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Behavior Training Research

Closed Texas

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Address: TX
Operated: 1983 to 1998

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Behavior Training Research was a program in Texas. It operated from 1983 to 1998.

1 death on record
1 incident on record
1 staff member named

Survivor testimony

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Timeline

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19831998

1983
1. Opened
  Opened in Texas
1993
1. DeathApril 10, 1993
  Dawn Renay Perry, 16, died here
  Restraint
  Dawn Renay Perry, 16, died here April 10, 1993
  source
2. IncidentApril 10, 1993
  Death
  A 16-year-old girl died on April 10, 1993 during a face-down restraint by four people at Behavior Training Research; cause of death was heart failure caused by...
  Death April 10, 1993
  A 16-year-old girl died on April 10, 1993 during a face-down restraint by four people at Behavior Training Research; cause of death was heart failure caused by exertion during the restraint.
  source
1998
1. Closed
  Closed

Deaths on record

Dawn Renay Perry age 16 | April 10, 1993 | Restraint Austin American-Statesman

The memorial

Incidents on record

April 10, 1993 Death

A 16-year-old girl died on April 10, 1993 during a face-down restraint by four people at Behavior Training Research; cause of death was heart failure caused by exertion during the restraint.source

Staff

Administration

Clay Dean Hill

Former Founder (1983, r/troubledteens wiki)source
Elsewhere in the industry
- Shiloh Treatment Center Founder, Owner, 1995-2018
- Daystar Residential, Inc. Founder, 1991

Documents

From the Unsilenced archive

1 document about Behavior Training Research that Unsilenced collected and Kids Over Profits does not hold a copy of. They open on Unsilenced's Google Drive. Their whole folder: Behavior Training Research.

Additional Links for Behavior Training Research.xlsx

Reporting this program

This program closed in 1998, so the state agency that licensed it can no longer act against it. Other channels may still be able to: the boards that license the people who worked here, law enforcement, and the civil courts.

The Texas reporting channels list each one and what it can do. Time limits depend on the state, the kind of harm and the survivor's age, and many states have lengthened or removed them for child sexual abuse, so a program closing long ago does not by itself mean it is too late. Laws change, so the time limits we list were correct when we checked them but may have been updated since; a lawyer can tell you where things stand now.