Pathway Family Center has told parents the program will be closing Friday, July 17.

July 16, 2009: Pathway Family Center has told parents the program will be closing Friday, July 17.

On July 14, 2009, we announced that the owner of the property leased by the Indianapolis Pathway Family Center facility had filed a “COMPLAINT FOR EVICTION AND DAMAGES AND TO ACCELERATE RENTS” against the program. Today, July 24, 2009, we learned the case was settled out of court. Details will be posted here as they become available.
Click here to see the lawsuit

The Pathway programs are direct descendants of Straight, Inc.

Straight, Inc. is considered to be one of the most abusive programs in United States history and
has been classified as a cult.

Straight, Inc. Michigan closed in 1993, not long after the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that “Michigan regulators plan to inspect the facility weekly, after finding the program had twice inappropriately restrained clients, injuring one. Michigan has ordered the program to get a residential license, entailing more stringent inspection of host home arrangements.”

Helen Gowanny, the director of Straight, Inc. Michigan, along with the parents of some graduates, then opened Pathway Family Center.

Terri Nissley, the current director of Pathway Family Center, was one of those parents. Her daughter is a graduate of Straight, Inc. Michigan.

The after-care coordinator at the Indiana facility is reported to be a Straight, Inc. graduate as well.

A relative of Ambassador Mel Sembler – the founder of Straight, Inc. – was a client at Pathway and ISAC has received reports
that the child was allowed to fly to Florida for the weekends.

Other children in the facility are not offered such privileges.

Former clients have told ISAC that Mel and Betty Sembler were named on the “host home list” even though they live in Florida and Pathway is located in
Michgan and Indiana.

According to survivors, the program is still very much like Straight, Inc.

Contrary to the claims of parents, this news footage shows that first phase clients weren’t allowed to wear shoes in the building in 2003.

One survivor has reported being forced to wear wet socks
and pants all day after a toilet overflowed in the facility.

He requested permission to change his soiled clothing, and was refused.

A 2003 investigation by ISAC revealed that Pathway was placing children in host/foster homes even though they are not licensed by the state to do so.

As a result of our investigation and subsequent report, Pathway Family Center was placed on probation by the Council on Accreditation (COA) in 2003.

Pathway director Terri Nissley, then sent these letters to representatives of various state agencies.

In the letters, Nissley deliberately directed people to the wrong website, said ISAC is “fighting on behalf of the disease,” and accused us of using “unethical and inappropriate methods” to discredit the program when in FACT, we filed formal complaints with the appropriate state agencies and the Council on Accreditation.

In March 2006, Pathway Family Center acquired control of Kids Helping Kids (details located below).

Kids Helping Kids was formerly known as Straight Midwest.

Please visit our Kids Helping Kids page for more information.

In 2007, Pathway was again put on probation by the Council on Accreditation. Instead of fixing the problems that led to probation, Pathway applied for, and was granted accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).

Pathway Family Center has been evicted

This is basically video of an empty parking lot and a vacant building. Pathway Family Center was evicted for not paying rent for several months. I posted this video taken from the day of the eviction on youtube.

The remaining 11 Pathway kids are being held at secret host homes 24/7, and it is rumored that Pathway will be closing mid-August. At this time, no one has mentioned where these kids are being held exactly.

It is rumored that Terri Nissley is working with parents to start a Pathway spinoff under a different name at a different location and to be run as a non-profit under the names of some of the parents. I hope this does not happen as it has in the past.

Pathway Family Center

This site is dedicated to exposing the truth about Pathway Family Center. There are many people who have reportedly been harmed by the treatment they received at Pathway Family Center. There are also very many people who have reportedly been harmed by this program’s predecessor, STRAIGHT INC. In addition, there are many people who were reportedly harmed in various ways by the methods used by Kids Helping Kids, which was a Pathway Family Center until recently and affirmably a STRAIGHT INC. descendant. The history of these interrelationships will be explained further in the Pathway Origins section of this site.

