Voices from our Survey
On July 2010, CAFETY posted an online survey to systematically gather reports from individuals who were placed in a residential program when they were adolescents. The survey was posted on our website, emailed to our members as well as members of our allies at youth empowerment organizations such as Youth Power, Youth Move and the National Youth Rights Association. The survey was also posted on forums for alumni of residential care and Facebook groups for alumni from various types of residential programs. From July 2010 to the present, over 500 alumni and survivors have responded to our survey.
These are our experiences, in our own words.
Our Voices.
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"Surviving CEDU" Documentary
"Surviving Cedu,” tells the story of a half-dozen teenagers who were each sent to the Cedu School, variously described to them as a standard boarding school, a wilderness adventure school, or a therapeutic learning environment in the Western mountains of the United States. But the experience of the school was something entirely different. Students quickly found themselves in a new, strange, uncomfortable and often frightening world of intense group relationships and heightened, invasive and violent group therapies. Relationships at the school between students - and staff - seemed to have little formal structure or sense of normal boundary - and a student’s life was always under threat of intense and unpredictable disciplining and punishment.
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