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Name
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Unit/Position
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Additional Information |
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Trace Embry |
Director/Owner |
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Beth Embry |
Co-Owner |
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Tina Lawton |
Office Mgr. |
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Terri Ross |
Marketing |
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Eric Brubaker |
Program Mgr. |
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Allison Wallace |
Dir. of Program Development |
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Joshua Wallace |
Program Mgr. |
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Steve Schyck |
Principal |
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Nate Tilton |
Teacher |
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Christina Jones |
Teacher |
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Paul Mallalieu |
Teacher |
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Dan Godfrey |
Consultant |
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Mary Anne Brookshire |
Counselor |
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Jeremy Brown |
Counselor |
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Cheryl Harris |
Equine Mgr. |
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Vikki Paese |
Counselor |
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Nathan Harper |
Staff |
(reported by survivor on November 24th, 2009) Harper may no longer
work at this program. |
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Ian Sharp |
Staff |
(reported by survivor on November 24th, 2009) Sharp may no longer
work at this program. |
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Steven McGarvey |
Staff |
(reported by survivor on November 24th, 2009) McGarvey may no longer
work at this program. |
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Amin Embry |
Staff |
(reported by survivor on November 24th, 2009) Embry may no longer
work at this program. |
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Andrew Dollar |
Staff |
(reported by survivor on November 24th, 2009) Dollar may no longer
work at this program. |
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Heather Morrow-Wasko |
Staff |
(reported by survivor on November 24th, 2009) Morrow-Wasko may no
longer work at this program. |
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Brett Wasko |
Staff |
(reported by survivor on November 24th, 2009) Wasko may no longer
work at this program. |
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Jeremiah Laird |
Staff |
(reported by survivor on November 24th, 2009) Laird may no longer
work at this program. |
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Amy Laird |
Teacher |
(reported by survivor on November 24th, 2009) Laird reportedly
no longer works at this program. |
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Rebecca Bombet |
Staff |
(reported by survivor on November 24th, 2009) Bombet may no longer
work at this program. |
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Victoria Cox |
Staff |
(reported by survivor on November 24th, 2009) Cox may no longer work
at this program. |
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Chris Cox |
Staff |
(reported by survivor on November 24th, 2009) Cox may no longer work
at this program. |
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Madeline Kiser |
Residential Staff |
(reported by survivor via e-mail on September 12th, 2020) |
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Jeimy Madrid |
Residential Staff |
(reported by survivor via e-mail on September 12th, 2020) |
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Brazel Marquez |
Residential Staff |
(reported by survivor via e-mail on September 12th, 2020) Marquez
reportedly no longer works at this program. |
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Alix Twyman |
Residential Staff |
(reported by survivor via e-mail on September 12th, 2020) Twyman
reportedly no longer works at this program. |
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Haley Clymer |
Residential Staff |
(reported by survivor via e-mail on September 12th, 2020) Clymer
reportedly no longer works at this program. |
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Hope Cooper |
Residential Staff |
(reported by survivor via e-mail on September 12th, 2020) |
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Lilly Butler |
Residential Staff |
(reported by survivor via e-mail on September 12th, 2020) |
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Olivia Johannes |
Residential Staff |
(reported by survivor via e-mail on September 12th, 2020) Johannes
reportedly no longer works at this program. |
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Nathaniel David Ether |
Residential Staff |
(reported by survivor via e-mail on September 12th, 2020) |
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Josh Temple |
Residential Staff |
(reported by survivor via e-mail on September 12th, 2020) |
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Lexie Woody |
School Nurse |
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Gail Dickerson |
Principal & Math Teacher |
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James Moore |
Math & Science Teacher |
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Elise Thrift |
Clinical Director |
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Haley Walker |
Girls Program Mgr. |
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Ginelle Gordon |
Woods Program Director |
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Nancy Boyd |
English/Fine Arts Teacher |
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Mr. Boyd |
Math Teacher |
Nancy's husband. |
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Noelle Barkley |
Staff |
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Sky Barkley |
Wilderness Staff |
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Sara Harvey |
NextStep Staff |
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Got problem kids? Man, when they hit
those teenage years they all get rebellious and
willful, and start thinking independently, and often
start doing things their parents would rather they
didn't. This is one of the tough responsibilities of
being a parent — you have to be willing to let your
children grow into independent human beings.
But let's say you never got that memo, and you think
your job is to raise children who are just like you:
insecure, a little bit angry, shackled tightly into a
fearful belief system that says all human beings are
evil. Independent thinking is the last thing you want in
your obedient little repressed child-slave! Well,
there's help for you:
Shepherd's Hill Farm, an accredited Christian boot
camp that will stomp his wild soul right back down into
the mud of conformity and obedience.
It's way out in the middle of nowhere, so there will
be no place for the wayward teen to escape to…and no one
to hear them scream.
Shepherd's Hill Farm is a counseling center,
so they will also take care of the mental health of your
child. Trace Embry, the director,
knows absolutely nothing about mental health and even
gives dangerous advice against all the evidence, but
you don't have to worry — he's a very vocal Christian.
God will forgive him.
We have
testimonials from inmates residents of the camp
about the other benefits of attending. Does your child
have special medical needs, like seizures? They will
take his medicine away, but their staff is well-trained
in being able to simultaneously wrestle a child to the
ground and pray for him. Is your child a bit on the
hefty side? He will get 'special meals' — a can of
beans, a bit of vegetable, and a piece of bread — until
they reach that ascetic ideal. Your child will be
'brainwashed in the blood of the lamb,' so it's all OK —
even the beatings serve to transfigure hooligans into
robots for Jesus. Source:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/02/shepherds_hill_farm_is_a_hell-.php
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HEAL has verified the submission below. I[FEEDBACK]
DECLARATION UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY PURSUANT TO 28 USCA 1746
I, _____ Anonymous*_____________, declare and state as follows: 1.
