Anonymous’ The High Frontier Testimony

2012-2013

At the High Frontier, I experienced physical and emotional abuse. When I turned 18 and tried to leave the facility, staff tackled me and I broke my ankle. They then restrained me in a van and placed me into an isolation room with no bed, pillows, or any […]

Sable’s Hector Garza Residential Treatment Center Testimony

2012-2016

Hector Garza center is a residential “treatment” facility in San Antonio Texas that I was placed at twice I’m the span of a few years while in CPS custody. I was placed in this and bounced between here and several other Texas facilities for 7 years […]

Taylor’s CALO Program Testimony

2022-2023

I was at CALO for 4 months in total until I got pulled for the abuse I endured. I just got back from treatment in general about a month ago. I’m autistic and suffer from extreme anxiety and depression. I was originally sent to CALO for because of a […]

Aimee’s Uinta Academy Testimony

2018-2021

I was 12 years old when I entered the TTI and my first official residential program was in Cache Valley, Utah—known as Uinta Academy. I was initially told I was going on a vacation to see my dad’s girlfriend’s (at the time) friend, “Sam.” We flew to Utah from […]

Silver’s Vantage Point Behavioral Health Hospital Testimony

2016-2017

I was in this program several times, and there are various things that occurred throughout my stays that stayed consistent and was never handled.

• Isolation Patients were placed on isolation where they were not allowed to even look in the direction of peers, participate in group […]
  

Silver’s Woodridge Of The Ozarks Testimony

2017

Within the first week or two of entering the program, I was attacked brutally and had an attempted murder by a patient, completely un-instigated. The patient had managed to obtain a butcher knife due to events going on that day and threw it at me. The knife […]

Irene’s Bluefire Wilderness Therapy Testimony

2020-2022

I knew I had problems, as they started in 6th grade. I would sneak out, vape, drink, skip class and I had (and still have) violent tendencies. and on November 4th 2020 I woke up to see two grown men standing in front of my bed. All I […]

Samantha’s New Leaf Academy (now Embark Behavioral Health) Testimony

2007-2009

We had a Dr. Hauschka skin care party, where they gave us samples of a rose body oil and lavender bath soap. I LOVED that rose body oil to death. There were 10 girls in a room, all sleeping on bunk beds and sharing […]

Anonymous’ Waterfall Canyon Academy Testimony

2012-2013

I was forced to watch kids eat dessert in front of me when I couldn’t have any; they would do “Brake Checks” in the vans where the staff was would hit the brakes hard in the middle of driving down a busy street and we’d injure ourselves by […]

Kelley’s A Better Way Youth Academy dba Robert Louis Stevenson dba Coral Reef Academy Testimony

1996-1997

I was sent to a foster home I believe Rodney Rice is sister in Utah for a week before I was sent to Western Samoa the first month what was then called Robert Louis Stevenson what is opened […]