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After abuse probe, another Sequel-run program that housed California youth will close Joaquin Palomino and Sara Tiano and Cynthia Dizikes
One of the nation’s largest youth residential treatment programs is shutting down after California officials, prompted by a Chronicle and Imprint investigation into rampant abuse allegations, decided to stop sending vulnerable children there.
The closure of Clarinda Academy the flagship facility of Sequel Youth & Family Services, a for-profit company based in Alabama marks the second Sequel campus to shut down in as many weeks.
Leaders of Sequel said in a statement Monday that they had conducted a “review” of Clarinda’s residential program in southwest Iowa for children with behavioral and emotional problems, before deciding to end the decades-long contract. Late last month, Normative Services, a Sequel-run program in Wyoming where children reported being choked, dragged on the ground and threatened by staff members
Amid abuse reports, Sequel-run facility that treated California children will close
Jan. 28, 2021
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Sequel Youth & Family Services announced this week that it will close Wyoming residential campus Normative Services Inc. “after an evaluation of viability” of the program.Ashleigh Snoozy / Sheridan Press
A Wyoming treatment center where California had long sent troubled youth will shut down in March, following a Chronicle and Imprint investigation into violent abuse at its campus and others operated by Sequel Youth & Family Services.
The decision to close Normative Services Inc., a program for youth with behavioral and emotional problems in Sheridan, Wyo., is “not in any way related to any issues or concerns with the care and high quality services provided,” Sequel officials said in a news release Wednesday. Instead, they said, they arrived at the decision after “an evaluation of viability” of the program.