Sarah A. Reed Children's Center

Courtney Mao 

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6 months ago

I was in placement here at 6 years old and 9 years old for 9 months each time. I am now 29 and carry so much trauma from being slammed on the ground and held down on a daily basis. The amount of fabricated mental disorders diagnoses they slapped on to up the amount of pills they could give you. At the age of 6 i was on 6 pills ! My behavior leaving this place was so much worse than entering from the fear from being attacked by staff or other children. I have PTSD and nightmares of being trapped here again . If you are a pare... read more

Alicia Lapinta 

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11 months ago

I was a resident there in the late 80s I remember the staff there I remember a lot of the staff members. They were very supportive got me through a lot of hard times I didn’t have the greatest upbringing, but the first time I fell in love With a boy, he was a resident there as well. I don’t have a whole Lotta great memories in my life, but I remember being there and I remember having somebody that I could talk to whether it was a staff member or staff member in the unit. The counselors used to sing a song and play guitar and... read more

John Cochran 

on Google

a year ago

I was a resident in the early 90s as a kid That place is horrible got restraint for no reason the staff were always mean dunno it was total hell 

hi i'm bex 

on Google

a year ago

This place is traumatizing. I was a client in 2017, and was there for 8 months. With the ability for other clients to easily SA and have the staff not regard it, I was put on high supervision multiple times for talking back to staff; my beliefs were disregarded and some of the staff just power tripped all the time. Hearing people get restrained at different times of the night, hearing staff say they enjoyed restraining them when they thought i was not listening. Bullying was horrible, and it's just not a great place. Please ... read more