent Restraint, Aversive Interventions, and Seclusion
06/16/05	Spring Creek's Short Leash, by John S. Adams, Missoula Independent [CAICA in the News]
05/02/05	The Box, Fox 25 uncovers a school using "the box" for time out
04/28/05	Exposing WWASPS camp abuse
01/18/05	False Allure of the Boot Camp, by Henry Lawton (from Jordan Riak, PTAVE)
12/07/04	Locked in Paradise; Tranquility Bay: The Last Resort; and Paradise Lost, by Raphael Rowe, BBC News
07/04	Want You Kid to Disappear? Escorts or abductions?, by Nadya Labi, Legal Affairs
04/11/04	Florida Department of Juvenile Justice: Child abuse, neglect, and deaths, by Rene Stutzman, Orlando Sentinal
01/04	Laws Needed to Protect Families and Children from "Program Fraud", by Sue Scheff
07/13/03	Robert Lichfield: A Rare Interview at WWASP Headquarters, by John-Thor Dahlburg, LA Times
06/13/03	Jamaica No Problem, Says Tranquility Bay, by Petre Williams, The Jamaica Observer
2002	The Secrets of Autism
12/9/01	Juvenile lockups ill-equipped to care for young people considering suicide
08/09/01	Boot Camp Proponent Becomes Focus of Critics
08/08/01	Death Trip and Parents, How to Evaluate a Wilderness Boot Camp, by Paige Bierma, Consumer Health Interactive
2001	Chuck Long and the Tough Love Boot Camp, by Seamus McGraw
02/12/00	Deadly Discipline?, by Gordon Gregory, The Oregonian
05/04/99	"A noisy, obvious, gruesome, extended death" -- Arizona Boys Ranch charged, by Inger Sandal, Arizona Daily Star
11/15/98	Children were isolated and hogtied, they report
01/09/98	Breaking the Vow of Secrecy: A true story about Teen Help/WWASP, by Parent Karen Lyle
06/20/96	The Rise and Fall of Steve Cartisano, by Christopher Smith, High Country News
10/95	Loving Them to Death, by Jon Krakauer, Outside Magazine
No date	Seminar Experience: My Experience of Livermore Discovery Seminar, by Parent Kendall Ross Bean
No date	Ken Kay: President of WWASP - What He Has to Say

FEATURED REPORTS
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02/26/05	Majestic Ranch Report: A Living Nightmare for Kids, by Isabelle Zehnder and Thomas Coleman
09/20/05	Dangerous and Deadly Restraints, by Barbara White Stack, Pittsburg Post Gazette
2005	In the Name of Treatment: A Parent's Guide to Protecting Your Child From Restraint, A.P.R.A.I.S.
09/04	Restraint Asphyxia - Silent Killer: How to Avoid Restraint Asphyxia, by Charly Miller
04/02	The Lethal of Prone Restraint: Positional Asphyxiation
9/15/99	Breaking Point "While Paradise Cove sounds like a Club Med resort, some former students said it's anything but bliss. One of them, Sergio Alva, claimed he was once hog-tied for two days as punishment for trying to run away. " (click here)

FEATURED SPECIALS & SERIES

FORCED EXERCISE (click here)
GROWING UP WITH AUTISM - THREE-PART SERIES
Teenagers and young adults are the emerging face of autism as the disorder continues to
challenge science and unite determined families. Autism strikes in childhood, but as
thousands of families have learned—and thousands more are destined to learn—autism
is not simply a childhood disorder. A generation of teenagers and young adults is facing a
new crisis: what happens next? (Click here for Newsweek special)
INSIDE THE WORLD OF AUTISM
Autism is a mysterious disorder. It's something parents are aware of, and I think it's fair
to say, many of us are afraid of it. Afraid of what autism really is, and afraid of what it
means for kids who are autistic. (Click here for more)
COMPASSION POWER SERIES
Stop walking on eggshells! Turn resentment, anger, or emotional abuse into a compassionate, loving relationship
Anger and Health: The affects on anger and the family
Family Violence: Why we hurt the ones we love
Compassionate Parenting: Raising the emotional intelligence of parents and children
Emotional Abuse: You are not the cause of his anger or abuse
CNN SPECIAL: AUTISM
Autism is a World
Facilitated Communication
Acceptance v. Cure
Changing Relationships Within the Family
Related to Autism is a World
Oscar Nominated Film Series "Autism is a World"
May 2006 TIME SPECIAL
Inside the Autistic Mind
A Tale of Two Schools
The Most Difficult Decision in My Life

2002 TIME SPECIAL
The Secrets of Autism

ARTICLES BY ISABELLE ZEHNDER

August 16, 2007	The benefits of parent teen coaching	(click here)
July 12, 2007	Children Warehoused for Profit: The Truth About A Virtually Silent Industry	(click here)
May 15, 2007	Help For Distraught And Desperate Parents Who Are At Their Wits' End	(click here)
April 30, 2007	Isabelle Zehnder announces Positive Family Solutions	(click here)
April 30, 2007	Child Abuse In Residential Treatment Programs - Time For Change, Time To Wake Up, America!	(click here)
December 9, 2006	Resource and information packet: "Bubbles in my milk": The short life of Angelika "Angie" Arndt	(click here)
October 9, 2006	I'm not going away: Would you?	(click here)
October 10, 2006	Some things are just wrong ...	(click here)
September 21, 2006	Walk out and speak up: Brainwashing or therapy?	(click here)
September 19, 2006	Escorting Teens to Residential Facilities for Troubled Youth - Escort or Abduction? You Decide	(click here)
July 27, 2006	Escort or abduction: You decide	(click here)
June 28, 2006	A Life Cut Short	(click here)
June 26, 2006	The short life of Angellika Arndt	(click here)
May 23, 2006	Countdown to justice: Children are dying	(click here)
February 21, 2006	Tough Love: It's Gotten Too Tough	(click here)
February 25, 2005	Report: Majestic Ranch, a Living Nightmare for Kids	(click here)

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