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Opening a youth treatment center is relatively simple in Utah. But state regulators often can't — or won't — shut a place down after abuse is alleged.
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Inappropriate contact between children and staff members has happened with some frequency in Utah’s teen treatment programs. From November 2018 through July 2021 — state regulators have investigated at least 20 reports of staff pushing the boundaries with clients, sometimes amounting to sexual abuse.
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We learn what it was like to live at Integrity House day after day — what the people who worked there saw, and what the state did when one of them blew the whistle.
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With a parent’s consent, two people are sent to surprise their child while they are asleep to forcefully take them to a wilderness program or residential treatment center.
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Since 2015, some 20,000 teens have been sent to treatment centers in Utah. That’s more than anywhere else in the country. Those kids are often brought here by a transport company.
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Kylar Frederick Williams, 23, was arrested Tuesday.
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Here’s a timeline of the major news stories that happened in Utah throughout 2021.
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One facility is being sued after a staffer broke a boy’s wrist, while another has been disciplined by the state for similar tactics.
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Federal regulations would impact the more than 100 teen treatment facilities in Utah, which plays an outsized role in the industry.
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In 2019, a girl from Bermuda died by suicide at West Ridge Academy, a teen treatment facility in West Jordan. The Salt Lake Tribune reports her parents filed a lawsuit against the facility last month. The litigation comes as a new state law requires centers to develop suicide prevention policies.