CEDU

Programs it has run

6 on record.

• Ascent Wilderness Therapy Naples, Idaho | 1992-2005 | Closed
• Boulder Creek Academy Bonners Ferry, Idaho | 1993-2022 | Closed
• CEDU High School Running Springs, California | 1967-2005 | Closed
• CEDU Middle School Running Springs, California | 1992-2005 | Closed
• Northwest Academy Bonners Ferry, Idaho | 1994-2019 | Closed
• Rocky Mountain Academy Bonners Ferry, Idaho | 1982-2005 | Closed

Ownership

Owned by

• Universal Health Services
• The Brown Schools

News coverage

• Why do kids keep going missing? Inside the troubled teen industry CBC | Feb 23, 2023 | expose

  A 16-year-old boy named Daniel Yuen went missing after enrolling in a 'tough love' bootcamp in California. His family had been seeking help for his depression. The bootcamp, CEDU Running Springs, was supposed to provide support, but Daniel vanished. An investigation into the troubled teen industry has uncovered ties to a dangerous cult and raises questions about the treatment of teenagers in these facilities.

Lawsuits

• State of Nevada v. Patricia Chappuis, et al. 2019 | Closed | Justice Court of Beatty Township, Nye County, Nevada | 19CR00069B

  Outcome: Resolved by plea agreement. On July 19, 2021 in Beatty Justice Court, Marcel Chappuis pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor counts of disturbing the peace and paid a $2,000 fine; Patricia Chappuis waived her preliminary hearing and agreed to plead guilty to one gross misdemeanor count in district court in Tonopah, with a $2,000 fine. Prosecutors agreed not to seek jail time or probation, and the 45 felony counts against each were dropped. News coverage found does not report Patricia Chappuis's later court date.

  In August 2019 the Nye County District Attorney filed a criminal complaint charging Patricia Lynn Chappuis and Marcel Claude Chappuis with 45 counts of felony child abuse or neglect over their running of Northwest Academy, 1492 South Highway 373 in Amargosa Valley, Nevada. Each count concerns a different enrolled child, aged roughly 11 to 17. Prosecutors alleged that between February 9, 2018 and February 12, 2019 the defendants failed to give the children enough potable water, let them drink unsafe tap water, and failed to screen and supervise staff to protect the children from physical and verbal abuse. The complaint was filed in the Beatty Township Justice Court on August 6, 2019, with an arraignment set for August 19, 2019. In July 2021 the case ended in a plea agreement: Marcel Chappuis pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor counts of disturbing the peace, Patricia Chappuis agreed to plead guilty to one gross misdemeanor, each was fined $2,000, and no jail time or probation was sought. Both maintained their innocence through their attorney.

Every case in the lawsuit directory

Deaths on record

Young people who died at, or after being in, one of its programs.

• Jonathan Avila age 16 | Rocky Mountain Academy | July 25, 1994 | Died by suicide

Websites

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• Archived website