Welcome to the Troubled Teen Industry Watchdog website.

This website is dedicated to exposing the truth about the ‘Troubled Teen Industry’ in the United States of America for the purpose of protecting minors from abuse and parents from fraud.

The Troubled Teen Industry in the United States generates an estimated $2 Billion dollars per annum. However, despite these lucrative profits, there is currently zero federal oversight of the industry; and woefully inadequate to non-existent state regulation of the therapeutic boarding schools, residential treatment centers, bootcamps, wilderness programs and transport services which comprise the industry as a whole. As a result of this severe lack of regulation, abuse and fraud have become rampant.

Every single day in the United States teenagers are literally being dragged from their beds in the middle of the night by hired thugs, to be privately imprisoned by their parents without due process of law for an indefinite period of time. The teenagers in question have absolutely no ability to seek legal recourse in order to challenge their treatment or detainment. These unfortunate teenagers are totally cut off and isolated from the outside world, and possess no ability to seek help or raise the alarm, even if they are being horrendously mistreated and abused, in an industry where abuse is the rule and not the exception.

The Troubled Teen Industry will literally take any child for any reason – or no reason – because their motivation is singular: profit.

Whether a child is a drug-addicted, violent, gang-participating hooligan – or a polite, well-mannered and dedicated ‘A’ grade student, who styles their hair in a way their parents don’t happen to like – this sickening industry will take them, privately imprison them, and mistreat them, for as long as you – the parent – have the ability to pay for the privilege.

While we do not deny that many teenagers have genuine issues in need of professional help, this industry will not provide them with the solution; in fact, they will damage a child considerably more. The teenage captives held in these facilities receive virtually no legitimate help and derive essentially no benefit from the experience of having attended a program, despite parents paying extortionate annual charges more costly than a years’ tuition at Harvard. Rather than providing quality care and education – unqualified, inexperienced, unlicensed and unsafe staff are commonplace – and programs will lie about it.

Please be warned by what you read about the troubled teen industry – it may cost you your child’s life or their future mental health and well-being if you fail to heed the warnings displayed on this website. Please make the right choice: Do not enrol your child in a troubled teen program, and if you already have done so, bring them home straight away.

Sincerely,

The TTI Watchdog Team.