878. 220i leadership program

In year 2021 several media sources began to broadcast information about abuse going on in this program which is marketed as a leadership program for youth if the youth have values in choice of life partner and other similar areas. Then the teenagers are bullied by the employees.

It does not sound like a fun place to be as a teenager.

Sources:

• This church program is accused of abusing teens with extreme ‘boot camps,’ ‘fight nights’ and shame (NBC News)
• Leaders of a Louisiana megachurch ‘forced teens on $5k Christian leadership program to exercise until they were sick, used homophobic and racist slurs and shot them with paintball guns from golf carts’ (The Daily Mail)
• A megachurch’s ministry program used inappropriate tactics to ‘train’ teens, ex-interns say (Yahoo News)
• Christian boot camp accused of ‘abuse’ and ‘targeting Black and LGBT+ teens’ (Pink News)