By Bailey: 2018-2021 I was 13 when I emerged from the woods after a long and grueling 3 months at wilderness. I was 13 when they took me to Maple Lake Academy; I was a child. I still had hope at that point. When my parents wrote a letter to me during my stay at [...]

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 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 Ari (Part 2): 2019-2021 I wanted to submit a couple more things that happened to me while I was at Elevations RTC because I think they’re important, and due to some of the trauma I have my memory is a little bit messed up which is likely why I forgot to include them initially. [...]

By Anonymous: 1987-1989 I was sent to Heritage School directly from a psychiatric hospital when I had just turned 15. I am 49 now & still have nightmares. I know this is considered one of the “nicer” schools. I know it is very expensive. My memories are disjointed, but specific incidents are clear even all [...]

By Nate: 2008-2009 I’m not really sure how to start with this testimonial, and frankly I don’t want to write it because this will mean rehashing a very painful part of my life that I have done much work to work through and put behind me. I would be astounded if there turned out to [...]

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 Anonymous: 2016-2017 I’ve been scared to write a review for years, but I can no longer just sit here and not say anything…. I want anonymity because I am scared of YouthCare Utah. I simply cannot stay quiet about this place. I have been a discharged patient for several years and at first I [...]

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 [...]

By Harley: 2011 – 2012 I was taken to Diamond Ranch Academy on August 6, 2011 when I was sixteen years old. I had just gotten out of another program, Ridge Creek School, which was shut down after a riot. I was gooned when I was taken to Ridge Creek, but not Diamond Ranch. I [...]