{ "title": "TTI Glossary", "updated": "2026-09-23", "intro": [ "The Troubled Teen Industry has its own language. Programs rename punishment, isolation, and control as \"consequences,\" \"reflection,\" and \"support,\" and families often learn what the words meant only years later. This glossary collects that language from program handbooks, staff manuals, state records, and survivor accounts.", "Terms used at more than one program are in **Shared Terms A–Z**. Terms documented at only one program or program family are under **Program Sections**, grouped by lineage. **Treatment Modalities**, **About the Industry**, and **Wilderness Specific** stand on their own.", "Each entry ends with the programs where the term appears. *Used at* means it appears in the program's own documents. *Reportedly used at* means it comes from survivor accounts." ], "count": 467, "programs": [ { "slug": "academy-at-dundee-ranch", "name": "Academy at Dundee Ranch", "count": 7 }, { "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge", "name": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "count": 29 }, { "slug": "academy-at-swift-river", "name": "Academy at Swift River", "count": 18 }, { "slug": "agape-boarding-school", "name": "Agapé Boarding School", "count": 6 }, { "slug": "allendale", "name": "Allendale", "count": 3 }, { "slug": "aspen-institute-for-behavioral-assessment", "name": "Aspen Institute for Behavioral Assessment", "count": 2 }, { "slug": "auldern-academy", "name": "Auldern Academy", "count": 7 }, { "slug": "aurora-center-for-healing", "name": "Aurora Center for Healing", "count": 7 }, { "slug": "bloom-adult-and-teen-challenge", "name": "Bloom (Adult & Teen Challenge)", "count": 6 }, { "slug": "cedu", "name": "CEDU", "count": 38 }, { "slug": "clearview-girls-academy", "name": "Clearview Girls Academy", "count": 1 }, { "slug": "colorado-division-of-youth-services", "name": "Colorado Division of Youth Services", "count": 4 }, { "slug": "copper-canyon-academy", "name": "Copper Canyon Academy", "count": 12 }, { "slug": "cross-creek-manor", "name": "Cross Creek Manor", "count": 7 }, { "slug": "diamond-ranch-academy", "name": "Diamond Ranch Academy", "count": 5 }, { "slug": "elan", "name": "Élan", "count": 3 }, { "slug": "elevations-rtc", "name": "Elevations RTC", "count": 15 }, { "slug": "escuela-caribe", "name": "Escuela Caribe", "count": 12 }, { "slug": "falcon-ridge-ranch", "name": "Falcon Ridge Ranch", "count": 7 }, { "slug": "family-foundation-school", "name": "Family Foundation School", "count": 10 }, { "slug": "gateway-academy", "name": "Gateway Academy", "count": 16 }, { "slug": "hyde-school", "name": "Hyde School", "count": 5 }, { "slug": "ironwood", "name": "Ironwood", "count": 2 }, { "slug": "island-view", "name": "Island View", "count": 15 }, { "slug": "judge-rotenberg-center", "name": "Judge Rotenberg Center", "count": 4 }, { "slug": "kids-helping-kids-khk", "name": "Kids Helping Kids (KHK)", "count": 7 }, { "slug": "the-link-school", "name": "The Link School", "count": 4 }, { "slug": "maple-lake-academy", "name": "Maple Lake Academy", "count": 10 }, { "slug": "meridell-achievement-center", "name": "Meridell Achievement Center", "count": 7 }, { "slug": "midwest-academy", "name": "Midwest Academy", "count": 37 }, { "slug": "milwaukee-academy", "name": "Milwaukee Academy", "count": 4 }, { "slug": "montana-academy", "name": "Montana Academy", "count": 11 }, { "slug": "moonridge-academy", "name": "Moonridge Academy", "count": 8 }, { "slug": "new-haven", "name": "New Haven", "count": 10 }, { "slug": "paradise-cove", "name": "Paradise Cove", "count": 9 }, { "slug": "pillars-of-hope", "name": "Pillars of Hope", "count": 6 }, { "slug": "provo-canyon-school", "name": "Provo Canyon School", "count": 14 }, { "slug": "re-creation-retreat", "name": "Re-Creation Retreat", "count": 11 }, { "slug": "respect-camp", "name": "Respect Camp", "count": 9 }, { "slug": "robert-land-academy", "name": "Robert Land Academy", "count": 8 }, { "slug": "second-nature", "name": "Second Nature", "count": 12 }, { "slug": "sedona-sky-academy", "name": "Sedona Sky Academy", "count": 11 }, { "slug": "the-seed", "name": "The Seed", "count": 1 }, { "slug": "shodair-children-s-hospital", "name": "Shodair Children's Hospital", "count": 3 }, { "slug": "shortridge-academy", "name": "Shortridge Academy", "count": 7 }, { "slug": "solstice-east", "name": "Solstice East", "count": 13 }, { "slug": "sorenson-s-ranch-school", "name": "Sorenson's Ranch School", "count": 9 }, { "slug": "spring-creek-lodge", "name": "Spring Creek Lodge", "count": 16 }, { "slug": "spring-ridge-academy", "name": "Spring Ridge Academy", "count": 52 }, { "slug": "stillwater-academy", "name": "Stillwater Academy", "count": 1 }, { "slug": "straight-inc", "name": "Straight, Inc.", "count": 14 }, { "slug": "teen-challenge", "name": "Teen Challenge", "count": 5 }, { "slug": "thayer-learning-center", "name": "Thayer Learning Center", "count": 11 }, { "slug": "three-springs-new-beginnings", "name": "Three Springs New Beginnings", "count": 10 }, { "slug": "trails-carolina", "name": "Trails Carolina", "count": 1 }, { "slug": "tranquility-bay", "name": "Tranquility Bay", "count": 14 }, { "slug": "triangle-cross-ranch", "name": "Triangle Cross Ranch", "count": 1 }, { "slug": "trinity-teen-solutions", "name": "Trinity Teen Solutions", "count": 9 }, { "slug": "uinta-academy", "name": "Uinta Academy", "count": 14 }, { "slug": "utah-boys-ranch", "name": "Utah Boys Ranch", "count": 1 }, { "slug": "vista", "name": "Vista", "count": 1 }, { "slug": "whetstone-academy", "name": "Whetstone Academy", "count": 5 }, { "slug": "wingate-wilderness-therapy", "name": "Wingate Wilderness Therapy", "count": 6 }, { "slug": "woodland-hills-academy", "name": "Woodland Hills Academy", "count": 4 }, { "slug": "wwasp-programs", "name": "WWASP programs", "count": 31 } ], "refs": { "discipleship program": "discipleship-program", "attack therapy": "attack-therapy", "seminar": "seminar", "environment of discomfort": "environment-of-discomfort", "problem vocabulary": "problem-vocabulary", "card conference": "card-conference", "motivation system": "motivation-system-sub-system", "learned helplessness": "learned-helplessness", "manipulation phases": "manipulation-phases", "one-on-one": "one-on-one", "supervision levels": "supervision-levels", "buddy system": "buddy-system", "h.o.p.e. buddy": "h-o-p-e-buddy", "restraint": "restraint", "escort": "escort", "shadow": "shadow", "bunk leader": "bunk-leader-facility-leader", "bunk buddy": "bunk-buddy", "beltlooping": "beltlooping", "ppm": "ppm", "taking accountability": "taking-accountability", "on s&s": "on-s-and-s", "no talk": "no-talk", "bans": "bans", "split contract": "split-contract", "on contract": "on-contract", "home contract": "home-contract", "cop-out": "cop-out-cedu-and-descendants", "letter of accountability": "letter-of-accountability", "process paper": "process-paper", "level thesis": "level-thesis", "feedback group": "feedback-group", "x system": "x-system", "program only": "program-only", "unauthorized communication": "unauthorized-communication", "team focus": "team-focus", "community rebuild": "community-rebuild-personal-rebuild", "group awards": "group-awards", "broken record": "broken-record", "exit plan": "exit-plan", "subculture": "subculture", "observation placement": "observation-placement", "quiet room": "quiet-room", "seclusion room": "seclusion-room", "time out": "time-out", "mpr": "mpr", "retroflexive reformation": "retroflexive-reformation", "confession letter": "confession-letter", "personal inventory": "moral-inventory", "stages of student progress": "stages-of-student-progress", "guilt loading": "guilt-loading", "code silence": "code-silence", "iso": "iso", "contract (wwasp)": "contract-wwasp", "functional talk": "functional-talk", "merits / demerits": "merits-demerits", "tlc dollars": "tlc-dollars", "behavior modification": "behavior-modification", "positive peer culture": "positive-peer-culture-ppc", "units of concern": "units-of-concern", "review": "review", "red-crossing": "red-crossing", "enabling": "enabling", "community break": "community-break", "run risk": "run-risk", "large group awareness training": "large-group-awareness-training-lgat", "staffing": "staffing", "accountability formula": "accountability-formula", "owning it": "owning-it", "mindful processing": "mindful-processing", "thinking chair": "thinking-chair", "lower status / upper status": "lower-status-upper-status", "2-4": "2-4", "drudgery": "drudgery", "religious exemption": "religious-exemption", "protection of community image": "protection-of-community-image", "gooned": "gooned", "zero tolerance policy": "zero-tolerance-policy", "booty juice": "booty-juice", "christian milieu therapy": "christian-milieu-therapy", "bust a fire": "bust-a-fire", "eat hot": "eat-hot", "work hours": "work-hours", "guided group interaction": "guided-group-interaction", "shutting the door": "shutting-the-door", "dirt": "dirt", "cop out (straight)": "cop-out-straight", "pop-off": "pop-off", "run plans": "run-plans", "lifeline": "lifeline", "pink slips": "pink-slip", "covenant school": "covenant-school", "academic deficiency": "academic-deficiency", "open meeting": "open-meeting", "honor code board": "honor-code-board", "bust": "bust", "academic table": "academic-table", "group punishment": "group-punishment", "re-focus": "re-focus", "ordeal therapy": "ordeal-therapy" }, "sections": [ { "title": "Treatment Modalities", "id": "treatment-modalities", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "ABA", "note": "Applied Behavior Analysis", "aka": [], "text": "A method of behavior modification that uses rewards and consequences to increase behaviors seen as \"appropriate\" and reduce those viewed as \"problematic.\" It is most often used on autistic people, especially children. Many survivors and advocates criticize ABA for being coercive, prioritizing compliance over autonomy, and ignoring emotional and sensory needs. A trauma-informed perspective rejects approaches that pathologize natural differences and emphasizes consent, dignity, and respect for neurodiversity.", "used": [ { "program": "Judge Rotenberg Center", "slug": "judge-rotenberg-center" } ], "reported": [], "id": "aba" }, { "term": "Attachment therapy", "note": "", "aka": [ "rebirthing", "holding therapy", "the Evergreen model" ], "text": "A pseudoscientific mental health intervention that targets fostered or adopted children, falsely claiming their behavioral difficulties stem from \"suppressed rage.\" Its core involves highly coercive and confrontational physical restraint, where children are firmly held or lain upon by adults, often for hours, to provoke intense rage and despair. This deliberate creation of fear and powerlessness is re-traumatizing, fostering obedience based on a trauma bond rather than genuine attachment. This harmful approach contradicts mainstream attachment theory. It has resulted in severe adverse outcomes, including at least six documented child fatalities.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "attachment-therapy" }, { "term": "Attack therapy", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A confrontational group practice where people are subjected to intense criticism, pressure, and humiliation to try to break down defenses and force emotional openness. It became popular in some therapeutic communities and large group trainings in the mid-20th century. The approach is now discredited because it often caused harm, including fear, confusion, and lasting emotional distress.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "attack-therapy" }, { "term": "Aversion therapy", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A behavior modification method that pairs unwanted behaviors with pain, discomfort, or fear to try to stop them. Techniques have included electric shocks, nausea-inducing drugs, or other unpleasant stimuli. It has been used in conversion therapy and some residential programs. Major organizations condemn the practice as harmful, unethical, and ineffective, including the American Psychological Association (APA), American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), and Disability Rights International (DRI).", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "aversion-therapy" }, { "term": "Behavior modification", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A set of techniques that apply rewards and punishments to shape behavior. In the TTI, it is often used to control and manage young people's actions through strict point systems and level programs, typically without regard for consent or individual needs.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "behavior-modification" }, { "term": "Behaviorism", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A theory of learning that focuses on observable behaviors, based on the idea that behavior can be shaped through rewards and punishments. In the TTI, behaviorism is often applied in rigid, simplistic ways that prioritize outward compliance over emotional well-being or deeper understanding.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "behaviorism" }, { "term": "Caseload group", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A small group of students assigned to the same therapist or staff member for regular meetings. Survivors have reported that these groups were often sites where staff routinely violated confidentiality, sharing private information in front of or with peers.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "caseload-group" }, { "term": "Character building education", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A model of schooling that combines academics with moral or behavioral training, often rooted in early 20th-century reform schools and military-style institutions. It emphasizes discipline, obedience, and conformity as signs of good character. TTI programs later adopted this framing to justify strict rules, harsh discipline, and control, often at the expense of students' safety or real education. Examples: *Hyde School, Diamond Ranch Academy, Wolf Creek Academy, Sedona Sky Academy, Teen Challenge, Resolution Ranch, Pine Mountain Boys Academy, Timothy Hill Academy, John Dewey Academy*", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "character-building-education" }, { "term": "Christian Milieu Therapy", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A form of milieu therapy where daily routines, discipline, and group life are structured around Christian teachings. Used in programs like New Horizons Youth Ministries to promote obedience and conformity through prayer, scripture, and religious rules. See **Discipleship program**.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "christian-milieu-therapy" }, { "term": "Culture Shock Therapy", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A method developed by Gordon C. Blossom, founder of New Horizons Youth Ministries, in the early 1970s. Teens were sent to foreign or isolated locations with unfamiliar language, customs, and harsh conditions. The goal was to break down resistance by creating disorientation and dependency on the program, not genuine cultural learning.", "used": [ { "program": "Escuela Caribe", "slug": "escuela-caribe" } ], "reported": [], "id": "culture-shock-therapy" }, { "term": "Equine Therapy", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A therapeutic practice involving caring for or riding horses, intended to build responsibility, trust, and emotional awareness. However, survivors from TTI programs report serious problems, including being given inadequate tools, medication, and training to care for horses. These conditions frequently result in animal injury or death and emotional distress among participants. TTI oversight failures often meant these activities were punitive, risky, and lacked genuine therapeutic support.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "equine-therapy" }, { "term": "Feedback Group", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "See **Attack therapy**", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "feedback-group" }, { "term": "Gestalt therapy", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A psychotherapy approach developed in the 1940s and 1950s by Fritz Perls, Laura Perls, and Paul Goodman. From its origins, it often involved confrontational and emotionally intense methods, including public breakdowns and forced vulnerability in group settings. These practices were framed as ways to promote \"authenticity\" or \"growth.\" In the Troubled Teen Industry, Gestalt techniques have frequently been used to justify humiliation, forced confessions, and other coercive tactics.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "gestalt-therapy" }, { "term": "Guided Group Interaction", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A method from the 1950s used in juvenile and \"troubled teen\" programs where participants are pressured to confront and criticize one another in group settings. Though framed as therapy, it often functioned as attack-style humiliation, relying on peer pressure, forced confessions, and public shaming rather than genuine support.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "guided-group-interaction" }, { "term": "Large Group Awareness Training (LGAT)", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Mass trainings that claim to promote personal growth through intense, high-pressure group exercises. These programs often use long hours, emotional manipulation, and confrontational tactics to break down participants and enforce compliance. Techniques like forced vulnerability, public confession, and group shaming are common. These trainings provided the backbone for seminars at notorious TTI chains like *WWASP* and *CEDU*. Examples of commercial LGATs include: *est, Landmark, LifeSpring, PSI Seminars,* and *Resource Realizations*. See **Seminar**.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "large-group-awareness-training-lgat" }, { "term": "Ordeal Therapy", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Listed by Trinity Teen Solutions as one of its treatment modalities: \"We frequently will make something an ordeal to impact behavior.\" See **Environment of discomfort**.", "used": [ { "program": "Trinity Teen Solutions", "slug": "trinity-teen-solutions" } ], "reported": [], "id": "ordeal-therapy" }, { "term": "Positive Peer Culture (PPC)", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A group intervention model developed in the 1960s by Harry Vorrath after he interned at Highfields in New Jersey. Drawing directly from *Guided Group Interaction (GGI)*, PPC reframed peer confrontation as \"peer helping\" but kept core elements like enforced vulnerability and group accountability. In the Troubled Teen Industry, PPC has often enabled coercion, forced confessions, and public shaming. See **Problem vocabulary**. TTI programs that promote their use of PPC have included: *Minnesota Correctional Facility – Red Wing, Three Springs Inc. (including Three Springs New Beginnings and Auldern Academy), Falcon Ridge Ranch, Heartland Boys Academy, Escuela Caribe, Aurora Center for Healing*", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "positive-peer-culture-ppc" }, { "term": "Post-induction therapy", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A model created by Pia Mellody that focuses on uncovering and treating so-called \"childhood trauma\" through exercises aimed at breaking down emotional defenses. It often involves guided imagery, inner-child work, and forced disclosure of painful memories. In the Troubled Teen Industry, this method has been misused to justify coercive practices like forced confessions and public emotional breakdowns. TTI programs using this \"therapy\" have included: *The Meadows Adolescent Center, Spring Ridge Academy, Sedona Sky Academy, Copper Canyon Academy,* and *Academy at Sisters.*", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "post-induction-therapy" }, { "term": "Primal Scream Therapy", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A form of psychotherapy created by Arthur Janov in the late 1960s. It claims that repressed childhood pain can be healed through intense emotional release, often by screaming. Though briefly popular, it's now widely discredited as pseudoscience, with no solid evidence of effectiveness and concerns about emotional harm.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "primal-scream-therapy" }, { "term": "Psychoanalysis", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A therapeutic approach founded by Sigmund Freud that explores unconscious thoughts and childhood experiences to understand behavior. Though influential, it is widely criticized as unscientific and ineffective. In the TTI, programs often force teens to link their struggles to trauma or hidden motives without consent or proper care. This warped use serves control, not healing, and is typically carried out by unqualified staff.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "psychoanalysis" }, { "term": "Reality therapy", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A method created by William Glasser in the 1960s that pushes the idea that all distress comes from making \"bad choices\" and failing to meet basic needs responsibly. It ignores trauma, structural harm, and systemic oppression. In the Troubled Teen Industry (TTI), reality therapy is often used as a tool for control, shaming youth into submission while masking abuse as \"help.\"", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Trinity Teen Solutions", "slug": "trinity-teen-solutions" }, { "program": "Triangle Cross Ranch", "slug": "triangle-cross-ranch" }, { "program": "Stillwater Academy", "slug": "stillwater-academy" }, { "program": "Clearview Girls Academy", "slug": "clearview-girls-academy" }, { "program": "Utah Boys Ranch", "slug": "utah-boys-ranch" } ], "id": "reality-therapy" }, { "term": "Retroflexive Reformation", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A core concept in *Guided Group Interaction* (GGI) and *Positive Peer Culture* (PPC), where youth are forced to police, confront, and manage one another under the guise of \"leadership\" or \"personal growth.\" In the Troubled Teen Industry, retroflexive reformation is used to create internalized control, shame, and submission. It weaponizes peer relationships, turning teens into enforcers of the program's ideology rather than supporting true healing. There is no legitimate or ethical application of this method.