Facility profile Wyoming

Trinity Teen Solutions, Inc.

Closed Powell, Wyoming

Trinity Teen Solutions, Inc. was a program in Powell, Wyoming. It operated from 2002 to 2022.

About Trinity Teen Solutions, Inc.

It closed (2022) per news report: NBC News, "Wyoming Teen Ranch Settles Forced Labor Lawsuit for $2.3 Million", 2025-06-12.source

It expanded to include life skills programs helping young women transition to adult living.source It was described as a ranch for troubled youth.source

Lawsuits

  • Markel Insurance Company v. Trinity Teen Solutions, Inc., et al. 2024 | Dismissed | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming | 1:24-cv-00181-SWS Names this facility

    Outcome: All claims and counterclaims asserted in this action are hereby DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE, and the Clerk of Court shall close this case.

    Markel filed a declaratory-judgment action concerning insurance coverage for the Sherman class action. The complaint asks the court to find that Markel has no duty to defend or indemnify the Trinity defendants for the underlying forced-labor claims and seeks to withdraw its defense and recover defense costs. This entry concerns a separate coverage case; the supplied filing contains Markel's allegations and requests for relief.

  • Sherman, et al. v. Trinity Teen Solutions, et al. 2020 | Settled | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming | 20-CV-00215-SWS Names this facility

    Outcome: The district court dismissed the RICO, negligence and negligent infliction of emotional distress claims under Rule 12(b)(6), leaving the forced labor and trafficking claims. After the plaintiffs moved for class certification in August 2022, the district court denied it. On October 31, 2023, in a published opinion (No. 22-8080), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held the district court had applied the wrong legal standards for commonality, typicality and predominance, vacated the denial of class certification and sent the case back for further proceedings. The United States filed an amicus brief in the appeal. Back in the district court, the case settled in 2025 for $2.3 million, to be shared by a class of 262 former residents; the defendants admitted no wrongdoing and class members who accept payment must agree not to disparage them. Judge Scott Skavdahl gave final approval in fall 2025 and the case was terminated on October 6, 2025.

    Former residents Carlie Sherman, Anna Gozun, Amanda Nash, Andrew Scavuzzo and Ehan Jelinek sued Trinity Teen Solutions, Triangle Cross Ranch, the Schneider and Woodward families who own and run them, a Carmelite monastery that sells Mystic Monk Coffee, the Diocese of Cheyenne, and others in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming, first filing in November 2020 and filing a first amended complaint on February 12, 2021. The suit alleges the ranches near Powell, Wyoming promised parents therapy and schooling and instead made teens work long hours on the ranches without pay under threat of punishment and longer stays. The district court dismissed the RICO and negligence claims, leaving forced labor and trafficking claims under federal law, and later denied class certification. On October 31, 2023 the Tenth Circuit vacated that denial and sent the class certification question back to the district court. In 2025 the case settled as a class action: 262 women who were sent to the ranches as teenagers will share $2.3 million from Trinity Teen Solutions and Triangle Cross Ranch, with no admission of wrongdoing. Class members who accept payment must agree not to disparage the defendants; lead plaintiff Anna Gozun declined to take part. Judge Scott Skavdahl approved the settlement in fall 2025 as fair given the risk of recovering nothing, and the case closed on October 6, 2025.

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Federal funding

Federal money this program received, as government records, congressional reports and news coverage show it.

Paycheck Protection Program loan

  • 2020: Received a Paycheck Protection Program loan of $150,000 to $350,000 in 2020. source

News coverage

2 more articles

Videos

Project 24: Exposing The Troubled Teen Industry (2020-07-11) Watch on YouTube

Licensing and inspections

Licensed as
Trinity Teen Solutions
Program
DFS-trinity-teen-solutions
License category
Residential treatment center
Licensing action
Currently not accepting placements as of 09/28/2022

A licensing record is on file. Search the state's inspection reports.

Documents

Documents on file (3)
Woodbury Reports Mentions (1)

From the Unsilenced archive

231 documents about Trinity Teen Solutions, Inc. that Unsilenced collected and Kids Over Profits does not hold a copy of. They open on Unsilenced's Google Drive. Their whole folder: Trinity Teen Solutions.

Documents (212)
DHS (7)
Legal (11)
Site Visits (1)

From SCIAD NET

148 documents about Trinity Teen Solutions, Inc. that Kids Over Profits does not hold a copy of. SCIAD NET keeps them on Google Drive, where they open.

DHS Records (64)
Public Records (3)
Court records (80)
Program Documents (1)

Materials and links

External links

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Reference and research

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