74: [Matt Cohn] The Human Cost Is Too High // Part 2

What Came Next

Broken Cycle Media

Documentary, Education, True Crime, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Content warning: suicidal ideation, suicide, substance abuse, substance use disorder, violence, brutality, institutional abuse, child abuse, physical, emotional, mental, and sexual abuse, cults, kidnapping, and the troubled teen industry.

As shared in Part 1 of his story, Matt Cohn is a business professional and musician from Los Angeles, California. His personal history with What Came Next host, Amy, begins in the early 2000s when they were connected through mutual friends. At the time, Matt had just been released from the troubled teen industry, and shared very little of his experiences of abuse. In fact, it wasn't until he watched the 2024 Netflix documentary, The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping, that he was confronted with the extent of all of the horrors he had seen and faced. Admittedly, it was a validating, eye opening experience for him to watch the documentary. The Broken Cycle Media team is extremely grateful for his candidness today, as well as all of his efforts he's making to change the troubled teen industry.

The Program: Cons, Cults, & Kidnapping:
https://www.netflix.com/title/81579761

The Public Health Post on the TTI:
https://publichealthpost.org/mental-behavioral-health/troubled-teen-industry/

Research & Articles on the TTI via Unsilenced:
https://www.unsilenced.org/research/

National Youth Rights Association on the TTI:
https://www.youthrights.org/issues/medical-autonomy/the-troubled-teen-industry/

Government Accountability Office on 'Residential Programs:'
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-08-713t

American Bar Association: Five Facts About TTI
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/resources/newsletters/childrens-rights/five-facts-about-troubled-teen-industry/

Senate Hearing on TTI:
https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/senate-investigation-slams-residential-treatment-centers-for-children-as-warehouses-of-neglect/250056

For more resources and a list of related non-profit organizations please visit http://somethingwaswrong.com/resources

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0:00.0	What Came Next is intended for mature audiences only.
0:04.4	Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering,
0:07.1	such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, animal abuse, suicide, and murder.
0:13.7	I am not a therapist, nor am I a doctor.
0:17.0	If you're in need of support, please visit something was wrong.com
0:20.7	forward slash resources for a list of non-profit organizations that can help.
0:26.2	Opinions expressed by my guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of myself or broken cycle media.
0:34.9	Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. Thank you so much for
0:40.3	listening. As shared in part one of his story, Matthew Cohn is a business professional and musician from Los Angeles, California.
1:12.9	Our personal history begins in the early 2000s when we were connected through mutual friends.
1:19.3	At the time, Matt shared very little of his experiences of abuse in the troubled teen industry.
1:25.8	In fact, it wasn't until he watched the 2004 Netflix documentary, The Program,
1:33.1	cons, cults, and kidnapping, that he truly came to terms with all of the horrors he had
1:39.3	seen and faced.
1:41.2	Admittedly, it was a validating, eye-opening experience for him to watch.
1:46.3	The Broken Cycle Media team is extremely grateful for his candidness today, as well as all of
1:52.2	his efforts he's making to change the troubled teen industry.
2:00.1	In the almost four years that I was in these programs, I did not go to school.
2:06.3	I turned 18 with an eighth grade education.
2:09.2	I get out June 2004.
2:11.4	I turn 18 and I age out.
2:13.5	I'm unceremoniously dumped on a plane back to Los Angeles. There are no resources to get me caught up to speed.
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