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Kristin Bennett is a graduate of New School University/Parsons School of Design in NYC with a BFA in Communication Design. After leaving the world of designing SaaS (Software As A Service) applications in Seattle she founded MomsWithMS.com in 2009, an online mom to mom community spanning over 35 states and 6 countries. She is a survivor of both Red Cliff Ascent in Utah (1995) as well as the now closed Mount Bachelor Academy which she attended for 2 months before running away. She is also working with the National MS Society as both an Ambassador as well as an Activist in support of improving the health care system for all, speaking to any elected official she can get an appointment with. She is also the mother of 2 young girls.

Heather Harding is a survivor of CEDU Running Springs, which she attended from June of 1989 to December of 1991. She was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and worked as a NASA Research Assistant, as a Research Assistant at Stanford University, and in Professional Technical Theatre for TheatreWorks in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Angelique has been a licensed provider, teacher, and is a certified supervisor for child educational settings. She lives in San Francisco where she developed a multi-cultural inclusion program for children with disabilities and at risk youth while completing a bachelor’s of science in Business Management.

In 2004, Angelique was the managing assistant for a Congressional campaign for California’s 12th District’s, Mike Garza, an anti-war veteran who successfully won more votes than any other congressional candidate in his party throughout the Bay Area. She has worked in development for a number of non profit causes, including Alcohol/Drug prevention and education.

In the late Spring of 93 after being pre-accepted to Seattle Pacific U., a Bible college, she attended a boarding program in Utah which falsely marketed itself as a safe boarding school. The program, which was known as Cross Creek Manor, is owned by WWASPS, an umbrella organization. It still currently operates with some of the same administration nearly twenty years later. Angelique has been to the Middle East twice, once on visit to see a college friend and now professor at SPU.  Many years later when the images of U.S. reserve Lyndee England at Abu Gharib  came out while working on Mike Garza’s campaign, it was the first time Angelique identified an image that captured the elements that occur in abusive residential programs.

Charley Huffine is a psychiatrist in Seattle who works with teenagers and young adults. He also is the part time medical director for King County's public mental health system. In that job he was associated with their federal grant that supported parent and youth empowerment, strength based work with youth and handling problems of youth in community based programs.  Charley became passionate about abuse in residential treatment after learning what had happened to former patients in such programs. He is a founder of ASTART and has been affiliated with CAFETY since he learned of the great work this organization does to expose abuse and support young people recovering from that abuse. He has a passion for social justice for youth in all aspects of his life and work. He serves informally as CAFETY's in-house mental health advisor.

Charley is a founding CAFETY board member.

Nick Wood is the Systems Change Advocacy Coordinator and Lead Investigator for the Disability Rights Center of Kansas (DRC).  The DRC is located in Topeka, is part of the federally funded Protection and Advocacy system, and is a member organization of the National Disability Rights Network.  Nick’s focus is on improving policy toward the public and private mental health system in order to reduce system reliance on institutions and address abuse in facilities.  He believes the voice of the Youth Advocate must be considered essential and directive in national discussions on mental health policy.

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