This is a staff list for Mountain Homes Youth Ranch in Dinosaur, CO
(we are working to acquire the complete records for ALL years)
THIS PROGRAM IS CLOSED!
We advise current and/or former staff to report any abuses you may have witnessed while working at Mountain Homes Youth 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 Mountain Homes Youth Ranch, you have the right to take action.
If you were harmed (family or survivor) by Mountain Homes Youth Ranch, please contact [email protected] 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 Mountain Homes Youth Ranch and rescue them if they are there now.
|
Name |
Unit/Position |
Additional Information |
| Paulette Thurgood | Office Technician | Thurgood was educated in Utah. |
| Andrew Wardle | Public Relations | Educated at BYU (BYU is where cult-centered coercive thought reform techniques were first implemented in the wilderness setting.) |
| Frances Lewis | Case Manager | |
| Marilyn Phillips | Office Manager | Educated in Utah. |
| Marty Bingham | Program Director/Owner | Educated in Utah. He claims to have worked in a "wilderness treatment program" (no name given) prior to opening up his own scam/cult/program. |
| W. Christopher Tolen | Psychiatrist | |
| Derrik Tollefson | Therapist | Educated in Utah and worked at "unnamed" treatment centers for "troubled youth". |
| Jason Law | Therapist | Educated in Utah and worked at "unnamed" treatment centers for "troubled youth". |
| Todd Odell | Therapist | Educated in Utah. |
| Les Harris | Therapist | |
| Rob Caldwell | Clinical Director/Owner | Educated in Utah and worked at "unnamed" wilderness programs for teens. |
| Jolene Wallace | Teacher | |
| Dan Wallace | Teacher | Experience working at programs in Utah. |
| Landen Norris | Field Director | Educated in Utah and worked at "unnamed" residential treatment center prior to working for MHYR. |
| Isaac Wallace | Asst. Field Director | Originally from Provo, UT. |
| Daniel Campbell | Staff | |
| Mountain Homes Youth Ranch uses the same Positive Control Systems' methods as Eagle Ranch Academy and WWASPS. | ||
| HEAL has received 8 e-mails and/or phone calls from former "clients" and parents alleging abuse and other violations at this program. | ||
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