Ladoga Acedemy is closing down.

ex employee wrote:

Ladoga Acedemy was poorly operated. They tried to run a treatment facility with kids straight out of the ghetto. They didnt pay thier employees enough to deal with all the crap these kids would do. With a high employee turnover rate Ladoga could not provide a safe enviroment for these children and thier staff. Thank god this building is shutting down!

ex employee wrote:

Ladoga Acedemy was poorly operated. They tried to run a treatment facility with kids straight out of the ghetto. They didnt pay thier employees enough to deal with all the crap these kids would do. With a high employee turnover rate Ladoga could not provide a safe enviroment for these children and thier staff. Thank god this building is shutting down!

Ex-student wrote:

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Not only was it poorly operated, it was a terrible concept to begin with. The people running the place tried to combine "therapy" (which was a joke) with military discipline. When I was there, since I had admitted to trying alcohol (I could have counted the number of times on one hand, at that point), I was put into Alcoholics Anonymous, and told that I could not say the word "only," because this was "minimizing my behavior." Graduating from this group treatment was one of the conditions of me leaving.
All of the "therapists" on staff were poorly educated graduate students with a cookie-cutter mentality about the children they were working with (I wasn't "ghetto" either, so they were completely clueless as to what to do with me).
The staff members were, for the most part, either ex-military or reservists, with little to no training on how to deal with an "escalating" teenage girl.(Hint: Push-ups will not make me a more productive citizen). I absolutely agree that they were also under-paid and under-trained, not to mention under-equipped.
There were only two types of people who worked there (and, indeed, at ANY juvenile facility); People who genuinely wanted to help troubled children, and people who were on a power-trip. Sadly, there were not enough of the former, and most of them quit within a matter of months.
The last I had heard when I left Ladoga was that all the girls from my county were being pulled out and placed somewhere else, since the brochures/program directors/whoever had lied about what was being offered at the facility (They still do... Look up their website). I am shocked to see that it lasted this long (but not in the least surprised to see that there was a riot there two years ago). Goodbye, Ladoga, and good riddance!