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PARENTS HELPING PARENTS
Behavior modification programs, boot camps, wilderness programs, therapeutic boarding schools

Parents, do you have a nagging feeling that something is wrong? 

If so, please take a moment to read some of the stories below, stories shared by parents and children who have walked in your shoes, who have been where you are today.

Mother and daughter, Cindi and Taylor, share their experiences in their journey through WWASP.

And those of you who have been there, please continue to share your stories.

Please e-mail your experiences to info@caica.org, and we will post them here for others to read.

(Please share your stories regarding abuse in mental health facilities as well.) Click here.

  The Journey of Cindi and Taylor
          (click on picture above)
 

          Others share their experiences:

  • Isabelle's story: A true story from abduction to return of a child she loved, and how, because of
    what happened to him, to his sisters, and to countless others, CAICA was founded      (click here)
     
  • Breaking the Vow of Secrecy:
    A true story about Teen Help/WWASP by Karen E. Lile (click here)
     
  • Deception, Misrepresentation & Fraud: One Mom's Story (click here)
     
  • A Mother’s Story by Cindi Kirkpatrick (click here)
     
  • Seven Days I Will Never Forget by Taylor Kirkpatrick (click here)
     
  • A hunt for truth behind teen's death (click here)
     
  • The Punishment Did Not Fit the Crime: Martin Lee Anderson (click here)
     
  • Boot Camp Failures Were Unquestioned (click here)
     
  • Christopher's Story - a child abused in the Florida juvenile system (click here)
     
  • Lawmakers, Parents Outraged by Nurse in Boot Camp Beating Video (click here)
     
  • Troubled teen therapy: What are we doing to our youth? (click here)
     
  • Justice for all?  (click here)
     
  • The Mind Control: Post WWASP Checklist (click here)
     
  • Mother of Child at Thayer Learning Center (click here)
     
  • Conduct Unbecoming - An 8-Year Old Sent to a Boot Camp (click here)
     
  • More information on Martin Lee Anderson's death and what the professionals
    are saying (and not saying) ... (click here)
     
  • Parent's Story by Susan Oldham: Carolina Springs Academy (WWASP)
    "NO CHILD should be subjected to what my daughter went though. These FOR PROFIT
    'treatment centers' are nothing but legalized child abuse centers."     (click here)
     
  • Is Beating Kids at Boot Camp All in a Day's Work? (click here)
     
  • Montel Williams Show: Samantha Monroe attended Straight, Inc. from 1981-1983 - "..
    . Samantha spent the next two years of her life surviving Straight. She was beaten, starved,
    and denied toilet privileges for days on end. She describes her “humble pants,” a punishment
    that forced her to wear the same pants for six weeks at a time. Because she was allowed just
    one shower a week, the pants often filled with feces, urine and menstrual blood..." (click here)
     
  • 19-Year Old Tells Her Story "... My experience there was horrific and abusive (click here)
     
  • Declaration of Rachel Hope Roberts: "I was scared and I dropped to my knees, there was no
    strength in my body. I then had to remove my pants and I was given a shot in the butt of Haldol....
    I’ve seen the effects of Haldol on others. One friend at PCS had a muscle spasm and was unable
    to move her neck; another one who was unable to keep her tongue in her mouth because it was
    so swollen.  She just kept drooling. It gave some of the girls’ lazy eyes that just sit there at the
    bottom of the eye and go nowhere...." (click here)
     
  • MOM DEFEATS CORPORATE GIANT - Utah Jury Sends Message to WWASP (click here)
     
  • Casa by the Sea: A Memory That Will Haunt Me Forever (click here)
     
  • Carolina Springs Academy, WWASP – A Story of a Graduate (click here)
     
  • SUMMARY OF ABUSE SUFFERED BY MY CHILD: Assault, battery, hair pulled, restrained
    against her will, drugged with an overdose of Haldol which caused her to black out and wake to
    blindness, facial paralysis and pain, drooling and lethargy for three days. Imprisoned and forced
    to sit in structure (staring strait ahead) for up to 5 hours. Woke to vaginal bleeding and wet pants
    on the morning after Haldol injection. CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATED: Freedom of speech, religion right
    to safe and humane treatment, prevented from writing grievances and punished for suggesting that
    others write grievances. Punished with isolation for venting about her abuse and mistreatment in a
    group therapy session on December 13. (click here)
     
  • My Visit to Tranquility Bay by Richard Titsch, III (click here)
     
  • BETHEL BOYS ACADEMY ~ Story by Cheryle, Mom
    "3 1/2 days later we were back down there rescuing our son. He was covered in bruises including a
    black eye." (click here)
     
  • My Testament At Spring Creek Lodge (anonymous) (click here)
     
  • Wilderness Programs for Children, Benefits and Risks (click here)
     
  • Trapped in Christian Boarding School: You Think Your School Days Were Rotten?
    Allison Tobey Has it Worse (click here)
     
  • Ron Ackert's letter of June 19, 1998 to Dr. Linda Blessing, Director, Arizona Department of
    Economic Security, regarding the killing of teenager Nicholaus Contraraz at Arizona Boys
    Ranch (click here)
     
  • IS THIS A CAMP OR JAIL?
    Are parents violating the rights of their own kids when they ship them off to tough "attitude rehab"?
     - By Adam Cohen  (click here)
     

  • WWASP ~ Tranquility Bay (click here)
     

 

 

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