28/04/2024  

994. Nexus

Nexus is a group home located near the town of Frederikssund in Denmark. It is managed by the city of Copenhagen.

Early on the neighbors were concerned about theft and runaways. However, despite founding a group which tried to have the facility relocated, the facility continued to operate from a location close to the city. The media has told about illegal substance use at the facility. Later the authorities became concerned about the abuse of manual restraints at the facility.

In 2024 news coverage told how former employees told that the violent approach had support from the management. The owners told the media that they have ordered a change in the approach, the youth are met with.

It could not have been fun to be there as a teenager.

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21/04/2024  

993. Away from home due to ambitions

This decade has been marked with the rise of a mental health crisis based on ambitions. Ambitions to make the world aware that you are successful, that you have the perfect body and that you are social and open to friendship etc.

But the reality is that none lives the perfect life and very often people are better off if they realized that they should not reach out for the stars. A title like “King of Denmark” is something you are born to work in. It is not a job you can work forward to get.

You can live a good life if you have no career plan and you do not have to use a filter on social media everytime you post a photo.

In Denmark a huge issue is that we force your children to make choices towards the line of business, they want to end up in, too early. Already after just 7 years of school they can make choices with rob them of studying in universities.

And then very often, parents tend to look at the local schools finding the not suited to meet the need they believe their child have in order to make them successful.

A boarding school is then the choice but inside boarding schools students and teachers often live a way of life with way more pace during the school-day. Some students adapt, some do not and when they fail, it is not their fault because this melting pot astmophere is not for everyone. Just because the student has to leave the boarding school, it is not the same as the student is a failure. The living conditions inside boarding schools are just too different from the life they knew at home.

When ambitions are not met, the result can become tragic if the student is not pulled in time. A wave of suicides in boarding schools in several countries all tell the same story.

The families fail to realize that a failure of adapting to the life inside the boarding school is not a general failure for the familys reputation. It is the child who is faithful against the values the local community and the family has at home. That should count for something despite how much money the family has paid the boarding school.

If the child does not adapt and cannot face the family to tell what went wrong, the result can be suicide. Also feeling like a failure because other students dislike the student is wrong. In the world of today, none should make their personal feeling towards another influence the work done. Everybody should be able to work together and ignore how they feel about others. However, when a student lives away from the parents, who should protect the child. The school cannot always detect these issues and some schools make it worse by restricting access to cell phones and social media in the start of the school year in order to force the students to bond internally instead of keeping in touch with their social network at home. Suicide as result of bullying has sadly become a norm and only strong ties with the outside world can prevent a disaster.

Too many students make the choice to end their own life. It is both tragic and wrong. Allow your children to make their own choices even when they might decide craftmanship over more careers with more academics should be their choices alone and most important, if they do not know, it is good because today we have tons of jobs which did not even exist 30 years ago and in 30 years when AI has removed a number of jobs, planning for a certain future today could be planning for something which does not exist as a job in 30 years.

To have too many ambitions and be away from your social network cannot be fun regardless of how expensive a boarding school can be.

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14/04/2024  

992. Muncie Reception & Diagnostic

Muncie Reception & Diagnostic was located in Muncie, Indiana. Check of the facility in March 2024 indicated that the facility is no longe in operation.

Some feedbacks provide negative feedback

Horrible place that terrorizes kids abuse and mistreat us. Never allowed to talk hand to permission to ask 1 of 4 questions fedbdog food treated like lab rats

Kelsie H (From Yelp)

and

When I was younger I was sent here. My experience in this place was extremely horrible. They placed me in a cell called the hole all because I was unable to eat all my food while in said “hole” I had to sleep on a cold floor with no blanket, they wouldn’t give me toilet paper and wouldn’t alow me to shower for a week the only shower I got was when I was in the “hole” was before I had to go to court.

Ralph (from Google)

and

My Son Was Overdosed By The Staff

On July 27,2013 my son was overdosed by a staff member. They then neglected to inform parents or medical attention. Please parents protect your children before a child dies do to their care.

Michelle C. (Yellow pages)

The rules were many at the facility so it was very easy to end up in isolation as one girl in a newspaper article spoke about. Her story was confirmed by the facility.

It could not have been fun to be there as a teenager.

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07/04/2024  

991. Cedar Crest Hospital & Residential Treatment Center

Cedar Crest Hospital or Cedar Crest treatment center located in Belton, Texas has a number of violations.

Also, an employee acted very improper with patient so he went to court.

It seems that a girl died while forced to be there in 2002.

