IAMA 'survivor' of WWASP schools Tranquility Bay and Cross Creek Academy. AMA.

It was suggested that I do an AMA from the people in charge of /r/TroubledTeens. The story's long, so I'll try to update this as much as I can. Ask me anything.

From March 23rd, 2004 until July 29th, 2004, I was 'enrolled at Worldwide Association of Specialty Programs Residential Treatment Facility Tranquility Bay in Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica, and from July 30th, 2004 until December 18th, 2005 I was 'enrolled' at Cross Creek Academy in La Verkin, Utah.

The Story

Around 2 AM on March 23rd, I was awoken by two strange men in my bedroom demanding that I put on some clothes and put my hands behind my back. I was handcuffed, led to a car without ever seeing my parents, and driven from my Alabama home to the airport in Atlanta, GA, where I was flown to Montego Bay, Jamaica, and driven to the facility. During that time, I was both a witness and victim of physical, verbal, and mental abuse by both staff members and other kids. Physical 'restraint' methods were used for non-violent offenses, and often included multiple grown men forcing a teen to the ground and driving heads, knees, and arms into bare concrete, even for kids who didn't respond violently. Kids punished in this manner would then be forced into solitary confinement, called Observation Placement, where they would lie face down and remain motionless and silent 15 hours a day, only to move to eat two small meals and sleep. This would often go on for weeks or months in a stretch.

While there, I had to go to the US Embassy in order to obtain a passport, being only 15 at the time, I could travel without one, but I could not leave the country without one were I to turn 18 while there. While at the embassy, I appealed to a work there about the physical abuse. I wasn't taken seriously, and no one came to the facility to investigate until nearly a month later. For my efforts, I was 'restrained' and forced into observation placement for several weeks.

About a week before I left the facility for good, a staff member helped several kids jump me, by locking me in a room with ten of them, alone, with no staff members. I received several injuries, but was not allowed to see the nurse about it. I told the 'therapist' in charge of my group, known as families, the next day. She was unconcerned, and told me that my lies wouldn't help me get out any faster. However, I had written a letter to my mother a few weeks prior about the same staff member who made the arrangements, and on her weekly phone call with my 'therapist,' she asked about what had happened. Thinking that my mother somehow knew, the 'therapist' spilled the beans, shocking my mother. The next day, my mother came to the facility, and personally escorted me to La Verkin, Utah, and enrolled me at Cross Creek Academy on July 30th.

My time at Cross Creek was less exciting, but not significantly more enjoyable. I ended up graduating from high school in June of 2005, at the age of 16, and attending a semester of college at Dixie State College in St George, Utah. I graduated from the program in December of 2005.

The program, both Cross Creek and Tranquility Bay, used seminars as a way of progressing through the program. These seminars employ your standard methods of brainwashing, including forcing kids to admit to their faults and such in a public manner, public assessment and ridicule of said admissions, and other things. There were truly some insane things that go on there. You can read more about the seminars here: http://www.troubledteenprograms.org/about-troubled-teen-programs/troubled-teen-seminars.html

I covered the basic outline of the story, but if you have questions about any of it, feel free to ask those too.

Proof - Updated as I can

My Diploma

Full Diploma (name redacted)

Nametag from PC3 (Graduation) Seminar (name redacted)

Front Page of PC3 (Graduation) Seminar Packet

Seminar Binder: It's about three inches thick and includes all of the work I did to either earn my way into or stay in a seminar. For example, one seminar required over 40 pages of handwritten work, front and back, single spaced, just to get through that seminar.

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