Facility profile Idaho

Turning Winds

Closed Hayden, Idaho

Turning Winds was a program in Hayden, Idaho.

1 news article
2 staff members named

News coverage

Missoulian Jan 26, 2019 Expose

Investigation Reveals Recurrent Ownership and Oversight Concerns Across Montana Youth Residential Programs

An investigative report examines the network of owners and administrators operating private residential youth programs in Montana, highlighting instances where individuals with histories of regulatory violations, licensing revocations, or criminal charges established or worked at multiple facilities. The report details multiple civil lawsuits against facilities including Reflections Academy, alleging failures to protect students from staff misconduct and inadequate state regulatory oversight.

Staff

Administration

Carl Spencer Baisden

Operator, Owner (2007)source
Elsewhere in the industry
- Turning Winds Academic Institute VP Public Relations, 2009
John William Baisden Sr.

Operator, Owner (2007)source

Documents

From the Unsilenced archive

38 documents about Turning Winds that Unsilenced collected and Kids Over Profits does not hold a copy of. They open on Unsilenced's Google Drive. Their whole folder: Turning Winds.

Documents (38)

Reporting this program

This program closed, 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 Idaho 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.