Check it out: http://www.pfctruth.com/

Kids Helping Kids( A Pathway family Center)- Milford, Ohio- closed down?

This just in…….Several eye witnesses have observed that Kids Helping Kids ( a Pathway Family Center) located at 6070 Branch-Hill Guinea Pike in Milford Ohio, has had no clients at the building for a total of four days now.

Apparently, a few days ago the President of the International Survivors Action Committee (ISAC), William Earnshaw, reported this fact to Mr. Jim Lapczynski, a legal representative of ODADAS (Ohio Department Of Alcohol & Drug Addiction Services), and Mr. Lapczynski knew nothing about it.

William Earnshaw is also reporting now that a program parent has indicated that Kids Helping Kids( a Pathway Family Center) in Milford, Ohio has been shut down. When a source called The program to verify that the program is in fact shut down, the program denied that they are shut down, and are now claiming that they are using the Milford, Ohio branch as an assessment program.

Dear Kids Helping Kids, a Pathway Family Center,

I just would like to personally know which option it really is: a.) Shut the fuck down? or is it option b.) assessment facility? You people cannot have it both ways.

An email was sent to the president and CEO of Pathway Family Centers, Teri Nissley, to request verification of an answer either way. As of yet the email has yet to be returned with an answer.Also another thing, always remember this: one down …two to go! Protesters are not going away anytime soon.

love ye!

-Your favorite protester

Deprogrammed

AGAIN I REPEAT KHK IN MILFORD OHIO HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN SOURCES SAY!

Stay tuned we will have a follow up article soon, with interviews and everything

Source: http://pathwayfamilycenter.fornits.com/

DEAR PFC EXPOSED, Your Website is a sad joke.

Here is an email that I received yesterday morning from an apparently cowardly and anonymous source yet to be named. I say to the source,” If ye feel so strongly in your opinion then show yourself and personally stand by your convictions. As for the website or anyone that is involved with the website being even remotely involved with the organization HEAL(Human Animal Earth Liberation), it is simply not true. Although, we do not refute HEAL, we also do not condone or endorse HEAL either.

Without any further procrastination, I give you the email that I have received:
from Rusty Nail Tetnus to pathwayfamilycentersexposed@gmail.com
date Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:19 AM
subject Your website is a sad joke.
mailed-by hotmail.com

Dear PFC “Exposed” :

It is obvious that you’ve decided to join forces with HEAL and bombard the internet with propaganda against Pathway Family Center. It’s very amusing that you’ve tried to “distance” yourself from the others and create a “show” of dischord when everyone knows you all work together to fight the “bad” program called Pathway Family Center.

Pathway Family Center and its staff are not fooled by your online “disagreements” with “WDTony” and know exactly what kind of game you all think you are playing. You can create as many websites against Pathway Family Center as you wish. It won’t work. You are weak and foolish children playing online games and no one is buying it.

You only make yourselves look more idiotic by playing these games. Leave Pathway Family Centers alone. You did not close Kids Helping Kids. It was closed in order to consolidate and strengthen the Indianapolis and Chicagoland facilities. You may have noticed other successful and good treatment centers, such as Aspen Education Group, have done the same thing in these troubling economic times. How dare you claim that your actions over the last few years closed down a good program. It did nothing. You are weak and you will never achieve anything more than chasing your own tails.

I hope everyone looking for a good program sees how you and your “friends” operate and fool the public with games of argument on your little fornits pages and elsewhere online. Who cares? You all look like idiots. Stop the bullshit and come clean about what you are really up to, you drugged out freaks. Everyone at Pathway knows you are only trying to make money and give the “finger” to people who’ve done nothing to harm you. Get over yourselves.

In All Sincerity,

Rusty

Here is a disclaimer on the website: http://pathwayfamilycenter.fornits.com/about/

Disclaimer: This website is not in any way, shape or form affiliated with the organization HEAL(Human Earth Animal Liberation), or any other organization for that matter.