And if you have a hard time taking it, youre not doing well in the program., Although Spring Ridge Academy did not respond to Refinery29s request for comment on some specific practices in which former residents claim they were forced to take part, the institution did ask that the following statement be printed in full: The health and safety of our students are top priorities at Spring Ridge Academy. so I went into Eva with depression, anxiety, ptsd and a tiny bit of substance abuse. I was kind of experiencing active trauma, so it was hard to do that, I guess. She was at Eva Carlston the same time as Kyra, and remembers Kyra being taken out of the specialty group. It was verbally attacking your peers, and if you were doing the attacking you were getting rewarded for it, Rae claims. I felt so bad for the girls. oh story time, so a girl got on focus system which is like a major consequence. The rewards system is punitive and akin to something in a 1st grade classroom. An example is when we were taken to a mortuary and there was a cremation happening, I cried since it brought lots of emotion and just was an inappropriate activity to bring a ton of depressed teenagers too but instead of support I got a consequence in negatives on a behavioral point card. The campus contains three houses, in which anywhere from 12 to 16 girls live. mental health!!! The strict environment encourages deceit and division in the houses. Something was just gnawing away at me for years and I could not put my finger on it. Our urban location, art therapy, recreation therapy, family meetings, and Lifestyle-Therapy approach, all give girls a living environment that supports progress made in treatment. As a strengths-based treatment program, we help identify the familys intrinsic strengths and the positive assets that each member can contribute to the health of the family system. You must accept it even if you strongly disagree. Happiness rating is 62 out of 100 62. Rayburn also says that she watched staff restrain students at Eva Carlston including a classmate who had autism. And I was about to start crying just being in the room. Most of them needed love, affection, and attention (in my opinion). i had the program director herself privately shame me into silence when i said my emotional safety was being compromised by staff. u/terra4468 (Reddit), 8/8/2018: (PARENT) This review is based on our daughters 12 month stay at Eva Carlston Academy in Salt Lake City, Utah. Over a year ago, I willingly came into this program depressed, anxious, and suffering from an eating disorder and dissociative identity disorder (the latter was, at the time, undiagnosed) no behavioral problems. I think I failed every single test there except maybe three because they wouldnt listen to me about my way of learning. Recreational activities also help build confidence and self-esteem, and provides opportunities to practice stress-reduction techniques and pro-social skills. Each girl will identify her own obstacles to a drug-free life and will identify strategies to overcome those obstacles and maintain a healthy lifestyle. All the girls felt in danger and the owner. Currently, our daughter is part of a private Facebook group of graduates of Eva Carlston Academy. When I asked for tofu or soup they got mad at me and I got in trouble. everyone was punished for crying, especially if you cried when punished. I cant speak for every graduate, but I have had the privilege to stay in touch with many alumnae, most of whom I was able to get to know quite well at ECA. Communication with parents is restricted and constantly monitored Ive seen and heard of girls doing things like self-harm and starving themselves just to be able to go to the hospital so they could tell their parents the truth about how they were being treated without fear of repercussions. , I have attended ECA twice. Treating people in a bubble and then expecting them to survive in the real world is laughable. , i went to eva carlston for 14 and a half months. The article also originally stated Danielle Bregoli had told Refinery29 that shed been kidnapped in the middle of the night; the statement in question, in which she said shed been taken there against my will and that transporters come in the middle of the night, came from a YouTube video. There is an active petition calling for Utah CPS to investigate Eva Carlston Academy for abuse. It is not treatment to be mocked, and berated by staff. Eva Carlston tells Refinery29 that they are a fully licensed facility that actively cooperates with state licensing and regulatory boards to ensure its compliance with best practices. Spring Ridge Academy did not respond to Refinery29s request for comment about their accreditations, although on their website they say, We address issues through the utilization of a thorough, multi-faceted therapeutic program. Do NOT send her here. Eva Carlston Academy (@evacarlston) Instagram photos and videos We were told to just say Okay and sit there like a fucking dog. They told me that if I took a step out the front door that they could restrain me on the ground