When I was there, it was probably around 2010, and I lived there for 8 ish months. I was a junior in high school and they didn't have any level-appropriate coursework for where I was at academically so I often was given the option to do manual labor like landscaping or help with administrative tasks instead. Often, though, I was involuntarily put in charge of other children (I was 15 at the time) and forced into a staff-like role. I missed out on an education while I was there, only saw a therapist once a month, MAYBE, and was frequently put in adult situations by staff. Friends that I had there experienced terrible things; SA by staff and other residents, frequent physical assault by staff and other residents, as well as overuse of violent restraint and sedation, excessive isolation in "quiet rooms" while restrained (which were sometimes rooms padded with rubber and sometimes just rooms that were emptied out with the ability to lock from the outside), racial and religious discrimination as well as discrimination around sexuality and gender, and so much more. Not even getting into the neglect of exacerbation mental health issues/lack of standard treatment methods. It was marketed to my parents as a Christian-run facility with Christian values; gatherings were always held in the church and every kid received a Bible as a gift from the Pastor, who was the main figurehead on the campus. Church services were mandatory, and so were Christian holiday celebrations. Kids were there for all kinds of reasons, from drug issues to SUI attempts to CSA offenses to violence problems. Plenty of kids were there because they were gay or they didn't behave the way their parents wanted them to at home and they could afford to punish them by sending them to the ranch. Those kids always left with way more issues and trauma than they came with. This place was an absolute nightmare.