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Aspen Education Group is an American company that provides controversial therapeutic interventions for adolescents and young adults, including wilderness therapy programs, residential treatment centers, therapeutic boarding schools, and weight loss programs, which have been accused of torture and abuse. Since November 2006, Aspen Education ...
The World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools ( WWASPS or WWASP) was an organization based in Utah, in the United States. WWASPS was founded by Robert Lichfield and was incorporated in 1998. WWASPS stated that it was an umbrella organization of independent institutions for education and treatment of troubled teenagers.
They had been associated previously with other similar treatment programs. [12] In 2004, Aspen Education Group acquired Island View. [13] CRC Health Group, a company owned by Bain Capital, [14] purchased Aspen Education for $300 million in 2006. [15] Aspen and CRC Health Group owned and operated the Syracuse campus until 2014.
Aspen Achievement Academy was a wilderness therapy program for adolescents, based in Loa, Utah. It was operated as a part of Aspen Education Group . The program has been moved, in name only, and merged with another wilderness therapy program in Utah - Outback Therapeutic Expeditions - in March 2011.
NorthStar Center was a young adult therapeutic transition and relapse prevention program, located in Bend, Oregon, owned and operated by Aspen Education Group for young adults ages 17 1 ⁄ 2 to 24 for treatment of substance abuse and addiction. In March 2011, Aspen announced that it would cease program operations in August 2011 as part of a ...
They sold it to Aspen Education Group in 2002. In 2006, Aspen was acquired by CRC Health Group , Inc. [4] Behrmann and Prince continued to work for CRC Health (at the facility) for two years after they sold the school, leaving in 2008 to start a different residential treatment center in southern Utah. [5]
Wellspring Academies. Coordinates: 36°34′10″N 119°28′35″W. Wellspring Academies (formerly Academy of the Sierras) was a pair of therapeutic boarding schools for overweight and obese children, teens, and young adults, both operated by Wellspring, a division of Aspen Education Group. It is said to be the first weight loss boarding ...
The National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs ( NATSAP) is a United States trade organization of therapeutic schools, residential treatment programs, wilderness programs, outdoor therapeutic programs, young adult programs, and home-based residential programs for adolescents and young adults with emotional and behavioral ...