Stopping institutional Child Abuse
Unsilenced aims to end institutional child abuse within the Troubled Teen Industry (TTI), hold abusive programs accountable, and support survivors in their pursuit of justice and healing. Utilizing education and awareness, survivor support, and justice support, Unsilenced aims to protect the civil, social, and human rights of youth.
Stopping Institutional CHILD ABUSE
Unsilenced aims to end institutional child abuse within the Troubled Teen Industry (TTI), hold abusive programs accountable, and support survivors in their pursuit of justice and healing.
Utilizing education and awareness, survivor support, and justice support, Unsilenced aims to protect the civil, social, and human rights of youth.
The Troubled Teen Industry (TTI)
Every Child Counts
Each year, thousands of children are taken against their will — many pulled from their beds in the middle of the night by strangers — and placed in private facilities marketed to parents, therapists, courts, and insurance companies as legitimate therapeutic care. These programs go by a myriad of names, like “Therapeutic Boarding Schools”, “Residential Treatment Centers,” “boot camps,” “religious academies,””wilderness therapy,” and “group homes.” These programs form a largely unregulated network known as the Troubled Teen Industry (TTI).
Rather than delivering the evidence-based treatment they promise, many TTI facilities subject young people to physical, verbal, and sexual abuse, forced isolation, hard labor, chemical sedation, food and sleep deprivation, attack therapy, and civil rights violations. In the most devastating cases, young people don’t make it home at all.
Thousands of survivors have come forward about the abuse they endured. Unsilenced exists to amplify their voices and fight for accountability — through education, survivor support, and access to justice.
It is time to believe the survivors.
It is time to take action.
What is the Troubled Teen Industry?
Right now, 120,000 – 200,000 young people are receiving “treatment” in a Troubled Teen Industry-related facility in the United States, and that number only increases every year.
What is the Troubled Teen Industry, and why should you care?
This short video answers these questions and more. Watch below.
Stand4Them Campaign: Behind Every Statistic is a CHILD
Every year, young people are harmed inside the Troubled Teen Industry. Some survive. Some don’t. Too many are forgotten.
Stand4Them is our campaign to ensure they’re not.
Behind every statistic is a real teenager who deserved protection — not harm. This campaign allows you to dedicate your gift to a survivor or loved one and have your name placed alongside theirs on our website — a public promise that their story matters. Set up a recurring donation, and receive a 10% off our new line of merch!
Stand4Them Campaign: Behind Every Statistic is a CHILD
Every year, young people are harmed inside the Troubled Teen Industry. Some survive. Some don’t. Too many are forgotten. Stand4Them is our campaign to ensure they’re not. Behind every statistic is a real teenager who deserved protection — not harm. This campaign allows you to dedicate your gift to a survivor or loved one and have your name placed alongside theirs on our website — a public promise that their story matters. Set up a recurring donation, and receive a 10% off our new line of merch!
2 WAYS TO PARTICIPATE
ONE-TIME DONATION
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Become a Stand4Them Supporter and be recognized by name next to the person you’re honoring.
MONTHLY RECURRING DONATION
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Become a Stand4Them Sustainer and receive 10% off our new merch line + a personalized memorial social post dedicated to your chosen survivor or loved one.
What is the Troubled Teen Industry, and why should you care?
Watch the video below
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