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Feb. 26th, 2016 03:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynHad a look at https://towerrunning.com/races.html . There's another Boston stair climb come early April. 46 floors up One International Place, which is about two blocks from my office. It's a fundraiser for an organization I'd never heard of before, Wediko Children's Services. Apparently they're a boarding school and summer camp for children (the school appears to be boys only but the camps are coed) with various forms of mental, emotional, behavioral, and learning issues. I got a little nervous straight off the bat, because the 'troubled teen' camps I've heard about have been unmitigated nightmares and the first permanent installation I thought of that dealt with kids with issues was the Judge Rotenberg Center. (Don't look that one up if you want to stay in any kind of decent mood. They're one Amnesty International violation after another, including the use of electric shocks on children.)
Fortunately, Wediko appears to be both legit and decent. I searched on 'Wediko reviews' and found a goodly number of positives from parents, a number of positives from staffers on glassdoor.com, and one blog from someone who'd been in their program something like twenty-five years ago. Didn't find anybody with awful things to say, didn't find even the slightest mention or reference on sites aimed at helping survivors of the really nightmarish troubled teen 'camps'. Found one court case that referenced them- but the reference was to Wediko evaluating and diagnosing a teenager with issues and suggesting a specific educational plan. When I searched for 'wediko horror stories' I got a lot of 'did you mean wendigo horror stories' and almost nothing that referenced the school itself. And when I searched for 'wediko accreditation' I found that their school had proper accreditation and regulation from the New Hampshire Department of Education, as well as several other states where they operate.
I honestly mean these people neither harm nor offense. It's just that if I'm going to be entering a race that raises money for them, I want to be absolutely sure that they are what they appear to be- a decent place that does genuine good, without gratuitous harm. They really do come across as a good place.
If anyone reading this happens to have personal experience with them, or knowledge of them, would you mind contacting me? I haven't registered for the event yet and I'm open to whatever information you might have.
Thanks.
Fortunately, Wediko appears to be both legit and decent. I searched on 'Wediko reviews' and found a goodly number of positives from parents, a number of positives from staffers on glassdoor.com, and one blog from someone who'd been in their program something like twenty-five years ago. Didn't find anybody with awful things to say, didn't find even the slightest mention or reference on sites aimed at helping survivors of the really nightmarish troubled teen 'camps'. Found one court case that referenced them- but the reference was to Wediko evaluating and diagnosing a teenager with issues and suggesting a specific educational plan. When I searched for 'wediko horror stories' I got a lot of 'did you mean wendigo horror stories' and almost nothing that referenced the school itself. And when I searched for 'wediko accreditation' I found that their school had proper accreditation and regulation from the New Hampshire Department of Education, as well as several other states where they operate.
I honestly mean these people neither harm nor offense. It's just that if I'm going to be entering a race that raises money for them, I want to be absolutely sure that they are what they appear to be- a decent place that does genuine good, without gratuitous harm. They really do come across as a good place.
If anyone reading this happens to have personal experience with them, or knowledge of them, would you mind contacting me? I haven't registered for the event yet and I'm open to whatever information you might have.
Thanks.
