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 [...]
By Beetle: 2017-2019 On October 27th, 2017, I was woken up at 2:07 am to two strangers coming into my room, dragging me out of bed, telling me I could go the easy way or the hard way and that I didn’t deserve to be with my family anymore. During my time being transported I was [...]
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 Anonymous: 2015-2016 In the summer of 2015 my parents had hit a wall with me. They decided that I would be sent to a Therapeutic Boarding School in Montana. Turning Winds is located in Yaak, Montana and has a history of abuse allegations and issues with law enforcement specifically in 2006 after they beat [...]
By Anonymous: 2007-2008 My parents were told that HHF could help me with my Bipolar and behavioral issues. There was a lawsuit a few years back regarding the school nurse. The school psychiatrist had left her a signed blank prescription pad, and the nurse would illegally prescribe medication to students. I was put on tranquilizers [...]
By Alex: 2020 – 2021 Being emotionally abused would be an understatement. I was attacked by my group mates. Under fed and under clothed for the middle of winter. When it was snowing we didn’t have any snow clothes. It was freezing cold with very few layers. They gave us the bare minimum of everything. [...]
By Anonymous: 2021 I have a lot to say about my time spent at Trails Carolina that wouldn’t remotely be enough for this one submission. I’ll do my best to cover the things I experienced. I was sent to Trails Carolina for and I quote, “lying about completing homework.” Trails Carolina advertises itself as a [...]
By Anonymous: 2015 Hello this is my story. I attended Wingate Wilderness in the summer of 2015. I was taken from my bed by two men and transported to southern Utah to attend Wingate. The transporters told me I was going to a “fun summer camp for about a week”. After I arrived, I realized [...]
By Ari (Part 2): 2019-2021 I entered the troubled teen industry on April 27, 2018 when I was thirteen after a suicide attempt. After two weeks in psych and a short stay at an RTC in California, I arrived at Uinta Academy on June 27, 2018, a few weeks after I turned fourteen. I was [...]
By Michaela: 2017-2019 I went to KW Legacy Ranch for 13 months of my life, and I ended up convincing my mom to sign me out early when she came to visit me. I was very nervous to ask her to do that because if she were to tell Luke the owner that I had [...]