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "retroflexive-reformation" }, { "term": "Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression Conversion Practices (SOGIECE)", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Coercive practices that target sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression, aiming to force youth to suppress or deny who they are. In the Troubled Teen Industry, conversion efforts are often built into broader programs without being named, using forced confessions, isolation, behavior control, or religious pressure. These practices are always abusive and discredited, regardless of how they are labeled.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "sexual-orientation-gender-identity-and-gender-expression-conversion-practices-sogiece" }, { "term": "Teaching Family Model", "note": "", "aka": [ "TFM" ], "text": "A behavioral treatment model developed in the late 1960s at the University of Kansas and used at Boys Town. It runs on staff \"teaching interactions,\" point cards, and student \"self government.\" See **Card conference**, **Motivation System**.", "used": [ { "program": "Uinta Academy", "slug": "uinta-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "teaching-family-model" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Shared Terms A–Z", "id": "shared-terms-a-z", "notes": [ "Terms documented or reported at more than one program, or in wide use across the industry." ], "entries": [ { "term": "Accepting the program", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Internalizing the belief system of the program, often after **Learned helplessness**. Programs framed it as the goal: WWASP parent materials called it the \"Acceptance Phase.\" See **Manipulation phases**.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "id": "accepting-the-program" }, { "term": "Area visit", "note": "", "aka": [ "vicinity visit", "off-grounds visit" ], "text": "An off-campus pass where a student may leave with family but must stay in the local area and cannot go home.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "note": "also as \"vicinity visit\"", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" }, { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "note": "as \"off-grounds visit\"", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "area-visit" }, { "term": "Arm's reach", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A restriction requiring a student to stay within arm's length of staff at all times, usually for new arrivals, runaway risks, or safety concerns. Compare **One-on-One**, **Supervision Levels**.", "used": [ { "program": "Gateway Academy", "slug": "gateway-academy" }, { "program": "Aurora Center for Healing", "slug": "aurora-center-for-healing" }, { "program": "Maple Lake Academy", "slug": "maple-lake-academy" }, { "program": "Solstice East", "slug": "solstice-east" }, { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "note": "on Phase Orange", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "arm-s-reach" }, { "term": "Bathroom restriction", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Supervised bathroom use, where the student often had to sing, count, or talk the whole time to \"prove\" they weren't vomiting. Copper Canyon banned bathroom use for 30 minutes after meals. New Haven students on Safety kept the door cracked and counted out loud. Aurora students on lower supervision levels had to \"count or say their ABC's out loud.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Copper Canyon Academy", "slug": "copper-canyon-academy" }, { "program": "New Haven", "slug": "new-haven" }, { "program": "Aurora Center for Healing", "slug": "aurora-center-for-healing" } ], "reported": [ { "program": "Second Nature", "slug": "second-nature" } ], "id": "bathroom-restriction" }, { "term": "Big Brother / Big Sister", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "An older student assigned to a new arrival. At CEDU, the role lasted until the new student completed the Brother's Keeper Propheet. At Spring Ridge Academy, the big sister stayed on until she herself graduated. At Solstice East, she was expected to \"cue\" the new girl. Compare **Buddy System**, **H.O.P.E. Buddy**.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" }, { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" }, { "program": "Auldern Academy", "slug": "auldern-academy" }, { "program": "Escuela Caribe", "slug": "escuela-caribe" }, { "program": "Solstice East", "slug": "solstice-east" } ], "reported": [], "id": "big-brother-big-sister" }, { "term": "Booty Juice", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Slang for chemical restraint, an intramuscular sedative injection (often a Haldol/Ativan/Benadryl mix) given in the buttocks. See **Restraint**.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Provo Canyon School", "slug": "provo-canyon-school" }, { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "id": "booty-juice" }, { "term": "Buddy System", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Assigning a trusted student to escort another student everywhere. Programs used many names for it. Compare **Escort**, **Shadow**, **Bunk Leader**, **Bunk Buddy**, **Beltlooping**, **PPM**.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "buddy-system" }, { "term": "Bust", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A school-wide forced confession, framed as clearing consciences and starting over with \"a clean slate.\" Hyde's 1991 glossary called it \"Drano for the Hyde soul.\" See **Taking accountability**.", "used": [ { "program": "Hyde School", "slug": "hyde-school" }, { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "note": "as \"I Have a Secret\"", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "bust" }, { "term": "Code Silence", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A punishment where a student is not allowed to speak. See **On S&S**, **No talk**.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "code-silence" }, { "term": "Communication Block", "note": "", "aka": [ "Communication Restriction", "Mute" ], "text": "An order forbidding a student to communicate with specific peers, verbally or non-verbally, including through a third person. Aurora called it \"Mute.\" Compare **Bans**, **On S&S**.", "used": [ { "program": "Gateway Academy", "slug": "gateway-academy" }, { "program": "Maple Lake Academy", "slug": "maple-lake-academy" }, { "program": "Solstice East", "slug": "solstice-east" }, { "program": "Aurora Center for Healing", "slug": "aurora-center-for-healing" } ], "reported": [], "id": "communication-block" }, { "term": "Contract", "note": "CEDU", "aka": [], "text": "A secret pact between students not to confront or report each other. See **Split Contract**.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "contract-cedu" }, { "term": "Contract", "note": "WWASP", "aka": [], "text": "In seminars, a short personal statement of \"who you are,\" created in Focus, \"carved in stone,\" and recited daily; staff used it to confront behavior. The word also covered written agreements signed before seminars and visits. See **On contract**, **Home Contract**.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [], "id": "contract-wwasp" }, { "term": "Cop out", "note": "CEDU", "aka": [], "text": "Confessing rule-breaking to staff, called a **Cop-Out**.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "cop-out-cedu" }, { "term": "Cop out", "note": "Straight", "aka": [], "text": "A \"copout\" was a kid who left the program; parents were told to give copouts no food, shelter, or money.", "used": [ { "program": "Straight, Inc.", "slug": "straight-inc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "cop-out-straight" }, { "term": "Deal under the table", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Any agreement a parent made with their child outside the treatment team, like promising a visit or discharge date. Programs threatened to expel families who did it.", "used": [ { "program": "Island View", "slug": "island-view" }, { "program": "Trinity Teen Solutions", "slug": "trinity-teen-solutions" } ], "reported": [], "id": "deal-under-the-table" }, { "term": "Drop", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Being demoted to a lower level or phase.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "id": "drop" }, { "term": "Escort", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A restriction where an older student accompanies another student at all times. Compare **Buddy System**, **Beltlooping**.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "escort" }, { "term": "Essay", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A writing assignment given as punishment, scaled to the offense. Cross Creek essays ran 100 to 2,500 words, Paradise Cove's 200 to 1,000, and Falcon Ridge's up to 5,000. Until finished, students were often confined or excluded. Compare **Letter of accountability**, **Process Paper**, **Level Thesis**.", "used": [ { "program": "Cross Creek Manor", "slug": "cross-creek-manor" }, { "program": "Paradise Cove", "slug": "paradise-cove" }, { "program": "Falcon Ridge Ranch", "slug": "falcon-ridge-ranch" }, { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" }, { "program": "Tranquility Bay", "slug": "tranquility-bay" } ], "reported": [], "id": "essay" }, { "term": "Family Rep", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The staff member assigned as a family's point of contact, who read the student's mail, listened in on calls, and kept parents committed. Midwest Academy's Family Rep Handbook describes the job as keeping parents \"On Board.\"", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" }, { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" }, { "program": "Thayer Learning Center", "slug": "thayer-learning-center" } ], "reported": [], "id": "family-rep" }, { "term": "Feedback", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A required way of commenting on another person, phrased as \"My experience of you is...\" Students were told not to \"justify, explain, or deny\" feedback they received. WWASP taught parents the same phrasing. See **Feedback Group**.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" }, { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" }, { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "feedback" }, { "term": "Fines", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Cash penalties charged per rule violation. Spring Creek's ranged from $0.50 to $50 (for running away or \"self inflicted injury\"). Paradise Cove charged in Samoan currency. Montana Academy fined students from their allowance per X (see **X system**).", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Creek Lodge", "slug": "spring-creek-lodge" }, { "program": "Paradise Cove", "slug": "paradise-cove" }, { "program": "Montana Academy", "slug": "montana-academy" }, { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "fines" }, { "term": "Five Foot Rule", "note": "", "aka": [ "Distance Restriction", "10-foot rule" ], "text": "An order to keep a set distance from another person or group. Maple Lake used it \"for girls that can't keep their hands off each other due to attraction.\" Montana Academy used a 10-foot rule for touching or \"inappropriate hugs.\"", "used": [ { "program": "New Haven", "slug": "new-haven" }, { "program": "Maple Lake Academy", "slug": "maple-lake-academy" }, { "program": "Solstice East", "note": "as \"Distance Restriction\"", "slug": "solstice-east" }, { "program": "Montana Academy", "note": "as \"10-foot rule\"", "slug": "montana-academy" }, { "program": "Three Springs New Beginnings", "note": "as \"10 foot boundary\"", "slug": "three-springs-new-beginnings" } ], "reported": [], "id": "five-foot-rule" }, { "term": "Fronting", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Putting on an act rather than being \"real\"; one of the labels in the **Problem vocabulary**.", "used": [ { "program": "Island View", "slug": "island-view" }, { "program": "Elevations RTC", "slug": "elevations-rtc" }, { "program": "Three Springs New Beginnings", "slug": "three-springs-new-beginnings" } ], "reported": [], "id": "fronting" }, { "term": "Functional talk", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A restriction limiting a student to speech about basic needs, like the bathroom, medical needs, or \"thank you.\" It specifically banned asking peers academic or therapeutic questions. Compare **Program Only**, **Unauthorized Communication**.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "functional-talk" }, { "term": "General Meeting", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A public confrontation where a student sat at the center of the whole community while peers and staff screamed at them.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Élan", "slug": "elan" } ], "id": "general-meeting" }, { "term": "Giver / Taker", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Labels sorting students into selfless \"givers\" and selfish \"takers,\" used to shame students who resisted. \"Giver vs. Taker\" was a listed topic of WWASP's Focus seminar.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "id": "giver-taker" }, { "term": "Gooned", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Transported to a program by hired escorts (\"goons\"), often in the middle of the night and without warning. Programs often recommended the services themselves.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "id": "gooned" }, { "term": "Graduate", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "To complete the program; completion is defined by the program, not by independent clinical judgment.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "id": "graduate" }, { "term": "Group punishment", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Punishing a whole group for some members' behavior, often framed as shared responsibility for not stopping it. Examples include Island View's **Team Focus**, Meridell's **Community Rebuild**, Woodland Hills' 72-hour shutdown after any AWOL, and Robert Land's rule that \"a House, class or Company receives consequences as a group.\" Compare **Group Awards**.", "used": [ { "program": "Island View", "slug": "island-view" }, { "program": "Meridell Achievement Center", "slug": "meridell-achievement-center" }, { "program": "Woodland Hills Academy", "slug": "woodland-hills-academy" }, { "program": "Robert Land Academy", "slug": "robert-land-academy" }, { "program": "Bloom (Adult & Teen Challenge)", "slug": "bloom-adult-and-teen-challenge" }, { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "note": "room consequences", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "group-punishment" }, { "term": "Guilt loading", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The program's name for a child's attempts to make parents feel guilty in order to get out. Parents were given lists of \"tactics\" to dismiss: \"horror stories\" like \"they are not feeding me,\" \"triangulation,\" \"exaggeration,\" and even \"threats\" of suicide. See **Manipulation phases**, **Broken record**.", "used": [ { "program": "Provo Canyon School", "slug": "provo-canyon-school" }, { "program": "Island View", "slug": "island-view" }, { "program": "Aspen Institute for Behavioral Assessment", "slug": "aspen-institute-for-behavioral-assessment" }, { "program": "Trinity Teen Solutions", "slug": "trinity-teen-solutions" }, { "program": "Uinta Academy", "slug": "uinta-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "guilt-loading" }, { "term": "Home Contract", "note": "", "aka": [ "Life Contract", "Family Code of Ethics", "Family relationship covenant" ], "text": "A written contract for life after the program, carrying the program's rules into the home. Midwest Academy's Life Contracts included point systems, violation categories, friends ranked by letter grade, and clauses allowing parents to put the child out. Thayer's was framed and presented at graduation. Compare **Exit Plan**.", "used": [ { "program": "Respect Camp", "slug": "respect-camp" }, { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" }, { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" }, { "program": "Thayer Learning Center", "note": "as \"Family Code of Ethics\"", "slug": "thayer-learning-center" }, { "program": "Bloom (Adult & Teen Challenge)", "note": "as \"family relationship covenant\"", "slug": "bloom-adult-and-teen-challenge" }, { "program": "Falcon Ridge Ranch", "slug": "falcon-ridge-ranch" } ], "reported": [], "id": "home-contract" }, { "term": "Honeymoon period", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The program's term for a new student's first days, before they realize what's expected. Midwest Academy also used it for graduates' first two months home.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Creek Lodge", "slug": "spring-creek-lodge" }, { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" }, { "program": "Uinta Academy", "slug": "uinta-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "honeymoon-period" }, { "term": "\"I feel\" statements", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A required speaking format students had to learn and use \"consistently,\" and eventually teach to new students.", "used": [ { "program": "Copper Canyon Academy", "slug": "copper-canyon-academy" }, { "program": "Sedona Sky Academy", "slug": "sedona-sky-academy" }, { "program": "Gateway Academy", "slug": "gateway-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "i-feel-statements" }, { "term": "Image / Imagey", "note": "", "aka": [ "image clothing", "worldly clothing" ], "text": "Dress, music, or style associated with a visible subculture, which was banned. CEDU defined image as \"the mask (clothing, attitude, style).\" ASR banned \"imagy\" skateboarding and fashion magazines. Christian programs called it \"worldly.\" Compare **Subculture**.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" }, { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" }, { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" }, { "program": "Pillars of Hope", "slug": "pillars-of-hope" }, { "program": "Agapé Boarding School", "note": "as \"worldly clothing\"", "slug": "agape-boarding-school" } ], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" }, { "program": "Élan", "slug": "elan" } ], "id": "image-imagey" }, { "term": "Impact letter", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A letter from parents listing ways the child's behavior hurt the family, which the child was usually made to read or hear in group or therapy. Each family member might write their own.", "used": [ { "program": "Solstice East", "slug": "solstice-east" }, { "program": "Re-Creation Retreat", "slug": "re-creation-retreat" } ], "reported": [ { "program": "Second Nature", "slug": "second-nature" } ], "id": "impact-letter" }, { "term": "Iso", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Isolation, confinement alone in a room as punishment. Programs had many names for it. Compare **Observation Placement**, **Quiet room**, **Seclusion Room**, **Time Out**, **MPR**.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "id": "iso" }, { "term": "Junior Staff", "note": "", "aka": [ "Staff Assistant", "Jr. Staff" ], "text": "Upper-level students given staff duties, expected to \"stand up to and confront their peers.\" At Thayer, students had to apply with a résumé, cover letter, and staff recommendations. See **Retroflexive Reformation**.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Creek Lodge", "slug": "spring-creek-lodge" }, { "program": "Tranquility Bay", "slug": "tranquility-bay" }, { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "note": "Service status", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" }, { "program": "Thayer Learning Center", "slug": "thayer-learning-center" } ], "reported": [], "id": "junior-staff" }, { "term": "Learning Experience", "note": "", "aka": [ "LE" ], "text": "An assigned consequence tied to the student's \"issues.\" Elevations' example: a student with low self-esteem had to ask 10 people what they liked about her. At Solstice East, written assignments up to three pages.", "used": [ { "program": "Elevations RTC", "slug": "elevations-rtc" }, { "program": "Solstice East", "slug": "solstice-east" } ], "reported": [], "id": "learning-experience" }, { "term": "Letter of accountability", "note": "", "aka": [ "Accountability Letter" ], "text": "A letter to parents taking responsibility for past behavior, required to move out of the first phase. RCR told girls to treat it \"as though it is your trash can\" and expect to rewrite it several times. Compare **Confession letter**, **Personal inventory**.", "used": [ { "program": "Sedona Sky Academy", "slug": "sedona-sky-academy" }, { "program": "Copper Canyon Academy", "slug": "copper-canyon-academy" }, { "program": "Gateway Academy", "slug": "gateway-academy" }, { "program": "Solstice East", "slug": "solstice-east" }, { "program": "Re-Creation Retreat", "slug": "re-creation-retreat" }, { "program": "Meridell Achievement Center", "slug": "meridell-achievement-center" } ], "reported": [], "id": "letter-of-accountability" }, { "term": "LOA", "note": "Leave of Absence", "aka": [], "text": "A home visit.", "used": [ { "program": "Island View", "slug": "island-view" }, { "program": "Elevations RTC", "slug": "elevations-rtc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "loa-leave-of-absence" }, { "term": "LOA", "note": "Loss of Activity", "aka": [], "text": "Barred from a fun activity like movie night, doing homework instead, unable to move up.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "loa-loss-of-activity" }, { "term": "Magical Child", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "An inner-child figure students were told to address every night, telling it \"who you are\" and writing it letters about their lessons.