By Monica: 2014-2015 My name is Monica Mira, and I was 14 years old when I was sentenced to complete a program at a Residential Treatment Facility in San Antonio, TX called Hector Garza. This facility already had over 53 state violations with countless reports of physical and sexual abuse, along with documentation of severe [...]

By Anonymous: 2011-2017 I am a Turtle Island citizen (first nation). My family was very loving. I was first put into a a foster home on false grounds as a child in Ottawa, Ontario. I ended up getting assaulted by the biological child of the foster parents, and I was thrown of the second floor [...]

By Anonymous: 2009-2010 I was locked in my room 99% of the time as a 13-year-old girl. I was only allowed out to clean. I got swine flu and was given no medication and was isolated with little food and water and nobody checked on me. I fell and hit my head to where I [...]

By Katie: 1999 One night in early 1999, I was feeling like I was having another sinus infection. I had already slept a bit that day and it was early at night for me, but I did remember having a headache and mentioning it to my mom. I remember my mother giving me a red [...]

By Meg: 2001-2004 I was 15 years old in February of 2001 when I was abducted in the middle of the night by two people who told me that I had to “come with them”. They were very clear about my lack of choice in the matter by stating “we can do this the easy [...]

By Joel: 2006-2008 I wasn’t sexually abused, or even physically abused. For the longest time I couldn’t accept that I was abused at all. They do a good job scrubbing those suggestible little minds and turning them on each other to both spread and reinforce their twisted ideology. “Don’t be a victim” was always so [...]

By Kim: 1998-2003 In the spring of 1998, at age 12, I was sent to be evaluated by a therapist with supposed expertise in substance use problems after my mom found something written in my diary about drug use and was understandably concerned. I was never told the reason for the evaluation or asked about [...]

By Alex: 2004-2006 I was kidnapped from my bed in the middle of the night with my moms consent. Two people came into my room and took me from my bed by my hands and feet while I was kicking and screaming and then locked me in the back of an SUV. I arrivied to [...]

By Annalyse: 2011-2013 I had a really hard childhood growing up. It wasn’t my fault but my go to behavior was to self destruct. I was playing video games 24/7 in order to escape what I was dealing with at home. I had just returned home from a 10 month wilderness program called SOAR, but [...]

By Kyra: 2014-2015 Four days after New Year 2014, winter of my freshman year of high school, my parents made decision to send me to a wilderness therapy program in Utah based on the recommendation of my psychiatrist and education consultants. I’d been struggling for years with trauma, behavioral and relationship difficulties – both internally [...]