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Takeaways From Inside a Teen Treatment Center for Adoptees, Funded by Taxpayers: Runaways, Assaults
The private-equity-backed center charged up to $20,000 a month while state agencies spent more than $35 million sending children there, AP found.
- An Associated Press investigation reveals that Calo Programs, a Missouri-based treatment center, operates with minimal oversight despite receiving millions in taxpayer funding and facing allegations of abuse and neglect.
- Acquired by private equity firm Embark Behavioral Health around 2011, the facility charges up to $20,000 monthly, with Illinois agencies spending more than $35 million on placements over the last decade.
- State inspection teams described a training session as 'only a drum circle,' while former staff reported minimal training and the Camden County Sheriff documented recurring runaways, assaults, and vandalism.
- Sheriff Chris Edgar noted that deputies frequently investigate runaways and assaults, while state investigators reported being denied access to records, characterizing the response as 'an effort to stonewall.'
- Part of the loosely regulated 'troubled teen industry,' Calo claims to serve the hardest-to-treat cases, though critics argue the business model prioritizes revenue over care despite limited oversight and few consequences for negligence.
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Takeaways from inside a teen treatment center for adoptees, funded by taxpayers: runaways, assaults
LAKE OZARK, Mo. (AP) — An Associated Press investigation finds that private, for-profit residential treatment centers that care for adopted kids at exceptionally high rates are often funded by taxpayer
·Toronto, Canada
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Inside a taxpayer-funded treatment center for adoptees, tales of abuse, neglect and little oversight
A residential treatment center in Missouri advertises to adoptive parents that it can help heal struggling children.
·New York, United States
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