Kids Helping Kids - Pathway Family Center

Click on: http://www.pfctruth.com/ I-Team Investigation: Nov. 13th 2005.

Follow-up report to this video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gy0xA3h3Sk&feature=channel_page

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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• Kids
• Helping
• Pathway
• Family
• Center
• Cult
• Brainwashing
• Torture
• teen
• subtance
• abuse
• teens
• drugs
• drug

[Varlwyll]

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.

[wdtony]

@Varlwyll ....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.

[Dkivett89]

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!

[wdtony]

@Dkivett89 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.

[hannahsuzy]

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....

[wdtony]

@hannahsuzy 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.

[HEALwantsTEENliberty]

Penny Walker's a lying bitch who should be prosecuted and sued for fraud.

[beatnikjd]

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!

[westchesterny]

@Varlwyll Wow...lol. You think that's what "being in society" is all about??? Extreme conformity. Lol, this place looks worse than catholic school.

[whit1981]

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.

[rossharmony]

@Dkivett89 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