When SCS was in the process of applying to be a fully licensed mental health agency, we received a report with criticisms of the way the organization was run. Some of the critiques were that the dress, demeanor, etc. of the staff would turn off any middle or upper-class youth or adults” and that poor people “didn’t have sexual orientation problems”. Cindy Gipple, a counselor at the time, said that “We don’t maintain the same values as the regular institutions. We challenge the system and they don’t like that”.