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" }, { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "magical-child" }, { "term": "Manipulation phases", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A framework teaching parents that a child's complaints (being starved, treated like a prisoner, seeing rats) were stages of manipulation: Denial, Guilt Trip, Anger, and Negotiation. The goal was the \"Acceptance Phase,\" when the child stops trying to get out. The same director's letter appears nearly word for word across WWASP programs and Thayer. Compare **Stages of Student Progress**, **Guilt loading**.", "used": [ { "program": "Cross Creek Manor", "slug": "cross-creek-manor" }, { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" }, { "program": "Spring Creek Lodge", "slug": "spring-creek-lodge" }, { "program": "Academy at Dundee Ranch", "slug": "academy-at-dundee-ranch" }, { "program": "Paradise Cove", "slug": "paradise-cove" }, { "program": "Thayer Learning Center", "slug": "thayer-learning-center" } ], "reported": [], "id": "manipulation-phases" }, { "term": "Manipulation Tactics", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Lists given to parents framing ordinary teen behavior, including crying, repeating a request, saying \"please,\" and \"demanding reasons for boundaries,\" as manipulation.", "used": [ { "program": "Gateway Academy", "slug": "gateway-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "manipulation-tactics" }, { "term": "Moral inventory", "note": "", "aka": [ "M.I.", "Personal inventory", "Harms List" ], "text": "A required written self-assessment in 12-step style. Straight's had four parts (Challenge, Good Points, Goals, Blessing) and was reviewed nightly by oldcomers. Sedona Sky and Copper Canyon required a list of \"all harm done to self and others\" to leave the first phase.", "used": [ { "program": "Straight, Inc.", "slug": "straight-inc" }, { "program": "Kids Helping Kids (KHK)", "slug": "kids-helping-kids-khk" }, { "program": "Sedona Sky Academy", "slug": "sedona-sky-academy" }, { "program": "Copper Canyon Academy", "slug": "copper-canyon-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "moral-inventory" }, { "term": "Motivating", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Frantic arm-waving and bouncing in group to be called on to speak; students who didn't show enough enthusiasm were seen as resisting.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "The Seed", "slug": "the-seed" } ], "id": "motivating" }, { "term": "Move up", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "To advance to a higher level or phase.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "id": "move-up" }, { "term": "No talk", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A rule banning conversation, such as in the van whenever music was playing. Compare **Code Silence**.", "used": [ { "program": "Moonridge Academy", "slug": "moonridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "no-talk" }, { "term": "Norms", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A program's rules, framed as community standards. Respect Camp said rejecting norms meant \"rejecting Respect Camp.\" Three Springs New Beginnings said norms were \"not rules\" because residents enforced them.", "used": [ { "program": "Respect Camp", "slug": "respect-camp" }, { "program": "Three Springs New Beginnings", "slug": "three-springs-new-beginnings" } ], "reported": [], "id": "norms" }, { "term": "Observation Placement", "note": "", "aka": [ "Observation Status", "Observation Level" ], "text": "Isolation in an \"observation room\" away from other students. At Spring Creek, staff were told not to discuss \"weather, stories, sports\"; students ate without utensils, got one five-minute break an hour, and were watched in the bathroom. At Woodland Hills, a level for runaways and self-harm, spent in staff sight at all times. See **Iso**.", "used": [ { "program": "Cross Creek Manor", "slug": "cross-creek-manor" }, { "program": "Spring Creek Lodge", "slug": "spring-creek-lodge" }, { "program": "Paradise Cove", "slug": "paradise-cove" }, { "program": "Tranquility Bay", "slug": "tranquility-bay" }, { "program": "Woodland Hills Academy", "slug": "woodland-hills-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "observation-placement" }, { "term": "On contract", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Behaving in line with one's \"best self\" as the program defines it. WWASP students repeated their personal **Contract (WWASP)** daily, and staff used it \"in confronting behavior.\"", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "id": "on-contract" }, { "term": "On S&S", "note": "Silence and Separation", "aka": [], "text": "A punishment used when students were deemed \"not using relationships to support one another.\" A student could be cut off from specific peers, a phase, or the whole community, limited to **Functional talk**. See **Code Silence**.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "on-s-and-s" }, { "term": "One-on-One", "note": "", "aka": [ "Orange shirt" ], "text": "A safety watch. At Spring Ridge Academy, the student wore an orange shirt, stayed within arm's length of staff, was watched in the shower and bathroom, and could be made to sleep on the floor with hands outside the covers. At Falcon Ridge, it meant a \"secured area\" with staff at arm's length, used for danger to self or for \"failure to comply with set consequences.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" }, { "program": "Falcon Ridge Ranch", "slug": "falcon-ridge-ranch" }, { "program": "Spring Creek Lodge", "slug": "spring-creek-lodge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "one-on-one" }, { "term": "Points sheet", "note": "", "aka": [ "point card" ], "text": "A sheet dividing every part of the day into scored blocks, with points for waking up, making the bed, hygiene, meals, clean-up, classes, group, therapy, and bedtime. Daily totals decided privileges and level. Vista's 2009 \"Girls' Point Sheet\" scored each block from 5 to 50 points, for 295 to 365 possible points a day, with a +10 incentive for journals and goals. Compare **Card conference**, **Merits / Demerits**, **TLC dollars**. See **Behavior modification**.", "used": [ { "program": "Vista", "slug": "vista" }, { "program": "Uinta Academy", "note": "as \"point card\"", "slug": "uinta-academy" }, { "program": "Midwest Academy", "note": "on Life Contracts", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "points-sheet" }, { "term": "Precautions", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Safety statuses (suicide, self-harm, \"elopement,\" aggression, AWOL) that confine a student to the unit under close supervision. At Meridell, patients stayed on precautions until they had \"appropriately processed with the group.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Meridell Achievement Center", "slug": "meridell-achievement-center" }, { "program": "Allendale", "slug": "allendale" } ], "reported": [], "id": "precautions" }, { "term": "Problem vocabulary", "note": "", "aka": [ "Terminology of Problems" ], "text": "A fixed set of labels residents had to use about themselves and each other, adapted from **Positive Peer Culture**: \"Low Self-Image,\" \"Inconsiderate of Others,\" \"Authority Problem,\" \"Misleads Others,\" \"Easily Misled,\" \"Aggravates Others,\" \"Easily Angered,\" \"Lying,\" \"Fronting.\" Elevations left family problems off the list so students couldn't \"hide behind\" them. Escuela Caribe punished these labels with **Units of Concern**.", "used": [ { "program": "Island View", "slug": "island-view" }, { "program": "Elevations RTC", "slug": "elevations-rtc" }, { "program": "Escuela Caribe", "slug": "escuela-caribe" } ], "reported": [], "id": "problem-vocabulary" }, { "term": "Quiet room", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A room for isolating a student. Compare **Iso**, **Seclusion Room**.", "used": [ { "program": "Family Foundation School", "slug": "family-foundation-school" }, { "program": "Shodair Children's Hospital", "slug": "shodair-children-s-hospital" }, { "program": "Escuela Caribe", "note": "as \"Q.R.\"", "slug": "escuela-caribe" } ], "reported": [], "id": "quiet-room" }, { "term": "Reflections", "note": "Shortridge", "aka": [], "text": "A \"clinical intervention\" restriction. See **Review**.", "used": [ { "program": "Shortridge Academy", "slug": "shortridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "reflections-shortridge" }, { "term": "Reflections", "note": "Swift River", "aka": [], "text": "The lightest of three restriction levels.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" } ], "reported": [], "id": "reflections-swift-river" }, { "term": "Reflections", "note": "WWASP", "aka": [], "text": "A nightly written report on the day's motivational tapes and group, worth up to two-thirds of daily merits.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" }, { "program": "Spring Creek Lodge", "slug": "spring-creek-lodge" }, { "program": "Tranquility Bay", "slug": "tranquility-bay" } ], "reported": [], "id": "reflections-wwasp" }, { "term": "Rescuing", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A parent or peer protecting a child from consequences. Falcon Ridge made it a Category II violation. Wingate told parents to \"resist the urge to rescue.\" Compare **Red-crossing**, **Enabling**.", "used": [ { "program": "Falcon Ridge Ranch", "slug": "falcon-ridge-ranch" }, { "program": "Wingate Wilderness Therapy", "slug": "wingate-wilderness-therapy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "rescuing" }, { "term": "Restriction", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Confinement to an area or loss of privileges, often with writing or work. At CEDU, a student stayed in one area unless escorted. At Academy at Swift River, color-coded folders: Reflections (blue), Challenges (red), and Self Studies (black, with no free time and \"many bans\"). Aurora used Mute, Peer, Staff, and Activity Restrictions.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" }, { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" }, { "program": "Aurora Center for Healing", "slug": "aurora-center-for-healing" } ], "reported": [], "id": "restriction" }, { "term": "Room Leader", "note": "", "aka": [ "Room Mentor" ], "text": "A student put in charge of a dorm room. At SRA, if she missed a roommate's violation, she got the consequence. At Montana Academy, she gave roommates Xs (see **X system**).", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" }, { "program": "Montana Academy", "slug": "montana-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "room-leader" }, { "term": "Run plans", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Actual plans to run away, usually with another student; knowing about them without telling staff was itself punishable. At Midwest Academy, saying numbers out loud during a headcount counted. At RCR, storing shoes outside the shoe area counted. See **Split Contract**.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" }, { "program": "Re-Creation Retreat", "slug": "re-creation-retreat" }, { "program": "Elevations RTC", "slug": "elevations-rtc" }, { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" } ], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "id": "run-plans" }, { "term": "Safety", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The most restrictive status, usually for new arrivals or after a safety violation. At Moonridge, no calls or visits. At New Haven, staying within 5 feet of staff, counting aloud in the bathroom, no shoes. Solstice East's Safety Phase could mean sleeping on a mattress in the hall. Compare **Community Break**, **Run Risk**.", "used": [ { "program": "Moonridge Academy", "slug": "moonridge-academy" }, { "program": "New Haven", "slug": "new-haven" }, { "program": "Solstice East", "slug": "solstice-east" } ], "reported": [], "id": "safety" }, { "term": "Seclusion Room", "note": "", "aka": [ "Time Out Room", "Seclusion" ], "text": "A locked room for isolating a student. Provo Canyon's was 10 by 10 feet and empty, used up to 24 hours. Compare **Iso**, **Quiet room**.", "used": [ { "program": "Provo Canyon School", "slug": "provo-canyon-school" }, { "program": "Milwaukee Academy", "slug": "milwaukee-academy" }, { "program": "Colorado Division of Youth Services", "slug": "colorado-division-of-youth-services" } ], "reported": [], "id": "seclusion-room" }, { "term": "Seminar", "note": "", "aka": [ "Training", "Propheet", "Lifestep", "Emotional Growth Seminar" ], "text": "A multi-day emotional intensive built on LGAT techniques like forced disclosure and group breakdowns. See **Large Group Awareness Training**, **Staffing**.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "note": "as \"Propheet\"", "slug": "cedu" }, { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" }, { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "note": "as \"Lifestep\"", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" }, { "program": "Thayer Learning Center", "slug": "thayer-learning-center" }, { "program": "Midwest Academy", "note": "as \"Elements\"", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "note": "as \"Training\"", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "id": "seminar" }, { "term": "Shadow", "note": "", "aka": [ "Double Shadow" ], "text": "One or two peers or staff assigned to stay with a student at all times. Compare **Buddy System**.", "used": [ { "program": "Family Foundation School", "slug": "family-foundation-school" }, { "program": "Moonridge Academy", "slug": "moonridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "shadow" }, { "term": "Staff shopping", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Asking a second staff member for a different answer after one said no; a punishable offense.", "used": [ { "program": "Falcon Ridge Ranch", "slug": "falcon-ridge-ranch" }, { "program": "Woodland Hills Academy", "slug": "woodland-hills-academy" }, { "program": "Sorenson's Ranch School", "note": "as \"Staff Manipulation\"", "slug": "sorenson-s-ranch-school" }, { "program": "Re-Creation Retreat", "slug": "re-creation-retreat" } ], "reported": [], "id": "staff-shopping" }, { "term": "Staffing", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Students helping run seminars for newer students; a privilege of higher status.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" }, { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" }, { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "staffing" }, { "term": "Stretch", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A required risk outside one's comfort zone, built from a word in the student's personal **Contract (WWASP)**, then reported to the group. \"Power of stretching\" was a listed Focus seminar topic. Used at: *WWASP programs*, *Spring Ridge Academy*", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "stretch" }, { "term": "Suicide Watch", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A status where the student slept in front of the night staff and stayed with a supervisor at all times. Maple Lake added scrubs, body searches twice a shift, and a supervisor in the bathroom, and let therapists end it early if it met \"secondary gains.\"", "used": [ { "program": "New Haven", "slug": "new-haven" }, { "program": "Maple Lake Academy", "slug": "maple-lake-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "suicide-watch" }, { "term": "Taking accountability", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Admitting wrongdoing in program-approved language, often required whether or not the accusation is true. Compare **Accountability Formula**, **Owning It**.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "id": "taking-accountability" }, { "term": "Thinking Errors", "note": "", "aka": [ "Stinking Thinking", "Cover-Ups" ], "text": "Labels used to classify a student's thoughts as distorted, such as \"Victim Playing,\" \"Uniqueness,\" \"Being Compliant,\" \"Poor Me,\" and \"Power Play.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Gateway Academy", "slug": "gateway-academy" }, { "program": "Meridell Achievement Center", "slug": "meridell-achievement-center" }, { "program": "Three Springs New Beginnings", "slug": "three-springs-new-beginnings" }, { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "note": "as \"Cover-Ups\"", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" } ], "reported": [], "id": "thinking-errors" }, { "term": "Time Out", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Separating a student from everyone, sometimes in a corner or a special chair. At Family Foundation School, it could last several days. Compare **Mindful Processing**, **Thinking chair**.", "used": [ { "program": "Family Foundation School", "slug": "family-foundation-school" }, { "program": "Maple Lake Academy", "slug": "maple-lake-academy" }, { "program": "Colorado Division of Youth Services", "slug": "colorado-division-of-youth-services" } ], "reported": [], "id": "time-out" }, { "term": "Transition home", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "An on-campus or nearby home where upper-phase students lived before going home, supervised by staff who reported back.", "used": [ { "program": "Sedona Sky Academy", "slug": "sedona-sky-academy" }, { "program": "Paradise Cove", "slug": "paradise-cove" } ], "reported": [], "id": "transition-home" }, { "term": "Trend violation", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A consequence for repeating a behavior or piling up minor violations, such as three in seven days at Copper Canyon or 10 demerits in a week at Spring Creek.", "used": [ { "program": "Cross Creek Manor", "slug": "cross-creek-manor" }, { "program": "Copper Canyon Academy", "slug": "copper-canyon-academy" }, { "program": "Spring Creek Lodge", "slug": "spring-creek-lodge" }, { "program": "Paradise Cove", "slug": "paradise-cove" }, { "program": "Falcon Ridge Ranch", "slug": "falcon-ridge-ranch" } ], "reported": [], "id": "trend-violation" }, { "term": "Triangulation", "note": "Gateway", "aka": [], "text": "Talking about someone who isn't present, which was banned.", "used": [ { "program": "Gateway Academy", "slug": "gateway-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "triangulation-gateway" }, { "term": "Triangulation", "note": "Island View, Trinity, Uinta", "aka": [], "text": "A form of **Guilt loading** where a child tells one person something about another (\"My therapist told me it's your fault I'm here\").", "used": [ { "program": "Island View", "slug": "island-view" }, { "program": "Trinity Teen Solutions", "slug": "trinity-teen-solutions" }, { "program": "Uinta Academy", "slug": "uinta-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "triangulation-island-view-trinity-uinta" }, { "term": "Upper phase / Lower phase", "note": "", "aka": [ "Strength / Non-strength" ], "text": "The student hierarchy where upper-phase students earn privileges and authority to monitor and report on lower-phase peers. See **Retroflexive Reformation**, **Lower Status / Upper Status**.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" }, { "program": "Élan", "note": "as \"Strength / Non-strength\"", "slug": "elan" } ], "id": "upper-phase-lower-phase" }, { "term": "Vote up", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Advancing a level by peer vote. At Midwest Academy, peers stood to show support, 75% had to stand, and staff signatures followed.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" }, { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" }, { "program": "Tranquility Bay", "slug": "tranquility-bay" }, { "program": "Escuela Caribe", "note": "house votes", "slug": "escuela-caribe" } ], "reported": [], "id": "vote-up" }, { "term": "War Story", "note": "", "aka": [ "war-storying" ], "text": "Talking about life before the program, especially drugs, sex, or crime; banned as \"glorifying\" the past.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" }, { "program": "Spring Creek Lodge", "slug": "spring-creek-lodge" }, { "program": "Academy at Dundee Ranch", "slug": "academy-at-dundee-ranch" }, { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" }, { "program": "Elevations RTC", "slug": "elevations-rtc" }, { "program": "Uinta Academy", "slug": "uinta-academy" }, { "program": "Re-Creation Retreat", "slug": "re-creation-retreat" }, { "program": "Bloom (Adult & Teen Challenge)", "slug": "bloom-adult-and-teen-challenge" } ], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" }, { "program": "Second Nature", "slug": "second-nature" } ], "id": "war-story" }, { "term": "Warranty", "note": "", "aka": [ "guarantee", "re-admission" ], "text": "A promise to take a graduate back if they struggled at home, often conditioned on the family completing seminars or aftercare. WWASP required Parent-Child workshops \"to obtain the WWASP warranty.\" Thayer offered free return to Basic Training within a year. DRA offered 30 free days.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" }, { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" }, { "program": "Thayer Learning Center", "slug": "thayer-learning-center" }, { "program": "Diamond Ranch Academy", "slug": "diamond-ranch-academy" }, { "program": "Whetstone Academy", "note": "as paid \"Alumni Services\"", "slug": "whetstone-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "warranty" }, { "term": "Work Hours", "note": "", "aka": [ "Work Duty", "Work Day", "Drudgery", "Community Contributions" ], "text": "Assigned manual labor as punishment. See **2-4**, **Drudgery**.", "used": [ { "program": "Copper Canyon Academy", "slug": "copper-canyon-academy" }, { "program": "Sorenson's Ranch School", "slug": "sorenson-s-ranch-school" }, { "program": "Auldern Academy", "slug": "auldern-academy" }, { "program": "Shortridge Academy", "note": "as \"Community Contributions\"", "slug": "shortridge-academy" }, { "program": "Montana Academy", "note": "as \"Drudgery\"", "slug": "montana-academy" } ], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "id": "work-hours" }, { "term": "Working / Non-working", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Program shorthand for \"healthy\" or \"unhealthy,\" applied to students, family members, music, and more. Anything labeled non-working was off-limits. Tranquility Bay warned parents against \"non-working patterns where parents rescue their child.\"", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "id": "working-non-working" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "About the Industry", "id": "about-the-industry", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "ACE / PACEs", "note": "Accelerated Christian Education / School of Tomorrow", "aka": [], "text": "A workbook curriculum used by many Christian programs. Students worked alone at partitioned desks through booklets called PACEs, set daily goals on a \"goal card,\" raised a flag for help, and graded their own work at a \"score station.\" ACE's distance arm, Lighthouse Christian Academy, issued diplomas to students at these programs.", "used": [ { "program": "Agapé Boarding School", "slug": "agape-boarding-school" }, { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "note": "as Switched-On Schoolhouse", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "ace-paces" }, { "term": "Adjudicated program", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A TTI facility that only accepts court-ordered clients through the juvenile justice system.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "adjudicated-program" }, { "term": "Adult & Teen Challenge", "note": "formerly Teen Challenge", "aka": [], "text": "A national Christian \"discipleship\" network running residential programs for teens and adults, affiliated with the Assemblies of God. See **Discipleship program**, **Religious exemption**.