Kids Helping Kids – Pathway Family Center
Kids Helping Kids – Pathway Family Center – Click on: www.pfctruth.com I-Team Investigation: Nov. 13th 2005. Follow-up report to this video is here: www.youtube.com Penny Walker was the Program director of Kids Helping Kids at the time this video was taped. Kids Helping Kids (KHK) was run by Tri-State Drug Rehabilitation and Counseling Program Inc. (previously called Straight Midwest Inc.). Shortly after this WCPO broadcast was aired, Tri-State Drug Rehabilitation and Counseling Program Inc. dissolved and sold KHK to Pathway Family Center (PFC). Reports of Penny Walker’s affiliation with Pathway Family Center have been confirmed by eye-witnesses at PFC Indianapolis long before the business transaction was finalized. Also long before the transaction, Kids Helping Kids phone would be answered by Pathway Family Center in Michigan adding more evidence that these two organizations were in collusion well before the transaction occured. Both KHK and PFC are descendants of Straight Inc. which brings even more questions to light about what methods these programs are really conducting inside the back room of the program.
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Wow…lol. You think that’s what “being? in society” is all about??? Extreme conformity. Lol, this place looks worse than catholic school.
….It may appear that way but the reality of it is that the kids are not prepared for normal society and when placed back into the world, they don’t? have the skills to function. There is much about this program that is not included in this video.
It breaks their will. Which is the point. It forces the kids to conform to an extreme standard so that when they are put back into normal society they will conform to? it. That being said, it obviously won’t work for everyone. Just going from what I’ve seen in this video.
I was there from 98-99, over 15 months. I ran away by throwing myself out of a car after going to an “oldcomers” house one night. KHK hurt many people and operated by fear, coercion and desperation. Parents thought they saw change but their kids became shells of themselves. What some wanted I guess. The bottom line is that, in balance, the harm from KHK? outweighs any good by far. I say this after being sober over ten years of my own accord in AA.
I went into Straight in 88 at 13. I tested neg for drugs but admitted as a “dry druggie” I was deprived food or drink or sleep until I told them what they wanted to hear on my admissions, but I was no addict. My dad was told that I would die of? an overdose or end up in jail if I didn’t stay there. Please dont tell survivors of these programs that they dont know what they are talking about when it comes to the program they were in. PTSD is very real to me and other Straightlings
I have heard that not everyone in these programs were brainwashed. If Pathway has helped you, I think you are one of the lucky ones. I was brainwashed, as were many, but we all hold our own opinions on this complicated subject. I graduated the program many years ago but I have never been a drug addict/alcoholic. I especially didn’t have a drug problem prior to entering the KHK program. I should have never been kept and treated for a condition I didn’t have. ?
There were elements of these programs that were derived from good sources and are appropriate and necessary for true? drug addiction treatment. Unfortunately this treatment model was coupled with damaging torment and degradation which only fosters higher recidivism rates. Treating adolescents with a harsh drug addiction treatment program, when no drug addiction problem is present, would be similar to treating someone with radiation and chemo-therapy who does not have cancer.
Wow all this talk makes me sick, you people have no idea what your talking about… if you were to blame anybody you need to blame your parents!! Before being accepted into pathway straight ect.. You go through an admissions process drug test, questionnaire and so on. Reminding you this program isn’t cheap, it is honestly for people with real drug problems.. Apparently somewhere along the line? your family seen you as an addict. Think about what your saying!
I was in Pathway in Indiana and I disagree with what people say I feel like you are just holding onto your anger that you had then! I am not and do not and never did feel brainwashed. I am now in my early 20’s I am married have a wonderful? child. I feel like Pathway helped me with my relationship with my parents. I dont think Im an addict and I didnt think I was when I was in there nor did I ever feel forced to say I was. Yeah I had to go to AA and NA meetings but they have more to offer if….
For any doubters about the similarities between Kids Helping Kids…I can tell you personally they were one and the same program. Exact “treatment modality” exact format,? etc…..Why, Cincyscreenwriter how do ye have such knowledge, one may ask. Well I stood in both buildings and witnessed exactly the same stuff at both KHK and STRAIGHT INC.
That is how!
I remember when scott stacy started? me over and i told him to fuck off. Id love to see the fat sack of shit now.
Looks identical to Straight, where my mentally ill mother put me for 6 mos. (until they wanted her to “behave,” too!) After leaving, I got a? job & apartment, finished high school (repeating jr. year b/c no school in these crazy places) and graduated from Harvard. My issues with such places are still many & confusing. The end (sobriety) doesn’t justify the means (lockup/mind control). Also, they’ll admit ANYONE and disruptively brainwash them into believing they’re a lifelong addict. Traumatizing
yes, I was 14 and definitely was not an addict. I was in the Hebron building but my sister was in there when they transitioned to the milford building. She was 15 and? wasn’t an addict either.
Every once in a while I go through the process of watching these videos, desperately trying to make sense of what happened to me when I was fifteen. I’m so glad to see KHK is no longer operating in Milford. It took many years before I realized I am not, and never was, an addict. I was forced to lie in moral inventories? (remember that term?) and never did make it to phase 2. After two months we concocted a story to get us kicked out; mid-90s, many of you know people get out without running…
They are unregulated by federal or even state? law. I hope it ends soon.
absolutely.
also……. a drug program that prescribes prescription meds that are addictive such as adderall. ? come on people, wake up!
From what I have heard KHK’s first name was STRAIGHT Midwest but was? changed a year later. KHK is a weird program but still very similar to a STRAIGHT program from what I have seen.
It’s so much like STRAIGHT, right down to the? LOVE YOU! chant. STRAIGHT is alive and well in the 21st century. That is just wrong.
Close to 16 years later, I still have nightmares and panic attacks. The post-traumatic stress has been insane.
Places like KHK, KIDS, and Straight and all the derivatives have had a long time to hide these abuses to the outside – they used to instruct us to act differently when people from the outside came in. We would “motivate” differently, Kids likely to be “rebellious” or cause? issues were removed for a while. – They were good at bullshitting everyone.
“I thought everyone was? crazy.”
Yeah, your right.
I survived KHK ! Im one of the few who escaped, never to return. Im lucky. Very lucky. Scott Stacey and Penny Walker are criminals and should go to prison and sleep in their own? piss and shit.
HOLY CRAP! That is EXACTLLY like straight?!? I am shocked this crap is going on.? I spent a year at straight in Virginia like 20 years ago with about 200 other kids and still struggle with my “ordeal” there. I have kids no and can’t believe what I just saw. I thought they were all shut down!
These torture? centers have friends in very high places. Mel Sembler, a former Bush appointee and fundraiser for Romney started this shit. They all deserve the death penalty!
Watch “SAFE = Straight Inc.” videos and look at the similarities. These programs vigorously deny being “Straight” but countless people who were in Straight have admitted that it looks like nothing has changed after viewing? these videos. What is shocking isn’t what you see in these videos but what they don’t allow you to see. they are a Cult and they hide their true intentions.