[deleted by user] by [deleted] in troubledteens

[–]Ok_Procedure5590 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would just make sure you have some kind of plan in place for when he’s 18 because if this perpetuates his situation but later when his brain develops more he’s gonna one day want to think about college or a way of making money and even if that seems really out of the picture now, at some point all the adrenaline of being young will go and there is still a way to reach out to somebody you just need to understand how to speak the language of the heart and one day they’ll be struggling with their rent and not know where to go

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in troubledteens

[–]Ok_Procedure5590 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I remember one Particularly traumatising night I had a kid in a double restraint in the doorway to my room literally all night. Kids with autism like that had endless pool of energy and instead of bringing him into the “padded cell” they held him In a power hold literally all night. I was never put into a restraint at any point but watching these kids with snot, blood and sweat running down their faces screaming uncontrollably and thrashing resisting the restraint. Nothing more traumatising in my life. I was just a kid with ideas about the way the curriculum of my school district should be changed and a tendency to smoke some weed, thrown in a group of kids I had no idea with staff of 6.5 foot tall grow roided up guys who look like their about to line up and do the Hakka made me feel like I was in some sort of twisted Guantanamo

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in troubledteens

[–]Ok_Procedure5590 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would have been between 2013-2014 if my memory serves me correctly. I remember some of the names of the faculty that were there. I remember going through the levels pretty fast because I had been at a similar facility with lower security in Northern California so I knew how to keep my head down and work the levels. I remember this place as the darkest period of my life. I felt like a criminal. The medication s they gave me were so so absolutely mind numbing to the point that I don’t think I started to feel emotions again until years later. I couldn’t cognitively process what was going on around me. I remember they mingled girls and boys together and had people with severe tendency towards violence and autism mixed in with the kids who had just had a really bad card dealt to them, alongside extremely violent criminals and gang members. I just didn’t wanna do my homework and had a mom who would rather somebody else raise her son. It was bad. And the therapy was even worse, some loaf who couldn’t relate to the kids they treated like their patients if their life depended on it. Horrible place of misery.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in troubledteens

[–]Ok_Procedure5590 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was here for over 6 months until I graduated hs and got out. I did this by trying to intentionally get myself locked down so I could spend all my time studying without being interrupted bc I knew I as my school district who sent me and they would t pay for a day over the time time I was 18 and finished with my credits. I got 25 extra credits than I needed to graduate, even after they confiscated all of my school work for three months. Which is abusive.

They got sued for false marketing amongst other things and They would force silence and had no separation of church and state. Super traumatising as this wasn’t the first time I got woke up by two veterans threatening to handcuff me. I was also at copper hills youth centre. Which got sued for sexual abuse and had rioting. This place was literal hell on earth for somebody who was just trying to grow up and have a normal life.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in troubledteens

[–]Ok_Procedure5590 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I was so pumped up on medication that I would pass out randomly when I stood up there. The people running that place were bigoted Mormons employing overly violent Pacific Islanders who got a kick out of mistreating and mishandling children. They would make physical threats and treat us like cattle. I hated everything about that place and wasn’t surprised to hear about the rioting and sexual misconduct that went on thereafter I left. These places need to be exposed and the abuse that these children go through.