The :"I-Team" should probably do some research on the lineage of PFC/KHK, and its parent programs Straight, Inc. and KIDS, - what I saw in these videos was a filtered view of exactly what I went through - and survived. Sleep Deprivation/Exhaustion ("motivation" was part of that), Humiliation, Physical abuse, Sexual abuse, and starvation. All of these and more done to be at KIDS of NJ (look up Lulu Corter and Rebecca Ehrlich suits in NJ). Essentially KIDS moved, changed it name, and "changed management" - what a crock. These programs still give me nightmares 15 years later. - and I'm a successful parent, I have many accolades in my chosen field, and I had to overcome the brainwashing to get there first. To the person who said "look at the "real world" - dude - nothing in the real world is as harsh as that place was. - except maybe Korean POW camps. Obama shuts down Guantanamo, but lets these places, that use torture to coerce false confessions of drug use (I had a drug list a mile long - "acid, meth, pcp, opium, "any pill I got my hands on" - when I only ever had a mile amount of pot and some alcohol - my real issue was that I was a gay woman - and confused. - and MED - it took 5 years for the realization that I was abused to actually hit me - longer to admit it. I insisted that the history they brainwashed me into telling and actually believing about myself was true - until I had a breakdown and my "real life" came flooding back. Some people I talked to it took twice as long, others it was right away. Sooner or later youll need help dealing with the nightmares and posttraumatic stress, and there are places out there you can get help - when you're ready. I wish you luck and happiness.

For those who want to think this program was too extreme; LOOK AT THE REAL WORLD OUT THERE!!! What is happening out THERE is just the same type of "mind control" you just are putting on blinders to ignore it. Take time to really listen to words of the mindless music the kids listen to that is how they are brainwashed into antisocial behavior. Realize that kids OUT THERE are abusing (physically, verbally and socially) other kids because those kids stand against the tide. Recently, on a PUBLIC SIDEWALK, my son (17) was being hit by a THREE year old with a stick while the kid's 16 year old mother cheered the kid on! This program uses the same techniques that pushed these kids into the negative lifestyles; but in an attempt to restore the individual to a positive track in life. GET REAL! GET AWAKE! Get involved with your kids instead of hiding in television shows, movies, in your job or in drinking. I can say I am blessed!! my son did not become like the other troubled kids out there; because I took time to listen, to let him express himself and I tried to instill in him the idea it is okay to stand against the tide.

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This comment is intended as a response to all the negative comments about kids helping kids or other teen treatment centers. I graduated KHK in 1995. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. I am now a sober, productive, and successful father of four beautiful children. I know that the program had its faults, but it was intended for the most extreme cases of teen drug and alcohol abuse. I was one of those cases and so were many of my friends who are now still productive members of society. Sometimes the means of the many outweigh the means of the few. I was on first phase three times. I was belt looped, strip searched, chaperoned at all times, unable to talk to newcomers, watched in the restroom, called a druggie, and told that my way of thinking was wrong and irrational. However, these unconventional ways in no way compared to spending my life in jail,or dead, like the many kids that I was friends with. Alchoholism is a very serious and deadly disease. KHk, along with other treatment centers, was the end of the road before jail and death for most of the kids. I am so grateful to my parents for making the difficult decision to put me in KHK because it gave me my life back. I wish that I waould have been contacted to speak about my experience in the investigative report. It was unfair and irresponsible to focus so much on the negatives and very little on the positives. I am proof that the program could work for those willing to change to their lives for the better. 1994-1995 MED #698.

God Bless KHK and Pathway Family for saving lives. Hey Canada, sorry you felt the program was not for you. It is not for everyone. But to say cookie cutter parent? Utter nonsense. Our family is doing much better than before program: an having meaningful conversations, and not accusing each other, of listening to each other : all the sorts of changes one would see if the family attended family counseling with a psychologist or psychiatrist. So, cookie cutter? Nope, just like minded people. And why be new?? Because the old family patterns were lousy, destructive and in dire need of dumping the old and starting anew. God Bless you Canada, glad your family was not in need of any help.

