This place sucks there's this one lady that works there that likes to talk about my daughter and say shit about her. They lie so much. This place needs to be investigated or they need to be shutdown. They lie so much. I will be contacting the police on this one lady that likes to talk shit about people.

went there and it was quite horrible even after 4 years I am still depressive and suicidal in ways if ever recommended to send your child here DO NOT at all. the food is shit and I threw up multiple times and the gender separation attempts are horrible staff are unprofessional.

I stayed at SPRTC for almost a year in 2013... maybe 2014. I’m not sure what’s making me add this to my blank review now, but I didn’t before because even thinking about that place still makes me shaky. I’m almost 30 now, and I still have vivid nightmares about my time here. Most of the staff were abusive. Many ended up under investigation, but nothing ever seemed to come of it. We would just hear that they were, they’d disappear for a few weeks and then return like nothing had happened. I watched a girl who couldn’t have weighed more than 90 pounds soaking wet get slammed into the ground so hard I’m still shocked she didn’t break her tailbone. She was black and blue for weeks and could barely walk. There were constant riots - kids fighting kids, kids fighting staff, staff fighting kids. Rocks thrown through windows regularly. The environment was chaos. All of us came from terrible situations, so I could never hold the behavior of the other kids against them. But the staff should have known better. The only conclusion I’ve ever been able to reach is that some of them were just bad people who chose to work there for nefarious purposes. SPRTC had a special unit for sexual assault survivors, yet they placed girls who had assaulted others in the same unit. That never sat right with me. I understand that some survivors go on to harm others, but it still seems obvious they should have been separated. I could write pages of what it was like to be here. I didn't understand how this was legally running then, and I don't understand now. I came out of this worse than I went in. If you have any type of control over whether or not your child goes here, please don't send them. 12 years later and it still affects me.

I was a client their it was Hell riots often i was jumped almost lost my life 12 time in two year a staff member named Cody actually had a gang member jump me i dont even want to give a star

Our 17 year old daughter just came home from spending 4 months at Southern Peaks in Canon City for repeated suicidal ideation/attempts. I was really nervous about sending her there after reading Google reviews, but it’s the only place in the state that Medicaid covers, so we didn’t have a choice. We were really happy with the facility and staff. They’ve been going through a lot of good changes in 2025, and the staff seemed to genuinely care about the kids. Her time there gave our family the break we desperately needed from the stress of trying to keep her safe all the time, and she did learn and grow and stabilize (hopefully). They have a detailed pillar system and therapy curriculum the kids work through as they progress, and they get weekly individual therapy and weekly family therapy via zoom. The bad part is that they spend 24/7 surrounded by the most mentally ill kids in the state, and the kids definitely have a very negative effect on one another. There’s no getting around that. But overall I still think it was the right call for our family.

One of the worst treatment facilities out there. Food is raw, staff treat the kids very poorly unless they like you and in that case they help to feed your drug habits. Constant fighting and drama and the staff only help those they like.

The staff at this facility is quite unprofessional, with the clinical director using tactics that feel abusive to maintain control over troubled youth. Therapy sessions are often inconsistent; although the facility claims they are completed, many actually go missed. We’ve already had to deal with three different therapists! Our daughter has been self-harming, and during family therapy, we noticed new marks on her. When we brought this up, her therapist dismissed our concerns, making us feel as if we were imagining things. I am genuinely worried about her well-being in this environment. The staff poorly document unhealthy situations, if they document them at all. Often, we only find out about issues from our daughter during phone calls. When we question the staff, they cut our communication off by restricting her calls. It seems like they minimize behaviors just to ensure the patient can meet the requirements for a step down, regardless of whether the patient is actually stable. I understand the system is broken, and this place is operating corruptly. These patients are children. There needs to be better monitoring from both the company executives and the state. Colorado needs stricter procedures for monitoring all medical facilities.

This place is literally hell on earth. Even the staff think so, literally more than half had quit. I was able to escape and they hadn’t even noticed I was gone for 20 minutes. I was able to go all the way to walmart and overdose on 2 bottles of extra strength tylenol. Do not send your kids here, unless you want them to become more suicidal.