Shepherds Hill Farm.. 2. 2200 Price Road, Martin, GA 30557 3. 01/02 to
01/05 4. When I lived at home with my family I grew up hanging out with
older kids; kids who my father, and other parents of the neighborhood viewed
as trouble makers. We mainly hung out and smoked pot, drank occasionally and
hung around the neighborhood. When I was younger I was sent
to a boarding school in Stone Mountain, GA by the name of Gables Academy. It
was actually a very good school for the most part. However, I was a problem
child of sorts. I never did anything serious but I would talk back to
teachers, complain, smoke pot when I was home on break, but never anything
serious. One of the “counselors” named Sean who stayed with the boys during
the day and night never liked me much and often yelled in my face and insulted
me. One day I was standing on the porch with a couple other students minding
my own business, as I see Sean walking up to the porch with the PE teacher. I
hear Sean say to the PE teacher “Hey, watch this” and laugh a little. He then
walked up to me on the porch and unexpectedly punched me in the side of the
head, knocking me to the ground and causing my vision to fade to black for a
couple of seconds. I got up and ran into my room and locked myself in. The
next day Sean took me behind a trailer, broke down into tears and begged me to
not go to the authorities and get him in trouble, because he would lose his
wife, his job and go to jail, and have his life ruined. Within a short time
after that (I believe a week or so) I was told I was being expelled and sent
to Shepherds Hill Farm. Shepherds Hill Farm was a wilderness christian
therapy program owned by the owner of Gables Academy as far as I understand,
for the students that Gables could no longer handle. Very soon after I
arrived at SHF I was told that SHF and Gables Academy split ties and were no
longer together. I believe this may have been done to try and distance
themselves from the incident of Sean hitting me, but I do not know for
certain. My father (now deceased) was a Greek Orthodox priest and Trace
Embry(owner of SHF) is somewhat of a preacher and presents himself as a Godly
man, so I believe Trace was able to use this to connect and manipulate my
father with. I believe Trace convinced my father that this would be a safe
healthy environment, that would bring me closer to god, away from the older
supposed drug addicts who were my friends and I would get an education. I
believe my father thought it was similar to monasteries in Greece. However my
father never saw what went on past the facade at the top of the hill. He
never saw the wood shacks we built deep in the woods and lived in with no
electricity or running water or any type of entertainment or source of true
self expression, he never saw the horrible horrible education they forced on
us, and that I was against but still given. When I arrived I was brought to
the porch of a house in the middle of the country with acers of land. It
smelt like flowers and I will admit was very appealing to the eyes. Trace
Embry sat me down as staff and he went through all my belongings picking out
what I could and could not have. Trace began to ask me about myself and my
history and informed me about the school and how it was run. He told me my
clothes were demonic and other silly nonsense that I tried to ignore. I was
feeling extremely angry, depressed, hopeless, abandoned (though I later
learned my mother never wanted me in the program and this greatly worried
Trace Embry) and scared. Trace told me to go into the “school house” which
was a trailer a few feet away with a counselor “teaching” without
accreditation. I was introduced to the class and sat down. As Trace left the
room I said under my breath “what a jackass.” The “teacher” heard me and went
running, and yelling for Trace after him. Trace came running back into the
school building with paddle. He bent me over in front of the class and gave
me a swat. I cussed and said “What the fuck?” He bent me over and gave me
another swat. I started to walk back to my seat and he grabbed me and yanked
me towards him and bent me over and gave me another swat, and told me “you hug
me after you receive a swat!” I said “No, why would I hug a person who just
hit me?” He hit me again and began to give me special meals. “Tell me your
sorry” he would say and I replied “Why?” He would say “ok thats a week of
special meals”, anytime I said why after that I got another week. In the
meantime two girls began crying and went outside with two counselors. I
received somewhere between a month and a half of special meals and two and a
half months of special meals. Special meals are when you are feed a cold can
of beans and a can of some type of greens with water. The food they normally
feed the students is food that is picked up from food banks and other places
similar where they do not have to pay for it, or pay very very little. They
would get cartons of 2-3 day expired milk from the milk packaging facility to
give to us. The food quality was horrible and it in no way met the
requirements of nutrition we would have needed for the amount of strenuous
manual labor we did near 24/7. We were told that special meals were a healthy
vegan diet and was very good for us. That is absolute bs, vegans eat a large
variety of foods in order to meet their daily intake and often take
supplements and or vitamins as well; they do not simply eat a can of beans and
a can of beats each day. That is food deprivation and one of the many forms
of abuse they offer for $58,900 annually. I was punished for eating
toothpaste after being on special meals for so long because I craved flavor so
bad and was so hungry. Other students were caught eating dog food while on
special meals. One boy by the name of Bobby (I will get to more on him later)
was nearly always on special meals, and looked like a skeleton. He would
often get caught stealing food or snacks out of the kitchen or somewhere and
would be punished and given more special meals. One day the child was put in
a room alone with nothing else. The counselor places candy bars around him in
a circle and told Bobby “we know how many candy bars are here, if any are
missing when we come back in two hours you will be punished.” All of the other
students laughed. When we came back 2 hours later, several candy bars were
missing. Bobby cried and screamed and denied it but he was beaten and given
more special meals. When he went home for Christmas break Trace told his
parents to continue giving him special meals for Christmas. They did, however
Bobby was caught eating a horse biscuit and was sent back to the farm early.
We were not allowed to look at or make any type of communication with anyone
of the opposite sex. We were also not allowed to talk to other students
unless staff was with us. We were only allowed to talk to the staff and the
camp owners. All ingoing and outgoing mail and phone calls were monitored.
We had no electricity, no running water, no communication with the outside
world or anything “secular”, we lived in giant wooden huts that we built
ourselves with hand saws and axes and no building knowledge. The “counselors”
had no experience nor qualification to do their jobs they also received no
training. They were college students, high school students and a couple
higher ups who had college degrees but no qualification for what they did. We
performed manual labor for hours upon hours in all climates from blistering
heat, to snow and or rain. Homosexuals and those of different religions
(mainly just me) were singled out and picked on and made to look like evil
people but to be pitted and not trusted. If you visit shepherdshillfarm.org
you can see a picture of one of the huts we built and lived in. believe that
Trace Embry is a twisted sick man who used his good way with words and the
bible, to abuse children and rob parents and families of $58,900 a year. I
believe he is a threat to children, to parents, and family's and by extension
voting and all of society and the future. Trace and his wife are sick people
who are leading a cult and harming hundreds and hundreds of innoncent people.
