FOUNDATIONS FOR LIVING Review

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...

So i was trying to like this place so badly. For years I wanted to gain employment there but it was a very negitive exsperienced in some ways and positives in others. Pros- I found out 2 day before orintation that i was pregnant with my 4th child. I made them aware that i was prego and that it would be a high risk pregnacy. They were fine with it. I had been taken off work a month into my employment for two weeks. They worked with me and ensured my employment would still be there. Cons- from day one, my orintation class was made aware that many staff had boundary issues with the kids. That there was a ton of back stabbing and pettiness. I tried to be skeptical. Honestly the boundary problems where so bad that it literally made me feel uncomfortable and unsafe at times. I had a child threaten to beat my ass and had staff try to excuse her actions and was okay with the child threatening me. I was prego and vulnerable and felt alone. This same staff was given a suppervisor position a month later. They wont correct tge problem because they so desperatly need help. Tgey cant keep ppl because of this issue. I truthfully was so disappointed but it came to the point where i recongnized nothing would be done to fix these issues. I just hope they get it undercontrole because they loose good staff due to keeping bad staff.

i was a resident at foundations for living form 2/13-1130 and what i have to say is there are only some good staff and there is a lot of problems with the building and the food is bad i found a lot of hair in my food and it's not always clean ect.... i do NOT recommend this place for any kids.

i was a resident on 1 east at foundations for 11 months and i was close to the staff expecially deb,makeever,bevard,molly,meghan holcomb, they were the best support i had i thought of them as part of my family they treated me well and they do there job very very good ever since i left foundations my life has got weird the only good thing that has happend to is that i stoped self harming adn excepting the things i couldnt control thanks to them i learned alot they always told me self harm was not the answer and there right i realized that now and the things i cant control i need to let go im slowly getting there and to get over my ex again im getting there im getting there day by day hangin in there controling my emotions and my anger but my life is i geuss you can say it is full of suprises and i also realized i need to think before i do things or it will effect me in a bad way in the future.i wanna say thank you to deb,bevard,makeever,malicoat,ison,benet,mitch,jesse,meghan,molly,presley,perry seinor,perry jr,india,mauer,bowman,mama parker,melton,tabitha,bailey. these staff are the best i honestly dont know what i would do if i hadnt been to foundations or if i havent met them and learn from my mistakes foundations is a great place to be:)

If I could give this place negative stars I would. It was filthy and the staff were rude. It's a mini prison in an old run down "renovated" asylum.
Children should not be sent to this place for mental health concerns.
Parents do your research. DO NOT let your child be incarcerated into Foundations!

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I actually was a resident there and this place was terrible "mental health clinic" I didn't associate mental health with this building for many reasons including the punishments that we got, though I got discharged fast there were residents that had been in that place for over a year along with various other things this place was just over all terrible for anything that includes mental health the only things I liked about that place was very select few staff and the kitchen ladies were always friendly, the facility as a whole and the way it is run is just plain sad. Considering kids kicked off the unit and just wanted to go outside and police would be called It got to the point that when something actually was going on kids were released from jsc and right back into the facility to do the same stuff all over again

This place has ignored my calls for 3 months now and unfortunately i don't drive so phone is only option, its not fair, The staff is ignorant, no returned calls from staff or counselors.

I was sent to this facility in 2013 and I would not wish this on anyone. I've been to multiple rehab facilities, and this is hands down the most mentally and physically abusive program I've ever taken part in. The "therapy" is completely inaffective and causes more bad habits than it solves. Not to mention that the poorly trained staff are extremely rough when it comes to "restraining" residents. This place should have been shut down years ago.

90% guarantee you that these negative comments, are coming from criminals and drug users who were put in this facility because they can't act right in society. This facility helps troubled teens learn discipline and respect. Something NONE if them had coming in. These "restraints" are NOT aggressive. They are actually very mild compared to other facilities. Oh btw, if kids didn't act a fool and try to assault people in the facility, you wouldn't be put in a damn restraint!!! Get over yourselves and give this place the review it deserves. 5 stars!

