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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. The company owned and operated several therapeutic boarding schools licensed as group homes, wilderness therapy programs, [1] and behavior modification programs in California ...
I've heard that CEDU was labelled a drug rehab facility or group home/commune back when it started. I'd like to learn more about their early history. How they got started, who were their financial backers, were there any run-ins with the law back then, etc.
Dec 23, 2019 · In the 1960s and early ’70s, CEDU was more commonly called a “drug rehab” and a “self-help communal home” and a “self-help center” and an “alternative community” and a “foundation” and a “family.” And instead of “students,” you read about its “members” and “guests” and “residents.”
Former Synanon member Mel Wasserman founded CEDU Educational Services in 1967, a company which operated within the troubled teens industry. CEDU owned several for-profit therapeutic boarding schools, group homes, and behavior modification programs.
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...
The Cedu Documentary, “Surviving Cedu,” from filmmaker Liam Scheff (who was a student there), tells the story of a half-dozen teenagers who were each sent to the Cedu School, variously described to them as a standard boarding school, a wilderness adventure school, or a therapeutic learning environment in the Western mountains of the United ...
Aug 27, 2020 · 1. There were no treatment plans in the early days. Clinicians were not even employed at the CEDU programs until 1995 or 1998 (depending on the program). NOW: All teens and young adults in treatment programs have a treatment plan that is developed and tracked by the clinician/clinical team.