No one deserves to be treated the way I was treated at SHF; treated like some
scumbag would treat a dog. I have horrible anxiety and nervousness. I have a
hard time being around authority figures because they frighten me inside very
much. I have talked to other former students of SHF, from around when I
went. They agree to be in a class action law suit against SHF. Some of them
have had to undergo VERY MUCH therapy and real, professional help to heal the
wounds left on them by SHF and Trace. I really hope you can help me or at
least help get the word out about SHF so that other ex students may come
forward. This place absolutely needs to be investigated and shut down. At
first all the students would be opposed to the farm and what they did.
However over time they all began to go along with it. Soon enough they all
enjoyed it for the most part and proclaimed the farm was helping, loving and
saving them. They all wanted to be baptized. The bible was continuously used
to validate every single thing they did. Trace uses his great way with words,
and his knowledge of the bible to justify what he does while at the same time
tricking parents and kids. He constantly preaches about how great he is and
how love is not what most people think. Love according to Trace is punishing
kids and abusing them. To Trace using sleep deprivation, food deprivation,
humiliation, brain washing, child slave labor, encouraging racism and
homophobia, physically beating children is all doing what the Lord wants and
calls for and is the true way to love someone. If you go to
www.shepherdshillfarm.org and
listen to their podcast for Nov 19, you will hear some of Traces very strange
views. One day at the farm after Trace finished preaches I raised my hand and
I said “You are brainwashing us”, Trace smiled at me and replied “Yes we
are! We are brainwashing you in the blood of the lamb!” Everyone laughed and
shook their heads at me in agreeing with Trace. On the podcast for Nov 19 he
says that very thing. That he is “brainwashing kids in the blood of Jesus” In
the Nov 19 podcast he also describes an event where a child tried to escape at
a mall from her mother while visiting her and they had to restrain her and
bring her back to SHF. She was told they did it out of love and for Jesus and
she agreed. I saw this on the Heal legal page- “Certain official agencies have
stated that the “escort services” provided by these programs constitutes
kidnapping and those providing this type of service may be prosecuted on
felony charges for kidnapping. Contact the
FBI to report crimes of kidnapping. “ I went home at one
point and I thought I would not have to go back to the farm. However, my
father gave me a drug test and I failed it for THC. I refused to go back to
the farm. In the morning I woke up to two very large men walking in my room.
I noticed my father driving off and leaving the house. I said “Who are you!”
and they threw a pair of pants at me and told me to put them on. They said
“We are bounty hunters to take you back to Shepherds Hill Farm.” They told me
I could come calmly or they could cuff my hands and feet. I figured I better
not fight the police so I went with them calmly. I made a
post on the Richard Dawkins web forum about medical misinformation that Trace
has on his blog. He encourages parents to take children off medication and
provides misinformation about certain psychological conditions and has zero
tolerance to give advice on medication or to take his students off their
medication. He had talked students out of taking all types of medicine
including anti-seizure medicine. I witnessed two students have what appeared
to be seizures. Shaking on the ground foaming at the mouth, Trace and his
staff held the children down and prayed for demons to leave them.
The thread I made on the Richard Dawkins forum was picked up
by someone named Peter Harrison who made a blog on his website titled
“Shepherds Hill Farm- The Great Child Abuse Secret” on afraidofthelight.co.uk
Trace replied a few times telling us how great he was and how much smarter he
was. It soon turned into me listing allegations of child abuse, this enraged
Trace however he ignored the allegations over and over again and simply told
me I was suffering THC delusions (that does not exist) or was evil or
possessed by demons. He told us we were all evil atheist doing satans work
trying to shut down his farm and that we needed Jesus in us. Here I will post
the list of some of the abusive things that happened while there. I say
abusive because my parents paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for what
Trace told them would be a safe, non threatening, therapeutic wilderness
program that would help and heal me. SHF instead has left me with
psychological wounds that I have suffered from for many years, they did not
help me one tiny tiny bit, anything positive that I gained while there was due
to me being strong and overcoming the oppresive environment. I have talked to
many other students (ones who were told “its your fault for being raped you
whore” basically in front of the whole school and other things) and it has
taken them years and years of REAL therapy to overcome the wounds they gained
while there. My father was tricked into taking out his life insurance policy
to pay for my tuition. My father is now dead and my brother, I and my mother
received nothing because he gave it all to Trace. My mother is on disability
can not work and has only disability for income (very little). I repeatedly
told my father, Trace and other staff that I wished to leave and wanted to
die. I told them I would rather be in jail that in SHF but I was kept there.
Trace has parents sign over parental guardianship to him so he can tell us
“everything we do to you is legal. I own you and your parents agree to this.”
He would also say “Besides who would believe you, a troubled drug addict teen
or me, an owner of a successful program and an ex cop and preacher?” Trace
would tell our parents that whenever kids get there they will tell their
parents they want to leave and everything will be fine if they let them come
home. Trace told them “do not believe this, they are trying to control and
manipulate you.” If someone told me “if your kid tells you I abused them don't
believe it.” I would probably either punch them in the face or call the
police. I never wanted to be there. I repeatedly said I wanted to leave. My
mother called Social Services while I was there but no one would go to SHF and
investigate. If they did they would only be shown the top of the camp and not
where children live and the things they do and undergo every day for usually 2
years. My parents were never shown any of the horrible things, only the good
fake part. At the top of the school is Traces house and some other trailers,
however a mile down into the forest is the boys camp and half a mile or more
is the girls. The Greek Orthodox priest who was friends with my dad that came
to see me was never showed the horrible part or what it was like. The entire
time I was there I dreamed of some type of organization or group of people
that I could contact and that would believe and help me. The only thing I
could think of would be an anarchist organization however I knew nothing about
them or how to contact one, especially with no electricity or contact with the
outside world. I had no idea groups like HEAL, ISAC and Caftey existed. We
were continuously told we were minors and belonged to Trace and had 0 rights
or civil liberties. I was even forced to go to church. I told them I was
against it and did not wish to enter in their Church as it was against my
beliefs and religious beliefs. They told me to bad and made me go anyway.
This is what I was told any time I brought up the bill of rights or legal
matters. I was a slave and prisoner against my will for no crimes, they knew
it and knew that I knew it but couldn't do anything. Thank science they exist
and are doing what they do! They are great people! Here I will copy paste the
list of abusive things I made on Richard Dawkins forum. 1. "Special Meals"-
I was placed on something termed by the farm as "special meals" for a month
and a half. I was feed a can of beens (a can of some type of vegetable for
dinner) and bread a piece of fruit and water everyday for a month and a half.
