By Anonymous: 2024-2025 I faced the shame of being treated like an outsider in my self and the people around me. I was forced into a person I didn't recognize, and I lost so much of a childhood it's depressing. Everyone believes SHA saved my life and gave me hope and a relationship with God. [...]
Midwest Academy, Sunset Bay, Hosanna, Coastal Harbor, and Camp Consequence
By Anonymous: 2008-2016 At Camp Consequence, there were kids as young as eight getting physically abused, they would be extremely homophobic and transphobic, they would force us to practice Christianity, and if we wouldn’t we did not get basic rights, if we were punished we were not allowed to have a full meal or sleep [...]
Ridge Creek School
By Harley: 2010 – 2011 I was in the troubled teen industry from October of 2010 until July of 2012. I was fifteen years old when I went in and seventeen when I got out. I have bipolar disorder and autism and my entire childhood had been difficult because of these things. My relationship with [...]
Coastal Harbor Residential Treatment Center
By Anonymous: 2019 When I arrived at Coastal Harbor, it was my second time around however this time, I stayed for roughly 5/6 months on the residential side, on the girls unit for ‘aggressive girls’ as they (the staff) called it. I think the easiest way to give this testimony by giving events in chronological [...]