like wtf well I wasnt going to try that and look like a lunatic. This is a punishment based program, to an extreme. Eva Carlston Academy is a residential treatment center for teenage girls. I cant speak for every graduate, but I have had the privilege to stay in touch with many alumnae, most of whom I was able to get to know quite well at ECA. Letters and phone calls with family are strictly monitored, by rule, and the girls are reprimanded for complaining to parents. it was never an appropriate time to express any emotion that wasnt submissive obedience.. We were given no choice with regards to the daily workout; we were forced to participate in the preselected program or we would receive negative consequences. I am in no way shape or form exaggerating about this stuff. You are also punished for exhibiting symptoms of mental illness or emotional distress. If you needed to be sent to a different floor of the house a staff screams out to another staff member. Thank you for posting this review. I speak from my own experience and as someone in college studying psychology. Anyone who attended, I am so deeply sorry. Eva is in Salt Lake City, Utah and my brother lives in Perry, Utah which is just minutes away. I started at the same time a few girls were admitted to the wasatch house, and just want to passively make sure they are okay since we connected and the rest of the staff was rather cruel to them. I have certain trauma things and there was a staff that would run behind people, pretend to hit people and tell people to shut up. There were no exceptions. They highly monitor social calls so we had no privacy to express our true feelings with family. so Im going to start from my first day at eva. What the fuck? u/qwerty1357910 (Reddit), 11/18/2018: (SURVIVOR) if you didnt make enough points in one day (generally either 10,000 or 5,000 depending on level in the program), you had to sit in a silent room working on essays such as the importance of managing anxiety and the importance of accepting no or making what were essential pro and cons lists on dealing with inane situations. According to one survivor, if you didnt make enough points in one day (generally either 10,000 or 5,000 depending on level in the program), you had to sit in a silent room working on essays such as the importance of managing anxiety and the importance of accepting no or making what were essential pro and cons lists on dealing with inane situations. Eva Carlston Academy is a residential treatment program designed to help teenage girls grow and improve while overcoming the difficulties of emotional and behavioral disorders. Then she would have to defecate on herself sometimes, and it was just really terrible.. I have watched girls breakdown from staff being mean and staff telling them they keep doing this wrong and that they didnt do this right and why cant you do that better and go do that now or else. If you are in an urgent situation and need help call 911. However, we later learned that faculty instituted the rules and the use of point cards in a negative way. My mom kept calling the program begging them to take me to a dermatologist. From a review of its website and literature, this program looks promising. Another girl who graduated with our daughter dropped from a size 6/8 to 00 pants during her time in the program. Girls are still suffering there and need your help. The only part of this program that was helpful was the individual therapy. . third, this place caused me mental and emotional abuse and many other girls also. Many of these students report PTSD-like symptoms including panic attacks and nightmares. 144 following. everyone was punished for crying, especially if you cried when punished. They told me that if I took a step out the front door that they could restrain me on the ground like wtf well I wasnt going to try that and look like a lunatic. Privileges at Eva Carlston were given based on your phase and whether you made enough points that day. okay so drum roll please, the Skills Card. ah yes. In order to refrain from receiving these negative consequences our daughter felt she had to hide her feelings and couldnt open up and be honest about her emotional state. If a girl at Eva Carlston breaks a rule, she is punished with a demerit. They are silenced as they are abused. All of the contact that girls have with the outside world, including with their families, are monitored by staff and therapists, so the girls do not have the opportunity to be honest with parents about what is really happening to them at ECA until after theyve been discharged. as the Admissions Director. Among these allegations include claims of emotional/verbal abuse, attack therapy, forced manual labor, isolation/solitary confinement, humiliation techniques, and more. Get this- Taking a nap was a privilege, reading a book was a privilege, listening to your ipod was a privilege, interacting with other girls was a privilege, taking samples at Costco if you were one of the 2 that were invited to grocery shop once a week was a privilege, watching TV even if it was on right in front of