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A 17-year-old eastern Iowa girl housed at a controversial Christian boarding school in Jamaica is at the center of an international tug of war involving two guardians, the island's child ...
The adoption, foster care and child care subsidies the couple received from the state totaled more than $640,000 from 2006-17. More: The short, troubled life of Sabrina Ray, who died at 16 in ...
The troubled-teen industry has been around for more than a century, but many of the “tough love” tactics used by current programs can be traced back to the first residential drug treatment ...
The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping is a 2024 American true crime documentary series, directed by Katherine Kubler. It follows Kubler and former classmates of hers from the Academy at Ivy Ridge, a behavior modification facility that was marketed as a boarding school, as they reflect on the abusive conditions they experienced in the program and the lasting trauma.
Szalavitz is an investigative reporter for Time magazine, and since 2004 has been a senior fellow at George Mason University's media watchdog group Statistical Assessment Service. In 2009, Szalavitz partnered with Brent W. Jeffs and released Lost Boy, a biography of Jeffs's life in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Aspen Achievement Academy has been a subject of several media reports and works of popular culture: The 1999 book Shouting at the Sky: Troubled Teens and the Promise of the Wild by Gary Ferguson, ISBN 0-312-20008-0 recounts the author's experiences and observations during several months he spent in the wilderness with teens at Aspen Achievement Academy.
I started watching the true crime documentary “The Program,” directed by troubled teen program alum Katherine Kubler, at my sister-in-law’s recommendation. “You guys have to see this ...
The Troubled-Teen Industry Has Been A Disaster For Decades. It's Still Not Fixed.