By Anonymous: 2016-2017 Whilst at Desert Hills, I was sexually assaulted by other kids. I attempted to take my life so many times I can’t count just while I stayed there. Many times I’d attempt I was almost successful I’d find a way to stuff the key hole and wrap a phone cord around my [...]

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 Mallow: 2009-2016 I was sent states away from my home in Virginia to this facility. As a non-verbal student with Apraxia and Aphasia, I was linguistically isolated. Despite being a Deaf-based program, they refused to accommodate my specific communication needs, relying exclusively on ASL which I did not understand. They deprived me of my [...]

By Sasha: 2007 My name is Sasha Oates and I am a survivor of multiple abusive programs. When I was 14, I was struggling with self harm, depression, and an eating disorder. In April of 2007, I was taken from a psychiatric hospital by two transporters, put on a plane, and arrived in Salt Lake [...]

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 Alisa: 1994-1995 I was taken off the porch of a home in Saranac Lake, NY owned by Adrienne who had recommended the house to my family and then helped them set up the plan to take me when I was 14 years old. I was tied to a hospital bed when I arrived at [...]

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 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: 2013-2017 Kids suffer from extreme abuse, me included. I was verbally, physically, and mentally abused here for almost 5 years. I was sexually assaulted multiple times by a boy and nobody helped me, in fact they didn’t believe me when I told them. The kids are used as free labor and is too [...]