Parent company profile

InnerChange

Also known as Solacium, Solacium Holdings, Solacium Group, InnerChange Programs

Merged 6 programs

InnerChange is a parent company (merged) based in Orem, Utah. Kids Over Profits has records of 6 programs it has run in 4 states and countries.

About InnerChange

On July 1, 2006, New Haven (Spanish Fork, UT) bought Sunrise RTC, "which makes it part of Solacium Holdings, LLC. Solacium also owns Alldredge Academy in West Virginia".source In April 2007, Wellcore, LLC (Anthony Geraci, Sugar Land, TX; Fulshear Ranch Academy) merged with Solacium Holdings.source In August 2007, Solacium, then of Missouri City, TX, "owner and operator of behavioral healthcare facilities, programs, and schools", signed a letter of intent to buy Wilderness Quest (Monticello, UT); CEO Val H. Christensen announced Alldredge Academy would become Alldredge Wilderness Journey. Sommerville Young Adult Community was listed as "a part of Solacium Holdings LLC" (source; source). Whether the Wilderness Quest purchase closed is not on record: the December 2008 list of programs leaves it out. On April 30, 2008, Anthony Geraci resigned as COO and CMO; David Michel succeeded Val Christensen as President and CEO.source In June 2008, Solacium was "majority owned by CIC Partners of Dallas", formed about two years earlier from Fulshear Ranch and New Haven, and managed five programs.source

On November 3, 2008, "SOLACIUM NOW INNERCHANGE": CEO David Michel announced the renaming; programs New Haven, Sunrise, Fulshear Ranch Academy and Alldredge Wilderness Journey.source In 2009 it offices listed in Addison, TX (source); later Orem, UT.source In December 2010, Dustin Tibbitts, Executive Director of New Haven, promoted to President of InnerChange.source In December 2011, Cressey & Company bought InnerChange from CIC Partners.source On January 2, 2013, InnerChange bought Chrysalis (Eureka, MT), "the fourth facility to join the InnerChange family of treatment programs", all for adolescent girls or young women.source

In August 2013, "InnerChange, a clinical and operational consulting organization supporting residential treatment centers", announced a partnership with the Oakley School (Oakley, UT; closed 2017); Paul Taylor, from Copper Canyon Academy, became Oakley's executive director.source About 2014: InnerChange bought Lake House Academy (Flat Rock, NC).source On October 31, 2018, Embark Behavioral Health was announced as the umbrella name for Calo Programs, InnerChange Programs, New Vision Wilderness Programs and Potomac Pathways. InnerChange's programs then: Optimum Performance Institute (OPI), Chrysalis, New Haven, Sunrise, Vive and Dragonfly Transitions; Lake House and Fulshear were listed under Calo (source). Cressey & Company left in August 2018 (Preqin). OPI and Dragonfly Transitions are young adult programs; when OPI, Vive and Dragonfly joined InnerChange is not on record.

After 2018 "InnerChange" was used as the name of a division of Embark (staff lines on the r/troubledteens wiki), and Sunrise RTC's company is still registered as Solacium Sunrise, LLC.source

Programs it has run

6 on record.

People

The people the network map ties to the company, with their other jobs in the industry.

5 other staff on record
  • Alex Stavros
  • Helaine Sandler, Business Development Manager
  • John Stewart, marketing
  • Leah Madamba, VP of clinical integration
  • Reid Treadaway, admissions specialist

News coverage

  • Utah therapist who pleaded guilty to raping teenage patient sentenced to prison for up to life The Salt Lake Tribune | Jan 9, 2018 | arrest About one of its programs

    A former therapist at the New Haven residential youth treatment facility in Utah County was sentenced to seven years to life in prison after pleading guilty to felony charges including rape, forcible sodomy, forcible sexual abuse, and obstructing justice. Court documents stated the therapist subjected a 16-year-old patient to sexual abuse during scheduled treatment sessions and subsequently instructed her to alter journal entries to conceal the misconduct.

  • NEW SOLACIUM CEO PLANS BIG PROGRAM EXPANSIONS Treatment Magazine | Jun 5, 2008 | corporate About one of its programs

    Solacium’s new CEO, David Michel, announced plans to expand the organization’s therapeutic programs, including adding 30 acres to Fulshear Ranch in Texas and adding two new homes and a school building at New Haven’s north campus in Utah. The expansions aim to increase capacity and enhance services for youth in therapeutic settings. The company is majority owned by private equity firm CIC Partners.

  • Seen and Heard - October 2001 Woodbury Reports | Oct 1, 2001 | general About one of its programs

    This industry newsletter compilation details various administrative updates, staff appointments, program expansions, and leadership changes across multiple therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness programs, and youth residential facilities for October 2001. Notices include new program accreditations, facility curriculum updates, and personnel transitions within the troubled teen industry.

  • States Pressed As 3 Boys Die At Boot Camps The New York Times | Jul 15, 2001 | expose About one of its programs

    Following the deaths of three teenagers at separate outdoor and wilderness programs in 2001, state lawmakers and child advocates increased calls for stronger government regulation and oversight of the troubled teen industry. The article examines disparities in state laws governing camp operating standards, personnel qualifications, and medical safety.

  • Seen 'n Heard - Jan, 2000 Issue (page 3) Seen 'n Heard | Jan 1, 2000 | general About one of its programs

    The issue provides brief news items about several residential programs, noting a lawsuit by former employees of Cross Creek Manor, the announced closure of Royal Haven, and various program activities such as presentations, graduations, and service expansions. It reports on updates from multiple facilities without detailing individual incidents.

  • Alldredge Wilderness Journey alldredgewildernessjourney.com | general About one of its programs

Lawsuits

  • Whitcomb and Clifford v. InnerChange Chrysalis, LLC (Embark Behavioral Health), et al. 2023 | Dismissed | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana | 9:23-cv-00039-DLC

    Outcome: Dismissed with prejudice on the parties' joint stipulation Dec 18, 2025; case closed.

    Oliver Whitcomb and Amy Clifford, on behalf of an anonymous survivor, sued Chrysalis Therapeutic Boarding School (InnerChange Chrysalis, LLC), Embark Behavioral Health, and others in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana. Filed 04/25/2023. Docket trackable on PacerMonitor.

  • Complaint - Alldredge Wilderness Journey, 2003 Unknown
  • lawsuit Unknown

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Every case in the lawsuit directory

Documents

Filed under its programs

107 documents across 5 programs: inspection reports, court records, clippings and more, each on its program page.

Record updated October 13, 2026. Generated from the Kids Over Profits facility database. Suggest a correction