Youth Care

Nice facility. Except for the therapist Romeo. He is not giving tough love he is just disrespectful and should not be a therapist. There is a reason everyone switched out from having him.

Youth care helped me substantially, thanks to the staff! I made close connections there as well. HOWEVER If you are a parent looking to send your kid here PLEASE consider starting with a lower level of care or shorter term placement. This place while it can be helpful, is very restrictive and chaotic. My experience was constant fights, awol attempts, and stripped of many things. Again this can be helpful in some cases, and honestly in mine but if you don't believe your kid needs an ankle monitor or sensors in their rooms please reconsider. I love everyone at Youth Care with all my heart and am super grateful!! The team is very supportive and many staff did what they could to do nice things for the kids which I always appreciated.

Our 16 yo old daughter has been struggling with mood and anger regulation, anxiety and depression for many years and Youth Care is her 5th residential placement and by far it has been the most effective. The clinical and residential staff are knowledgeable, caring and very experienced dealing with kids who have been through a lot. The weekly parent/care giver support group is very helpful and supportive!

Our daughter has had a good experience at YouthCare. We have found the residential staff to be supportive and effective communicators. The clinical team is wonderful - in particualar Jonathan B. and Dr. Knight. They both have developed strong and supportive relationships with our daughter which has helped in her treatment. Would recommend YouthCare to anyone who has a child needing this level of care/treatment.

I went here when I was 17. I am 22 now and to this day still very deeply disturbed by what happened to me here. I was admitted here for self harm tendencies and suicidal ideation. My stay was about 5 months. During my stay: • I was tackled and restrained by 5 male staff so agressively that they pulled my muscles and bruised me, all because I grabbed a granola bar without permission. • I went hungry most days because I have a bad dairy allergy and they refused to give me a different meal if the food they made contained dairy (which was most meals). They said my allergy was made up and attention seeking and refused to call my parents for confirmation. • I watched the staff cook with expired visibly moldy cheese and ridicule anyone who didn't want to eat it. The kids who ate it got very sick and were forced to go to class and activities WHILE vomitting into buckets and bags. •They misdiagnosed me with a disorder that I now know (with confirmation from multiple psychiatrists) I do NOT have, and because of this diagnosis, I was treated as though everything I said was a lie made up for attention. They wouldn't even look at me if I was emotional in any way. They would also stop other patients from supporting me. Some staff even yelled at me if I had a panic attack or PTSD flashback. I became terrified of showing emotion to the point of physical illness. There was another patient who got diagnosed with this disorder and they frequently tackled and restrained her so bad it didnt even look like a restraint, more like they were just beating her. She constantly had bruises and wounds in different stages of healing from this. • I was roomed with another female patient who was constantly talking about inappropriate adult topics for hours at night while I tried to sleep. When I asked the MALE staff that were working to please make her stop because I was tired and it was a triggering topic, they ridiculed me and said I just needed to get over it. When I pointed out how disgusting it was that they were not only allowing it but sitting there listening to it, they threw me in solitary confinement (a tiny concrete room with literally nothing but bright LED lights and a camera). • There were TWO separate instances of kids literally breaking their ankle during a sport. Despite both instances expressing crippling pain, the inability to walk, and EXTREME bruising and swelling, the staff refused to provide medical care and told them to sleep it off. In both instances they didnt recieve any medical care until their parents pulled them from the program. These are just scraping the surface. This place is evil. There are much better places. I was in a long term facility before this one that got shut down for having so many violations, and even that facility was 1000x better than this place. This is truly the bottom of the barrel. Don't do it 🙏

Youth care was a very positive 10month experience for our family. Therapist Jake was so impactful with my 15 yr old daughter. We will forever cherish the staff and time spent with Youth care and the growth our daughter made.

gooned and sent here as a struggling teenager. just made everything worse and increased trauma. please if you’re a parent reading this do not send you child here.

I want to say that I think that for the most part it is a great facility. Very wonderful people that I worked with. Ultimately my son was kicked out for some very poor choices. And I support their reasons. However I do think that perhaps the doctor was wrong about the medication changes he was wanting to do. My son is at a new place. And that doctor is reversing course on the other doctor’s plans. And that’s unfortunately the psych med world. New doc. New view. This doc sees that the things that led to him being kicked out very well could have been amplified by the med changes of the doctor at Youth Care. In my years of dealing with a child with complex psych issues. This is par for the course. :-( That detail aside. I really really loved my son’s therapist! Esther deserves angel wings and a cape! I owe her flowers! 💐