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "adult-and-teen-challenge" }, { "term": "Confidentiality clause", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A contract term binding the child and parents to keep the program's \"Confidential Information\" secret, including \"details of training methods,\" with the family paying the program's legal fees to enforce it. Compare **Protection of Community Image**.", "used": [ { "program": "Diamond Ranch Academy", "slug": "diamond-ranch-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "confidentiality-clause" }, { "term": "Covenant school", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "WWASP's name for a partner US program where a student had to qualify before transferring abroad, and where they were sent if they \"chose out.\"", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "note": "Carolina Springs Academy, Pillars of Hope", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [], "id": "covenant-school" }, { "term": "EdCon", "note": "Educational Consultant", "aka": [], "text": "A privately paid consultant who recommends programs to families. The field is unregulated, and consultants often have close professional or financial ties to the programs they refer to. Some program founders also ran transport and referral businesses; Thayer's founders ran 2B Enterprises (teen transport) and Parent Help (referrals). See **Gooned**.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "edcon" }, { "term": "Emotional Growth Boarding School", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A model created by CEDU combining academics with a mandatory \"emotional growth\" curriculum, sometimes for academic credit (Academy at Swift River's \"Human Ecology\").", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "emotional-growth-boarding-school" }, { "term": "ICPC", "note": "Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children", "aka": [], "text": "The agreement governing placements of children across state lines. Some private programs included ICPC forms in admissions packets, while others relied on parental placements that fall outside it.", "used": [ { "program": "Diamond Ranch Academy", "slug": "diamond-ranch-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "icpc" }, { "term": "Learned helplessness", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "When repeated exposure to uncontrollable punishment trains someone to stop trying to escape, even when escape becomes possible later.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "learned-helplessness" }, { "term": "Line staff", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Frontline direct-care workers who supervise youth day to day, often low-paid, with high turnover and minimal training.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "line-staff" }, { "term": "Liquidated damages", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A fixed penalty parents owed if their child left before graduating, whether the parents withdrew the child or the program terminated them. Diamond Ranch Academy's was $4,000. Similar terms include Auldern's $10,000 deposit refunded only after nine months.", "used": [ { "program": "Diamond Ranch Academy", "slug": "diamond-ranch-academy" }, { "program": "Auldern Academy", "slug": "auldern-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "liquidated-damages" }, { "term": "Parent companies", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Several programs in this glossary belonged to larger operators, visible in their own documents: Universal Health Services (Meridell Achievement Center), InnerChange (New Haven), CRC Health and Aspen Education Group (Aspen Institute, Copper Canyon Academy, Academy at Swift River), Three Springs (Auldern Academy, Three Springs New Beginnings), and Clinicare (Milwaukee Academy).", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "parent-companies" }, { "term": "Privilege", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "In the TTI, basic needs and rights such as family contact, mail, clothing, or outdoor time, reframed as rewards the child must earn.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "privilege" }, { "term": "Protection of Community Image", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A contract clause barring a former student from living or attending school within 50 miles of the facility after leaving.", "used": [ { "program": "Cross Creek Manor", "slug": "cross-creek-manor" } ], "reported": [], "id": "protection-of-community-image" }, { "term": "PRTF", "note": "Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility", "aka": [], "text": "A non-hospital facility that provides inpatient psychiatric care to people under 21 and can bill Medicaid for it. PRTFs must be accredited and follow federal rules on restraint and seclusion, including reporting deaths and serious injuries. They are one of the main ways public money flows into the TTI, especially for youth in foster care or the juvenile justice system.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "prtf" }, { "term": "QRTP", "note": "Qualified Residential Treatment Program", "aka": [], "text": "A designation created by the Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018 that lets states use federal foster care funds for group residential placements beyond two weeks. To qualify, a facility must be accredited, use a \"trauma-informed\" treatment model, have nursing and clinical staff available around the clock, involve families, and provide six months of aftercare. Each placement also requires an outside assessment and court review. Critics note that accreditation and \"trauma-informed\" labels do not guarantee safe conditions, and that some facilities with abuse histories have received the designation.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "qrtp" }, { "term": "Religious exemption", "note": "as a strategy", "aka": [], "text": "Faith-based programs arguing they are ministries, not treatment programs, and so shouldn't be licensed as treatment. Teen Challenge's 1993 position paper complains that states \"demand\" drug and alcohol licensing, forcing centers \"to stray from their mission statement.\" See **Discipleship program**.", "used": [ { "program": "Teen Challenge", "slug": "teen-challenge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "religious-exemption" }, { "term": "Residential Treatment Center (RTC)", "note": "", "aka": [ "Residential Treatment Facility", "RTF" ], "text": "A licensed 24-hour facility that houses youth and provides clinical and psychiatric care.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "residential-treatment-center-rtc" }, { "term": "Restraint", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Physically, mechanically, or chemically restricting a person's movement. The TTI has a long record of restraint-related injuries and deaths. Several programs expelled or transferred any student who needed restraint (see **Zero Tolerance Policy**), and Aurora docked a student's advancement points for being restrained. See **Booty Juice**.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "restraint" }, { "term": "Sponsor / Participant", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Contract terms for parents and child. Diamond Ranch parents agreed their own involvement would be \"by invitation\" only.", "used": [ { "program": "Diamond Ranch Academy", "slug": "diamond-ranch-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "sponsor-participant" }, { "term": "Therapeutic Boarding School (TBS)", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A boarding school that markets therapeutic services, usually with less clinical oversight than an RTC.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "therapeutic-boarding-school-tbs" }, { "term": "Therapeutic milieu", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The idea that the whole living environment is treatment, used in the TTI to justify control over every part of a young person's day. See **Christian Milieu Therapy**.", "used": [], "reported": [], "id": "therapeutic-milieu" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Wilderness Specific", "id": "wilderness-specific", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Billie", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A coffee can used for digging holes and heating water.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Second Nature", "slug": "second-nature" } ], "id": "billie" }, { "term": "Bow drill", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A friction fire-starting tool that students must master, often required to eat hot food or advance.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Second Nature", "slug": "second-nature" } ], "id": "bow-drill" }, { "term": "Burrito", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A restraint where a student's sleeping bag is wrapped in a tarp and tucked in so they can't move, with a staff member often sleeping on the tarp beside them to catch any escape attempt. It was used on new arrivals and as a punishment. It borrows its name and setup from the \"thermal burrito,\" a legitimate wilderness first-aid technique for hypothermia.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Trails Carolina", "slug": "trails-carolina" } ], "id": "burrito" }, { "term": "Bust a fire", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "To start a fire with a bow drill. Gateway Academy students also carried \"busting kits\" on weekend trips.", "used": [ { "program": "Gateway Academy", "note": "as \"busting kits\"", "slug": "gateway-academy" } ], "reported": [ { "program": "Second Nature", "slug": "second-nature" } ], "id": "bust-a-fire" }, { "term": "Camp drill", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A timed drill where students fully set up camp (building a fire pit, digging a latrine and sump, putting up shelters, hanging bear bags), get staff sign-off, then tear it all down and erase every trace. Like pack drills, it was repeated if the group failed to beat the timer.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Second Nature", "slug": "second-nature" } ], "id": "camp-drill" }, { "term": "Challenge by choice", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "An option for students to turn in issued gear, like a backpack or shoes, and use primitive items they made themselves instead. The handbook frames it as optional and says students \"are never deprived of their gear.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Wingate Wilderness Therapy", "slug": "wingate-wilderness-therapy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "challenge-by-choice" }, { "term": "Eat hot", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "To earn a cooked meal by busting a fire; students who can't bust a fire eat cold rations.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Second Nature", "slug": "second-nature" } ], "id": "eat-hot" }, { "term": "Lay Over days", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Therapy days in the field (usually Monday and Tuesday), when the group didn't hike and the therapist visited.", "used": [ { "program": "Wingate Wilderness Therapy", "slug": "wingate-wilderness-therapy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "lay-over-days" }, { "term": "Pack drill", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A timed drill where students unroll their tarp, bedroll, and sleeping bag, lay out everything from their pack for staff inspection, then repack it. The time limit was nearly impossible to meet, and if the group missed it, everyone had to repeat the drill, sometimes several times in a row.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Second Nature", "slug": "second-nature" } ], "id": "pack-drill" }, { "term": "PMT", "note": "Personal & Mentor Time", "aka": [], "text": "Scheduled time on therapy days for letters, therapy assignments, and primitive skills.", "used": [ { "program": "Wingate Wilderness Therapy", "slug": "wingate-wilderness-therapy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "pmt" }, { "term": "Pulse check", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A hydration check staff did before hikes.", "used": [ { "program": "Wingate Wilderness Therapy", "slug": "wingate-wilderness-therapy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "pulse-check" }, { "term": "Scooby", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A piece of used toilet paper. Students had to carry their scoobies with the rest of their gear until they could burn them in the campfire at night.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Second Nature", "slug": "second-nature" } ], "id": "scooby" }, { "term": "Solo", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A period of forced isolation outdoors. At Second Nature, students spent a few days at a time alone in a small patch of forest. At New Haven, a \"therapeutic assignment\" living alone in a small shelter in the back pasture; its handbook called running away \"a natural part of this intervention\" that parents had to \"accept... in full.\" The Link School's top level required a \"3-day fasting\" solo.", "used": [ { "program": "New Haven", "slug": "new-haven" }, { "program": "The Link School", "slug": "the-link-school" } ], "reported": [ { "program": "Second Nature", "slug": "second-nature" } ], "id": "solo" }, { "term": "Stoker Night", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A night when one assigned student, the \"Stoker,\" must bust a fire for the whole group. If the Stoker succeeds, everyone eats hot; if not, everyone eats cold. See **Bust a fire**, **Eat hot**.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Second Nature", "slug": "second-nature" } ], "id": "stoker-night" }, { "term": "Wind Speaking", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A group discussion held on hiking days. The handbook doesn't explain it further.", "used": [ { "program": "Wingate Wilderness Therapy", "slug": "wingate-wilderness-therapy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "wind-speaking" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Program Sections", "id": "program-sections", "notes": [ "Terms documented at one program or program family, grouped by lineage." ], "entries": [], "groups": [ { "title": "Hyde School", "id": "hyde-school", "sources": "HydeSpeak Glossary Booklet (1991).", "notes": [ "See also **Bust** in Shared Terms." ], "entries": [ { "term": "2-4", "note": "", "aka": [ "Two-Four" ], "text": "A harsher punishment used \"when 5:30 will not suffice.\" Students were pulled from classes and made to do manual labor during school hours until they \"earned\" their way back. See **Work Hours**.", "used": [ { "program": "Hyde School", "slug": "hyde-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "2-4" }, { "term": "5:30", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A punishment for \"ethical infractions and poor attitudes\" where students got up at 5:30 AM to do chores before breakfast.", "used": [ { "program": "Hyde School", "slug": "hyde-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "5-30" }, { "term": "Concern Meeting", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A session where faculty and peers confront a student about discipline, academics, attitude, or responsibilities, framed as counseling. See **Guided Group Interaction**.", "used": [ { "program": "Hyde School", "slug": "hyde-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "concern-meeting" }, { "term": "Tude Trip", "note": "", "aka": [ "Attitude Trip" ], "text": "A 4- to 7-day wilderness camp and work project for 10 to 12 students, usually a punishment for students showing unacceptable attitudes while on 2-4.", "used": [ { "program": "Hyde School", "slug": "hyde-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "tude-trip" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "CEDU and descendants", "id": "cedu-and-descendants", "sources": "CEDU High School and Middle School Glossaries of Terms (1999); Academy at Swift River Parent Handbook and \"ASR Slang\" glossary; Shortridge Academy Family and Student Handbook (2023).", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Academic Table", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Mandatory evening study hall for students behind in schoolwork, where they were banned from smiling or talking to peers.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "academic-table" }, { "term": "Agreements", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "CEDU's rules, called \"agreements\" because students supposedly chose to accept them or accept the consequences. They ranged from the \"big three\" (no drugs, sex, or violence) down to keeping shirts tucked in. Breaking a rule was being \"out of agreement.\" ASR's \"no violence\" agreement included \"starving.\"", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" }, { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" }, { "program": "Shortridge Academy", "slug": "shortridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "agreements" }, { "term": "Appointment", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Scheduled one-on-one time a student set up with a peer or staff member to talk.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" }, { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" } ], "reported": [], "id": "appointment" }, { "term": "Backdoor", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The belief that you could leave, run away, or quit, which CEDU treated as a way of avoiding \"painful reality.\" Compare **Shutting the door**.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "backdoor" }, { "term": "Bans", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Orders forbidding a student from interacting with specific people, groups, or things, usually indefinitely. New students were often on bans from everyone except students deemed \"positive.\" At ASR, bans meant no talking, eye contact, or note passing, used to \"break up... cliques.\" At Shortridge, \"physical\" or \"full\" bans, which the clinical team could impose \"for other clinical reasons.\"", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" }, { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" }, { "program": "Shortridge Academy", "slug": "shortridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "bans" }, { "term": "Brother's Keeper Friend", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "CEDU's ideal of a friend as someone who confronts you and reports your behavior.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "brother-s-keeper-friend" }, { "term": "Buttons", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Emotional \"sore spots\" from the past that CEDU claimed had to be released in raps and Propheets.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "buttons" }, { "term": "Community Contributions", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Labor assigned as a consequence, like building rock walls and washing dishes.", "used": [ { "program": "Shortridge Academy", "slug": "shortridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "community-contributions" }, { "term": "Cop-Out", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Confessing your own or others' rule-breaking to staff. See **Dirt**, **Cop out (Straight)**.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "cop-out-cedu-and-descendants" }, { "term": "Cover-Ups", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "ASR's label for \"ways of denying or hiding the truth,\" including anger and \"a victim mentality.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" } ], "reported": [], "id": "cover-ups" }, { "term": "Crack / Make O.K.", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Finding a loophole or justification for something \"out of agreement.\"", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "crack-make-o-k" }, { "term": "Cut Up", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Making derogatory remarks, or talking about pre-CEDU people or places with a student from the same area.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "cut-up" }, { "term": "Cutting Corners", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Discreetly referring to a banned topic, like a band, without naming it. See **Pop-Off**.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "cutting-corners" }, { "term": "Dirt", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Rule-breaking behavior. Students kept written \"dirt lists\" of their own violations.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "dirt" }, { "term": "Disclosures", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Forced confession of broken rules, shameful past behavior, and \"negative\" thoughts or feelings.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "disclosures" }, { "term": "Dishes", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A punishment of cleaning the kitchen and washing dishes, with no smiling or unnecessary talking.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "dishes" }, { "term": "Dorm Head", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A student leadership role in the dorms.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" }, { "program": "Shortridge Academy", "slug": "shortridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "dorm-head" }, { "term": "Down the Road", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Running away.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "down-the-road" }, { "term": "Family Resolution", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A multi-family therapy weekend after each Lifestep. A \"mini-resolution\" could be called if a student was \"in jeopardy of being asked to leave.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" } ], "reported": [], "id": "family-resolution" }, { "term": "Games", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "CEDU's label for \"manipulative\" behavior, including crying where others could see.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "games" }, { "term": "Hiding Out", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Withdrawing from others physically, emotionally, or socially; treated as something to confront.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "hiding-out" }, { "term": "Ho!", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A word used in groups to signal enthusiastic agreement, which ASR called a \"Native American term.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" } ], "reported": [], "id": "ho" }, { "term": "I & Me", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A CEDU concept dividing a person into competing \"thinking\" and \"feeling\" forces, taught from a student's first rap.