182. New Horizons for Young Women

New Horizons for Young Women was a wilderness program being operated in Maine. It opened in 2001 and closed down around 2008 when the dangers of wilderness programs had become known to the general public resulting in a period of reduction of profit. It was run by the daughter of a superannuated television host who was sent to the teen prison called CEDU (See an earlier post in our California or Idaho section).

It does not sound fair to drag teenagers out in the wilderness as a program manager just because the program manager had a terrible experience as a teenager. The wilderness in Maine during the winter can be a very unpleasant place to be so it doesn’t sound like a fun place to be as a teenager. Fortunately the program is clsoed and the program manager is busy getting drunk according to various media sources.

Sources:

• Barbara Walters’ ‘heavily intoxicated’ daughter stopped from ‘running into traffic’ during DUI arrest (The Daily Mail)
• BaBa WaWa’s Daughter (Fornits Home for Wayward Web Fora)
• CEDU staff Crossover (Lathrop Lybrook)