GAO’s investigation revealed that many teen residential treatment programs have been using deceptive marketing practices and questionable tactics to lure vulnerable parents desperate to find help for their children. “For far too long, these abuses, neglect and mistreatment of children – some of the most horrific violations of trust imaginable – have been allowed to go on completely unchecked,” said Miller, the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. “Parents deserve every assurance that their children will be safe and protected when attending a program intended to help improve their lives.” "It is no doubt a painful and difficult decision for parents to send their children to residential treatment facilities and the last thing they should have to worry about is the possibility of unknowingly putting their kids in harms way,” said McCarthy, chairwoman of the Healthy Families and Communities subcommittee. “It is crucial that federal standards are set in place to prevent the abuse, neglect and deceptive marking practices that have devastated so many children and families.”

Comments such as those from "DrugFreeNow" and other programmie parents are exactly like those coming from AARC. It's uncanny! I honestly don't know what prevented me from becoming a cookie-cutter parent with a shiny graduate son. A family who will for years (?) be committing themselves to the program. All I can say is I'm so glad to still be me. The parents in the program eventually act like each other, associate with each other as do the graduates. You can literally see the change happen as you look down the chronological rows of parents at meetings. The thought of my family becoming different people because of a money grabbing program makes me physically sick. Why be new ... when you can be YOU! I wish all former members of these programs a safe and speedy recovery.

I am a parent who was also very worried about my son in treatment, much like Mr. West. We were involved in the Alberta Adolescent Recovery Center (AARC) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I've watched these videos, I was in the program for a couple of months and from what I can see these programs are identical. I agree with Mr. West 100% and he has reason to be concerned for his son. My son is out of treatment, for 6 months now and what WDTONY says is exactly what happens in the program. We are RECENT participants... not 10 year former clients! "First phase is all that needs to be explored and investigated to understand the torment and psycho-antagonization that would and does drive anyone to a nervous breakdown. " This is why parents are not allowed contact with their children until the 2nd level of treatment. The children are subjected to severe psychological stress, they suffer a nervous breakdown. The program attacks their very identity and puts the client into a state of dissociation leaving a clean slate to absorb the program's ideologies. I can also testify that this is sheer torture to a parent who recognizes what is going on and is unable to anything to protect their child. I feel for you Mr. West, and would love to be able to talk to you. Please know there are other parents out there who know EXACTLY what you are going through. I had full custody of my son, but through an affiliated and biased judge my son was kept in the program via a court order and while in the program he retained an affiliated and biased lawyer. I was banished from the program and didn't have contact with my son for almost an entire year. The graduates and parents who speak to the success of the program are heavily conditioned. The grads/parents of AARC which is supposed to be a "one of a kind program" say exactly the same things. Thank God two more of these fraudulent and destructive organizations are gone.

Updated February. 8, 2009 A right-wing Austrian writer who fled to Spain after being convicted of Holocaust denial charges 15 years ago must serve his 18-month sentence, Vienna's highest court said Monday. Eventually this will also be the case for ppl who deny the abuses of KHK and all copy cat programs... even if it takes 50 plus years for justice....the truth is on our (survivors) side and the truth always surfaces... eventually!

United States v. Lee 455 U.S. 252, 257-258 (1982), the California Supreme Court found that "when a person is subjected to coercive persuasion without his knowledge or consent... [he may] develop serious and sometimes irreversible physical and psychiatric disorders, up to and including schizophrenia, self-mutilation, and suicide." WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA OF A COERCIVE PERSUASION PROGRAM? A). Determine if the subject individual held enough knowledge and volitional capacity to make the decision to change his or her ideas or beliefs. B). Determine whether that individual did, in fact, adopt, affirm, or reject those ideas or beliefs on his own. C). Then, if necessary, all that should be examined is the behavioral processes used, not ideological content. One needs to examine only the behavioral processes used in their "conversion." Each alleged coercive persuasion situation should be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. The characteristics of coercive persuasion programs are severe, well-understood, and they are not accidental. THIS IS FACT NOT SOME RANDOM COERCED PERSONAL OPINION OF KHK