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "i-and-me" }, { "term": "Indictment", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A confrontation of a student over \"negative\" behavior or patterns.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "indictment" }, { "term": "Lifesteps", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Five full-day \"emotional workshops\" (anger and fear, cover-ups, shame, forgiveness, and more), described as \"the heart and soul of our curriculum.\" See **Seminar**.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" } ], "reported": [], "id": "lifesteps" }, { "term": "Look Good", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Accusation that a student who seemed fine was secretly struggling or being dishonest.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "look-good" }, { "term": "Owning It", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Taking full responsibility \"from the heart\" and proving it through consistent behavior.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "owning-it" }, { "term": "Pathways", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "ASR's roughly three-week orientation phase, with no photos, books, stuffed animals, or personal items beyond clothing.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" } ], "reported": [], "id": "pathways" }, { "term": "Personal Challenge", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A \"talent show\"-style performance in front of the school and parents, with the task chosen by staff, such as a shy student made to dance and sing.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" } ], "reported": [], "id": "personal-challenge" }, { "term": "Phases", "note": "CEDU", "aka": [], "text": "Discovery, Quest, Reflections, and Pinnacle at the high school; Discovery, Quest, Challenge, New Horizons, and Summit at the middle school.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "phases-cedu" }, { "term": "Pop-Off", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Mentioning, singing, or listening to music CEDU banned for glorifying \"sex, drugs or violence.\"", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "pop-off" }, { "term": "Propheet", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A 12- to 24-hour emotional seminar built around one theme, named for putting \"feet\" under Kahlil Gibran's *The Prophet*. See **Seminar**.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "propheet" }, { "term": "Pull-Up", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Calling out another student's rule-breaking. A \"negative pull-up\" was one made with dishonest intentions.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "pull-up" }, { "term": "Rap", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "CEDU's confrontational group of 8 to 15 students. Faculty called raps \"the glue that holds the school together\" and could call an \"all-day rap.\" See **Attack therapy**.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "rap" }, { "term": "Rap Request", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A written request to bring specific people into a rap, often to confront them.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "rap-request" }, { "term": "Review", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Probation for repeated Reflections, meaning staff line of sight, no home visits, and a support plan, with expulsion or \"a higher level of care\" as the alternative.", "used": [ { "program": "Shortridge Academy", "slug": "shortridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "review" }, { "term": "Split Contract", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A secret agreement between students to run away. See **Run plans**.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "split-contract" }, { "term": "Story", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A student's life history, told repeatedly in raps to \"scan one's negative past.\" Compare **Lifeline**.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "story" }, { "term": "Sweat Lodge", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A sweat ceremony run by staff, described as hot enough \"to make you want to leave.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" } ], "reported": [], "id": "sweat-lodge" }, { "term": "Table", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A restriction where a student works on \"individual issues,\" separated from the group.", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" } ], "reported": [], "id": "table" }, { "term": "Underground", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Accusation of saying one thing to staff and another to peers. Elevations later banned slang meant to \"create an 'underground' culture.\"", "used": [ { "program": "CEDU", "slug": "cedu" }, { "program": "Elevations RTC", "slug": "elevations-rtc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "underground" }, { "term": "Weekend Direction", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Sheets posted every Friday listing each student's weekend privileges and consequences.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Swift River", "slug": "academy-at-swift-river" } ], "reported": [], "id": "weekend-direction" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "WWASP and affiliated programs", "id": "wwasp-and-affiliated-programs", "sources": "WWASP Policy Manual (rev. 2003); Academy at Ivy Ridge Upper and Lower Status Handbooks (2004) and Parent Orientation Handbook (2005); Cross Creek Manor Parents' Manual; Tranquility Bay Parent Handbook (2005); Spring Creek Lodge Parent Manual (2000); Academy at Dundee Ranch Parent Manual (2002); Paradise Cove Parent Manual (1996); Pillars of Hope enrollment packet (2007); Premier Educational Seminars \"Using the Seminars\" (2005) and Keys to Success Mom and Pop Handbook (2006); WWASP Accountability workbook.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "+5 Commitment Chart", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A scale for rating one's \"commitment,\" taught in Discovery.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [], "id": "plus-5-commitment-chart" }, { "term": "Academic Deficiency", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A Category 3 violation for failing three tests a week or getting two **Pink Slips**.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" }, { "program": "Tranquility Bay", "slug": "tranquility-bay" }, { "program": "Spring Creek Lodge", "slug": "spring-creek-lodge" }, { "program": "Academy at Dundee Ranch", "slug": "academy-at-dundee-ranch" } ], "reported": [], "id": "academic-deficiency" }, { "term": "Accountability Formula", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A formula taught in Discovery for admitting responsibility in program-approved language. Midwest Academy reps used it to get students \"digging deeper.\"", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" }, { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "accountability-formula" }, { "term": "Achievement Status Probation", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A demotion that reset points to zero; the student had to earn 200 points before voting up again.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "achievement-status-probation" }, { "term": "Adult Discovery / Focus / Visions", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Seminars for parents and anyone paying tuition. Programs were told to \"maximize efforts\" to enroll parents.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [], "id": "adult-discovery-focus-visions" }, { "term": "Bunk Buddy", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A peer assigned to track a lower-status student and fill out their progress sheet.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "bunk-buddy" }, { "term": "Bunk Leader / Facility Leader", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "\"Youth Leadership\" positions. A bunk leader answered for their bunk; a facility leader worked as a staff assistant three days a week.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "bunk-leader-facility-leader" }, { "term": "Case Manager", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Controlled phone calls and visits and received complaints; parents could check on a complaint \"without your daughter ever knowing.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Cross Creek Manor", "slug": "cross-creek-manor" } ], "reported": [], "id": "case-manager" }, { "term": "Categories", "note": "", "aka": [ "Rule violation categories" ], "text": "Numbered offense codes grouped by severity, 1 through 5. Category 1 included \"Manipulation\" and passing gas without permission; Category 3 included \"Runaway Talk\" and \"Romantic Encouragement\"; Category 4 at Dundee included \"Layering\" and \"Shave head\"; Category 5 included \"Self-Inflicted Injury.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" }, { "program": "Tranquility Bay", "slug": "tranquility-bay" }, { "program": "Spring Creek Lodge", "slug": "spring-creek-lodge" }, { "program": "Academy at Dundee Ranch", "slug": "academy-at-dundee-ranch" }, { "program": "Respect Camp", "slug": "respect-camp" } ], "reported": [], "id": "categories" }, { "term": "Chain of Command", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Upper-status students could only bring a request to the person one level above them.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "chain-of-command" }, { "term": "Choose-out", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Leaving a seminar before it ends. Programs followed up using \"choose-out sheets.\" At Pillars of Hope, a student who chose out was transferred to a **Covenant school**.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" }, { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" }, { "program": "Pillars of Hope", "slug": "pillars-of-hope" } ], "reported": [], "id": "choose-out" }, { "term": "Commitment Letter", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A letter parents signed promising to keep their child enrolled \"regardless of how long it may take.\" Dundee's version included agreeing to transfer a temporarily expelled child \"to a less desirable program.\" Staff read it to the child.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" }, { "program": "Tranquility Bay", "slug": "tranquility-bay" }, { "program": "Academy at Dundee Ranch", "slug": "academy-at-dundee-ranch" } ], "reported": [], "id": "commitment-letter" }, { "term": "Discovery / Focus / Accountability / Keys", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The student seminar sequence, which also included Orientation and Principles. Completing and **Staffing** them was required to move up.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [], "id": "discovery-focus-accountability-keys" }, { "term": "Double Down", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Doubling a punishment essay to halve the demerits and fine.", "used": [ { "program": "Paradise Cove", "slug": "paradise-cove" } ], "reported": [], "id": "double-down" }, { "term": "Family", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A group of lower-status students monitored by an assigned upper-status student.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "family" }, { "term": "Group Awards", "note": "", "aka": [ "Group Citizenship Bonus" ], "text": "Bonus merits for every student if the whole group went 24 hours without serious violations.", "used": [ { "program": "Paradise Cove", "slug": "paradise-cove" }, { "program": "Spring Creek Lodge", "slug": "spring-creek-lodge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "group-awards" }, { "term": "Grungies", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The seminar term for \"negative emotions,\" framed as tools \"to manipulate\" others (\"Grungies vs. Payoffs\").", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" }, { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "grungies" }, { "term": "High Impact", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A WWASP-affiliated boot camp in Baja California, Mexico, offered under the **Zero Tolerance Policy**.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [], "id": "high-impact" }, { "term": "Hope Credits", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Merits at Pillars of Hope, used to move through levels named for art movements (Classical through Hope Scholar).", "used": [ { "program": "Pillars of Hope", "slug": "pillars-of-hope" } ], "reported": [], "id": "hope-credits" }, { "term": "Incidentals", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A mandatory monthly fee ($95 at Spring Creek) with \"no individual accounting.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Creek Lodge", "slug": "spring-creek-lodge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "incidentals" }, { "term": "Internalization Program", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A follow-on placement of at least four months, required for PCII and where PCIII took place.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [], "id": "internalization-program" }, { "term": "Intervention", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "At Ivy Ridge, an office where a struggling student talked with a peer leader and staff, then wrote a 1,000-word goals essay before returning. Tranquility Bay used the same process.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" }, { "program": "Tranquility Bay", "slug": "tranquility-bay" } ], "reported": [], "id": "intervention" }, { "term": "Keys Family", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A group of parents in the Keys to Success seminar, led by a \"Mom\" and \"Pop,\" who checked each other's \"commitment level\" weekly.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [], "id": "keys-family" }, { "term": "Languaging", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Correcting how someone talks, such as \"woulda-shoulda-coulda\" or giving a \"reason, story, or excuse.\"", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [], "id": "languaging" }, { "term": "Lava lava", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The wrap skirt boys wore as their uniform.", "used": [ { "program": "Paradise Cove", "slug": "paradise-cove" } ], "reported": [], "id": "lava-lava" }, { "term": "Lower Status / Upper Status", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The student hierarchy. Upper-status students monitored lower-status families everywhere, including the bathroom.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "lower-status-upper-status" }, { "term": "Merits / Demerits", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The points system. Students rated themselves daily and staff could override the ratings.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" }, { "program": "Tranquility Bay", "slug": "tranquility-bay" }, { "program": "Spring Creek Lodge", "slug": "spring-creek-lodge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "merits-demerits" }, { "term": "Out of Area", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A punishment for being anywhere you weren't explicitly allowed to be.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "out-of-area" }, { "term": "Parent-Child Seminars", "note": "PCI / PCII / PCIII", "aka": [], "text": "Joint parent-student seminars tied to level; PCII was required for home visits.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [], "id": "parent-child-seminars" }, { "term": "PCT Conference", "note": "Parent-Child-Teacher Conference", "aka": [], "text": "Quarterly parent visits, the first 2½ to 4 months after enrollment.", "used": [ { "program": "Pillars of Hope", "slug": "pillars-of-hope" } ], "reported": [], "id": "pct-conference" }, { "term": "Pink Slip", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A teacher's warning for insufficient schoolwork; two in a week meant **Academic Deficiency**.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "pink-slip" }, { "term": "Progress Review", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A daily staff-facilitated peer group for feedback on \"problems, progress, and solutions.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "progress-review" }, { "term": "Purpose statement", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A personal statement written every morning after Focus.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [], "id": "purpose-statement" }, { "term": "Right/Wrong game", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A Discovery concept teaching that arguing about who's right \"damages\" relationships.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [], "id": "right-wrong-game" }, { "term": "Room Restriction", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Confinement to one's room until completing at least 10 worksheet credits.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Dundee Ranch", "slug": "academy-at-dundee-ranch" }, { "program": "Spring Creek Lodge", "slug": "spring-creek-lodge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "room-restriction" }, { "term": "Running a number", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Slang for acting out a \"non-working\" pattern, like \"running your perfection number.\"", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [], "id": "running-a-number" }, { "term": "Self-correction / Staff correction", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A student reporting their own violation for a reduced penalty, versus a staff penalty for rating yourself too highly.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" }, { "program": "Tranquility Bay", "slug": "tranquility-bay" }, { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "self-correction-staff-correction" }, { "term": "Shutdown", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Lights-out. Upper-status doors stayed open at least 2 inches.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "shutdown" }, { "term": "The Source", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "WWASP's online newsletter; student-only submissions were meant to \"foster parental disengagement.\"", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [], "id": "the-source" }, { "term": "Status levels", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Regular, Achievement, Advanced, Service, Honor, and High Honor. No calls home until Advanced.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" }, { "program": "Tranquility Bay", "slug": "tranquility-bay" } ], "reported": [], "id": "status-levels" }, { "term": "Structure violation", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A study hall offense like talking or \"being distracted.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "structure-violation" }, { "term": "TASKS", "note": "Teen Accountability, Self-esteem, and Keys to Success", "aka": [], "text": "The seminar series run by Resource Realizations and later Premier Educational Seminars. Parents were told not to sit next to anyone they knew.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" }, { "program": "Cross Creek Manor", "slug": "cross-creek-manor" } ], "reported": [], "id": "tasks" }, { "term": "Unauthorized Communication", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A Category 2 violation for talking to another student without permission.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" }, { "program": "Tranquility Bay", "slug": "tranquility-bay" }, { "program": "Academy at Dundee Ranch", "slug": "academy-at-dundee-ranch" } ], "reported": [], "id": "unauthorized-communication" }, { "term": "Value Cards", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Cards of \"personal values\" chosen in Principles, used to confront \"old behavior.\" Principles also taught students to \"release my old friends... old clothes.\"", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [], "id": "value-cards" }, { "term": "Victim vs. Accountable", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A framework sorting students' language into \"victim\" or \"accountable\" speech.", "used": [ { "program": "WWASP programs", "slug": "wwasp-programs" } ], "reported": [], "id": "victim-vs-accountable" }, { "term": "Worksheet Points", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A punishment worked off by completing worksheets in study hall.", "used": [ { "program": "Tranquility Bay", "slug": "tranquility-bay" } ], "reported": [], "id": "worksheet-points" }, { "term": "Zero Tolerance Policy", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Immediate transfer or expulsion for physical aggression, needing restraint, needing one-on-one supervision more than 8 hours, or trying to leave. Ivy Ridge transferred students to Tranquility Bay in Jamaica; Spring Creek offered High Impact.", "used": [ { "program": "Academy at Ivy Ridge", "slug": "academy-at-ivy-ridge" }, { "program": "Spring Creek Lodge", "slug": "spring-creek-lodge" }, { "program": "Pillars of Hope", "slug": "pillars-of-hope" } ], "reported": [], "id": "zero-tolerance-policy" } ], "groups": [ { "title": "Midwest Academy", "id": "midwest-academy", "sources": "Student Manual (2012), Family Rep Handbook (2012), Dorm Parent Manual, Youth Leader Manual (2010), Basic Training for Staff, Life Contract (2011), Consequences Document.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "A/B/C/D/F Friends", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A letter-grade ranking of a student's friends. Contact with an \"F\" friend was a Category 5 violation.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "a-b-c-d-f-friends" }, { "term": "Captain", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "An Honor Status student overseeing other upper-status students and intakes.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "captain" }, { "term": "Communities / Support Community", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Weekly pre- and post-seminar homework groups.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "communities-support-community" }, { "term": "Confession letter", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A letter confessing \"all misbehavior and broken rules while at home,\" required for level 3 as an \"unwritten standard.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "confession-letter" }, { "term": "Disengage words", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "\"in spite of,\" \"regardless,\" and \"nonetheless,\" which staff were trained to use to shut down arguments.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "disengage-words" }, { "term": "Elements I / Elements II", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Midwest's core seminars, followed by the Value Living Seminar and Parent Weekends I–III.