SHF claims this is a healthy vegan diet. It just does not taste good because
it is punishment. Vegans eat a much much wider variety of foods in order to
get the vitamins and protein their body requires. They usually take some type
of vitamin or supplement as well. 2. Child in river- There was a student at
SHF by the name of Bobby who would wet his bed. Without getting outside
medical advice from an unbiased professional doctor, or psychiatrist. Instead
they assumed the child was just wetting his bed out of disobedience and in
order to cause havoc. Their cure? Make the child strip to his underwear in
front of all his peers and bathe in the river. It was extremely extremely cold
outside. He would then be made to carry his mattress a mile up hill to wash
it, with or without help from staff or peers. Also, they made the kid wear a
diaper. I do not know if they forced him to or not but I remember seeing him
walking around in nothing but a diaper. Students would make fun of him calling
him "Gandhi" because he looked like a skeleton(from months of food deprivation
and taunting with candy bars for hours), wore a diaper, and carried a walking
stick. 3. Horse allergy- I am allergic to horses. One day a counselor made
everyone ride horses. I told the counselor that "I would like to, but I am
allergic to horses", the counselor said "No! You just do not want to
participate! You will ride the horse or you will receive a swat(paddle)".
Being threatened I got on the horse. I broke out in hives, students and the
camp nurse said I looked green and I was having difficulty breathing. The
counselor apologized but that does not change the fact of what was done and
the danger he placed me in. 4. Paddling- Students were spanked with a paddle.
Some had bruises that lasted a week or more. We would be spanked for anything
from asking "why?" after being told to do something or saying "no." If we did
not hug Trace after he paddled us we would receive another swat. Why would
someone want to hug someone that just hit you? 5. Brainwashing- They would
take our books or not allow us to have them if they were deemed in
appropriate. This includes mainly religious texts other then the bible or
anything christian and nearly any type of secular book. They completely
controlled our sensory input. They admitted themselves that they were
brainwashing us, “brainwashing you in the lamb of the blood!” yuck and weird!
6. Contacting our parents- When arriving to the farm we were allowed no
contact with out parents for the first few months whatsoever. After this we
were allowed to write letter and receive them from only our parents. However
they would be censored before coming in or out. They would read them and tell
us to take things out or change things if they were deemed inappropriate, 7.
Children building unsafe structures- 13 year old kids with no construction
knowledge were made to build unsafe structures to live in. We would cut the
trees down ourselves with hand saws and axes all without electricity or
running water. 8. Tuition- Our parents paid a tuition that was higher then the
tuition to most universities in the U.S. Yet we were feed food they got from
food banks for free or next to nothing. I remember the counselor taking us to
the milk plant nearby, where we would be given crates of their day or usually
two day old milk for free because it was expired and going to be thrown away.
We were then given this milk for food/drink. We had no running water, no
electricity, lived in wooden huts we built with our own hands without
electricity and with rusty hand saws. Not to mention the special meals, which
were even weaker. 9. "School"- Their "school" is now accredited. In their
"science" classes we were indoctrinated with the christian story. We were
forced to watch Kent Hovind videos, as if he and all his "theorys" have not
already been debunked. We were taught the world was 2000 years old and created
by God. That is as absurd to me as teaching in a science class that gravity
does not exist, but is actually god holding everyone down with his finger . I
also at one point had to explain to my science teacher what plate tectonics
were. He had never heard of such a thing, and thought I made it up...until
another student said she learned the same thing in a real school. 10. Absurd
accusations- The half way house at the farm was covered in flies during the
summer. One day Trace wanted to talk with me one on one outside of the half
way house. We sat and talked about Christianity. I of course was extremely
dirty , sweaty, and smelly. After all I had been living in the woods and doing
hard manual labor all day, with a shower twice a week. Trace on the other hand
lived in a house and looked and smelled as if he had just come out the shower.
He asked me if according to biblical terms would I rather be called a fool or
a wise man? I replied a fool because the bible is rubbish to me. He replied "
Ya know (anon), it's very interesting to me that all the flies are landing on
you and none on me. Do you know that the devil in the bible is called
Beelzebub-the lord of flies!" Later on when Trace had every student in the
program and every counselor in a room together he was preaching to us. He went
on and suddenly started to describe our private conversation to everyone. He
said "(anon) willingly would be called a fool instead of a wise-man." He then
told everyone about the fly thing. He said that he believes I could be
possessed by demons or Beelzebub. This was humiliating to say the least, and
hardly humble at all on his part. Later a counselor came to me and told me
that he thought the fly thing was absurd and silly. He said the flys were
landing on you (anon) because you live in the woods, haven't bathed in days
and are extremely dirty..unlike Trace. Another child was sent to SHF after
being raped at her highschool. Trace asked her if she knew what a whore was.
She replied “someone who sleeps around with everyone?” Trace responded “Yes ,,
dont you think you fit the bill?” and I believe then punished her. 11.Queers,
homos and fags!- Trace would very often make jokes about gays, and homosexuals
and "going to brown town” (saintly words, I know! He sure is the next St.
Nektarios!) that I assume would be extremely offense to homosexuals. He taught
it was sinful, wrong, evil and unnatural. 12. Medical misinformation- It seems
to me and everyone else Trace has been debunked on his Anhedonia claims, and
insists on providing dangerous medical misinformation on his website.
13.Prayer instead of medical attention- A child once was being disobedient.
