This story is in progress and will receive additional updates with developing research. If you have a true understanding of the issues regarding the Troubled Teen Industry within the past few years this story frankly is nothing new. Should you have a more broad understanding going further into its history then this unfortunate, tragic incident…
“A picture is worth a thousand words” evokes a sort of understanding rooted in sentimental to objective insight. Which is applied depends upon the viewer’s ability to deduce context and even lived experience seemingly unrelated. No longer limited to analog, digital images are more accessible and certainly worth more than just a thousand words. Of…
Reposted from our coalition’s website, We Warned Them. We are asking for your help. In Missouri, our friends from the TTI survivor community have drawn the line: Agape Boarding School has gone too far. Agape, a residential troubled teen program located in Cedar County, Missouri, is under investigation for their abuse and for using unsafe,…
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…
NYRA is asking Congress to introduce legislation to reform the “Troubled Teen” Industry. Youth can be kidnapped and held without their consent in these camps for “behavior modification”, often suffering severe abuse. Last time we advocated for legislation to regulate the Troubled Teen Industry it passed the House but not the Senate, but the stakes…
NYRA has been forming a coalition of advocacy groups together to free the youth held in abusive behavior modification facilities during COVID-19, and we have just had another eight organizations sign onto our open letter including the International Indigenous Youth Council and the San Francisco Youth Council for Education Policy! The active COVID-19 threat puts…
Every year thousands of young people are sent against their will to facilities designed to control their behavior. This network of private residential programs is known collectively as the “Troubled Teen” Industry and are marketed to parents who feel like they need to change their child’s behavior. These services claim to fix anything the parent…
The subscribers of r/troubledteens (727 redditors) and r/youthrights (293 redditors) could scarcely be more horrified at a post (we may have a runaway teen in our midst) making it to the front page. Without any research as to why, an older redditor is looking to hunt down a redditor who has run away from home….
NYRA-NYU experienced a great increase in activity over the past few months and has held three successful events as well as being approved as a full NYU club for the 2011-2012 academic year. For National Youth Rights Day, the chapter held an event on campus titled “Activism 101”, which taught a group of interested students…
What a week for youth rights! At times like this, I am thrilled to be a NYRA member. With our tiny budget but a great deal of passion, NYRA was able to have a significant impact on all three branches of government this week. It makes me happy to see what our organization can accomplish,…
