Youth Villages

"JUSTICE FOR ALLEGEND! I worked here for almost 2 years ! This place has poor management! Nothing is done about it . ITS SICKENING!"

"I was there for around 9 months when i was 14. When you first get to the place and your bein shown around it seema ok. The staff are prettg nice, and the teachers and teachers assistants(staff but in classrooms) were pretty nice. Within not even an hour of me bein there kids were gettin into fights and the staff were puttin the kids into a "hold" which is sopposed to be a staff member reatraining the kid or kids from fighting until they calm down, but all it is, is multiple staff holding the kid threataning them if they move or squirm around, throughout my stay there i witnessed at least 1 everyday, and at some points there would be staff that had personal issues with the kid purposly tryna hurt them in the "hold". Overall i got the help i needed and got put on the right medicine to treat me. But the trauma that came with the place wasnt worth it. Most mornins i would wake up scared to death because the kids in there are rutheless and just start beatin other kids for no reason. I dont recommend anyone bein sent there. They might get the help they need, but they will also carry around the trauma of the everyday bullcrap that went on in there."

"I pray to god they close this place down the staff beat a 17yr old to death HER MOM SENT HER THERE FOR HELP AND THE STAFF BEAT HER TO DEATH ……..DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD TO THIS PLACE."

"This facility is responsible for the death of a young black female named Alegend!! They beat her to death. 8 people for a kid??? SICK this place needs to be shut down and investigated. May God have Mercy on your souls"

"My daughter was here and I am going to say that i called CPS on staff and so did her caseworker as they assaulted her on a few occassions. When CPS came they decided to not do anything even though there were numerous complaints, but my daughter refused to talk to CPS because she said they were laughing with staff and talking to them like they were friends. They removed that staff member from her cottage and allowed her to go work in another one, but when my daughter would see her on campus she would stare my daughter down and purposely try to talk the staff memember that was with my daughter and try to intimidate her even though she was told not too. She and her friends there also said that staff deleted stuff from the videos before CPS would show up. We are from out of state and our state canceled their contract with them because of all the abuse claims and problems with them that numerous children from our state made. If I didn't answer the phone they told my daughter that I didn't love her and I didn't want her. They did that to the other girls too as well as called them B!@#$es and who*es. When my daughter got her autism diagnosis the same staff member that assaulted her told her she knew something was wrong with her because she is slow. They kept all of her belongings and never sent them back hom after she left like they were supposed to and we even served them with a court order to return her stuff and they never responded to the numerous emails that the caseworker sent to them. I understand that working with children who have special needs as well as behavioral needs is difficult, but that's your job and you should not be talking down on and abusing children. I would not send my child here."