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   kyle r on January 14, 2015 at 9:20 pm

   I was 12 when i went to cross creek. I went to cross creek and I asked my mom to take me home after 3 weeks because they tackled me for walking out of our classroom line up when I went to the water fountain. The 6 foot 4inches tall 245 lbs. staff sounded serious but not that serious and then I learned that he was abusively serious after my body was pressed onto the ground only to find out my jawline was then scrape

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   Matt mathern on May 1, 2015 at 8:34 pm

   I was beat in both Costa Rica and Jamaica hate them for it

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   Ron H on June 2, 2015 at 7:32 pm

   All I can tell you is my experience. It was the toughest thing I have ever been through. I learned things that I use everyday of my life. One of the omissions I see in the history of all these good and bad experiences I am reading about is the Parents. I was among 90 other adults during the TASKS seminars who all had their kids in the program. Be honest…there was some messed up adults. The TASKS was phenomenal, if you could handle it and make the changes necessary. My ex left after one day! She couldn’t handle it because it requires inner strength. I saw a commercial airplane pilot during the “photo album exercise” punch his chair with inner anger from his abusive parents. He punch until his hands bleed and he fell on the floor from exhaustion. When I quizzed my son recently as to why are all these bad reports coming out…he said “Dad, think about how messed up these kids and parents are going in”. A kid will tell their parents anything to get them out of the program. Then if the parents already have issues themselves…go figure Dad. All I know is I was amongst a bunch of hurting adults. The whole situation is geared to fail. I commend whoever is still involved for continuing the fight to help. There is a tremendous need for some type of program like this. Everyone could use a dose of what the TASKS program was all about. Maybe my son and I are the exceptions for what we gained from the program, but somehow I think it boils down to what the parent and kid put into it…like most things in life. Some of these situations with the kids and the family were extreme going in. It costs a lot of money. The odds for failure are extremely high. I’m sure some of the horrible testimonials were real, but I don’t believe it was because the program wasn’t trying to do the right things. The TASKS program was awesome….if you could open up and honestly look at yourself. Most could not. I did and I learned things I will never forget and apply to life everyday….all positive. Anyways, when you look at the persistence this company has gone through to prevail….I find it quite remarkable. Who does this?

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   John Rose on January 17, 2016 at 3:52 pm

   I was at Midwest academy from 2003 to 2004. It was a nightmare. WHY IN THE HELL IS IT STILL OPERATING?

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   Dizzy Delver on February 11, 2016 at 12:48 am

   I am not a survivor of one of these camps,but it does disgust me that this happens. I ways back I came up with a LEGAL way to help shut these places down without having to go through the legislature. Is there a place I can go to tell someone about this idea(its a good one)? I cant unmake the fact that this happened but maybe we can stop its continued happening. so if you know of a place in this site were such ideas are elucidated please show me to it.

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     Bill Boyles on February 14, 2016 at 1:55 am

     if you’d like, you can email admin@wwaspsurvivors.com and we can discuss it. we’d love to hear it.

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       Julie Greene on June 23, 2016 at 4:26 pm

       Please look into McLean Hospital’s incarceration of children, and the treatment of psychiatric prisoners at Children’s Hospital in Boston. Also, please look into the incarceration of children all around the country for eating disorders as the funding is increasing. These are not luxury horse farms. Who is funding the ED “nonprofits”? The for-profit treatment centers themselves, which in turn “recommend” the prisons to families that come begging for help. $$$$$
       The United Nations has specific anti-torture laws that apply here.
       Source: I was incarcerated multiple times myself, now an activist.

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   jeremy kastner on February 13, 2018 at 1:53 pm

   So much abuse happened to me while staying at casa by the sea, cross creek and spring creek and also the buffalo ranch 18 year old program sister to spring creek. But there is one instance that leaves the most visible damage, and it happened at cross creek. I was wearing braces, and the bands had all come off, and the guiding wire was no longer able to stay in, so i was left with exposed metal and it was digging into my gums. After WEEKS of telling staff and writing requests to get it checked out and being ignored, i decided to rip them out in worksheets with a pen. My teeth are not pretty. It hurts for me psychologically to smile. Over 10 years AFTER being in the program for 29 months, i STILL get nightmares of being in the program again. I have a LOT more damage.

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   Anisha Torres on February 27, 2021 at 8:04 pm

   O went to five wwasp schools. I need my experiences to be told….
   Majestic ranch academy…..
   Then HORIZON ACADEMY…. THEN TRANQUILITY BAY…. THEN WE ALL MOVED TO GILF COAST ACAFEMY. I WAS THER WHEN IT STARTED AND THERE WHEN IT CLOSED. THEN I MOVED TO CAROLINA SPRINGS ACADEMY AFTER GULF COAST CLOSED. 5 SCHOOLS…. I KNOW THINGS MANY THINGS. NARVIN JAYKAY AND DR. DABEL WOULD HATE IF I SPOKE OF THE ATROCITIES THAT OCCURED WHILE I WAS IN THEIR CARE. HOW CAN I GET ASSISTANCE IN SPEAKING MY TRUTHS?

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