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Provo Canyon School – Rachel
I was placed at Provo Canyon School by the state of California. I had run away from an abusive home, and had a lot of behavior problems stemming from the abuse so California decided to send me to Provo. Some of my memories are vague, but I do remember being...
Spring Ridge Academy – Raelyn
I was sent to Spring Ridge Academy, a therapeutic boarding school, when I was 17. I’d been a high-achieving, straight-A student my whole life and I had a lot of friends. I knew my parents loved me but they fought a lot of the time, so by middle school I was already...
Academy at Ivy Ridge – Will
I faked an appendicitis so that I would be transported to the hospital and from there make my escape. The doctor decided to perform and appendectomy on me anyways and when I woke up from surgery my family was there. I told them all of the brutality that was happening,...
Sunset Bay Academy – Natasha
How my friend killed himself and SBA didn't do shit, they knew he was gonna do it but later then I talked to DR. Hugo and he said, "we couldn't do nothing, because he already had a Choice" It was a normal day at my school in San Diego, some girls had gone to the park...
Darrington Academy – Jack
I was a student at Darrington Academy, a WWASPS school in Blue Ridge GA. I was enrolled in 2006 and left in 2007. In my time there I witnessed multiple accounts of child abuse. Physical abuse from grown adult “chaperones” whose credentials were unknown. Mental abuse...
Provo Canyon School – Tanya
After several years of being an out of control teenager my Mother was at her wits. In 1989 at the age of 15, I was taken from my bed in the middle of the night along with another girl from my home town by 2 large males and a female. They took us to the airport, we...
Tranquility Bay – Tammy
My name is Tammi and I am a WWASP survivor from likely the worst time at the infamous TranquilityBay, Jamaica. Further, once I had been there for 22 of the 24 months I attended, they shortened the program drastically; wasn't I lucky? Anyways, just as I began to see...
Second Chances Southern Utah – Morgan B
To start this out i want to say how unbelievably freeing and releasing it feels to have found so many people who have been through what i’ve been through and seen what i’ve seen. My time at scinsu started in august of 2020, i was 14 years old. I went to scinsu because...
Diamond Ranch Academy – Elise
I left DRA with a PTSD diagnosis from the treatment I received there. On my first night, they told me to get into bed, but I wanted to call my mother because I believed they had illegally kidnapped me against her will (long story, but not outlandish since they took me...
Spring Ridge Academy – Maggie
I personally found the second training at Spring Ridge to be traumatic. The girls were led into a dark room in the basement and instructed to lie on the floor while the facilitator gave us a guided visualization that we were on a cruise ship. We were all beginning to...
Sunset Bay Academy – Survivor of SBA
Guillermo Willie Heredia is said to be alive by SbA’s founding director Amy Ritchie. His daughters and wife Christina, Edelia Denisse, karina and Trinidad Heredia pretend he is dead so he can evade taxes and avoid speculation from parents. These women also know about...
Sunset Bay Academy – Anonymous
I have been wanting to tell my story for some time however the owners of Sunset Bay Academy and Pacific Life Program threatened to murder me and my family when I was a teenager there and forced me to convince them I would not report their abuse. I have come to learn...
Cross Creek Manor – Casey J
September 27th, 2004 I was sent to Cross Creek Manor (CCM) Utah- One of the therapeutic boarding schools that were operated by World Wide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP). September 25, 2004-"What the hell am I doing?" I ask myself this question and take...
Academy at Ivy Ridge – Lacy S
I was dropped off at Academy at Ivy Ridge by my mom and stepdad. They treated us like animals for the most part. We could look, talk or do anything without permission. We were watched in our sleep and even forced to use the bathroom while the stalls door were left...
#BreakingCodeSilence – Academy at Ivy Ridge – Christie Kay
We are survivors. We carry the trauma. It doesn’t go away once we leave the property.
Paradise Cove – Armando P.
After New Hope, I was sent next door to Paradise Cove. I was 16 for a few months, and saw what happened to New Hope. I herd that the programs were the same, and that Paradise cove was worse. Two nice young white adults came to pick me up and brought me to Apia. I...
Academy at Ivy Ridge – Teri C.
I cried my self to sleep praying God would let me die in my sleep. I was abused I was just a kid 1000s of miles away from everything and everyone I know no contact with out side world. We are not allowed to contact ANYONE we get one letter a week that they look over...
Ash Creek Academy – Noah S.
I went to Ash Creek Academy for ten months. My experience there was ineffective and traumatic. Keep in mind, I cam from [redacted] wilderness therapy in Bend Oregon, and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. In my time at ash creek i witnessed a program...
Midwest Academy – Emily B.
Emily B. Says:February 1, 2016 at 5:52 am January 2015, I was brought to Midwest Academy. My doctor, knowing my frequent hospital visits and my trouble with psychosis and depression, recommended the home in hopes I would rebuild myself to be a happier and...
Atlantis Leadership Academy – Anonymous Minor
So I have been here for a little over two months and its not good at all I am bisexual and gender-fluid and when coming here against my will the transporters told me that they dont like gay people here at all when i was here and asked about it they told me that they...
Trinity Teen Solutions – Bridget H.
I was held here against my will from the ages of 17-19. The staff would not allow us to ask questions about our treatment. We were not advised of our rights. We were subjected to extreme and harmful conditions. Staff lied to my parents about my progress in the...
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