Tag: Cross Creek Manor

• The Book Report That Saved Me: How Drew Barrymore’s Little Girl Lost Helped Me Survive the Troubled Teen Industry

  

  When I was trapped inside the walls of Cross Creek Manor, a so-called “therapeutic” program for “troubled teens,” my world had shrunk to a series of rigid rules, forced confessions, and a constant battle to prove I was worthy of basic human dignity. There was no escape—not physically, and certainly not mentally. Every day felt…

  jessicawoodville

  March 10, 2025

  Personal Essays, Troubled Teen Industry

  A Child Called It, Adverse Childhood Experiences, autobiography, biographies, book report, book-review, book-reviews, books, cptsd, Cross Creek Manor, Educated, Glass Castle, little girl lost, lockdown, resilience, Stop Banning Books, survival, trama, Troubled Teen Industry, unsilenced, writing

• Post-Incarceration Syndrome and the Forgotten Survivors of the Troubled Teen Industry

  

  The troubled teen industry (TTI) is a billion-dollar network of behavior modification programs, including wilderness therapy camps, therapeutic boarding schools, boot camps, and residential treatment centers. Marketed to desperate parents as a last resort for their struggling children, these programs promise transformation and healing. But as a survivor of the TTI myself, I can tell…

  jessicawoodville

  March 6, 2025

  Adverse Childhood Experiences, Advocacy, Troubled Teen Industry

  Adverse Childhood Experiences, Boarding School Syndrome, cptsd, Cross Creek Academy, Cross Creek Manor, institutional care, mental health, PICS, Post Incarceration Syndrome, prison reform, recovery, resilience, suburbias dirty little secret, teens for profits, Troubled Teen Industry, TTI, world wide association of specialty programs and schools, WWASP