This is our moment: Tomorrow the Senate could pass my bill The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act with @SenJeffMerkley@JohnCornyn@TTuberville to bring badly-needed oversight to protect kids in residential treatment programs. No one should go through what I went through and I am praying it passes as it has so much bipartisan support 🙏
@FrankPallone, we need your support to pass the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act (H.R. 2955)! Our kids deserve protection from abusive residential treatment facilities. Please ensure SICAA is on the September 18th markup calendar. #PassSICAA#StopInstitutionalChildAbuse"
"Survivors of abuse are asking #Missouri’s attorney general to proceed with the trial of the co-owner of #CircleofHope Girls Ranch, a now-shuttered boarding school for troubled girls in #CedarCounty."
#TroubledTeenIndustry@ParisHilton @AGAndrewBailey
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The former CEO of #Texas-based Laurel Ridge Treatment Center has been charged with the continuous #CSA of a 14-year-old.
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF THE #TROUBLEDTEENINDUSTRY!!
We must #StopInstitutionalChildAbuse!
☎️ TEXT GOSICAA TO 50409 NOW!
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Katherine Kuebler (director of #TheProgram) and 11:11 Media teamed up to put together this video to kick off the hearing today with the voices from those with lived experience. Please watch. A five minutes well spent! #orpol
📢The Senate Finance Committee is holding a hearing on June 12th at 10am ET to address abuse and neglect in youth residential treatment facilities. Want to Join Us in D.C or Make Your Voice Heard in the Halls of Congress? Visit https://t.co/upp3qsmo75 #TrappedInTreatment
Join impacted family members, survivors & allies as we come together in memory of #MoniquePayne & #AaronGower during their birthday month.
Let’s show out & make it known that we will never let #UHS forget the pain they have caused!
#holdthemaccountable
Creating min. standards for juvenile public defense helps guarantee every child receives the support & advocacy they need. MCYJ is committed to ensuring the passage of HB 4630 so all youth are able to navigate the legal system with dignity & fairness. #juvenilejustice
"The Program" is NUMBER ONE on Netflix!
We plan to use our social media feeds this week to spotlight posts and stories from survivors of institutional abuse. This effort is to honor those who have endured such abuse under the pretense of "education" or "treatment," including experiences of restraint and seclusion.
We invite you to view Caroline Cole’s posts (ICARS Special Advisor) on TikTok at https://t.co/hDKqXMOCEk. She is one of the many survivors of Ivy Ridge which is featured in the docuseries. We will also highlight other survivors in our upcoming posts over the next days.
We kindly ask that supporters of modification programs refrain from engaging or attempting to recruit any of the survivors we feature for their own purposes and agenda’s. We are highly alert to individuals and entities who employ such tactics. Behavior modification, no matter the acronym, is still behavior modification. These individuals deserve respect, time for reflection, and healing from the trauma caused by the behavior modification they endured. That includes but is not limited to the PBS’er ABA’ers and training programs who teach restraint practices. You are part of the system which profits from the harm these individuals and others have and continue to endure. @itscarolinecole
Dear @InovaHealth. The restraint of disabled, particularly autistic children, in your emergency and CT departments should be an act of last resort. Regrettably, the actions and attitudes of your nursing staff in the emergency overflow yesterday would indicate otherwise.
Last session I understood what an egregious act it would’ve been to grant bad actors immunity
This year I went straight to work finding ways to empower DCS & believe youth when reports of abuse arise
This session truth won
@WeWarnedThem@katkubler
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🧵 Today we mourn the loss of 15 year old #RyanGainer, whose life was tragically taken at the hands of San Bernardino Police. Ryan should still be alive 💔