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2. Behavior modification facility - Wikipedia

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   t. e. A behavior modification facility (or youth residential program) is a residential educational and treatment institution enrolling adolescents who are perceived as displaying antisocial behavior, in an attempt to alter their conduct. Due to irregular licensing rules across countries and states, as well as ambiguity regarding the labels that ...

3. The Florida Network of Youth and Family Services - Wikipedia

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   In 1976, the Florida Network of Youth and Family Services was incorporated with an office in Tampa. In 1981, the Florida Legislature provided state funds for runaway services for the first time. In 1982, the Florida Network of Youth and Family Services opened its Tallahassee office. In 1984, the Florida Runaway Youth and Family Act was passed.

4. Troubled teen industry - Wikipedia

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   The troubled teen industry (also known as TTI) is a broad range of youth residential programs aimed at struggling teenagers. The term encompasses various facilities and programs, including youth residential treatment centers, wilderness programs, boot camps, and therapeutic boarding schools. [1][2] These programs claim to rehabilitate and teach ...

5. World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools

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   Founded at. La Verkin, Utah, US. The World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS or WWASP) was an organization based in Utah, in the United States. WWASPS was founded by Robert Lichfield and was incorporated in 1998. WWASPS stated that it was an umbrella organization of independent institutions for education and treatment ...

6. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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   Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.

7. Anneewakee Treatment Center for Emotionally Disturbed Youth

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   The Anneewakee Treatment Center was a Douglasville, Georgia, United States, based adolescent treatment center which changed name to the New Annewakee, Inner Harbour Hospital and now Inner Harbour, Ltd (DBA) Inner Harbour for Children and Families, after a major lawsuit by 110 former "patients" for $432M in 1990, represented by attorneys B. Randall Blackwood and Patricia Edelkind.