The Consent Architecture
The Consent Architecture
How the Troubled Teen Industry doesn’t just override a child’s refusal: it engineers the conditions that make refusal impossible
The Parents as a Vector
The Parents as a Vector
How the TTI’s intake pipeline is engineered to exploit parental fear, and why assigning blame to parents without examining that structure is a misreading of how the system works
Laundering Harm
Laundering Harm
Why TTI facilities close, rebrand, and reopen with near-zero institutional memory of prior harm, and a proposal for mandatory harm provenance disclosure in facility licensing
Behavior Modification as an Ideology
Behavior Modification as an Ideology
How TTI programs deliver institutional harm through behavioral control systems, and why the people implementing them do not need to intend abuse for the harm to be predictable and measurable
The Middlemen Problem
The Middlemen Problem
by Dr. Corey Jentry
The Referral Economy
One of the stranger features of American behavioral […]
When “Therapeutic” Group Homes Become Pipelines to Trafficking: What’s Happening in Queen Creek, Arizona
When “Therapeutic” Group Homes Become Pipelines to Trafficking: What’s Happening in Queen Creek, Arizona
By Meg Appelgate, Founder & CEO, Unsilenced Project, Inc. March 15th, 2026
I’ve spent the better part of the […]
End the TTI
End the TTI – The mission here at End the TTI is to help end the programs that for years have taken advantage of desperate families and desperate youth that are struggling with substance abuse or mental health issues along with supporting survivors of these programs in healing from damage caused by these programs.
Southern Poverty Law Center
Southern Poverty Law Center – The Southern Poverty Law Center is an American 501 nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. The SPLC stands up for the powerless, the exploited and other victims of discrimination and hate. For more than four decades, they won landmark cases that brought systemic […]
American Civil Liberties Union
American Civil Liberties Union – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1920 “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.” The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and […]
National Youth Rights Association
National Youth Rights Association – NYRA is the nation’s largest organization fighting for the rights of all young people. The National Youth Rights Association, or NYRA (NYE-ruh), was formed in 1998 by a group of young people who wanted to challenge the age discrimination and prejudice they were experiencing. Realizing that ageism is similar […]