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Hey friends.

In this episode, Kat, a survivor of two therapeutic boarding schools, Copper Canyon

Academy, and Aldrin Academy, shares their experiences with us. Copper Canyon Academy, or

CCA, is a therapeutic boarding school for girls in Rimrock, Arizona, founded in 1998, by siblings Tammy Berman

and Darren Prince, with multiple sources also naming Patty Bowman as a founder. In 2002, the school was

acquired by Aspen Education Group, which later became a subsidiary of CRC Health Group, a U.S.

company that focused on addiction and dual diagnosis treatment.

In 2006, CRC was purchased by the private equity firm Bain Capital.

As we've discussed already this season, Bain Capital was co-founded by Mitt Romney,

who also had connections to Robert Litchfield, the founder of the Worldwide Association of

Specialty Programs and Schools, otherwise known as the Wasp Network. The Wasp Network was an

umbrella organization that connected various for-profit

companies, including those involved with educational consulting, marketing, adolescent transportation,

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