The child then suddenly collapsed and had what appeared to, my eyes, be a
seizure (I do not know for certain, I am no doctor). The staff simply held him
down got in a circle and prayed for the demons to leave him. Later the staff
told us the student had green (or some color) foam coming from his mouth as he
convulsed. The student soon stopped and went back to normal. Prayer cured him,
we were told. This sounds similar to the story that has been in the news
lately. The one where the child had diabetes and the family got around and
prayed for the child instead of calling an ambulance, except in this case the
child died and the parents were sentenced to prison. 14.Parental alienation
syndrome- Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS), consisting of the manipulation
of children by the custodial parent, who incessantly tries to turn them
against the other parent by arousing in them feelings of hatred and contempt
for the target parent, as explained in the book Marital Conflicts, Divorce,
and Children's Development (Conflictos matrimoniales, divorcio y desarrollo de
los hijos, edited by Piramide), by professors Jose Canton Duarte, Ma Rosario
Cortes Arboleda, and Ma Dolores Justicia Diaz, from the Department of
Evolutionary and Educational Psychology of the University of Granada. This was
repeatedly done to students. Thank God the students usually took great offense
to this. We would be told our parents had failed us or had enabled us to make
us even worse. We were told most of our parents needed to be in the program
just as much if not more then we did. Trace also acted as if my mother was
insane because she placed such a big influence on humility within the
Christian religion, was against SHF and wanted me to come home and not bei n
the program. Reference:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/94733.php 15. Medical attention-
Teens were encouraged to stop taking their medication. Nearly everyone was on
medications though. Some were talked into discontinuing their meds. These
kids off of their medication sleep/slept around axes and saws and
sludgehammers every night. I also witnessed people be taken off of anti
seizure medicine and held down and prayed for while having seizures and
foaming at the mouth. My parents requested that I be taken to a dermatologist
for my acne outbreaks. Months later (much to late) I was then talked out of
taking acutane, by the camp “nurse”. My acne got much much worse, without the
acutane. When I left the farm years later I had acne and scars all over my
face. My mother took me to a dermatologist who told me that I should had taken
acutane years before and I wouldn't have any scars. He then prescribed me
acutane and I have not had any acne outbreak in years sense. I once woke up
during the winter and I could not move my neck whatsoever. I told the staff
and they took me to the camp “nurse” a quack who lived in a trailer on campus
because her daughter went to school there and she wanted to be close to her.
The nurse simply told me to put a neck brace on. I put it on and I could not
move my neck up, down or to the sides for nearly an entire month. I do not
know why this happened but I suspect it could have been something very serious
and that I should have been taken to a real doctor. ]
I give HEAL, ISAC and Caftey permission to use this statement. I declare
under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on
_____November 23______________, 2009.
_______________[Anonymous*]
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At Unregulated Christian Boarding Schools, Students Face Conversion
Therapy, Abuse, And Indoctrination
Unsplash What happens
when the government fails to regulate Christian reform schools? One academy in
Georgia is just the beginning. This is the second in a two-part series
examining the therapeutic Christian boarding school Shepherd’s Hill Academy
and its founder Trace Embry. You can read the first part
here.
Shepherd’s Hill Academy is a Georgia-based Christian boarding school with a
history of alleged abuse, conversion therapy for LGBTQ teens, and religious
indoctrination. If it were just one school, it could be viewed as an alarming
anomaly. But this is not the story of just one school. When it comes to the
state of education in this country, politicians and community leaders
regularly debate the merits of charter and public school reform, standardized
testing, federalized curriculums, and universal pre-K at the local, state, and
federal levels. What is often missing from these conversations are reform
schools, wilderness boot camps, and “therapeutic” boarding schools where there
has been a worrying lack of oversight and regulation for decades. The majority
of these institutions are privately run, and many are connected with a church
or have a foundational religious component. Brandy Zadrozny
reported last June for The Daily Beast on the allegations of abuse at
Blue Creek Academy, a now-shuttered Christian reform school for at-risk
teenage boys, in West Virginia. She wrote: “As in many other states, religious
private schools in West Virginia aren’t held to the same standards as their
nonreligious counterparts. Though
the ways in which they are exempt varies from state to state, for many
schools that operate with a religious mission — 80% of private schools
nationwide — accreditation or licensing, the hiring of certified teachers or
the approval of curriculum, or even simply notifying the state as to its
existence is completely voluntary.” Last June, actor Jeremy Jordan brought
national
attention to this issue when he started a GoFundMe campaign to assist in
getting his teenage cousin released from the therapeutic boarding school
associated with Heartlight Christian Ministries. Jordan
claimed that his 17-year-old cousin was sent to the “East Texas Christian
boarding facility for troubled teens to ‘pray away the gay.’” She was released
a few days after his campaign made headlines. Mark Gregston, founder and
executive director of Heartlight Ministries, released a
statement denying that the girl was there against her will and that the
facility practices any form of conversion therapy. (The girl has never gone
public with her story.) There are other institutions across the country that
echo SHA’s practices, including religious indoctrination (Wings of Faith
Academy in Missouri helps girls with “spiritual
confusion”; New Lifehouse Academy in Oklahoma scores student behavior on
metrics including “spiritual
development”) and abuse (a Tampa Bay
Times investigation from 2012 detailed cases of abuse at several Christian
homes and boarding schools in Florida;
22 boys were removed from a Christian boarding school in Alabama last year
due to allegations of abuse). While institutions like these have at least
faced scrutiny in the past, it’s hard to imagine them being met with
resistance from political leaders in 2017.
Why Does The GOP Still Support Dangerous Gay ‘Conversion Therapy’?
theestablishment.co Under the auspices of the Trump administration and
powerful far-right politicians and pundits, religious indoctrination has been
propped up as a key element of educational development. Evangelical leaders
have been celebrating what they see as the
end of government intrusion on matters of faith and family, and recently
confirmed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has a history of steering tax
dollars away from public schools and toward
private, often religious, alternatives. Mother Jones reported that
DeVos’ $100 million in donations over the last decade “show an
overwhelming emphasis on funding Christian schools [and] evangelical
missions.” Meanwhile, the administration has made it clear that the anti-LGBT
measures common at these religious camps and treatment centers will have its
support. Before assuming her cabinet post, DeVos donated millions to
anti-LGBTQ organizations that advocate for conversion therapy. And as
governor of Indiana, Mike Pence not only provided businesses in the state the
legal right to discriminate against LGBTQ individuals in an effort to
protect so-called religious freedom, but proposed
taking federal dollars away from HIV/AIDS prevention by redirecting that
funding “toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking
to change their sexual behavior.” Of course, there are many Christian
therapeutic programs and boarding camps that don’t engage in abusive
practices. But governmental oversight is necessary to ensure that institutions
aren’t allowed to harm students. And it’s clear from looking at SHA and other
schools that this oversight, as it exists, fails to protect children. The
Oversight Gap Shepherd’s Hill Academy operated unlicensed and unsupervised by
the state of Georgia for more than 10 years. It was not until September of
2010 that Georgia’s Department of Human Services (DHS) and its Office of
Residential Child Care (ORCC), now the
Residential
Child Care Licensing (RCCL) unit, was forced to investigate the school.
