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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.
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.”
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.
Mar 1, 2023 · The company that eventually bought CEDU Educational Services, Inc. declared bankruptcy in 2005. According to a partial call history covering 1997-2005 previously obtained by LAMag, the Twin...
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.
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.
