By Anonymous: 2016 My experience at the Deveraux Glenholme School in Washington, CT was nothing short of traumatic. I still remember the day on February 1st, 2016, I was only 12 years old. Now, almost 19 I still have nightmares every night. I’m not gonna make this too formal because there’s just so much to [...]

By Alexandra: 2004-2007 I have so many things I need to say about Island View. The staff practiced a form of psychological warfare that was cruel and destructive to every child that came in those doors while I attended. My first day I was given a pap smear with out my consent by a nurse [...]

By Anonymous: 2018-2019 I was at Franklin Academy in East Haddam from April of 2018 to June of 2019. I went because I had to leave another school for complicated reasons. At first, I liked it because I was just in a wilderness program for two months. It also felt better in my first few [...]

By Anonymous: 2006-2007 Hi, I’m a 28 year old adult who suffered abuse in multiple facilities as a child/pre-teen. One of these facilities is listed on your site. Pendleton Academies. During my time there I was 12 years old. I was subjected to physical abuse by staff. The conditions at what they called “the unit” [...]

By Hann: 2021 Trigger Warning: suicide, self-harm, eating disorder, restraints Hi, my name is Hann (any pronouns) and I would like to share my story of being a victim to institutional child abuse. I would never wish the trauma I went through on anyone. I would consider this time period the worst time of my [...]

By Anonymous: 2016-2017 I was in Forest Ridge Youth Services in Grover, Iowa in 2016-2017 on two separate occasions, both times in shelter care for 30 days. When I was there lived through some of the most horrific things I have ever seen. I was no stranger to the group home/ rehabilitation industry, so by [...]

By Anonymous: 2015-2017 While being under the care of Provo Canyon School, I got jumped in a bathroom and had my nose broken. I had to go to the hospital, and it was all set up by the staff that were at the facility. There were younger kids that got raped by other kids. Staff [...]

By Ellie: 2021 I was sent there after years and years of trying to get my depression managed. It was my parents' last resort. They believed it would help. While I was there I witnessed many extremely distressing things. Such as: one girls hip would pop in and out of place most hikes causing excruciating [...]

By Anonymous: 2021 So my parents sent me to a Wilderness program that claims it’s duration to be a year. It’s for troubled kids or parents who just don’t want to deal with their kids problems. I got sent there to ‘teach me a lesson’ and ‘prove how spoiled I am and how tough life [...]

By Alexa: 2013 I got here early 2013, upon arriving I was stripped of all individuality, warmth or comfort, and what little innocence I had left. Getting there, I was on self-harm watch it started of being mainly females that searched me, but sometimes there was men. At least 3 times, I had to strip [...]