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THE BREAKING CODE SILENCE MOVEMENT

 

WHAT IS BREAKING CODE SILENCE?

#breakingcodesilence is a social movement organized by activists and survivors
of institutional child abuse to raise awareness of the problems in the Troubled
Teen Industry, and the need for reform.  By using our many voices to tell our
stories, we aim to create change and protect vulnerable youth from abuse.

The “Troubled Teen” Industry:
An expansive network of residential programs and facilities which claim to
treat, reform, or rehabilitate “troubled youth”.

 

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A TROUBLED INDUSTRY

THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN ARE HELD WITHIN THE TROUBLED TEEN INDUSTRY EACH YEAR.

Behavior Modification programs advertise themselves as premier rehabs,
residential treatment centers, therapeutic boarding schools and wilderness
programs when really, they are for-profit, privately-run detention centers.
Desperate parents are deceived and the children they claim to help, are
subjected to abuse. Due to lack of government oversight, many programs are
improperly regulated or operating fully unregulated.



Children can be held for years without consent, due process and without true
medical need. The “treatment” these children receive is too often far from
therapeutic. This fraudulent industry has thrived for decades despite constant
allegations of Physical abuse, neglect, psychological harm, sexual abuse,
pseudoscientific practices, and negligence resulting in death. Many of these
programs have been shut down, only to rebrand, reopen, or have others take their
place.


Widespread institutional child abuse has been accounted by many and well
documented throughout the decades. This experience can leave survivors with
lifelong trauma, including Complex PTSD. Hundreds of children have died in these
programs, or taken their own life in an attempt to escape the trauma. Without
government intervention, thousands of children will continue to suffer in
silence.


 

What is “Code Silence”?

Many TTI programs severely restrict communication and employ punishments called
“Code Silence” (this specific term was used first in the program Casa By The
Sea). This oppressive silence is used to control children through social
isolation until they reach a breaking point. Code Silence can last for days,
weeks, months, even up to years, if the student does not progress in the levels.
This form of treatment causes feelings of frustration, abandonment and
separation anxiety (the side effects have proven to result in complex trauma
symptoms years after release). By literally taking these children’s voices away,
the program takes away their right to express themselves, report abuse, and make
relationships with their peers. Socialization and the developing brain of a
teenager are extremely important. In a toxic totalitarian environment, the last
thing a child needs is to be silenced, and that silence ends today…

The #BreakingCodeSilence campaign was originally created in 2014 as a
collaboration of advocacy networks like WWASP Survivors, Safe Teen Schools and
SIA to encourage survivors of institutional abuse to stand up and testify about
the abuse in their programs. We speak out today not for ourselves, but for all
the victims suffering with no voice and no hope of rescue.

By telling Our Stories, we will speak so that they can be heard.



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