by WWASP Survivors | Apr 14, 2022 | Breaking Code Silence, Spring Ridge Academy, Survivor Testimony
I was sent to Spring Ridge Academy, a therapeutic boarding school, when I was 17. I’d been a high-achieving, straight-A student my whole life and I had a lot of friends. I knew my parents loved me but they fought a lot of the time, so by middle school I was already...
by WWASP Survivors | Sep 30, 2020 | Breaking Code Silence, Cross Creek Programs, Survivor Testimony
September 27th, 2004 I was sent to Cross Creek Manor (CCM) Utah- One of the therapeutic boarding schools that were operated by World Wide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP). September 25, 2004-“What the hell am I doing?” I ask myself this question...
by WWASP Survivors | Sep 15, 2020 | Academy at Ivy Ridge, Breaking Code Silence, Survivor Testimony
Admin Note: This is reproduced from Facebook with the permission of the author Shortly after my 15th birthday, I was sent to a WWASP affiliated “troubled teen” program. Unlike many of my peers in the program, I was not kidnapped in the night by strangers, and...
by WWASP Survivors | Jun 19, 2019 | Breaking Code Silence, News
WWASP Survivors, is teaming up with BreakingCodeSilence.net and SDLS (Suburbia’s Dirty Little Secret) to support the #breakingcodesilence campaign to spread awareness of the troubled teen industry and the need for reform. Each year, thousands of teenagers are...
by WWASP Survivors | Aug 21, 2014 | Breaking Code Silence, Survivor Testimony
I wanted to share a story with you guys. Its not my story, but I am the only one left to tell it. I’m sure many of you have seen by various posts start to come up about the book I’m writing. I was going to save this for my book, but the recent...
by WWASP Survivors | Aug 21, 2014 | Breaking Code Silence, Survivor Testimony
Tough Love: Truth Behind The Troubled Teen Industry goes in depth of survivor Lillian Speerbrecker’s journey through the Troubled Teen Industry as a troubled youth. While going through two facilities run by the same organization, Speerbrecker goes into grave...
