by WWASP Survivors | Aug 1, 2026 | Non-WWASP Programs, Survivor Testimony
I was sent to Pacific Life Program on Feb 8th, 2018 and I spent 7 months there. Prior to attending this institution I was having severe mental health problems and I stopped attending school, so my mom kicked me out and PLP was basically just a housing option for me...
by WWASP Survivors | Aug 1, 2026 | Non-WWASP Programs, Survivor Testimony
As a troubled youth I was placed in this institution. There were kids and even young adults there that had been forced to stay for over four years. I witnessed and experienced horrific mental and physical abuse. This program was chased out of a number of states and...
by WWASP Survivors | Aug 1, 2026 | Non-WWASP Programs, Survivor Testimony
6 months after my 12th birthday I was sent to Lake House Academy in Flat Rock, NC. Immediately after I got there a girl jumped from the highest balcony of the house in the middle of the night and broke both of her legs, and I knew that this wasn’t a place I was...
by WWASP Survivors | Aug 1, 2026 | Non-WWASP Programs, Survivor Testimony
I was sent to New Horizons which later became Gateway Freedom ranch In 2012. It was for girls aged 9-13, typically all adoptees (though it wasn’t adoptees only, it just shows what kind of people send their kids to place like this. People who pay to be a parent...
by WWASP Survivors | Aug 1, 2026 | Non-WWASP Programs, Survivor Testimony
I attended Turning Winds 2008-09 as a teenager. I was there for 14 months. The older I get, the more I am coming to terms with how traumatic my experience was there. I will keep this as short & to the point as possible – no need for me to revisit this time...
by WWASP Survivors | Aug 1, 2026 | Non-WWASP Programs, Survivor Testimony
I was sent away at thirteen years old. I was asleep in my bed as any teenager would be on a school night. Around 3AM I was grabbed by two men, who I did not know. My parents had let them into my room so they could take me away. I was carried through my house all the...
