Further Info

There are hundreds of articles, documents and media sources on this issue. Here you will find a list of the some of the clearest and best reported.

Articles & Documents

MotherJones 2024 - “New Senate Report Blasts Residential Treatment Facilities That ‘Treat Children as Payouts’”

National Disability Rights Network 2021 - “Desperation without Dignity: Conditions of Children Placed in For Profit Residential Facilities”

Government Accountability Office Report 2007 - “RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT PROGRAMS Concerns Regarding Abuse and Death in Certain Programs for Troubled Youth”

Salt Lake Tribune 2020 - “Inside Utah’s Troubled Teen Industry: How it Started, Why Kids are Sent Here and What Happens to Them”

NY TIMES 2022 - “Can you Punish a Child’s Mental Health Problems Away?” (expose on the TTI and Universal Health Services)

NBC News 2022 - “Teens were sent to Wyoming ranches for therapy. They say they found a nightmare of hard labor and humiliation.”

Kansas City Star 2020 - Boarding schools fleeing abuse claims in other states find ‘Promised Land’ in Missouri

The Imprint 2020 - Far from Home | Far from Safe

NBC News 2020 - A profitable 'death trap': Sequel youth facilities raked in millions while accused of abusing children

UNDARK 2020 - Does Science Support the ‘Wilderness’ in Wilderness Therapy?

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION - Youth in Congregate Care: Far From Home, Far From Safe

Medium 2018 - Running My Anger: The Legacy of the CEDU Cult

NYRA- The “Troubled Teen Industry

Huffington Post 2016 - The Troubled Teen Industry Has Been a Disaster for Decades. And it’s Still Not Fixed.

VICE - The Legal Industry for Kidnapping Teens

Mother Jones 2007 - The Cult That Spawned the Tough-Love Teen Industry