Thousands of children are held within the Troubled Teen Industry each year.
Behavior Modification programs advertise themselves as premier rehabs, residential treatment centers, therapeutic boarding schools and wilderness programs when really, they are for-profit, privately-run detention centers. Desperate parents are deceived and the children they claim to help, are subjected to abuse. Due to lack of government oversight, many programs are improperly regulated or operating fully unregulated. Children can be held for years without consent, due process and without true medical need.
The “treatment” these children receive is too often far from therapeutic. This fraudulent industry has thrived for decades despite constant allegations of Physical abuse, neglect, psychological harm, sexual abuse, pseudoscientific practices, and negligence resulting in death. Many of these programs have been shut down, only to rebrand, reopen, or have others take their place.
Widespread institutional child abuse has been accounted by many and well documented through survivor testimony. This experience can leave survivors with lifelong trauma, including Complex PTSD. Hundreds of children have even died in programs, or taken their own life in an attempt to escape the trauma.
Without government intervention, thousands of children will continue to suffer in silence.
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