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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 ...
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 States.…
Jan 5, 2022 · The website Legacy of CEDU, which was created to "collect and preserve information about what life was like for survivors over the history and evolution of CEDU" writes that CEDU's institutions were "coined emotional growth boarding schools, wilderness therapy, and tough love for troubled youth," but "in reality they were private residential treatment facilities practicing cultic and grueling ...
Jun 25, 2018 · CEDU was licensed by the state of California as a group home— a fact the program tried to conceal. I was sent to CEDU’s remote compound in the San Bernardino Mountains for adolescent ...
Jun 8, 2020 · The controversial Cedu School had roots in the violent cult Synanon, as explored on the podcast “Lost Kids” and Oxygen’s “Deadly Cults.”. Lisa and Wayne Yuen felt they were running out of options for helping their 16-year-old son, Daniel, who was both socially withdrawn and acting out at school. The Edison, New Jersey couple took him ...
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.”. Several Synanon acolytes worked at CEDU ...
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.”. Another change ...