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "elements-i-elements-ii" }, { "term": "Exit Plan", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A plan for a child who turns 18 and leaves early, written without \"any input from the teen.\" A \"Good Terms Exit Plan\" listed the exact belongings they could take.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "exit-plan" }, { "term": "Family Value Frame", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Family-written values used to enforce rules after graduation.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "family-value-frame" }, { "term": "Five S's", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "\"security, safety, supervision, schedule, and standards.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "five-s-s" }, { "term": "Headcounts", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Counts of every student every 20 minutes; after a door alarm, the wing had 45 seconds.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "headcounts" }, { "term": "Home Internalization", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The final phase at home, with parents as \"dorm staff.\" Two weeks without points meant termination.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "home-internalization" }, { "term": "H.O.P.E. Buddy", "note": "Helping Orient Partners for Excellence", "aka": [], "text": "An upper-status student assigned to a new arrival for three days, responsible for reporting a \"negative attitude.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" }, { "program": "Pillars of Hope", "slug": "pillars-of-hope" } ], "reported": [], "id": "h-o-p-e-buddy" }, { "term": "Hug time", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The only time staff could hug students, with permission.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "hug-time" }, { "term": "ISS / OSS", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "In School Suspension (locked out of schoolwork until consequences were filled out \"accountably\") and Out of School Suspension (a separate room with staff and a peer leader, plus a 1,000-word essay).", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "iss-oss" }, { "term": "Monthly Progress Review", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A student questionnaire \"designed to identify wavering or non-supportive parents.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "monthly-progress-review" }, { "term": "On Board parents / Red flags", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Parents fully committed to graduation, and the warning signs that they were \"wavering.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "on-board-parents-red-flags" }, { "term": "Recommendations", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Peers recommending consequences that the student then had to \"pick up.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "recommendations" }, { "term": "Self it / Staff it", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Staff shorthand telling a student to take a self-correction or be given a staff correction.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "self-it-staff-it" }, { "term": "Special casing", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Any exception to program rules.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "special-casing" }, { "term": "Standards Violation", "note": "Category 3.5", "aka": [], "text": "Not living up to one's status.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "standards-violation" }, { "term": "Track", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Required weekly academic output.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "track" }, { "term": "Triad", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The family rep, teacher rep, and Triad Advisor.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "triad" }, { "term": "Working visit / Working call", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Visits and calls meant for \"working\" on family issues.", "used": [ { "program": "Midwest Academy", "slug": "midwest-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "working-visit-working-call" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Respect Camp", "id": "respect-camp", "sources": "Respect Camp Cadet Handbook. Filed with WWASP materials; offense codes match Ivy Ridge.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Breaking Silence", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Talking in the bathroom, dining hall, or after lights-out.", "used": [ { "program": "Respect Camp", "slug": "respect-camp" } ], "reported": [], "id": "breaking-silence" }, { "term": "Cadet", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A student, addressed only as \"Cadet [last name].\"", "used": [ { "program": "Respect Camp", "slug": "respect-camp" }, { "program": "Thayer Learning Center", "slug": "thayer-learning-center" }, { "program": "Robert Land Academy", "slug": "robert-land-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "cadet" }, { "term": "Code of Ethics / General Orders", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Statements memorized \"word for word,\" starting \"I will follow lawful orders given by all staff at all times.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Respect Camp", "slug": "respect-camp" } ], "reported": [], "id": "code-of-ethics-general-orders" }, { "term": "Double time", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Running everywhere.", "used": [ { "program": "Respect Camp", "slug": "respect-camp" } ], "reported": [], "id": "double-time" }, { "term": "Phases", "note": "Respect Camp", "aka": [], "text": "Reality, Respect, and Responsibility; no calls home until the last. Heads shaved weekly.", "used": [ { "program": "Respect Camp", "slug": "respect-camp" } ], "reported": [], "id": "phases-respect-camp" }, { "term": "Requesting permission to speak", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A required script for talking to staff, which could be denied.", "used": [ { "program": "Respect Camp", "slug": "respect-camp" } ], "reported": [], "id": "requesting-permission-to-speak" } ], "groups": [] } ] }, { "title": "Straight, Inc. and Kids Helping Kids", "id": "straight-inc-and-kids-helping-kids", "sources": "Straight rules, new-parent rules, \"Tools of Personal Change,\" consequences guidelines, Moral Inventory guide, phase schedule, and staff memos (1982–83); KHK Phase Rules and Parent Rules. KHK was a Straight spin-off.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Beltlooping", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Holding a student's belt loop while escorting them. Straight rule #40: \"Hang on tight to newcomers by the belt loop\"; rule #44: \"No newcomers wear belts.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Straight, Inc.", "slug": "straight-inc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "beltlooping" }, { "term": "Dime therapy", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Collecting three oldcomers' phone numbers to call instead of using or seeing old friends.", "used": [ { "program": "Straight, Inc.", "slug": "straight-inc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "dime-therapy" }, { "term": "Eye games", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Nonverbal signals between parent and child, banned during **Open Meeting**.", "used": [ { "program": "Straight, Inc.", "slug": "straight-inc" }, { "program": "Kids Helping Kids (KHK)", "slug": "kids-helping-kids-khk" } ], "reported": [], "id": "eye-games" }, { "term": "Heavies", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Sad or shocking family news, which parents were forbidden to share and had to \"let staff handle.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Straight, Inc.", "slug": "straight-inc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "heavies" }, { "term": "Host home", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "An oldcomer's family home where newcomers lived during early phases. Parents couldn't contact the host family.", "used": [ { "program": "Straight, Inc.", "slug": "straight-inc" }, { "program": "Kids Helping Kids (KHK)", "slug": "kids-helping-kids-khk" } ], "reported": [], "id": "host-home" }, { "term": "Newcomer / Oldcomer", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Early-phase clients and the advanced clients responsible for them. Newcomers couldn't talk to other newcomers.", "used": [ { "program": "Straight, Inc.", "slug": "straight-inc" }, { "program": "Kids Helping Kids (KHK)", "slug": "kids-helping-kids-khk" } ], "reported": [], "id": "newcomer-oldcomer" }, { "term": "No Phase / Start Over", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The harshest consequences, for getting high, \"copping out,\" or \"physical defiance.\" Lighter ones were Loss of Responsibility, Away From Home, a 7- or 14-day Refresher, and a Phase Drop.", "used": [ { "program": "Straight, Inc.", "slug": "straight-inc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "no-phase-start-over" }, { "term": "Open Meeting", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A mandatory meeting where parents spoke to their child over a microphone in front of everyone, limited to their feelings; no cameras, notes, or sad news.", "used": [ { "program": "Straight, Inc.", "slug": "straight-inc" }, { "program": "Kids Helping Kids (KHK)", "slug": "kids-helping-kids-khk" } ], "reported": [], "id": "open-meeting" }, { "term": "Parent Raps", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Mandatory parent groups, including six consecutive \"New Parent Raps\" and sibling raps for kids 8 and up.", "used": [ { "program": "Straight, Inc.", "slug": "straight-inc" }, { "program": "Kids Helping Kids (KHK)", "slug": "kids-helping-kids-khk" } ], "reported": [], "id": "parent-raps" }, { "term": "Permission request", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A written request, due 72 hours ahead, to go to the doctor, school, or even the yard.", "used": [ { "program": "Kids Helping Kids (KHK)", "slug": "kids-helping-kids-khk" } ], "reported": [], "id": "permission-request" }, { "term": "Phases", "note": "Straight", "aka": [], "text": "Five phases adding focus areas: Self; Family; Achievement; Leisure and Friendship; Social Responsibility. First and Second Phase kids couldn't go outside, read, watch TV, or receive calls or mail.", "used": [ { "program": "Straight, Inc.", "slug": "straight-inc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "phases-straight" }, { "term": "Straight Thinking", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A five-point test for acceptable thinking, paired with Straight's seven-step version of the Twelve Steps.", "used": [ { "program": "Straight, Inc.", "slug": "straight-inc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "straight-thinking" }, { "term": "Want list", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Items a kid asked parents to bring, checked by parents before Open Meeting.", "used": [ { "program": "Straight, Inc.", "slug": "straight-inc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "want-list" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Spring Ridge Academy", "id": "spring-ridge-academy", "sources": "SRA Student Manual (2010), Phase Overview, Ground Rules (Phase III); survivor accounts.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Action", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "SRA's second student Training, a three-day seminar meant to turn \"non-working patterns of behavior into working patterns.\" See **Seminar**.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "action" }, { "term": "Challenge", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "SRA's first student Training, a three-day seminar targeting \"self-limiting beliefs, attitudes and behaviors.\" Parents attended Parent Challenge; students' attendance at their parents' graduation depended on progress.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "challenge-spring-ridge-academy" }, { "term": "Checks", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A warning-level consequence for being late, unprepared, disruptive, or rude, plus one per day a fine went unpaid.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "checks" }, { "term": "Commitment", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "SRA's final student Training, ongoing through Phase IV.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "commitment" }, { "term": "Community Life Director", "note": "", "aka": [ "CLD" ], "text": "Staff who oversaw student life. CLDs approved or banned music, movies, and wall posters, monitored lower-phase calls with parents, confiscated unapproved CDs, and chose the **Honor Code Board**.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "community-life-director" }, { "term": "Family I / Family II", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Joint parent-student Trainings; Family II prepared the student for home by \"dealing with issues in a controlled environment.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "family-i-family-ii" }, { "term": "Ground Rules", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A contract students and parents signed before visits. Students agreed not to contact friends or anyone their own age, to let the answering machine take calls, and not to watch MTV. Parents agreed to report any \"deviation.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "ground-rules" }, { "term": "Honor Code Board", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A student board chosen by CLDs. Any student could \"take\" a peer to the board in writing; the accused had 24 hours to write a rebuttal taking accountability. See **Retroflexive Reformation**.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "honor-code-board" }, { "term": "I Have a Secret", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "SRA's version of **Bust**.", "used": [], "reported": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "id": "i-have-a-secret" }, { "term": "Introspection", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Forced silence imposed for supposedly \"therapeutic\" reasons, usually by a therapist, limited to **Functional talk**.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "introspection" }, { "term": "Mandatory Study Hall", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Required evening study hall for Phase I students and anyone with low grades. Compare **Academic Table**.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "mandatory-study-hall" }, { "term": "Phase Orange", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A punishment level below Phase I: orange shirt, slippers instead of shoes, **On S&S**, arm's length from staff, no internet, mail through the therapist. See **One-on-One**.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "phase-orange" }, { "term": "Phases", "note": "SRA", "aka": [], "text": "Phase I through IV in 2010, later renamed Orientation, Consistency, Integration, and Transition. Phase I students wore red shirts, stayed in staff eyesight, kept doors open, and couldn't talk to each other without a higher-phase student present.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "phases-sra" }, { "term": "Rainy Day Letter", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "An inspirational letter each student wrote to a graduating peer.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "rainy-day-letter" }, { "term": "Results", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "An SRA Training after Action.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "results" }, { "term": "Rose Ceremony", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "SRA's graduation ritual; each student gave the graduate a red rose, a Rainy Day Letter, and named three \"gifts.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "rose-ceremony" }, { "term": "Service", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "SRA's required service program (campus beautification, fundraisers, clean-ups), needed to move up.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "service" }, { "term": "Training", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "SRA's name for seminars (Challenge, Action, Results, Commitment, Family I and II, Parent Challenge). See **Seminar**.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "training" }, { "term": "Walkied", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Staff radioing ahead when a lower-phase student moved across campus.", "used": [ { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "walkied" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Family Foundation School", "id": "family-foundation-school", "sources": "Employee Guide, \"Consequences of Misconduct\" (2008).", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Announcing Sanction", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Starting every conversation with an assigned statement about a \"character defect,\" like \"hello my name is Jack and I need to seek humility.\" The same guide bans making students \"announce humiliating or derogatory things about themselves.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Family Foundation School", "slug": "family-foundation-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "announcing-sanction" }, { "term": "Brought up at the table", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Being called before the group, which decided consequences.", "used": [ { "program": "Family Foundation School", "slug": "family-foundation-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "brought-up-at-the-table" }, { "term": "Courtesy Sanction", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Saying \"yes, thank you\" or another polite phrase every time anyone spoke to you.", "used": [ { "program": "Family Foundation School", "slug": "family-foundation-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "courtesy-sanction" }, { "term": "Dress-down Sanction", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A ban on jewelry and brand-name or \"flashy\" clothes.", "used": [ { "program": "Family Foundation School", "slug": "family-foundation-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "dress-down-sanction" }, { "term": "Family Blackout", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A ban on all mail and phone contact with family. Missing homework meant a one-week blackout.", "used": [ { "program": "Family Foundation School", "slug": "family-foundation-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "family-blackout" }, { "term": "Land Lock", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Rearranging beds so a student couldn't leave without waking others, plus Shadow and sandals instead of shoes.", "used": [ { "program": "Family Foundation School", "slug": "family-foundation-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "land-lock" }, { "term": "Program Only", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Limiting a student to talk about their \"recovery program.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Family Foundation School", "slug": "family-foundation-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "program-only" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Utah and Western RTCs and therapeutic boarding schools", "id": "utah-and-western-rtcs-and-therapeutic-boarding-schools", "sources": "", "notes": [], "entries": [], "groups": [ { "title": "Island View and Elevations RTC", "id": "island-view-and-elevations-rtc", "sources": "Island View Parent Manual (2004); Elevations Student Handbook (2020). Elevations is Island View's successor.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Broken record", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A script parents repeated to a child's complaints (\"I love you but something had to be done\") until the child understood they could \"no longer manipulate you.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Island View", "slug": "island-view" }, { "program": "Aspen Institute for Behavioral Assessment", "slug": "aspen-institute-for-behavioral-assessment" } ], "reported": [], "id": "broken-record" }, { "term": "Community Break", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The consequence for breaking the Safety Code (self-harm, \"cheeking\" medication, knowing of a run plan): dorm restriction, no peer communication, possibly sleeping in the hallway, and a Personal Integrity Evaluation presented to a student committee.", "used": [ { "program": "Elevations RTC", "slug": "elevations-rtc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "community-break" }, { "term": "Community Roles", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Student jobs, many monitoring peers: Sherlock (room and dress inspector), Chancellor (sat on the Community Break board), Trail Boss, Compass (orientation buddy), Rooster (wake-up), Oscar (awards).", "used": [ { "program": "Island View", "slug": "island-view" }, { "program": "Elevations RTC", "slug": "elevations-rtc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "community-roles" }, { "term": "Enmeshment", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The program's label for parents who questioned staff or sympathized with their child's distress; they \"sacrifice their own child at the altar of personal insecurities.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Island View", "slug": "island-view" } ], "reported": [], "id": "enmeshment" }, { "term": "Last staff directive", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Always follow the most recent staff instruction \"without argument, even if the rule is not specifically mentioned.