By Kylie: 2022-2023 I was in Brattleboro Retreat and was put in an isolation unit in Tyler, there for swearing. It was labeled as abusive and violent language, and I was threatened that if I left, I would be physically restrained onto a metal chair with leather straps and I would be chemically sedated. The [...]

Woods Homes, Calgary Young Offenders Center, Hull Homes, Stampede Boys Ranch, Edmonton Secure Facility, Red Deer Secure Facility, and Enviros Summit Group Home
Woods Homes, Calgary Young Offenders Center, Hull Homes, Stampede Boys Ranch, Edmonton Secure Facility, Red Deer Secure Facility, and Enviros Summit Group Home
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 [...]
Casa By The Sea
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 [...]
Rocky Mountain Academy, Ascent, North Idaho Behavioral Health
By Lathrop: 1998-1999 https://www.youtube.com/embed/gGD6Rq-RoAQ?si=VSQTJLJ_Vh3GPXBk
Chrysalis School and Intermountain Hospital
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 [...]

Caron Foundation, Four Winds Hospital, Stony Lodge Hospital, KidsPeace, Lourdesmont Academy, Rancho Valmora, and Horsham Clinic
Caron Foundation, Four Winds Hospital, Stony Lodge Hospital, KidsPeace, Lourdesmont Academy, Rancho Valmora, and Horsham Clinic
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 [...]
Teen Challenge Lakeland Girls Home
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 [...]
New Haven RTC
By Veran: 2020-2021 When I was 13, in 2019, I was discharged from the UCLA psych ward and taken to Visions RTC in Los Angeles. It was a short term, so I was only there for 2 months. I had turned 14 there. That was my first experience with the TTI. The UCLA psych ward [...]
Second Nature Wilderness and Eva Carlston Academy
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 [...]



