This is a staff list for Turn About Ranch in Escalante, UT
(a.k.a. Aspen Education Group, )
(we are working to acquire the complete records for ALL years)
We advise current and/or former staff to report any abuses you may have witnessed while working at Turn-About Ranch. For information on your rights and how to take action, visit www.heal-online.org/blowthewhistle.htm. If you were fired or forced to resign because you opposed any illegal and/or unethical practices at Turn-About Ranch, you have the right to take action.
If you were harmed (family or survivor) by Turn-About Ranch, please contact info@heal-online.org if you remember the long-term employees and from which years. This will help! Also, if you recognize any of these staff as having worked at another program, please send in any information about their past or present employment at other facilities and/or cults.
Please don’t place your loved one in Turn About Ranch and rescue them if they are there now.
|
Name |
Unit/Position |
Additional Information |
| Karen Munson | Academics Director | |
| Lori Beebe | Admin Asst | |
| RaeAnne Knight | Financial Mgr. | Knight has been with Turn About since 2001. |
| Annette Ormond | Operations Director | She has been with Turn-About Ranch since January of 1993. |
| Drew Fosse | Admissions | BYU graduate. Fosse no longer appears to work for this program. |
| Jamie Lyman | Admissions | |
| Yancy Whipple | Admissions Director | |
| Myron Carter | Barn Mgr. | Myron has been with Turn-About since it first started. Reportedly cruel and abusive (based on e-mail message from survivor received April 29th, 2011) |
| Steve Gessig | Program Supervisor | |
| Luke Hatch | Executive Director | Hatch has worked at other unnamed programs.* Reportedly cruel and abusive (based on e-mail message from survivor received April 29th, 2011) |
| Marty Ormond | Program Director | Marty has been with Turn-About Ranch since 1993. |
| Wayne Stinson | Program Supervisor | |
| Dave Treanor | Program Supervisor | |
| Traci Roundy | Nurse | Roundy has been at Turn About since 2007. |
| Debbie Allen | Residential | |
| Shelly Alvey | Residential | |
| Tom Alvey | Residential | Tom has worked for Turn-About Ranch since January 2002. Tom reportedly advocated for children in the program unsuccessfully. |
| Sam Alvey | Residential | |
| Nicole Beebe | Residential | |
| Ruby Begay | Residential | |
| Amanda Branscum | Residential | Branscum no longer appears to work at this program. |
| Keith Carter | Residential | Keith has worked for Turn-About Ranch since January, 2002. |
| Clayton Carter | Residential | Both of Clayton's parents worked at Turn-About when it first started. Carter no longer appears to work for this program. |
| Ashley Chidester | Residential | |
| Sue Christensen-Nelson | Residential | Sue took the night staff position in 1997. Christensen-Nelson reportedly no longer works at this program. |
| Vickie Crawford | Residential | Crawford no longer appears to work for this program. |
| Elizabeth Daiss | Residential | |
| Doug Davis | Residential | |
| Laura Engberg | Residential | |
| Ted Engberg | Residential | |
| Pratt Gates | Residential | |
| Allen Knight | Residential | Knight reportedly no longer works for this program. |
| Carol Kracht | Residential | |
| Owen Gonder | Residential | Gonder no longer appears to work for this program. |
| Martha Larson | Residential | Larson no longer appears to work for this program. |
| Debbie Lyman | Residential | Debbie has been with Turn About Ranch (TAR) since 2001. |
| Walt Mince | Residential | |
| Alan Mitchell | Residential | |
| "Jay" Nelson | Residential | Turn About put Jay's name in quotations. There is no other information regarding his name. He is night "security" for the program. |
| Randsome Owens | Residential | |
| Kim Porter (male) | Residential | |
| Allen Porter | Residential | |
| Peggy Pratt | Residential | |
| Dannie Pratt | Residential | |
| Dale Richards | Residential | Richards is originally from South Carolina. Richards is also reportedly a teacher and pastor at the program. |
| Brandi Schraft | Residential | |
| Ivan Singh | Residential | |
| Rex Stone | Residential | Rex Stone reportedly advocated for children in the program unsuccessfully. |
| Jimmy Woolsey | Residential | |
| Sabrina Hughes | Counselor | Hughes no longer appears to work for this program. |
| Gene King | Teacher | |
| Karl Spencer | Teacher | Graduate of BYU. Spencer has worked at programs in the following locations for 33 years in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, Guam, American Samoa, and Marshall Islands.* |
| Jeanne Fry | Therapist | Fry no longer appears to work for this program. |
| Dayna Rust | Clinical Director | Rust is originally from Lexington, KY. Rust began working at Turn About in 2004. Rust no longer appears to work for this program. |
| Jeremy Williams | Therapist | Williams no longer appears to work for this program. |
| Mark Anderson | Therapist | |
| Michelle Lindsay | Clinical Director | Lindsay formerly worked for Sun Hawk Academy and Aspen Achievement Academy as well as Homeward Bound. |
| Maria Oman | Therapist | |
| Pam Jenner | Residential | Pam Jenner reportedly advocated for children in the program unsuccessfully. |
| Doug Jenner | Residential | Pam Jenner's husband and also reportedly works in the barn. |
| NO OTHER NAMES | NO OTHER TITLES | There is no additional information on staff at this location at this time.* |
| *(Turn About Ranch, like many other programs in this industry, keeps a "tight lid" on any specific information regarding their staff, qualifications, and practices. Please contact us with the names of any staff of which you have firsthand knowledge or experience. Thank you for your help.) | ||
| Turn About Ranch is an Aspen Education Group program. Thomas J. Croke, Educational Consultant, has denounced Aspen Education Group for putting profits over the safety and care of children in Aspen programs. | ||
| HEAL has reviewed multiple Aspen Education Group contracts that appear to be illusory, unconscionable, void/voidable, and arguably illegal. Turn About Ranch does not make its enrollment materials available to the public. However, please see the reviews for Adirondack Leadership Expeditions, Aspen Achievement Academy, Aspen Ranch, Aspen Institute of Behavioral Assessment, and New Leaf Academy. It is our suggestion that families avoid doing business with Aspen Education Group and/or their individual programs. | ||
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