3 stars
I was here at Valley Springs for about 3 weeks while I was there the food was kinda bad, the staff were decent (it all depends on who you get/are there) my favorite had to be Tevin I forgot his last name. There were a couple of instances where I was put in seclusion, this one time I complied with the community without resisting, and they still gave me an IM. Apparently, they were supposed to ask me if I was willing to take a pill but they didn’t. It was quite a traumatic experience. I was doing stuff that was wrong, but their force was unnecessary. There were two 6-year-old boys on a unit with 17-year-olds (I’m 14) they were getting bullied pretty badly so I stuck up for them, they started hitting me so I stopped. Seriously guys Valley Springs is no place for kids that young. (They were getting beaten by the older kids) It is pretty understaffed, they are spread thin. I get it’s a very stressful job/working environment, but they should always come in with a good attitude. Some of the staff were in my opinion escalating situations. They pulled a kid out of his room when he went there to calm down. (I was told the patients' rooms were their safe space) No procedures should be performed in rooms with no cameras. It’s the staff's word against the patients and the staff always wins. We needed more stuff to do. Because we didn’t have enough stuff to do we came up with our own stuff and it always got taken away for example, we were tossing a flip-flop back and forth and it got taken away. I understand why, but seriously we had nothing to do, which then resulted in us doing worse things like fighting or destroying the place (sorry to the maintenance staff) thank you for your time and understanding.
Jayden Faria