Toni Lovely

Review of FOUNDATIONS FOR LIVING

Most accurate review you ll find: Foundations all ...

Most accurate review you ll find: Foundations all depends on you. Yes, it is a very traumatizing place. You will leave with many more triggers and much more PTSD than you had upon admission. The kids fight alot, they assault the staff, they jump people, they destroy property, and they often get sent to either jail or the hospital before returning again. Not all the staff are the best and right now a lot of them are quitting. Due to this, the staff still working or the new ones coming in are working way to many hours with not enough extra pay, which leads even more staff to quit. I genuinely feel as though this place is going to fall apart and close, or get way worse than it already was and continue functioning with minimal everything. The only reason I would ever send a child here is to hope they d meet a kid like me who was a jr staff and much better than most the real staff. In my stay of 10 months I broke up dozens of fights, stopped suicide attempts, initiated restraints, and gave out write-ups. Many residents requested to talk to me instead of the real staff because I made it clear I cared and I could do more for them. The rules set in Foundations allow staff to watch kids self-harm and tell them they can t do anything about it except try to take the tool away. This place offers many life lessons, but does not seem to serve any real treatment. It s much more focused on explaining to you your problems and why you have them than on giving you actual tools to solve them and cope with them. Many kids that have discharged went back to old ways or are trying not to but struggling because they never really learned the things they needed to do better. Send your kid here at their own risk. Many residents start self-harming or trying to run away due to the insanity inside these walls. The website is very unupdated and this place on the inside is very ugly and dirty. Good luck...