US News
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Embark Behavioral Health names new CFO
Read the full article here. Embark Behavioral Health, a major provider in the youth mental health and residential treatment space, has appointed Alec Dorman as its new Chief Financial Officer. Dorman, who joined the company in 2020 as…
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‘State-sponsored Abandonment’ No More: California Stops Paying for Adoptees Sent to Out-of-State Treatment Centers
Author: Sara Tiano, The Imprint Trigger warnings: graphic descriptions of abuse, physical restraints, seclusion, adoption trauma Read the full article here. California has ceased funding residential treatment placements for adopted foster youth in other states, closing what advocates…
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Dozens of Teens Who Spent Time at Abusive Florida Reform School Ended Up on Death Row
Trigger warnings: graphic accounts of physical and sexual abuse, isolation, mechanical restraint, suicide, self-harm, racism, medical neglect, child death, humiliating punishments, substance abuse, addiction Read the full article here. Summary:The article investigates the connection between extreme abuse at…
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Julio Sandoval of Agape Boarding School can’t afford travel to CA trial. So US Marshals will pay
Author: Judy L. Thomas, Laura Bauer Trigger warnings: sexual abuse, forced transport, restraint, religious trauma, spiritual abuse Click here to read the full article. Summary:Julio Sandoval, former dean of students at Agape Boarding School and later director of…
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Levy Konigsberg Files Federal Civil Rights Suit Over Child Sexual Abuse at Maryland Juvenile Detention Centers
Read the full article here. Summary: Three survivors have filed a federal lawsuit accusing Maryland officials of allowing sexual abuse at the Thomas J.S. Waxter Children’s Center and Charles H. Hickey School. The suit claims officials knew about…
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88 children placed into protective custody after reports of child abuse in Louisa County
Click here to read the full article. Author: Jose Mendiola Summary:Eighty-eight children attending the Kingdom Ministry of Rehab and Recreation and the Shekinah Glory Camp in Columbus Junction, Iowa, were taken into protective custody following reports of child…
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Wyoming Teen Ranch Settles Forced Labor Lawsuit for $2.3 Million
Date: 06/12/2025 Facilities mentioned: Trinity Teen Solutions, Triangle Cross Ranch Source: NBC News Author: Tyler Kingkade Trigger Warnings: forced labor, medical neglect, humiliating punishments Summary: The Lawsuit: The plaintiffs, a group of women who had been placed at…
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Ex-Laurel Ridge Treatment Center CEO faces 6 child sexual abuse charges in North Carolina, records indicate
Authors: Nate Kotisso, Katrina Webber Read the full article here. Summary: Jacob Cuellar, former CEO of Laurel Ridge Treatment Center in San Antonio, was arrested in North Carolina on six child sexual abuse charges involving offenses alleged to…
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Down on the Farm: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has an idea for what to do with troubled teens. It happened to me. It was a nightmare.
Author: James T. Morrison Click here to read the full article. Summary: The author describes being sent to a rural ranch program in Shafter, California, as an alternative to jail for substance use. He was denied psychiatric medication,…
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Trump’s “Exploratory Therapy” Is Still Just Conversion Therapy — and It’s Dangerous
Author: Matt R. Salmon Summary:In an op-ed for Teen Vogue, psychiatrist and conversion therapy survivor Dr. Matt R. Salmon responds to a new 409-page report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which promotes a practice…