Report Hyde School - Instructions

Hyde is accredited by NEASC. Contact them with complaints: https://www.neasc.org/contact.

From SCIAD/Unsilenced Facility Reporting Map

PROGRAM NAME
Hyde School

FACILITY ADDRESS
616 High St, Bath, ME 04530
STATE ME
TELEPHONE
(207) 443-5584

STATE LICENSE REPORTING
https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/ocfs/provider-resources/staff-development-training/reportable-events and
https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/ocfs/support-for-families/childrens-behavioral-health/services/grievance-policy

REPORT CHILD ABUSE
1-800-452-1999

REPORT HIPAA VIOLATION (violating patient health care privacy laws - it's a violation for any licensed health care professional - including a nurse, counselor, psychologist, or a social worker - to share any health information without your explicit consent with anyone. Not your family, not your discovery group leader - NO ONE MAY BE TOLD YOUR MENTAL OR PHYSICAL HEALTH INFORMATION BY A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT)
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/filing-a-complaint/index.html


REPORT A SOCIAL WORKER (Hyde sometimes has one social worker on staff - right now has Tonya Thurlow)
ME Professional Regulation: https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/home/file-a-complaint
National Association of Social Workers: https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Professional-Review/How-To-File-a-Complaint

REPORT A NURSE (Hyde usually has an RN on staff to give out meds)
https://www.maine.gov/boardofnursing/discipline/file-complaint.html

Currently: Teresa Coffey, RN 

For comments, additions, and/or feedback or just generally have questions about reporting, please email info@unsilenced.org


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To submit evidence, photos, forms, videos, testimony, stories, etc., showing suspect occurrences, abuse, etc., email hydeschoolsurvivors@gmail.com or info@unsilenced.org

Share your story/testimony with Unsilenced: unsilenced.org/submit-testimony/ for their archive

Write honest reviews on consumer review sites if you'd like. 

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Current Hyde School "counselor" Tonya Thurlow has a license in clinical social work that people can file complaints to the Board of Social Work about if she violates HIPAA, or other ethical/legal rules:


TONYA E. THURLOW
CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER

License Number: LC18646
Status: Active
Expiration Date: 07/31/2022
Licensed By: Examination

Mailing Address:
BRUNSWICK, ME 04011

History
License Type Start Date End Date
CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER 07/07/2020 07/31/2022

REPORT A SOCIAL WORKER
Maine Professional Regulation: https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/home/file-a-complaint

National Association of Social Workers: https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Professional-Review/How-To-File-a-Complaint
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From the HEAL Report

Covering 3 states: Bath Maine (boarding school, still open), Woodstock Connecticut (boarding school, open 1996-2017), and New York (Public Charter day Schools in Brooklyn and the Bronx, still open)

In Maine, the criminal statutes of limitation are 3 years on misdemeanors, 6 years on most felonies, and there is no statute of limitations on murder nor the rape of a minor under age 16 at time of offense. For civil suits in Maine, the statute of limitations is 6 years. In New York, the criminal statutes of limitation are 2 years on misdemeanors, 5 years on most felonies, and no statute of limitations for the crimes of rape and murder. For civil suits in New York, the statute of limitations is 3 years. Here are your options:

1. Report crimes such as fraud, assault, battery, false imprisonment, labor trafficking, and child abuse to law enforcement in Connecticut, Maine, and/or New York. You can call the Bath, ME Police at (207) 443-5563, New Haven, CT Police at (203) 946-6316, or Bronx, NY Police at (718) 402-2270 to inquire about filing an official complaint which may provide the probable cause needed to get a warrant for investigation and/or prosecution.

2. File a consumer complaint with your home state's attorney general against The Hyde School (Hyde) and include your request for compensation for any harm done to you. You can find the easy online forms for filing such a complaint (which may result in an investigation, prosecution, and/or civil resolution on your case) under your home state's (state where you currently reside) header at https://www.heal-online.org/report.htm . If your home state is Connecticut or you'd like to file with the Connecticut State Attorney General as a non-resident, here is that link: https://portal.ct.gov/DCP/Complaint-Center/Consumers---Complaint-Center If your home state is Maine or you'd like to file with the Maine State Attorney General as a non-resident, here is that link: https://www.maine.gov/ag/consumer/complaints/ And, if your home state is New York or you'd like to file with the New York State Attorney General as a non-resident, here is that link: https://ag.ny.gov/consumer-frauds/Filing-a-Consumer-Complaint

3. If you do not wish to file a consumer complaint, you can contact a private personal injury attorney and look into suing in tort/civil court. However, if you can't afford the retainer, you should expect to settle out of court with a non-disclosure agreement which may bar you from speaking publicly about the incident because you've agreed (even if with a grumbling assent) to the terms of the settlement. You can find legal resources at https://www.heal-online.org/legal.htm and legal causes of action related to institutionalized abuse claims at https://www.heal-online.org/legalarguments.htm .

4. You may post a statement about your experience at your program on by sending an e-mail to rev@cope.churchwith subject "Post My Feedback" and we will post your feedback (e-mail printed to .pdf disclosing your name and e-mail address and any information in your e-mail with that subject) to https://www.cope.church/feedback.htm and add a direct link to those .pdf files to this page .

5. You may also wish to provide a guest sermon. Guest sermons are posted at https://www.cope.church/sermons.htm, under Progress Reports/Guest Sermons at https://www.heal-online.org where appropriate, and on program info pages when applicable. So, one provided by you on your program would also be placed on this page. Guest sermons should be written into the body of an e-mail and sent to rev@cope.church. Your first and last name will be disclosed (contact info will not be unless you expressly ask for that). For sermons available on our site see https://www.cope.church/sermons.htm (and sermon archives linked on that page). If you have questions about this option, please contact rev@cope.church. Please see https://www.cope.church/givetoday.pdf to get an idea what your sermon may be worth.

For more info on the above tips, visit HEAL: http://www.heal-online.org/hyde.htm

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Other tips with less relevance because Hyde doesn't actually employ hardly any licensed medical professionals:

REPORT A DOCTOR (although Hyde has none that directly work at the school)
https://www.maine.gov/md/complaint/file-complaint

REPORT A THERAPIST (although Hyde has none that directly work at the school- has a social worker)
https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/home/file-a-complaint

REPORT A PSYCHOLOGIST (although Hyde has none that directly work at the school - just a social worker)
https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/home/file-a-complaint