We are a group of former students who have reconnected through the Internet and
wish to
publicize our experiences
with New Horizons Youth Ministries. We range in age from our teens to our 40s, and
attended "The Program" between 1970 to 2005. New Horizons purports to help adolescents
through "Christian milieu therapy" but in fact does more harm than good. Most of
our complaints center on Escuela Caribe, the boot camp located in the Dominican
Republic, where we witnessed and experienced physical and emotional abuse and had
our communications to and from our families censored to keep us from divulging the
truth. We are now free to do so, and hope to dissuade more parents from subjecting
their children to the trauma we lived.
To inform parents and the general public about the reform school organization,
which includes:
