Family Help & Wellness: Lawsuits Allege Trails Carolina Wilderness Program Misled Parents; Abused and Neglected Kids Instead of Helping Them

October 16, 2024

Family Help & Wellness, the owners of Trails Carolina, a wilderness therapy program with a dark history in western North Carolina, misled parents about the true nature of the program and charged "exorbitant" fees, two new lawsuits claim.

Trails Carolina had its license revoked and was forced to close after a 12-year-old boy suffocated to death during his first night in the program. As part of the program's protocol for new arrivals, the New York boy had been zipped inside a sleeping bivy, wrapped in plastic. An April report by the state found that the camp failed to check if the boy was breathing.

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