By Sacheen: 2019-2020 I sent my 15-year-old daughter to Kansas City Girls Academy in September of 2019 thinking it was my last hope and an answer to a desperate prayer. I later came to realize that this is how these programs prey on parents and ultimately make us unwitting partners in their victimization of our [...]

By Giovanna: 2019-2020 Basically, I was sent to this program a month before my fifteenth birthday due to extreme relationship dysfunction between men and my mother. Upon arrival, staff immediately told my mother to leave, and I was not allowed to say goodbye. I was strip searched by a woman I obviously hadn’t known a [...]

By Earle: 2005 I was abused daily, made to eat worms for breakfast, thrown around, made to stay in push up position for hours outside during an ice storm, thrown down steps, and was scared to death everyday for 8 months. I came home with severe PTSD. I became addicted to drugs trying to cope & [...]