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Elevations RTC", "slug": "elevations-rtc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "last-staff-directive" }, { "term": "Peer Feedback Session", "note": "", "aka": [ "PFS" ], "text": "A staff member and student leaders confronting a student about a behavior.", "used": [ { "program": "Elevations RTC", "slug": "elevations-rtc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "peer-feedback-session" }, { "term": "Phases", "note": "Island View / Elevations", "aka": [], "text": "Orientation, Explore, Apply, Impact, Test. Elevations added colored bracelets for each phase.", "used": [ { "program": "Island View", "slug": "island-view" }, { "program": "Elevations RTC", "slug": "elevations-rtc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "phases-island-view-elevations" }, { "term": "Red-crossing", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A parent \"covering for, bailing out, or mitigating\" for their child.", "used": [ { "program": "Island View", "slug": "island-view" } ], "reported": [], "id": "red-crossing" }, { "term": "Sherlock Marks / Dirty Bird Award", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Room and dress-code demerits announced by name each morning; the messiest dorm got extra deep-cleaning.", "used": [ { "program": "Elevations RTC", "slug": "elevations-rtc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "sherlock-marks-dirty-bird-award" }, { "term": "Shutting the door", "note": "", "aka": [ "Closing the door", "Corridor of Success" ], "text": "Parents cutting off every way out except finishing the program. Trinity described a hallway of side doors parents shut one by one.", "used": [ { "program": "Island View", "slug": "island-view" }, { "program": "Trinity Teen Solutions", "slug": "trinity-teen-solutions" } ], "reported": [], "id": "shutting-the-door" }, { "term": "Spiffy", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Grooming standards and each student's locked box of supplies.", "used": [ { "program": "Elevations RTC", "slug": "elevations-rtc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "spiffy" }, { "term": "Team Focus", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A whole team doing essays and \"team unity\" groups because of a few members. See **Group punishment**.", "used": [ { "program": "Island View", "slug": "island-view" } ], "reported": [], "id": "team-focus" }, { "term": "Verbal Cue", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A scripted peer correction (\"Your [behavior] needs to stop\"). Students unwilling to cue others couldn't move up.", "used": [ { "program": "Elevations RTC", "slug": "elevations-rtc" } ], "reported": [], "id": "verbal-cue" }, { "term": "Yellow Zone", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A security status for residents who ran, endangered themselves, or \"significantly disrupted\" the community.", "used": [ { "program": "Island View", "slug": "island-view" } ], "reported": [], "id": "yellow-zone" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Aspen Institute for Behavioral Assessment", "id": "aspen-institute-for-behavioral-assessment", "sources": "Parent Handbook (2010), largely identical to Island View's.", "notes": [ "See **Broken record**, **Guilt loading**. A child saying they weren't getting enough therapy was likely \"attempting to manipulate you\" by claiming to be \"therapeutically deprived.\"" ], "entries": [], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Copper Canyon Academy and Sedona Sky Academy", "id": "copper-canyon-academy-and-sedona-sky-academy", "sources": "CCA Student Manual (2011); Sedona Sky Academy Student Manual, adapted from CCA's.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Being in the position", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Being in a situation where a sexual rule violation *could* happen, itself punishable.", "used": [ { "program": "Sedona Sky Academy", "slug": "sedona-sky-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "being-in-the-position" }, { "term": "Choices / Consequences sheet", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A posted penalty list; one work hour for \"badgering and whining,\" bare feet, \"roaming,\" or \"self-induced purging.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Copper Canyon Academy", "slug": "copper-canyon-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "choices-consequences-sheet" }, { "term": "Commitments to self", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Written commitments required before every visit.", "used": [ { "program": "Sedona Sky Academy", "slug": "sedona-sky-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "commitments-to-self" }, { "term": "The Four Agreements", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Don Miguel Ruiz's book, required reading with reports.", "used": [ { "program": "Copper Canyon Academy", "slug": "copper-canyon-academy" }, { "program": "Sedona Sky Academy", "slug": "sedona-sky-academy" }, { "program": "Spring Ridge Academy", "slug": "spring-ridge-academy" }, { "program": "Re-Creation Retreat", "slug": "re-creation-retreat" } ], "reported": [], "id": "the-four-agreements" }, { "term": "Home report", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A written visit report students and parents read aloud in group.", "used": [ { "program": "Sedona Sky Academy", "slug": "sedona-sky-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "home-report" }, { "term": "Levels / Phases", "note": "CCA and SSA", "aka": [], "text": "Willingness, Trust, Leadership, Hope. Move-up sheets required being able to \"regroup quickly when told 'No'.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Copper Canyon Academy", "slug": "copper-canyon-academy" }, { "program": "Sedona Sky Academy", "slug": "sedona-sky-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "levels-phases" }, { "term": "N/C Meal", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A meal consequence for refusing staff direction or a work hour.", "used": [ { "program": "Copper Canyon Academy", "slug": "copper-canyon-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "n-c-meal" }, { "term": "Phase Probation Status", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Suspension of all phase privileges and roles; staff might sit beside her at meals.", "used": [ { "program": "Sedona Sky Academy", "slug": "sedona-sky-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "phase-probation-status" }, { "term": "Purchase restriction", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "No buying anything for at least a week, for not turning in a checkbook register.", "used": [ { "program": "Sedona Sky Academy", "slug": "sedona-sky-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "purchase-restriction" }, { "term": "Student Leadership Manual", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Defined leadership as \"holding others accountable,\" \"not being afraid to hurt someone's feelings,\" and \"watching lower levels in rooms.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Copper Canyon Academy", "slug": "copper-canyon-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "student-leadership-manual" }, { "term": "Visit Agreement / Home Living Agreement", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Parent-written rules needing therapist approval before every visit.", "used": [ { "program": "Copper Canyon Academy", "slug": "copper-canyon-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "visit-agreement-home-living-agreement" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Gateway Academy", "id": "gateway-academy", "sources": "Parent Handbook (2014).", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Advocate", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Staff assigned one-on-one to a student, sitting in on calls home.", "used": [ { "program": "Gateway Academy", "slug": "gateway-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "advocate" }, { "term": "Block", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A mark for not following through; three meant **Re-Focus**.", "used": [ { "program": "Gateway Academy", "slug": "gateway-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "block" }, { "term": "Earnings Group", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Peers voting on a student's application to advance.", "used": [ { "program": "Gateway Academy", "slug": "gateway-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "earnings-group" }, { "term": "Guide", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A higher-phase student responsible for \"upholding expectations\" among peers.", "used": [ { "program": "Gateway Academy", "slug": "gateway-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "guide" }, { "term": "Lifeline", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A written timeline of drug use, self-harm, trauma, and legal trouble, shared in group.", "used": [ { "program": "Gateway Academy", "slug": "gateway-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "lifeline" }, { "term": "Off-Track", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "No privileges, no social talk, staff line of sight, 5-minute speakerphone calls.", "used": [ { "program": "Gateway Academy", "slug": "gateway-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "off-track" }, { "term": "Re-Focus", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Demotion to Orientation privileges until the therapist decided otherwise.", "used": [ { "program": "Gateway Academy", "slug": "gateway-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "re-focus" }, { "term": "Snapshot", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A journal entry about an incident, four times a week, signed off by a Guide.", "used": [ { "program": "Gateway Academy", "slug": "gateway-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "snapshot" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "New Haven", "id": "new-haven", "sources": "Parent Handbook (2019). Owned by InnerChange.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Peer Feedback", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Every peer filled out a form on the student; mostly negative feedback blocked move-up.", "used": [ { "program": "New Haven", "slug": "new-haven" } ], "reported": [], "id": "peer-feedback" }, { "term": "Phases", "note": "New Haven", "aka": [], "text": "Expectation, Exploration, Insight, Integrity, Interdependence, with \"subjective requirements\" like honesty. Parents had phase work and an \"Open Book Test.\"", "used": [ { "program": "New Haven", "slug": "new-haven" } ], "reported": [], "id": "phases-new-haven" }, { "term": "Relational Coach", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Staff assigned to explain the program and help with phase work.", "used": [ { "program": "New Haven", "slug": "new-haven" } ], "reported": [], "id": "relational-coach" }, { "term": "Special Status", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Academic, Therapy, or Suicide Watch Special Status, each restricting activities, calls, or supervision.", "used": [ { "program": "New Haven", "slug": "new-haven" } ], "reported": [], "id": "special-status" }, { "term": "Value Beads", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Beads earned for completed modules, presented at a \"Values Ceremony.\"", "used": [ { "program": "New Haven", "slug": "new-haven" } ], "reported": [], "id": "value-beads" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Solstice East", "id": "solstice-east", "sources": "Handbook.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Cover Girl", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A student checking her team's dress and grooming daily.", "used": [ { "program": "Solstice East", "slug": "solstice-east" } ], "reported": [], "id": "cover-girl" }, { "term": "Hero's Journey phases", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Orientation, Separation, Threshold, Initiation, Transformation, Atonement, Return, \"a mirror of the Rite of Passage\" where \"old ways... are altered or destroyed.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Solstice East", "slug": "solstice-east" } ], "reported": [], "id": "hero-s-journey-phases" }, { "term": "Hygiene / Laundry Protocol", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Daily mentor supervision until hygiene or laundry met standards.", "used": [ { "program": "Solstice East", "slug": "solstice-east" } ], "reported": [], "id": "hygiene-laundry-protocol" }, { "term": "Mindful Processing", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Separation within sight for \"quiet reflection.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Solstice East", "slug": "solstice-east" } ], "reported": [], "id": "mindful-processing" }, { "term": "Self Focus / Therapy Focus / Academic Focus", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "All free time spent on assignments.", "used": [ { "program": "Solstice East", "slug": "solstice-east" } ], "reported": [], "id": "self-focus-therapy-focus-academic-focus" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Uinta Academy", "id": "uinta-academy", "sources": "Parent Handbook (2008). Teaching Family Model.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "5-Second Rule", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Five seconds for every girl to get to her bedroom and stay there.", "used": [ { "program": "Uinta Academy", "slug": "uinta-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "5-second-rule" }, { "term": "Basic skills", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Following instructions, accepting feedback, accepting \"no,\" disagreeing appropriately.", "used": [ { "program": "Uinta Academy", "slug": "uinta-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "basic-skills" }, { "term": "Card conference", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Nightly point tallies; 10,000 points a day earned next-day privileges.", "used": [ { "program": "Uinta Academy", "slug": "uinta-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "card-conference" }, { "term": "Family Meeting", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Nightly student meeting that could \"decide on student consequences.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Uinta Academy", "slug": "uinta-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "family-meeting" }, { "term": "Family Teachers", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Milieu staff.", "used": [ { "program": "Uinta Academy", "slug": "uinta-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "family-teachers" }, { "term": "Manager", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A student checking others' rooms, showers, and bedtimes.", "used": [ { "program": "Uinta Academy", "slug": "uinta-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "manager" }, { "term": "Motivation System / Sub-System", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Levels Daily through Achievement, needing hundreds of thousands of points plus \"bonds\"; Sub-System made privileges cost more.", "used": [ { "program": "Uinta Academy", "slug": "uinta-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "motivation-system-sub-system" }, { "term": "Peer report", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A required report on another girl's rule-breaking, which the handbook said was not \"ratting.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Uinta Academy", "slug": "uinta-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "peer-report" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Maple Lake Academy", "id": "maple-lake-academy", "sources": "Handbook. Girls with learning differences.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "15-minute check out", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Time away from direct supervision.", "used": [ { "program": "Maple Lake Academy", "slug": "maple-lake-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "15-minute-check-out" }, { "term": "Green / Yellow / Red Light", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Behavior statuses; Red meant no calls, no animals, arm's length from staff.", "used": [ { "program": "Maple Lake Academy", "slug": "maple-lake-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "green-yellow-red-light" }, { "term": "Male in the hall", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "An announcement male staff made entering student hallways.", "used": [ { "program": "Maple Lake Academy", "slug": "maple-lake-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "male-in-the-hall" }, { "term": "Run Risk", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "No shoes, scrubs, sleeping in front of night staff, no phone or mail.", "used": [ { "program": "Maple Lake Academy", "slug": "maple-lake-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "run-risk" }, { "term": "SUCCESS Program", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The graduation checklist, including being \"100% compliant\" and proving \"that you are fun to be around.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Maple Lake Academy", "slug": "maple-lake-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "success-program" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Moonridge Academy", "id": "moonridge-academy", "sources": "Stages of Change Manual (2020), pages 51–61.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Family Leader", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A student reporting peers' behavior and checking chores; perks included skipping mouth checks.", "used": [ { "program": "Moonridge Academy", "slug": "moonridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "family-leader" }, { "term": "Junior Mentor", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A student who could give peers consequences and carry staff keys.", "used": [ { "program": "Moonridge Academy", "slug": "moonridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "junior-mentor" }, { "term": "Stages", "note": "Moonridge", "aka": [], "text": "Six stages; home visits from Stage 3.", "used": [ { "program": "Moonridge Academy", "slug": "moonridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "stages-moonridge" }, { "term": "Sunday Speaker", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A graduate invited back to speak.", "used": [ { "program": "Moonridge Academy", "slug": "moonridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "sunday-speaker" }, { "term": "Visit Pass", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A pre-visit form of goals that parents graded afterward.", "used": [ { "program": "Moonridge Academy", "slug": "moonridge-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "visit-pass" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Falcon Ridge Ranch and Woodland Hills Academy", "id": "falcon-ridge-ranch-and-woodland-hills-academy", "sources": "", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Level Thesis", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Multi-page papers required to move up, on themes like \"Respect\" and \"Home Contract.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Falcon Ridge Ranch", "slug": "falcon-ridge-ranch" } ], "reported": [], "id": "level-thesis" }, { "term": "Observation Level", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "See **Observation Placement**.", "used": [ { "program": "Woodland Hills Academy", "slug": "woodland-hills-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "observation-level" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Provo Canyon School", "id": "provo-canyon-school", "sources": "Parent Manual (1997), including its glossary.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Avoidance", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Any resistance to \"change,\" including guilt-loading parents, stalling, and running away.", "used": [ { "program": "Provo Canyon School", "slug": "provo-canyon-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "avoidance" }, { "term": "Being part of the problem / solution", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A binary; \"poor attitude\" meant being part of the problem.", "used": [ { "program": "Provo Canyon School", "slug": "provo-canyon-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "being-part-of-the-problem-solution" }, { "term": "Extension", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Keeping a student past the contracted period.", "used": [ { "program": "Provo Canyon School", "slug": "provo-canyon-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "extension" }, { "term": "Family Therapeutic Interaction", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A home visit, \"not intended to be breaks or vacations.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Provo Canyon School", "slug": "provo-canyon-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "family-therapeutic-interaction" }, { "term": "Incite", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Provoking others to join a behavior episode.", "used": [ { "program": "Provo Canyon School", "slug": "provo-canyon-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "incite" }, { "term": "Infraction Report", "note": "", "aka": [ "I.R." ], "text": "A written ticket for breaking rules.", "used": [ { "program": "Provo Canyon School", "slug": "provo-canyon-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "infraction-report" }, { "term": "Investment", "note": "", "aka": [ "Investment Unit", "Investment Periods" ], "text": "A secured unit where students earned their way out through 25-minute blocks of enforced quiet.", "used": [ { "program": "Provo Canyon School", "slug": "provo-canyon-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "investment" }, { "term": "Limbo", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The lowest academic level, for an F.", "used": [ { "program": "Provo Canyon School", "slug": "provo-canyon-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "limbo" }, { "term": "Passive aggressive", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "\"I forgot\" and \"I didn't understand\" as \"indirect acts to avoid or hinder progress.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Provo Canyon School", "slug": "provo-canyon-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "passive-aggressive" }, { "term": "Positive Incentive Points", "note": "", "aka": [ "P.I.'s" ], "text": "Points to move up or \"buy\" off probation.", "used": [ { "program": "Provo Canyon School", "slug": "provo-canyon-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "positive-incentive-points" }, { "term": "Subculture", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Two or more students \"joining forces\" against the program; also forbidden styles.", "used": [ { "program": "Provo Canyon School", "slug": "provo-canyon-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "subculture" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Sorenson's Ranch School", "id": "sorenson-s-ranch-school", "sources": "Student Manual (2008).", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Hike", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Walking as punishment, up to a 10-mile hike for \"talking outside of group.