A mother wrote in a review:

when my child stayed here i had to write a report, this report included the fact that the youth unit does NOT give the girls cutlery to eat with, they had the girls sit in the hallway of the main unit while eating with their hands qnd only giving trhem milk when the cafeteria, that the boys are allowed to eat in, has plenty of other drinks. the childrens group plays with toys in a room all day and had no real “therapy”, they will give your kid any medicine they can and however much they can, if your child says they cant sleep (possibly due to new environment) they give them sleeping medication and keep them on it when they get out, the younger male staff was caught flirting with the more “popular” girls of the unit, they run out of beds on the girls side and have girls sleep in the “quiet room” on the floor (a small closet like space with no windows), they allow 18/19 year olds at times and an 18 year old male was allowed into the girls unit where he was caught in the bathroom with a 13 year old female (he was not charged or reported for this), my daughter was not allowed to get her belongings back from intake (her favorite necklace from living in hawaii), and months after sending my report i never heard back, tried to get info on my report a few times but according to these other reviews im not alone and they have never changed nore do they care about the well being of anyone, the females in the residential unit are also treated extremely poor, you see them walking around the facility covered in bruises, bites, bumps all over their arms and legs, and if your child does ANYTHING they are not allowed to do such as stay in their room crying or if they get snappy they WILL be given a shot in the buttocks causing them to pass out (they walk the kids back and forth until they start to fall and then kind of drag them back to the rooms and have them sleep it off, this happens in all units to male or female) if you have a teenage girl thats smoked before then there is a high chance staff is smoking cigarettes WITH them outside of the group room. i can go on and on but this should be enough to warn parents in the future.

Elizabeth

It cannot be fun to be there as a patient

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31/03/2024  

990. Westwood Lodge psychiatric hospital

This hospital closed down but only after some cases reached the public and the media started to look into the conditions at this understaffed facility. The owners of this 89-bed hospital in Massachusetts was owned by Arbour Health System.

Some sources mention at least two cases where the result become death of a patient. Others the the safety of the patients could be unsecure.

It very much looks like it could not be fun to be there as a teenager.

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24/03/2024  

989. Erritsøhus

Erritsøhus was an orphanage which existed from 1913 to 2006. During the first couple of years it functioned as a training school for girls where they could learn the skills needed to feed a household.

Investigation in the past conditions at Danish orphanages reveiled horrible conditions for the children. At the time of the investigation, the employees responsible for the horrible treatment were long gone so the investigation did not result in a criminal investigation. Some of the victims are still alive and not there is a push for a public apology from the state of Denmark to the victims.

It could not have been fun to be there as a child while the abuse took place.

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17/03/2024  

988. Elevations RTC

The Elevations RTC is located in Syracuse, Utah. On the address a facility mentioned in this block named Island View RTC was located. Two other facilities share the same address: Seven Stars and  ViewPoint Center.

The former owners of Island View sold the facility after a long period with bad press and feedback from former patients. The new owners build a new program with the name Elevations RTC.

Over the years the facility has been the target of negative press, negative feedback from former patients and lawsuits. While the marketing division of the facility does it best to censor feedback and locate possible satisfied patients asking them for reviews, the patients who had survived their stay is very clear in their criticism.

Certainly it could not have been fun to be there as a teenage patient.

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09/03/2024  

987. Ranipokhari village high school

Ranipokhari village high school in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha in India is mentioned in the media for their strange tradition of medical exams of girls and possible rape of a girl.

The newspapers mention that at least 13 headmasters and 4 teachers were accused in the 29 cases reviewed in the study, with the State government callously reinstating one such headmaster accused of abuse.

The police is investigating. However it is safe to say that it cannot be fun for the girls to attend this school.

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03/03/2024  

986. Specialinstitutionen Skodsborg

Skodsborg is a group home located near Copenhagen in Denmark. In 2021 the authorities responsible for monitoring and supervising the group home criticized the handling of the children. A criticism shared with children who had lived there and former employees. The city of Copenhagen who owned the group home called for a different viewpoint of the incidents which had taken place calling the complaints “one-sided”.

However the group home was ordered to introduce new guidelines for their handling of the children. It could not have been fun to be there as a child.

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25/02/2024  

985. Wellspring Academies (Academy of the Sierras)

Maybe it was because the knowledge simply was not existing when the first academy was founded. Maybe it was because the business plan almost targeted rich families in a way so they would become return-customers.

In 90 percent of families, it is not the teens who cook food at home. It is also not the teens who plan what the goods in the supermarkets include of hidden ingredients like fat, sugar and salt.

So, the idea of removing a teenager from a family who eats unhealthily and bring this teenager into an enclosed environment where the teenager would be basically starved on common rules rather than setting a diet plan based on an individual plan based on feedback from the daily life of the teen is a failure planned from the start. It is a business plan where the teen will have to back for years when the family destroy the result with their diet at home.

For a teenager to lose weight in the family unit, the entire family unit has to change. The entire family unit has to plan their calendar so visits to the gym is done several times per week. The entire family has to find a diet based on research of the goods in their supermarket so the teenager is not singled out but an included member of a generally healthy family. Only then a lasting result can be achieved.

Today we know that the diet plan was too aggressive for some of the teenagers who ended up having problems with their gall bladder due to heavy weight loss over a short period. We also know that many regained their weight thanks to the effort of their parents who did not change the diet in the homes for the entire family. Why? Because the focus was on punishment and isolation of the teenager rather than looking at the causes of the overweight!

We know that some of the big companies who see to which goods you can buy in the supermarkets do not have your health in their minds. It takes food apps to find these unhealthy goods and avoid them. It requires a strict planning to remain healthy due to that fact.

For the teenagers who was forced to attend the fat-shaming boarding schools, it is safe to state that it could not have been fun to be there.

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