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Hurricane, UT Breaks Ground on New Robert Lichfield Recreation Center

In 1998, Utah businessman Robert Lichfield started the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASP) as an umbrella company for numerous Troubled Teen Industry programs in the United States as well as a number of third-world countries. For over twenty years, children in 49 WWASP programs around the world endured unspeakable abuse and neglect while Lichfield profited and prospered.

In 2022, Hurricane, UT mayor Nanette Billings approached Lichfield to request the use of an unassembled, prefabricated building owned by Lichfield for the city’s new recreation center.

Lichfield agreed to donate the building to the City of Hurricane and it was decided that the recreation center would be named the Robert “Bob” Lichfield Recreation Center.

Considering the vast and countless instances of horrific child abuse that occurred within WWASP programs, the Troubled Teen Industry survivor community, understandably, is outraged, appalled, and deeply hurt by the willingness of Billings and the City of Hurricane to so blatantly dismiss and devalue the traumatic experiences of WWASP survivors by demanding that Lichfield’s name be on this public building because he gifted it, saving the city millions and allowing an alternative funding source other than taxpayer dollars.

The State of Utah Denies License Renewal to Diamond Ranch Academy

Following the medical neglect death of student Taylor Goodridge on December 20, 2022, Diamond Ranch Academy was put on Conditional Status.

On July 11, 2023, the State of Utah denied DRA's request to renew their license to operate, and forced the closure of the program on August 14, 2023.

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