Huckleberry house

Great place to be when your family hates you. Def need to go back.

Great people! Awesome programs. Huckleberry House remains committed to doing the most good.

Caseworkers/staff do not care about you. Once you leave they never so much as bother to check up on you. While you re there, they may meet with you once and then never again. Offer very little in terms of resources/support and will do the bare minimum. Their transitional living program is non-existent. Stay a few days but do not expect any help as it s nothing more than a temporary shelter. When you re out you re on your own. Some parents seem to think this place is to babysit their kids or as a punishment will drop them off for a week. A friend of mine who went here never even knew she had a caseworker as she never came to meet her. She was dealing with much emotional grief (openly crying) and no one had tried to comfort her. There were no beds so they gave her a deflated air mattress in a bright room and she ended up sleeping on top of a closet rack. (There were empty beds in the boys room but the staff did not bother to move the mattresses for her.) They did not even bother to give her the only decent air mattress a staff member had which shows you their lack of sympathy. Gave it an extra star for the food and the care items they give you but that s it. Would never come back here again. If you re OK with all this then this is the excellent place for you.

i herd this place is where bad kids go like who pop pills and smoke

They don't let you go to your rooms during the day. I had zoom meetings to do so I would've liked to be somewhere quiet, instead they stuck me in the echoiest room in the house that was right next to the loudest in the house.

They also told me I wasn't allowed to have any of my meds on me, which would be understandable, but they put it in the office, which is strictly employees only. So they made my inhaler and my vitamin d supplement so unaccessible that I wasn't even able to grab them before I left.

Also their food was kinda wack but I didn't really have any sort of high expectations for that.

Absolutely terrible. I HIGHLY recommend star house instead. The staff at huckleberry house are entirely rude and disrespectful. They never check in with you as for case worker wise they will visit you once and then never again. Sometimes they won't even give you a bed. Star house however offers food a good place to sleep and it's very safe and the staff are entirely respectful.

I ve stayed there for a week and it s not extremely terrible but the staff doesn t care about what your going through, any chance they get they ll send you right back to where you came from. I made extremely great friends there. The kids that come in aren't bad kids, their kids that just need and want help escaping a terrible life. No kid should have to be sent to a place they feel unsafe or unwelcome and that s exactly what they do. They don t care about what we say has happened or anything it s because we re kids and that s all they see us as they don t see us as having problems they see us as kids that are bad and need to be sent away for a while. I will say my counselor Teresa was probably the only worker that seemed like she cared about me and what i was going through and she was the only one who help me get somewhere safe and where i m happy. But, all of the other staff doesn t deserve a job there because they don t care and don t know how to help kids who are going through more than they would understand.