The disciplinary action comes after criticism that Utah’s history of lax regulation helped fuel the state’s booming teen treatment industry. There are more kids sent to Utah to treatment programs than any other state — and it’s not even close.
than any other state — and it’s not even close. Over six years, from 2015 to 2020, 34% of all teens who crossed state lines to enter a youth treatment program ended up in Utah, according to state data. And it’s estimated these teens bring hundreds of millions of dollars into Utah’s economy every year, according to aUtah regulators lightly regulated these programs until two years ago,— the first increase in regulations in 15 years.
Investigators noted six specific times this happened in the 164-bed facility located on busy St. George Boulevard, including in February when staff put a child who was not a threat to themselves or others ina type of restraint taught to employees at “troubled teen” facilities across Utah. It involves a staffer pushing a kid’s hand into his forearm as the wrist bends forward — the silhouette resembling a goose’s neck — until the pain causes a child to comply.
And in June, regulators said, a staff member slapped a child and pushed them to the ground, which Child Protective Services classified as physical abuse. This included a May incident when state investigators learned in interviews that a staff member at the 70-bed ranch in Hurricane held down a youth who was not an immediate risk to themselves while commenting that the teenager “liked having their face rubbed in the dirt.” That young person was injured as a result of the restraint. State regulators say Child Protective Service found it was “physical abuse” and the staff member was cited by law enforcement.
Norm Thibault, the owner of Three Points Center, said he’s “disappointed” in the disciplinary action. “If we have a student who decides to go AWOL on campus and climbs up a 100-foot cliff, is that imminent danger or are they just having fun and doing a walkabout?” he asked. “Do we have the right to go hands-on with that student to keep them from climbing that cliff or not? It’s really subjective right now.”“It’s not that the rules are ambiguous,” he said. “It is just that we have learned that we need to come up with a little bit more clear language in some of the pieces of our processes.
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