And that only happened after it received a complaint from a social worker,
alleging, “[I]t appears to us they are ‘driving without a license.’” After an
investigation was concluded, four months after the initial complaint was
filed, Carol S. Winstead, then-program director of Georgia’s ORCC, sent an
official letter stating that within 45 days, SHA must either cease operation
or submit an application for an
Outdoor Child
Caring Program (OCCP) license. This license covers child-caring
institutions that provide “room, board and watchful oversight along with a
variety of outdoor activities taking place in a wilderness or camp environment
that are designed to improve the emotional and behavioral adjustment of
children.” All of the academy’s activities, save for the academic portion of
the program, are governed under this license. The initial license was received
and went into effect on January 3, 2012. That is 15 months after the initial
complaint was filed with the state of Georgia’s Department of Human Services
(DHS) and approximately 11 years after Trace and Beth Embry first started
treating troubled teenagers on their farm. Shepherd’s Hill Academy operated
unlicensed and unsupervised by the state of Georgia for more than ten years.
According to documents provided by the DHS, SHA repeatedly failed their
on-site inspections and off-site evaluations during the licensing process,
including having too many residents for the allotted land area. Though it has
since been licensed for a reduced capacity of 36 residents, instead of the 50
it once had, SHA has still failed its annual inspection each year since
becoming licensed by the state in 2012. Despite this, SHA has managed to stay
in business, likely due to a bureaucratic idiosyncrasy. If violations are
found, the ORCC
requires a “Plan of Correction” to be submitted within 10 business days.
As long as the ORCC approves the plan — at their discretion, they may permit
the institution to submit a revised plan — there are no penalties. SHA has
presumably been able to stay in business because of this process. Trace Embry
himself has been the source of licensure violations as well. According to the
state of Georgia’s rules and regulations for Outdoor Child Caring Programs,
the administrator or executive director of a program: “…shall have a master’s
degree from an accredited college or university and a minimum of three years
of increasingly responsible experience in the human service, mental health or
health care field, or a bachelor’s degree plus five years experience in the
field of child care, human services, mental health, at least two of which
includes supervisory and/or administrative responsibility.” Yet Embry, who is
listed as the executive director of Shepherd’s Hill Academy Inc. on all
official documents, has no college degree. Rebecca Bombet Basile, former
employee at Shepherd’s Hill,
testified to a court of appeal that “Trace Embry and his wife, Beth Embry,
run the program, but neither has a college degree.” Records from
Toccoa Falls College (TFC) provided by the
National Student Clearinghouse confirm that Mr. Embry was enrolled at TFC from
1991 through 1998, but he did not obtain a degree from the school. This isn’t
necessarily unusual;
according
to DHS, the third most requested
waiver in 2013
for OCCP programs in the state was for the “Education/Experience for
Director/Human Service Professional.” Confirmed by documents provided by the
DHS, Trace Embry and Shepherd’s Hill Academy have, in fact, received a waiver
for this requirement. The waiver was granted in April 2011 during the
licensing process because “[Trace Embry] has over 10 years of experience…[and]
will employ staff who possesses the required educational credentials.” The
waiver was renewed in June of both 2014 and 2015. It is not merely coincidence
that the “over 10 years of experience” referenced in the waiver approval memo
is the same decade during which SHA operated illegally.
The Not-So-Subtle Censorship Affecting Our Schoolchildren theestablishment.co
During the summer of 2011, Beth Embry repeatedly requested that SHA not be
required to comply with two rules, mandating that all incoming students
receive both a physical exam and psychological or psychiatric evaluation prior
to admission. Beth provided numerous reasons as to why SHA should be excused
from wholly complying with these rules, including their faith-based status,
the “high standard for moral character” of the parents, and the alleged risk
involved to both the “well-being of the prospective student” and the
“integrity of [the student’s] family dynamics.” Notably, Beth repeatedly asked
the state to take into consideration SHA’s 10-year history, and in one
instance claimed “a precedent has been set as we have successfully
operated…for over a decade.” While these numerous requests were denied, SHA
has violated these rules on more than one occasion since receiving their
license. A license loses all its credibility if its requirements are routinely
not met; it is merely another piece of paper that gives organizations the
legal protection to abuse children. A license loses all its credibility if its
requirements are routinely not met. It is merely another piece of paper that
gives organizations the legal protection to abuse children. Meanwhile, despite
these troublesome practices, Trace and Beth Embry have worked hard to ensure
that Shepherd’s Hill Academy looks aboveboard on first look. As advertised on
their website, SHA is accredited by the Georgia Accrediting Commission (GAC)
and licensed by Georgia’s Department of Human Services (DHS). But as confirmed
by the executive director of GAC, an independent state-approved agency, the
accreditation only applies to the academic portion of SHA. That is, the
lectures and classes that happen on the main campus—not the equine therapy or
the beekeeping or the construction projects. SHA also advertises their
membership in the American Association of Christian Schools (AACS) and their
state chapter, the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), and
the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSP). These
are membership organizations to which member schools pay fees to be included
in their network. For example, NATSAP is a trade association, not a federal or
state-approved agency. As
stated
on their site, it “does not provide oversight of our member programs,
believing that responsibility lies with the licensing and accrediting
agencies.” The issues at Shepherd’s Hill are alarmingly neither unique nor the
worst that have been reported. Residential treatment programs and therapeutic
boarding schools across the country have had enough horrific incidents
connected with deceptive marketing and a distressing deficit in state
oversight to prompt a congressional hearing. The issues at Shepherd’s Hill are
alarmingly neither unique nor the worst. At the request of Representative
George Miller, a Democrat from California, in April 2008, a hearing was held
before the House Committee on Education and Labor on “Child
Abuse and Deceptive Marketing by Residential Programs for Teens.”
Addressing the hearing’s chairman Miller in a letter, Jill Ohanesian-Ryan
wrote that her daughter was admitted to what they understood to be a “therapeutic
boarding school” called Hidden Lake Academy (HLA) in Dahlonega, Georgia.
