Ivy Ridge was marketed as a boarding school for teens with behavioral issues. A state education official in 2006 called it, “principally a behavior modification center.” ...

Operated from 2001 to 2009, the Academy at Ivy Ridge was a private, for-profit boarding school. It billed itself as a behavior modification school for troubled and difficult teens.

Rob Pedersen, a student at Ivy Ridge from 2002 to 2004, helped to coordinate the rally. Similar to others, this was Pedersen’s first time visiting the area since he left the program.

Parents sent their disruptive kids to Ivy Ridge in a bid to improve their behaviour but despite costing families up to £140,000, the school was home to horrific practices including a “no camera ...

Apr. 20—Editor's note: This story contains descriptions of child abuse. OGDENSBURG — A man now in his late 30s who spent about a year at the Academy at Ivy Ridge as a teen remembers his time ...

OGDENSBURG, New York (WWNY) - The number one show on Netflix a year ago shook the North Country. It dealt with a long-closed ...

The Gist: Ivy Ridge was a disciplinary boarding school, where parents would send their “problem” teens. There, the teens are put in a multi-level program that’s intended as a behavior ...

Apr. 21—OSWEGATCHIE — A former Academy at Ivy Ridge employee who quit after working for about one month says the conditions there were abusive and manipulative not only for the students, but ...

According to North Country Public Radio, the New York State Attorney General’s Office previously investigated the school in 2005 after a riot was reported at Ivy Ridge. The school was forced to ...

Former pupil Katherine Kubler, who spent 15 months at Ivy Ridge from the age of 16, is now fronting a Netflix documentary, The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnappings.

Ivy Ridge was described to desperate parents as a place to send their disruptive kids in a bid to improve their behaviour. However, despite the shiny brochure billing the academy as a relaxing ...

Kidnapped at night, starved & brainwashed into sick ‘confessions’… inside ‘cult-like’ £140K Ivy Ridge school for teens. ... worried about normal teenage behaviour, ...