By Anonymous: 2014-2015 I’m a survivor of Heritage RTC, aka the Heritage Community, in Provo, Utah. I was sent to Heritage by my school district due to being suspended for getting into fights with other classmates, however I strongly suspect that my autism diagnosis was a major factor in the district’s decision to place me [...]

By Julianne: 2004-2006 When I was 14 years old I was sent, against my will, to a residential treatment center in Utah. It was a Mormon-run, working cattle ranch. I had no history of drugs, violence, alcohol abuse, sex addiction, shopping addiction, any kind of addiction at all. I was sent to this program because [...]

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: 2018-2020 I wasn’t sure whether I was a victim of the troubled teen industry or not. My experience was not as terrible as others but I then realized that comparing traumas is detrimental to anyone’s mental health. It takes away the ability to allow yourself to face what you went through, because you [...]

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 [...]