But HLA was not licensed, even though it was marketed as such to other states
and accepted out-of-state Individual Education Program (IEP) students and
children under the No Child Left Behind Act. According to HLA’s attorney’s own
written words to Carol Winstead, then-program director of residential
childcare at Georgia’s DHS, “therapeutic is a marketing term.” Peer group
counselors, she noted, were also not licensed by the state of Georgia. For
these therapeutic boarding schools, catering to troubled teens, ‘therapeutic’
is simply a marketing term. Incidentally, each state handles students who
require an IEP differently, making it difficult to transfer a student with an
IEP to an out-of-state program. Residential programs like HLA found a way
through this and advertised heavily out of state. Shepherd’s Hill also
takes advantage of this, stating on their site, “We are able to
accommodate a variety of Individualized Educational Plans (IEP) adjustments.”
And as their sitemap
exposes, they are trying to take advantage of search-engine results by having
regional advertising for hundreds of cities across the country in nearly all
50 states. Ohanesian-Ryan also wrote that she and several other parents
contacted Georgia authorities — among them, Winstead, of the ORCC — “regarding
the misrepresentations and abuses at HLA,” and that ORCC refused to take
action until a class-action suit brought public attention. When an
investigation into Hidden Lake Academy finally occurred, Ohanesian-Ryan
testified that investigators discovered “suicide attempts, rapes, cuttings,
broken bones, zip tying, cold cocking and the like [that] were never reported
to CPS” by HLA, the local sheriff’s department, the local hospital, or any
other responsible institutions. She affirms, “Despite the CPS report of 2006,
ORS granted HLA two consecutive six month temporary licenses.” She was assured
by the ORS that if HLA failed to comply with the regulations during their
temporary licensure, they would be shut down. But, she said, “Nothing had
changed; [they] did not shut them down.” In 2012, another federal
investigation took place at a different DHS facility in Georgia, which
alleged that agents were “destroying, delaying, changing and falsifying
child abuse reports.” Former DHS Commissioner Clyde Reese III
claimed in a statement in response to this raid, “the safety of children
was ‘a fundamental guiding principle.’” Troublingly, the state of Georgia
failed in its oversight and regulation of HLA during the early years of SHA’s
unmonitored operation — and it appears a disregard for the physical,
emotional, and mental health of the children placed in therapeutic boarding
schools in the state of Georgia has remained consistent. The official titles,
employees, and therapeutic programs may change, but the disregard for the
physical, emotional, and mental health of the children placed in therapeutic
boarding schools remains constant. Moreover, it’s not just Georgia that has
contended with regulatory issues. A lack of sufficient oversight has been
documented in
Florida and
Iowa, and one online guide to Christian boarding schools
openly notes that: “…some states do not provide much oversight for
programs designated as Christian Programs, or Christian Boarding Schools. This
may be due to the desire to keep church and state separate. At any rate many
Christian programs, Christian boot camps, and Christian boarding schools do
not have a lot of regulations mandated by the state they are located in.” How
Many More? In a promotional
video produced by SHA, a parent of a student talks about her
“investigation” into abuse allegations at the farm. “I found out from Trace
Embry that there was a website where someone posted these inflammatory,
derogatory statements,” she begins. “I went home and looked them up and I read
them. And I could find no evidence of truth in any of them.” She goes on to
say that she “went to the state of Georgia to find out if there were any
complaints against the school,” and nothing was credibly substantiated. This
video, uploaded in 2014, only two years after SHA was licensed, is referencing
abuse allegations during the decade SHA was unmonitored by the state of
Georgia. The aforementioned mismanagement, neglect, and abuse cover-ups that
occurred for years at the offices meant to monitor facilities like Shepherd’s
Hill — on behalf of children — puts into serious doubt whether the state did
or did not receive complaints concerning Trace and Beth Embry’s “discipleship
clinic.” The Embrys have concluded on more than one occasion that some of
their students are suffering from demonic possession, which is why they are
“brainwashing [them] with the blood of the lamb.” Trace Embry, who has no
medical training or college degree, believes that students who have been
diagnosed by professionals with very real and treatable mental illnesses are
actually suffering from too much technology use, the overconsumption of media,
and a lack of religious conviction. The Embrys long for the day when a teacher
could paddle a student for alleged misbehavior without any legal consequences.
They believe that teenagers who profess to have same-gender sexual attraction
or are questioning their gender assigned to them at birth are being influenced
by “Old Dark Eyes” and were sexually abused at a young age. They confer with
ultra-religious counselors who are not licensed in their state, don’t hold
nationally recognized certification, and believe that a smartphone is akin to
carrying “Sodom
and Gomorrah in your pocket.” And all the while, the state of Georgia has
given Shepherd’s Hill Academy a stamp of approval where children’s safety is a
“fundamental guiding principle.” How many more children have to suffer before
SHA — which,
it’s been noted, “brings in a lot of revenue for the county” — is shut
down? How long before others like it are, too? There were enough allegations
of abuse, with accompanying state-level cover-ups, concerning residential
programs for teens in 2008 for a congressional hearing to take place. This is
only one school, in one state. How many more are there? Fact-checking by
Maxine Builder. Source:
https://theestablishment.co/at-unregulated-christian-boarding-schools-students-face-conversion-therapy-abuse-and-f584e1c72fbc#.wxq09zre1 |
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THE TRUTH:
All segregated congregate care providers, including those on
our watch-list, are welcome to contact us to correct any information or
provide additional data that may assist with delivering the whole truth to the
public. The HEAL Mission of COPE (HEAL) found in many cases where this
offer has been abused or resulted in revealing additional basis for our
concerns. For some examples see
feedback. Now, we are willing to look at the facts and may have questions
or require documentation backing up any claims. We do verify licensing,
academic backgrounds, and other qualifications when investigating and
researching programs on our watch-lis/enrolled in the Conversion Program to
assist consumers seeking additional information on such programs or victims
requiring assistance with getting corroborating evidence of their claims. We
do that in order to make sure the information we provide is accurate and
verified and cite our sources. In the event any information we've posted is
in error, we're happy to make a correction.
HEAL does not support segregated congregate care for many
reasons which include that many such facilities are abusive, exploitative,
fraudulent, and lack effective oversight often as a result of fraudulent
misrepresentation coupled with the ignorance of those seeking to enroll loved
ones in such facilities, programs, schools, or centers without a valid court
order and involuntarily. In the United States such involuntary
placements done without a court order are apparently illegal as they either
violate the Americans with Disabilities Act community integration requirement
or due process rights of those involuntarily placed. Now, in regards to
parents, in the United States parents have the right to waive their own
rights, but, not the rights of their minor children. See
https://www.cope.church/legalarguments.htm for more information. Now,
most facilities on our watch list include waivers, indemnity clauses, and
sworn statements legal guardians must sign assuring the program that the parents/legal
guardians have
the right to make the placement involuntarily and without due process in a
segregated congregate care environment, however, California and federal
prosecutors as well as settled law appears to suggest that is not the case.