I was sent to this facility back in 2012 and remained here for over a year. The staff is very poorly trained and I found myself restrained multiple times a day. These restraints resulted in large black bruises, cuts, and a concussion. These staff are very rude and mentally abusive to the children that live here. I was put on so many medications to turn me into a zombie because staff were tired of dealing with my mental illnesses in a mental health care facility. I ve had extreme ptsd from living here. This place is far from a health care facility and more like a torture facility. It needs to be shut down immediately before more kids come out more screwed up then they went in.

They take kids in and it is adleged they are aware CPS kidnapped the children from their families. Very abusive, medication is encouraged with first time ever diagnosed mental problems. Sociapaths are the famous diagnoses. Children are alienated from their parents and siblings. They are also put in dangerous situations. Excuse after excuse of why their children can't come to the phone to speak to their family members. Kids are encouraged to fight each other while staff look on. Counseling sessions are very distructive.CLOSE THIS PLACE DOWN.... BEWARE LOOKS ARE DECEIVING!!!

I was a resident at Foundations For Living (aka FFL) for 10 months.
One early morning, around 7:00 am, I was woken up by staff (at my prior group home) and they told me I was leaving. I didn t know where I was going. Everyone told me before that if I kept awolling I would end up in a residential. Well, they were right. I became a resident in FLL on March 3, 2018. It was a terrible place. There is no excuse. Before I go into detail, I will say that the website for Foundations is not updated. Those pictures are not even close to what the inside looks like. It s filthy and dirty and only staff and residents will ever be able to verify that. I m not going to sit here and put effort into this review if I were lying. Everything I am saying is from experience.
Don t get me wrong, while in Foundations I learned how to stand up for myself. But the only reason I was able to learn that is because of the constant fights and riots that occured. I would often times get beaten up and bullied by the other female residents on the unit. I ve been on every single unit besides 1West, considering that it s the boy unit. While in Foundations I was always scared when the girls crossed the boys, just because of the things I went through and how those boys acted. There is no structure in this facility whatsoever. The staff didn t exactly encourage the fights, but they did feed into the drama. Staff gossipped almost as much as the residents did, which isn t good. I don t know how many times I ve had to barricade myself in my room because other residents we re trying to jump me. Girls would cut my hair in my sleep and steal my belongings. Remind you I didn t have much at all, considering I came from a group home. I always had nightmares. I ve seen multiple girls go to the hospital from fighting, and oftentimes girls would sneak in other girls rooms to have sex. The staff didn t care at all and they are most likely the source of drama. There was always rioting. Girls would tear down fire extinguishers and spray staff and residents, hit people with em, and some girls would tear off the fire alarms from the walls. The residents would assault staff etc. It was terrible. I was often the target when the girls wanted to hurt someone or do something to them, just because I was the weaker link. It was my first residential and my last, but those girls gave me serious trauma.
When I FIRST got to FFL, they immediately drugged me with a bunch of medication. I became numb and zombie like. I hated everything about Foundations. There were only a few staff who actually cared for the residents. God bless their hearts, because I don t know if I could have made it out of there alive without them.
I was surrounded by nothing but self harm, fights, riots, and drama. Everyday I had to watch someone new slit their wrists in the hall with whatever they could find. Everyday I had to constantly watch behind my back LITERALLY so I didn t get stabbed with a broken dvd or pen. I felt like my life was in danger every single day and it was absolutely terrifying. All of the stress and drama, and based off of everything I had seen, led me to self harm. During my stay at Foundations I attempted to commit suicide 3 times. It was too much stress and chaos, and I couldn t handle it any longer. I will forever be scarred for life, physically and mentally.Foundations for Living is way worse than any other hospital, jail, residential, and locked down facility. It needs to be shut down. The higher up staff who have control of which residents stay and go only keep residents because it highers their paycheck from the government. Please don t incarcerate your child into Foundations

This place was a great opportunity to work at. Candice is awesome, the staff was so helpful to me. Unfortunately I had quit due to my own mental health issues. Other than that, the kids listened to me so well, and it was honestly a life changing opportunity. Thank you all.