you was a privilege, putting on makeup was a privilege, shaving your legs was a privilege, taking longer than 15 minutes to get ready was a privilege. Do NOT send her here. After girls are allowed to leave Eva Carlston Academy they are often worse than when they got there. There were interventions people were put on for eating. *Rae and Kyra have both chosen to keep their last names private. They also lose other privileges, such as being able to have a snack in the evening, reading books and writing in their journal. Nothing from our visit with the students alerted us to the possibility of harm coming to our child. However, I doubt anyone there currently will tell you the truth because you get in trouble for doing so. arms is when a staff is key word= SUPPOSED to be arms length away from you at all times. I also had my wisdom teeth removed while I was at ECA. If we didnt make a certain amount of points a day we couldnt talk to people really for 24 hours and we had to sit and write essays. I must speak my truth even if this comment is deleted my Kristi Ragsdale . I don't know anyone who can live on 1 cup of cereal and a dozen raspberries. No matter how girls who were there behaved, they left with regrets. im sure the more classically rebellious teens had it far worse they were the ones who got restrained, and that was horrible enough to witness. They were so desperate for food, and part of punishment involved not receiving snacks/additional food. However, the year our daughter spent at Eva Carlston Academy was significantly damaging and profoundly and negatively impactful to her. Oh yippee now I get to talk about how consequences on your point card were worth 4 good actions!! But many of our girls have failed to find their place socially and have resorted, instead, to withdrawal or to self-destructive and inauthentic ways of gaining peer approval. so yeah if I wouldve stayed there for the rest of my junior year then senior year I would have failed all my classes no doubt about it. I was forced to eat pork and red meat which is against my beliefs, and was threatened to eat it. Utah's Office of Licensing inspects and regulates each facility, and sometimes finds neglect, child abuse or sexual misconduct. I was constantly scared of getting in trouble for every thing I did. Girls progress through the levels by earning points in a merit/demerit based system. We encourage students and alumni to speak freely with us about their experiences and welcome the opportunity to help educate the public about the importance of young women having a safe and appropriate place to heal. There were interventions people were put on for eating. I had lost about 10 pounds since wilderness and Ive never been overweight, always stuck to a solid 116 give or take a few pounds but after Eva Carlston I was 108 pounds at 51. Clean your own fuckin house, get some maids, you have the fuckin money. The description of the petition reads, Girls under 18 and younger are signed away to Eva Carlston Academy, a residential treatment center that supposedly helps girls with addiction, eating disorders, depression, mood disorders and other mental health or behavioral issues. When we originally researched the facility we believed the intention of the program was to give girls an intimate sense of home as well as access to the cultural resources and opportunities of a large city. I remember I had terrible eczema while I was there (due to high stress). They will lie to you until your daughter is there, youve signed over her rights and then you cannot do anything. Read the violation reports and inspections for Utah's 'troubled-teen A lot of times I would be really hungry during the day and I struggled to manage my emotions because of that. Eva Carlston did not respond to Refinery29s request for comment about interventions or under-feeding residents, citing HIPAA laws. They told me I was asking for special privileges. This means that she loses a certain number of points, usually between 2,000 and 20,000. Not everyone loses so much weight because metabolisms vary. Students come to Eva Carlston with a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues. This program left our child with deep scars, and she is currently undergoing specialized trauma-focused therapy to process and heal from her experience. Staff are manipulative, condescending, and power hungry. Mft Jobs, Employment in Sheridan, UT | Indeed.com Instead I was shipped off to good old home of the Mormons Salt Lake City to what i was soon to discover as hell on earth, thats right, you guessed it, Eva Carlston Academy!! Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. okay sorry I got off track, this place is just so f-ed up I just keep on thinking of more things I want to mention. While at Spring Ridge, Hubbell said they took part in an exercise called trainings, purportedly therapeutic events that students had to complete in order to graduate. The level system consists of four levels, the first of which is called Daily. I found it very strange that we were not allowed to wear slippers in the house unless you had a medical problem, even in the winter. The answer seems to be that the majority of them are hiding what they do in plain sight. They were sneaky with our money too. Kristi Ragsdale is the Founder and Executive Director of Eva Carlston Academy. Because this coaching takes place in a systematic way in the girls day-to-day routine (milieu) and in real time, it helps girls respond more naturally to real-life situations as they arise. Many of these students report PTSD-like symptoms including panic attacks and nightmares. I would like to say thank you to DeAnna, Alex and Hannah if you ever see this. Dont send your kid here please. , Nightmares and panic attacks are commonplace among my friends after having left. everyone was punished for crying, especially if you cried when punished. Towards the end, close to when my parents finally had it and scooped me all the way from Texas, things got really fucking weird. Self care resets our minds and makes us efficient, happy, and productive people. Our treatment approach is gender-specific, using the best, research-validated approaches for supporting womens mental health. If you ever disagreed with a consequence you were asked to wait 10-15 minutes to disagree appropriately. You must start with a statement like I understand, give an empathy statement, re- state what they said to you, and then accept their decision. The therapeutic portion of ECA is functionally separate from the daily living milieu and its Family Teaching Model, resulting in a treatment model this is highly compartmentalized. Eva Carlston Academy W3dwZGF0YXRhYmxlIGlkPTkwMF0= Title Date Link Archive Tags Type; mainhouse.inspection.012616.pdf: 2016-01-26: READ MORE Community. so I have severe ADHD. Family therapy helps the student, and all family members, learn effective ways to interact, resolve conflicts, and heal. However girls who arrive there are emotionally and psychologically abused by staff and directors. this place is psychotic. The other names of the levels are unknown. Our bathroom breaks were monitored and you were not allowed to use the restroom until at least one hour after a meal. Once there, she says she was strip-searched, forcibly showered, and then entered into the program against her will. As an 18 year old ADULTI WAS LIVING MY LIFE DEPENDING ON HOW MANY POINTS I GOT ON A FLAT CARDSTOCK PIECE OF FUCKING PAPER SO THAT MAYBE IF I MADE ENOUGH POINTS THAT DAY FOR DOING GOOD THINGS I COULD HAVE MY PRIVILEGES for the night and get to eat night snack which was a single serving portion of whatever was planned. My mom kept calling the program begging them to take me to a dermatologist. This was my fucking reality not too long ago. All Categories. 22 Voice Acting jobs available in Sheridan, UT on Indeed.com. At Eva Carlston Academy, we believe that our long-term mental health is well served by knowing how to have fun! After a few months of being there of course I made some life long friends. Staff are manipulative, condescending, and power hungry. Ill post a shorter version of it again because I think its crucial that people who care about their children know that this place is traumatic, abusive, and does nothing for the well-being of children. Constantly living in fear. Charlotte Rayburn, 19, attended Eva Carlston Academy from 2018 to 2019, and also claims she took part in hot seat sessions. I would never send my child here. The staff are inconsistent yet girls are punished if they dont adhere to all the staffs expectations. only I truly know my way of learning. If you call the Utah State Department of Licensing and ask to hear what reports were filed against the program, you'll be told that a patient was slapped by a staff member. so I went into Eva with depression, anxiety, ptsd and a tiny bit of substance abuse. 213 Mft jobs available in Sheridan, UT on Indeed.com. The dietary restrictions they place on these girls is not healthy. Legal Circle; Research Library; Facility Report Database . We offer that support in the form of a robust program of individual, group, and family therapy led by seasoned, licensed therapists. Mental Health Therapist jobs in Bingham Cyn, UT - indeed.com If you so happen to make eye contact with a random boy, youll be forced to write essays in the basement about it for weeks or months. Our daughter experienced heightened anxiety due to the intense scrutiny and struggled with the constant fear of earning negative consequences. Because of the familys role in shaping our basic relational patterns, it can also be the key to effective therapy and individual healing. The substance abuse group provides accurate, fact-based information about the short-term and long-term health effects of substance abuse. Eva Carlston Academy - Overview, News & Competitors - ZoomInfo Kyra and Rayburn claim that Eva Carlston has refused to give them sufficient records from their time at the facility. I pleaded staff to please get me lotion for my eczema and I got in trouble. At Eva Carlston Academy, this is something that we utilize within our organization to ensure top care, and safety, and to create an optimal treatment plan.