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Sorenson's Ranch School", "slug": "sorenson-s-ranch-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "hike" }, { "term": "Incomplete", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Evenings in the \"incomplete room\" and a mandatory workout.", "used": [ { "program": "Sorenson's Ranch School", "slug": "sorenson-s-ranch-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "incomplete" }, { "term": "Judicial harassment", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A grievance judged \"unfounded,\" punished with Level 1 and 10 work hours.", "used": [ { "program": "Sorenson's Ranch School", "slug": "sorenson-s-ranch-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "judicial-harassment" }, { "term": "MPR", "note": "Multi-Purpose Room", "aka": [], "text": "Where students \"out of control\" were sent, and could be made to sleep.", "used": [ { "program": "Sorenson's Ranch School", "slug": "sorenson-s-ranch-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "mpr" }, { "term": "No Show list", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "One weekend workout per missed group.", "used": [ { "program": "Sorenson's Ranch School", "slug": "sorenson-s-ranch-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "no-show-list" }, { "term": "PPM", "note": "Positive Peer Modeling", "aka": [], "text": "Upper-level students accompanying lower-level students, including to class.", "used": [ { "program": "Sorenson's Ranch School", "slug": "sorenson-s-ranch-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "ppm" }, { "term": "Run watch", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Status for a student caught planning to run.", "used": [ { "program": "Sorenson's Ranch School", "slug": "sorenson-s-ranch-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "run-watch" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Re-Creation Retreat", "id": "re-creation-retreat", "sources": "Student Manual (2013).", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Challenge", "note": "RCR", "aka": [], "text": "Applying to move up before reaching the full point total.", "used": [ { "program": "Re-Creation Retreat", "slug": "re-creation-retreat" } ], "reported": [], "id": "challenge-rcr" }, { "term": "Line behavior", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Single file, arm's length apart, facing forward, no communication.", "used": [ { "program": "Re-Creation Retreat", "slug": "re-creation-retreat" } ], "reported": [], "id": "line-behavior" }, { "term": "Phases", "note": "RCR", "aka": [], "text": "Orientation, Hero, Abundance, Self-Interest, Soul Purpose, Principles, each with book reports on self-help and prosperity titles.", "used": [ { "program": "Re-Creation Retreat", "slug": "re-creation-retreat" } ], "reported": [], "id": "phases-rcr" }, { "term": "Sub-grouping", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Close friendships with a few peers, banned.", "used": [ { "program": "Re-Creation Retreat", "slug": "re-creation-retreat" } ], "reported": [], "id": "sub-grouping" }, { "term": "Victim vs. Hero", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Every student's \"one basic choice\"; \"It is not fair\" was victim thinking.", "used": [ { "program": "Re-Creation Retreat", "slug": "re-creation-retreat" } ], "reported": [], "id": "victim-vs-hero" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Whetstone Academy", "id": "whetstone-academy", "sources": "Family Handbook (2019). Boys from 5th grade.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Milestones", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Stones added to a necklace for accomplishments.", "used": [ { "program": "Whetstone Academy", "slug": "whetstone-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "milestones" }, { "term": "Out-of-community", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A status that could restrict parent visits.", "used": [ { "program": "Whetstone Academy", "slug": "whetstone-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "out-of-community" }, { "term": "Stages of Student Progress", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Denial, Resistance, Acceptance and Superficial Compliance, Integration; resistant boys might need \"a wilderness experience.\" Compare **Manipulation phases**.", "used": [ { "program": "Whetstone Academy", "slug": "whetstone-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "stages-of-student-progress" }, { "term": "Walkabouts", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Weekend adventure trips as \"concrete metaphors.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Whetstone Academy", "slug": "whetstone-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "walkabouts" } ], "groups": [] } ] }, { "title": "Three Springs programs", "id": "three-springs-programs", "sources": "Three Springs New Beginnings Handbook (2003); Auldern Academy Handbook (2004–05).", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Community System", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Auldern's statuses (Orientation, Full Community Member, Community Leader). No phone calls for the first 30 days; students applied to a committee to move up.", "used": [ { "program": "Auldern Academy", "slug": "auldern-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "community-system" }, { "term": "Covenant", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Principles students had to \"voluntarily\" accept, including to \"submit to the authority of the school staff.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Auldern Academy", "slug": "auldern-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "covenant" }, { "term": "Four-letter words", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "\"Can't, Ain't, Won't, Don't,\" which girls were not allowed to say.", "used": [ { "program": "Three Springs New Beginnings", "slug": "three-springs-new-beginnings" } ], "reported": [], "id": "four-letter-words" }, { "term": "Huddle", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A group meeting any girl could call. In a \"Support Huddle,\" the group circled a girl who kept breaking a norm until she took \"ownership\" and thanked them.", "used": [ { "program": "Three Springs New Beginnings", "slug": "three-springs-new-beginnings" } ], "reported": [], "id": "huddle" }, { "term": "Medicine Wheel stages", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Orientation, Community Member, Positive Peer, Pledge, Honors, Hero, each with a borrowed Native American direction, animal, bead, and stone.", "used": [ { "program": "Three Springs New Beginnings", "slug": "three-springs-new-beginnings" } ], "reported": [], "id": "medicine-wheel-stages" }, { "term": "Off-Campus Suspension with Conditional Re-enrollment", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Suspension where return could require completing a wilderness program.", "used": [ { "program": "Auldern Academy", "slug": "auldern-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "off-campus-suspension-with-conditional-re-enrollment" }, { "term": "Safe haven box", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A box for dropping contraband after visits for reduced consequences.", "used": [ { "program": "Auldern Academy", "slug": "auldern-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "safe-haven-box" }, { "term": "Self-Defeating Behavior Cycle", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A worksheet for each treatment problem, from \"triggers\" through \"Poor Me Syndrome\" to \"promising 'never again.'\"", "used": [ { "program": "Three Springs New Beginnings", "slug": "three-springs-new-beginnings" } ], "reported": [], "id": "self-defeating-behavior-cycle" }, { "term": "Stage Suspension", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Seven days on Orientation restrictions with a Buddy, plus apology letters and an essay on \"your status within the community\"; the group voted on reinstatement.", "used": [ { "program": "Three Springs New Beginnings", "slug": "three-springs-new-beginnings" } ], "reported": [], "id": "stage-suspension" }, { "term": "Stages of Group Development", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Transition; a \"stuck\" group was \"only 'faking.'\"", "used": [ { "program": "Three Springs New Beginnings", "slug": "three-springs-new-beginnings" } ], "reported": [], "id": "stages-of-group-development" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Christian programs", "id": "christian-programs", "sources": "", "notes": [], "entries": [], "groups": [ { "title": "Escuela Caribe", "id": "escuela-caribe", "sources": "Student Handbook (1991). New Horizons Ministries, Dominican Republic.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Certificate of Affection", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A 3rd-level privilege, listed beside hand-holding and \"chaperoned dating experiences.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Escuela Caribe", "slug": "escuela-caribe" } ], "reported": [], "id": "certificate-of-affection" }, { "term": "Freeday", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Each house's weekly day off, withheld if not earned.", "used": [ { "program": "Escuela Caribe", "slug": "escuela-caribe" } ], "reported": [], "id": "freeday" }, { "term": "Housefather / Housemother", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The staff couple running each house.", "used": [ { "program": "Escuela Caribe", "slug": "escuela-caribe" } ], "reported": [], "id": "housefather-housemother" }, { "term": "Levels", "note": "Escuela Caribe", "aka": [], "text": "Zero (Orientation) through 5th (Personal Responsibility), then Off Points. Each needed push-ups, sit-ups, memorized Bible passages, Zig Ziglar readings, and house votes requiring \"evidence of loyalty to the staff.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Escuela Caribe", "slug": "escuela-caribe" } ], "reported": [], "id": "levels" }, { "term": "Rank", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A pecking order by level, weeks on level, and points.", "used": [ { "program": "Escuela Caribe", "slug": "escuela-caribe" } ], "reported": [], "id": "rank" }, { "term": "Target Goal", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A problem area assigned every two weeks and scored nightly.", "used": [ { "program": "Escuela Caribe", "slug": "escuela-caribe" } ], "reported": [], "id": "target-goal" }, { "term": "Units of Concern", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The punishment currency. Each unit was \"one day of appropriate restriction or one swat on the seat of the pants with a specified paddle.\" Running away cost 10 units.", "used": [ { "program": "Escuela Caribe", "slug": "escuela-caribe" } ], "reported": [], "id": "units-of-concern" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Agapé Boarding School", "id": "agape-boarding-school", "sources": "Handbook (around 2013). Stockton, Missouri.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Interference Policy", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The school could remove any parent \"interfering with a student's progress,\" risking the son's expulsion.", "used": [ { "program": "Agapé Boarding School", "slug": "agape-boarding-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "interference-policy" }, { "term": "New kid", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Status for new students, in an orange or yellow shirt.", "used": [ { "program": "Agapé Boarding School", "slug": "agape-boarding-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "new-kid" }, { "term": "Orientation", "note": "Agapé", "aka": [], "text": "Punitive physical training and work detail; restrained students were carried \"to the Orientation Room.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Agapé Boarding School", "slug": "agape-boarding-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "orientation" }, { "term": "Truancy", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Leaving without permission; belongings became \"property of the school\" after 10 days.", "used": [ { "program": "Agapé Boarding School", "slug": "agape-boarding-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "truancy" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Trinity Teen Solutions", "id": "trinity-teen-solutions", "sources": "Parent Handbook (2008). Wyoming.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Blurred Boundaries", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Families where \"the power lies in the hands of the child,\" including parents who protect her self-esteem.", "used": [ { "program": "Trinity Teen Solutions", "slug": "trinity-teen-solutions" } ], "reported": [], "id": "blurred-boundaries" }, { "term": "Enabling", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Parents shielding a daughter from \"the full impact of her harmful behaviors,\" including ordinary caregiving.", "used": [ { "program": "Trinity Teen Solutions", "slug": "trinity-teen-solutions" } ], "reported": [], "id": "enabling" }, { "term": "Environment of discomfort", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The principle that \"People only change when they are uncomfortable.\" Cheerful letters and news from home were said to weaken it. See **Ordeal Therapy**.", "used": [ { "program": "Trinity Teen Solutions", "slug": "trinity-teen-solutions" } ], "reported": [], "id": "environment-of-discomfort" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Teen Challenge and Bloom", "id": "teen-challenge-and-bloom", "sources": "The Teen Challenge Therapeutic Model (1992, adopted 1993); Bloom Family Handbook (2024).", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Blessings / Consequences", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Bloom's framing of rewards and punishments; the handbook repeats that Bloom \"does not punish anyone.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Bloom (Adult & Teen Challenge)", "slug": "bloom-adult-and-teen-challenge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "blessings-consequences" }, { "term": "Bloom Bucks / Markdowns", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Daily scores for \"Attitude (Fruit of the Spirit)\" and more, spent at the \"Bloom Boutique.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Bloom (Adult & Teen Challenge)", "slug": "bloom-adult-and-teen-challenge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "bloom-bucks-markdowns" }, { "term": "Christian habilitation", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Teen Challenge's preferred term over \"rehabilitation.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Teen Challenge", "slug": "teen-challenge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "christian-habilitation" }, { "term": "Discipleship program", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Teen Challenge's self-description, reframing residential treatment as church ministry, with therapy as \"the most conducive environment possible for the work of the Holy Spirit.\" See **Religious exemption**.", "used": [ { "program": "Teen Challenge", "slug": "teen-challenge" }, { "program": "Bloom (Adult & Teen Challenge)", "slug": "bloom-adult-and-teen-challenge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "discipleship-program" }, { "term": "Life-controlling problems", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "An umbrella term for addiction, bulimia, \"sexual addiction,\" and \"victim abuse,\" all traced to \"man's separation from God.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Teen Challenge", "slug": "teen-challenge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "life-controlling-problems" }, { "term": "Satellite issues", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Problem behaviors framed as orbiting the \"root issue\" of a relationship with God.", "used": [ { "program": "Teen Challenge", "slug": "teen-challenge" } ], "reported": [], "id": "satellite-issues" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "The Link School", "id": "the-link-school", "sources": "Student/Parent Handbook (2013). Christian Science, Buena Vista, Colorado.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "3 P's / Dings", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "\"punctual, prepared & participating\"; dings added up to weekend chores, and \"circle dings\" restricted computers.", "used": [ { "program": "The Link School", "slug": "the-link-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "3-p-s-dings" }, { "term": "Expedition Leadership Levels", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Raven, Bighorn, Wolf; Wolf required a \"3-day fasting\" solo.", "used": [ { "program": "The Link School", "slug": "the-link-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "expedition-leadership-levels" }, { "term": "Practitioner of the Month", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A Christian Science practitioner for \"prayerful support,\" billed to the student after three days. Illness got \"spiritual treatment\" first.", "used": [ { "program": "The Link School", "slug": "the-link-school" } ], "reported": [], "id": "practitioner-of-the-month" } ], "groups": [] } ] }, { "title": "Boot camps and military schools", "id": "boot-camps-and-military-schools", "sources": "", "notes": [], "entries": [], "groups": [ { "title": "Thayer Learning Center", "id": "thayer-learning-center", "sources": "Parent Manual (around 2003). Kidder, Missouri.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Boot Camp", "note": "Thayer", "aka": [], "text": "The \"Basic Trainee Cadet\" stage, with no calls and all schoolwork withheld; motivational tapes instead.", "used": [ { "program": "Thayer Learning Center", "slug": "thayer-learning-center" } ], "reported": [], "id": "boot-camp" }, { "term": "Grise'l Method", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The founder's trademarked program model, not explained in the manual.", "used": [ { "program": "Thayer Learning Center", "slug": "thayer-learning-center" } ], "reported": [], "id": "grise-l-method" }, { "term": "Stages", "note": "Thayer", "aka": [], "text": "Boot Camp, Residency, Junior Staff, Homeward Bound.", "used": [ { "program": "Thayer Learning Center", "slug": "thayer-learning-center" } ], "reported": [], "id": "stages-thayer" }, { "term": "TLC dollars", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Behavior points framed as mock paychecks for \"make believe bills\"; visits cost $50 to $150 TLC dollars.", "used": [ { "program": "Thayer Learning Center", "slug": "thayer-learning-center" } ], "reported": [], "id": "tlc-dollars" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Robert Land Academy", "id": "robert-land-academy", "sources": "Handbook. Ontario, boys grades 5–12.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Academic Charge", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Two to four weeks of lost calls, rank, and leaves for incomplete homework.", "used": [ { "program": "Robert Land Academy", "slug": "robert-land-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "academic-charge" }, { "term": "Academic PT", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "30 to 40 minutes of \"rigorous physical training\" for missing homework.", "used": [ { "program": "Robert Land Academy", "slug": "robert-land-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "academic-pt" }, { "term": "Alternative Messing", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Separate meals for \"additional remedial training.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Robert Land Academy", "slug": "robert-land-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "alternative-messing" }, { "term": "Defaulters", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A status for too many laps owed, with all privileges lost.", "used": [ { "program": "Robert Land Academy", "slug": "robert-land-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "defaulters" }, { "term": "Recruit", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The entry rank, about five weeks, with no calls home.", "used": [ { "program": "Robert Land Academy", "slug": "robert-land-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "recruit" }, { "term": "Stand Down", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "A holiday, with homework assigned for it.", "used": [ { "program": "Robert Land Academy", "slug": "robert-land-academy" } ], "reported": [], "id": "stand-down" } ], "groups": [] } ] }, { "title": "Other programs", "id": "other-programs", "sources": "", "notes": [], "entries": [], "groups": [ { "title": "Montana Academy", "id": "montana-academy", "sources": "Policies & Procedures.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Clans", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Earth, Moon, Sun, Star, Sky; Earth Clan got a supervised 5–10 minute call every two weeks. 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Maine.", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Intake period", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "No family phone contact so the teen could reflect \"without any outside influence.\"", "used": [ { "program": "Ironwood", "slug": "ironwood" } ], "reported": [], "id": "intake-period" }, { "term": "Intervention / Rehabilitation and Transition", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Ironwood's restrictive and less restrictive tracks.", "used": [ { "program": "Ironwood", "slug": "ironwood" } ], "reported": [], "id": "intervention-rehabilitation-and-transition" } ], "groups": [] }, { "title": "Judge Rotenberg Center", "id": "judge-rotenberg-center", "sources": "brochure (2018); Massachusetts DDS licensing report (2025).", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Behavior-determined residence ladder", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Residences ranked by behavior.", "used": [ { "program": "Judge Rotenberg Center", "slug": "judge-rotenberg-center" } ], "reported": [], "id": "behavior-determined-residence-ladder" }, { "term": "Devices to prevent self-injury", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "The brochure's only reference to JRC's electronic devices.", "used": [ { "program": "Judge Rotenberg Center", "slug": "judge-rotenberg-center" } ], "reported": [], "id": "devices-to-prevent-self-injury" }, { "term": "Reward street", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "An indoor \"street\" with a store, arcade, and salon where students spent rewards.", "used": [ { "program": "Judge Rotenberg Center", "slug": "judge-rotenberg-center" } ], "reported": [], "id": "reward-street" } ], "groups": [] } ] }, { "title": "State, hospital, and clinical programs", "id": "state-hospital-and-clinical-programs", "sources": "", "notes": [], "entries": [ { "term": "Advancement points", "note": "", "aka": [], "text": "Weekly points to move up, docked four for being physically restrained.", "used": [ { "program": "Aurora Center for Healing", "slug": "aurora-center-for-healing" } ], "reported": 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