In fact, in the David Taylor case found at
https://www.cope.church/provocases.htm , Taylor sued Provo Canyon School
and his mother as co-defendants. His mother was found liable for 75% of
the damages awarded to Taylor as a result of multiple complaints including
false imprisonment, while the program was found only 25% liable because the
mother owed a duty of due diligence to investigate anyone to which she would
entrust care of her child and she failed to do so.
Now, HEAL
opposes segregated congregate care and we find most placements are happening
illegally in the USA which if the youth understood their rights would result
in unfortunate outcomes for the parents, particularly when they don't exercise
good judgment and support the fraud and abuse rather than their own children
when they need remedy and justice. And, HEAL supports all victims of
fraud and abuse in seeking remedies at law for any crimes or torts committed
against them. And, that's true whether or not the program or victims are
in the USA.
HEAL has a 5 point argument against segregated
congregate care we'd like you to consider:
a. Segregated care is
unconstitutional and a civil rights violation. It is only permissible if a
person is unable to survive independent of an institutional environment. For
more on this, watch the HEAL Report at
https://youtu.be/C4NzhZc4P0A. Or, see:
http://www.ada.gov/olmstead/ which
includes in part: "United States v. Florida – 1:12-cv-60460 – (S.D. Fla.)
– On April 7, 2016, the United States filed an Opposition to the State of
Florida’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment. In the Motion, the State had
asked the Court to rule, on a variety of grounds, that the United States could
not recover damages for unnecessarily institutionalized children to whom the
State had been deliberately indifferent."
b. Institutionalization is
always dehumanizing and coercive. Institutionalization always harms the
institutionalized and deprives them of protected civil rights. Dr. David
Straker, Psychiatry Professor at Columbia University's School of Medicine (Ivy
League) explains this in detail at
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/sociology/articles/institutionalization.htm.
"Many institutions, from prisons to monasteries to asylums, deliberately want
to control and manage their inmates such that they conform and do not cause
problems. Even in less harsh environments, many of the institutionalization
methods may be found, albeit in more moderated form (although the
psychological effect can be equally devastating)." (See website linked in
this paragraph for more info.)
c. Institutionalization is not in the
best interest of children. Institutions are not ever better for a child than
living with a loving family. Source:
http://www.unicef.org/cambodia/12681_23295.html
d. Reform
schools, residential treatment programs, and other segregated congregate care
settings have been shown to be ineffective and harmful. Best source on this
currently is:
https://www.acgov.org/probation/documents/EndoftheReformSchoolbyVinny.doc
e. Boarding Schools, even the "good ones", result in a form of social
death, isolation, and cause both anxiety and depression. Therefore, it is
clearly not in the best interest of the youth subjected to those
environments. Sources:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/08/boarding-school-syndrome-joy-schaverien-review
and
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/secondaryeducation/11662001/The-truth-about-boarding-school-syndrome.html
Beyond the above arguments against segregated congregate care, we have
reports from the NIH, Surgeon General, Yale University Studies, and much more
showing the methodologies of behavior modification are damaging, harmful, and
ineffective. You can request these documents via
e-mail. In addition, for such programs offering academic services or
claiming to offer diplomas, certifications, or the like, it is important to
check to see if it is a diploma mill with no accredited academic services.
Please see article: "Avoiding
Scams: What You Need To Know" for important information on how to avoid
education/training scams.
If you'd like to see what HEAL suggests
rather than segregated congregate care (i.e. committing a crime or tort
against your child if done against their will without a court order), please
see articles: "Fix Your
Family, Help Your Teen" and "Emancipation
Guide".
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REPORTING GUIDE FOR VICTIMS, SURVIVORS, AND WHISTLEBLOWERS:
In Georgia, the criminal statutes of limitation are 2
years on misdemeanors, 4 years on most felonies, and no statute of
limitations on more serious felonies including rape, murder and
kidnapping.
For civil suits in Georgia, the statute of limitations is 2
years. Here are your options:
1.
Report crimes such as fraud, assault, battery, false
imprisonment, labor trafficking, and child abuse to law
enforcement in Georgia. You can e-mail Sheriff Randy
Shirley at
rshirley@stephenssheriff.com to inquire about filing an
official complaint which may provide the probable cause needed
to get a warrant for investigation and/or prosecution.
2. File a consumer complaint with your home state's
attorney general against Shepherd's Hill Farm and include your
request for compensation for any harm done to you. If your home
state is Georgia or you'd like to file with the Georiga State
Attorney General as a non-resident, here is that link:
https://consumer.georgia.gov/resolve-your-dispute/how-do-i-file-complaint
3. If you do not wish to file a consumer complaint, you can contact a
private personal injury attorney and look into suing in tort/civil court.
However, if you can't afford the retainer, you should expect to settle out of
court with a non-disclosure agreement which may bar you from speaking publicly
about the incident because you've agreed (even if with a grumbling assent) to
the terms of the settlement.
4. You may send a new e-mail to rev@cope.church with subject "Post My
Feedback" and we will post your feedback (e-mail printed to .pdf
disclosing your name and e-mail address and any information in
your e-mail with that subject) to
https://www.cope.church/feedback.htm and add a direct
link to those .pdf files to this page .
5. You
may also wish to provide a guest sermon. Guest sermons are
posted at
https://www.cope.church/sermons.htm , under Progress
Reports/Guest Sermons at
https://www.cope.church/conversion.htm where appropriate, and on
program info pages when applicable. So, one provided by
you on your program would also be placed on this page .
Guest sermons should be written into the body of an e-mail and
sent to rev@cope.church . Your first and last name will be
disclosed (contact info will not be unless you expressly request
disclosure). For sermons available on our site see
https://www.cope.church/sermons.htm (and sermon
archives linked on that page). If you have questions about
this option, please contact rev@cope.church. Please see
https://www.cope.church/givetoday.pdf to get an idea
what your sermon may be worth.
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