Search results
CEDU Educational Services, Inc., known simply as CEDU (pronounced see-doo), was a company founded in 1967 by Mel Wasserman and associated with the troubled teen industry.
CEDU's schools used the confrontation model of Synanon. The CEDU model was widely influential on the development of parent-choice, private-pay residential programs. People originally inspired by their CEDU experience developed or strongly influenced a significant number of the schools in the therapeutic boarding school industry.
Jan 8, 2024 · CEDU operated until 2005, but was promptly purchased by Universal Health Services (UHS) a private-equity firm which owns multiple teen rehabilitation centers today.
Jun 8, 2020 · The controversial treatments at Cedu were first popularized in Synanon, a substance abuse treatment program founded in 1958. A recovering alcoholic named Charles Dederich started the program, and his methods “helped” addicts by humiliating and isolating them, forcing them into hard labor and keeping them from sleep, according to Mother Jones .
Jul 19, 2022 · CEDU Educational Services, Inc., is known by the four letter name simply as CEDU (pronounced see-doo) by the survivors of the cult for kids in California. CEDU was the brainchild and was...
In 1967, Mel Wasserman and his wife Brigitta founded CEDU Educational Services, Inc in California. Mel Wasserman had previously sponsored recovering addicts at nearby Synanon and highly regarded Charles E. Dederich. The name, CEDU, was thought to be an acronym for “Charles E. Dederich University.”.
People also ask
Who is CEDU Educational Services?
Where did CEDU come from?
What is a CEDU RAP program?
What does CEDU stand for?
Dec 23, 2019 · An Illinois freelance journalist was inspired by his personal experience at CEDU — widely recognized as the flagship enterprise of the "troubled teen boarding school" industry — to undertake an investigation of that facility. In 2018, he published an in-depth 16,000-word history of CEDU and its offshoots on Medium.com.
