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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...
Tranquility Bay – Adam G.
Wow …that was quite a while ago ..I do remember it being a rough one though the group that I was with we were some of the first ones there I want to say my number was like 23…. Well I think for me the hardest thing dealing with was the actual staff.. all the staff...
Tranquility Bay – KC S.
My name is Kc S. I was at tranquility bay for only 1 month and I’m looking for Travis R. I am haunted by this place I have tried so hard to forget this place and felt like no one would believe me after I got out I did not research this after I’m glad to see people are...
Casa By The Sea – Things I Remember – Cory P.
The things that i remember most are the brainwashing techniques they used on us the staff played audio tapes at every meal i can still hear the fucking tapes in my head saying tranquility over and over. The seminars were a whole other kind of torture “Accountability”...
Spring Creek Lodge – Mary R.
I was psychologically abused and brainwashed with the attack therapy and intense seminars and extreme workouts in the gravel pit. I am just now beginning to uncover suppressed memories from this place but the PTSD I suffer from is all due to SCL. I have had trouble...
Reflections Academy – Shae M.
My husband spent nearly two years at Spring Creek Lodge. It has effected every part of his life and who he is today. In looking into this program and what occurred, current status of those running the program I learned that not only are the people behind these...
Paradise Cove – James B.
I was in this program (Samoa) when i was 17.It was an odd way to be dealt with as a child.I wasn’t there very long, and thought that the Brightway Adolescent Hospital in St George Utah that served as a classification center for the corporations that owned these...
Pacific Life Teen Program – Anonymous
Hey, y’all NEED to get plp on here ASAP. They are ran by the same dude dr. Kuri who owns or co owns sunset bay. They were once called genesis of the sea but were shut down after a girl killed herself (because a staff member sexually abused her). They lock kids up in...
Pacific Life Teen Program – Anonymous
I arrived at Pacific life teen program (PLP) when I was 15. I struggled with drug addiction and my school said I couldn’t come back until I got at least six months of treatment. My mom went with PLP because of the low cost. The program is located in the ghetto of...
Pacific Life Teen Program – Adam M.
Coerced into taking SSRIs. Staff Abuse. Inconsistent shower hygiene which ranged from warm showers for 3 minutes which was the best you could possibly get, to getting 30 second showers with freezing cold water if you were not good enough to get the warm showers first....
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