We are happy to announce that NYRA is now fiscally sponsoring Breaking Code Silence, a movement organized by a network of survivors and activists to raise awareness of the problems in the “Troubled Teen” Industry, to aide them as they organize their nonprofit.
Youth can be kidnapped and held without their consent in these programs for “behavior modification”, often suffering severe abuse. Many of these facilities facilities employ some version of a tactic called “Code Silence” (this specific term was used first in the program Casa By The Sea). This is used to dominate students through forced silence, meant to socially isolate students until they reach a breaking point. This oppressive silence can last for days, weeks, months, even up to years, if the student does not progress in the levels. This form of treatment causes feelings of frustration, abandonment and separation anxiety (the side effects have proven to result in complex trauma symptoms years after release). By literally taking these youths’ voices away, the program takes away their right to express themselves, report abuse, and make relationships with their peers.
#BreakingCodeSilence was created to encourage survivors of institutional abuse to stand up and testify about the abuse in their programs. They are part of a larger coalition of advocacy groups we have been forming together to free the over 50,000 youth held in abusive residential facilities, collaborating on an open letter calling on Congress to shut down all private youth programs immediately.
The BCS team and our broader network of activists work together to educate about institutional child abuse, investigate open programs for abuse, and push for reform of this industry via legislative action. We are helping them raise funds to formally organize and further create education, investigation, and legislation on the Troubled Teen Industry. If you donate to us through this link after selecting “breaking code silence”, your donation will help them free the youth held in abusive behavior modification facilities.
I need to find a way to stop the cult ranch program I was abused in until I was 18 and legally allowed to leave. My name is Trevor, the ranch is called KW Legacy Ranch, and I cant live knowing that there are still kids going through the things that hurt me to this day as a 20 year old.
These facilities and programs need to be closed down as they really involved torture. Too many teens have already died or been damaged for life in them. On Friday (Nov 1) a new book (Summer Heat: Education: American Gulag Style by Natalie Triumphs) exposing the horrors of these behavior modification programs will be launched as an Ebook for a short time before it comes out in paperback. The book is a YA action-adventure book but is based on real incidents of torture and death at the camps as previously documented by the NYRA , the GAO and varous accounts from victims and familes of victims of the programs. The author’s son was on the national board and her daughter organized a county chapter of the NYRA and so this has been a major concern for her.
The first part of the dedication reads: “This book is dedicated to the members (current and past) of the National Youth Rights Association who have worked over the years to regulate and close down the teen behavioral modification programs AKA Gulag schools…”
In the acknowledgement section at the end, the NYRA is also referenced. “The National Youth Rights Association has worked over the years to educate the public on the horrors of teen behavior modification programs AKA Gulag camps, Gulag schools and Gulag treatment facilities.”
Let’s get this book to number one and let the public know why these programs must be shut down ASAP.
Below is the link.
https://www.amazon.com/Summer-Heat-Education-American-Gulag-Style-ebook/dp/B0DL4WNP7X/ref=zg_bsnr_g_15249062011_d_sccl_1/136-8179877-6435427?psc=1
The current links for Summer Heat: Education American Gulag-Style are https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/summer-heat-natalie-triumphs/1146523047?ean=9798988768197&bvnotificationId=a0c811ec-a397-11ef-b1ce-0affde699a21&bvmessageType=REVIEW_APPROVED&bvrecipientDomain=yahoo.com#review/325426233
and https://www.amazon.com/Summer-Heat-Education-American-Gulag/dp/B0DMTQX61Q/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-xHd8dyMisn9tYZSmUNJhQ.QqAmC–lAc9uuoiLv_jAAnmYd8pEshPhwp-vtaIPddw&qid=1731706450&sr=1-1
The book made number one during the initial release and readers are getting a real education about the horrors of the behavioral modification programs.