Facility profile Utah
Cross Creek Manor
Cross Creek Manor was a residential treatment center in La Verkin, Utah, operated by World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS). It operated from 1986 to 2011.
Lawsuits
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Wood, et al. v. World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools, Inc., et al.
William Chase Wood and several hundred other former students and their parents sued the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS), founder Robert Lichfield, his business partners and dozens of affiliated programs, marketing and billing companies in Utah's Fifth Judicial District Court in Washington County. The document on file is the plaintiffs' 228-page first amended complaint, submitted July 24, 2013, which refers to claim sheets filed in the case on December 17, 2012 in opposition to a WWASPS motion to dismiss. It alleges that students placed at WWASPS programs in Utah, other states, Mexico, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Samoa and the Czech Republic from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s were beaten, restrained, locked in isolation and small boxes or cages, denied food and medical care, sexually abused and forced to work without pay. It alleges the programs operated as a single enterprise that deceived parents and concealed the abuse, and brings negligence, fraud, contract, conspiracy and emotional distress claims. The document does not show how the case ended.
Incidents on record
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August 25, 2006 Lawsuit
The Wood family filed an August 25, 2006 lawsuit against Cross Creek Manor and the World Wide Association of Specialty Schools Programs (WWASP), assisted by advocates Isabelle Zehnder of CAICA and Sue Scheff of PURE.source
News coverage
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An Examination of Allegations and Practices Within the Troubled Teen Industry
Multiple survivors have come forward with allegations of emotional, physical, and psychological abuse within various residential treatment facilities and behavioral modification programs. Former residents report practices including involuntary transport, isolation, forced labor, and peer-to-peer shaming sessions, prompting increased public scrutiny of the troubled teen industry.
Staff
Administration
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J Ralph Atkin
Registered agent
Elsewhere in the industry
- Morava Academy co-owner
- Red Rock Academy registered agent
- Cross Creek Programs registered agent
- Teen Help LLC RA for 2 limited partnerships that own
- Browning Distance Learning Academy RA for 2 limited partnerships that own
- WWASPS trustee
Notable staff
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Brent Charles Hall
Therapist
Elsewhere in the industry
- Discovery Academy Executive Director (2007-2008)
- Discovery Ranch Board of Directors, Ran the facility (per survivors) (2015-2025)
- Kentucky River Academy management director
- Red River Academy owner, director
- Provo Canyon School
- Cross Creek Programs therapist
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Jade Robinson
Elsewhere in the industry
- Bell Academy founder
- Casa by the Sea director
- Horizon Academy founder
- Tranquility Bay
- Morava Academy
- Spring Creek Lodge Academy
- Cross Creek Programs
- High Impact transferred kids to
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Ownership
Documents
Woodbury Reports Mentions (1)
Materials and links
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Manuals and handbooks
- Parent manual
Other documentation
- Archived website