Facility profile Louisiana
US Youth Services
Also known as Red River Academy (2006-2015), Red River Academy
US Youth Services was a program in Lecompte, Louisiana, operated by World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS). It operated from 2015 to 2018.
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.
Staff
Administration
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Brent Charles Hall
Owner, director
Elsewhere in the industry
- Discovery Academy Executive Director (2007-2008)
- Discovery Ranch Board of Directors, Ran the facility (per survivors) (2015-2025)
- Cross Creek Manor for Girls therapist
- Kentucky River Academy management director
- Provo Canyon School
- Cross Creek Programs therapist
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Dusky Goulding
Assistant director
Elsewhere in the industry
- Darrington Academy director
Documents
From the Unsilenced archive
36 documents about US Youth Services that Unsilenced collected and Kids Over Profits does not hold a copy of. They open on Unsilenced's Google Drive. Their whole folder: Red River Academy - US Youth Services.
Documents
- Additional Links for Red River Academy - US Youth Services.xlsx
- Affidavit from Brent Hall.pdf
- Affidavit of Windle Turley.pdf
- directions_to_rra.doc
- Optimum-1.pdf
- Optimum-10.pdf
- Optimum-11.pdf
- Optimum-12.pdf
- Optimum-2.pdf
- Optimum-3.pdf
- Optimum-4.pdf
- Optimum-5.pdf
- Optimum-6.pdf
- Optimum-7.pdf
- Optimum-8.pdf
- Optimum-9.pdf
- Red River Academy Addendum.pdf
- Red River Academy Enrollment Questionnaire and Additional Addendums.pdf
- Red River Academy Poss.pdf
- Red river academy Ran Away and got away with it.mp4
- Red River Academy Registration 2.pdf
- Red River Academy Registration.pdf
- Red River Academy Student Discharge Form.pdf
- Red River Academy-05-30-2016--Lawsuit claims abuse and neglect at former Red River Academy.pdf
- Red River Academy-12-12-2014--More charges for Red River Academy staff member.pdf
- Red Rock Academy 12 Month Addendum.pdf
- Red Rock Academy 3 Month Addendum.pdf
- Red Rock Academy Directions.pdf
- Red Rock Academy Flex Addendum.pdf
- Red Rock Academy Lifelines Fact Sheet.pdf
- Red Rock Academy Wiki on Fornits.pdf
- red_river_info.doc
- rra12moea.pdf
- rra3moea.pdf
- rraflex.pdf
- US Youth Services LA Listing.png