by WWASP Survivors | Mar 7, 2025 | Non-WWASP Programs, Survivor Testimony
Okay so I’ve been inpatient twice, once for sixth months when I was sixteen in Atlanta ga. at laurel heights and once for five months at the age of seventeen at costal harbor in Savannah ga. There was a lot a verbal abuse, physical restraints that ended with in...
by WWASP Survivors | Dec 21, 2024 | Non-WWASP Programs, Survivor Testimony
Like many wilderness “therapy” programs, Open Sky was a feeder program which sent me to yet another abusive facility called New Haven. As bad as Open Sky was, I might prefer frostbite to the neglect and abuse I endured there. New Haven’s biggest issue was severe...
by WWASP Survivors | Dec 9, 2024 | Cross Creek, Cross Creek Programs, Survivor Testimony, WWASP Programs
Hi.. I hope it is okay I post here. I was lead to this site after watching a show regarding Cross Creek and other Teen Help institutions. I’m not a survivor, yet I am a parent survivor. My daughter Ashley was there in 2000. Parker was her therapist. I feel so...
by WWASP Survivors | Dec 9, 2024 | Non-WWASP Programs, Survivor Testimony
My name is Heather [REDACTED]. I was sent to an abusive therapeutic boarding school for troubled teens when I was 15. Aside from being sexually abused as a teenager I was sent in hopes of getting help. The school was shut down for abuse. An officer was imprisoned...
by WWASP Survivors | Sep 8, 2024 | Sunset Bay Academy, Survivor Testimony, WWASP Programs
My name is Andrea and I am a survivor of the troubled teen industry. I was sent to Sunset Bay Academy (a WWASP affiliated program) in June of 2010 at the age of 16 when it was located in Rosarito, Mexico in what is now the Motel Camino Inn. I was there for six months,...
