I have gone here before. so many of the staff quit because they were bullied by other staff and they didnt want to see the kids there get hurt anymore by staff. we were abused and hurt

Cps took my daughter Angelina from me and forced her to live here.. One more year till shes 18. 8 cannot wait for my baby to be back in my arms. Hang in there Manjo! Momma loves you!

I was there for a year in 1980-81 when I was 15. The only good thing was that they took us on some trips from time to time, and I met several friends while there. But I read several of the other reviews, and I do have to agree with them. Looking back on it, they did mishandle the kids and often drugged them up. Luckily, I never got on meds, but many others did. The education there was absolutely awful which put me a grade behind. Most of the staff had very little if any compassion on the kids including me, nor did they really help people there in any positive way. Oh, do they still lock people up in isolation this current day like they did back then? Now, at age 53 and from a Christian point of view, kids and even adults who have mental disorders need loving and understanding as well as encouragement. Looking back, it really was an awful place.

I was at Devereux Victory from the ages of 17-22 so that would from 2003 to 2008. I dont know anything about the youth side of Devereux. I can only speak for the adult side. The first couple months I was there everything seems to be going great but of course that was just a honeymoon stage. As time went on I started to feel more and more uncomfortable. Not being able to tell my parents to come and get me was hard because they were all the way in California where I had came from. I do remember a numerous occasions clients getting raped and beaten a given injections to calm them down for no reason. When I was there three girls got raped and one night it was the only time I felt being a plus size woman was at my advantage. I had gotten several black eyes from a girl who was supposed to be watched 24 hours a day. At this facility giving injections in the butt was a normal day-to-day occurrence. One girl got restrained for no reason and had both of her arms broken. Girls and guys will get prayed upon and and gotten trouble for no reason. I remember there was one day where I was in my room cleaning it folding my laundry and watching TV when a staff came in and violently threw all my clean piles of all the clothes that I had on my bed onto the floor and push me down to restrain me. I was so confused as I know that I didnt do anything wrong I was simply doing what I was told by cleaning and folding my laundry. I struggled and try to break free and I just simply called for a butt injection to call me down there we called it booty juice. I was so confused and asked what did I do wrong and he couldnt tell me. I filed a complaint with the superintendent of Devereux and he got fired. Him getting fired was not enough for me I was missed treated and violated for following the rules and not doing anything wrong. I recommend parents of mentally handicapped children and adults please do your research as my family failed to do ours learn from my mistake and you not take your love ones to this god awful prison because thats what it felt like.

Going there was one of the worst thing that happened in my life. When I went there, they told my parents to leave without say good by, they said its better that way! What kind of people do things like that to a kid. They also told me, if youre not happy after giving it a fair chance, you can go home. So, I was willing to try it, but there was no going home. I ran away and walked across that train track bridge, I could have been killed. I look back at it now and that was so stupid, but when you want to get away that bad and there is nothing stopping you other then a long way home, trust me, your kid will try it, just like I did. I was 1800 miles from and I did. Maybe you kid will not be so lucky! Then you will wish you didnt leave him there. Im sure you will be sorry you didnt say good bye too!

I be seeing yall soon I didnt forget what yall did to me as a kid I repeat dont be sending no more kids here yall hiring wrong people to work there

Went there as a child and it was the dirtiest place I even had to be placed in. I was pit on so any medications and the schooling was below grade level. The food constantly made me sick. They allowed children to fight and I had bite marks all over my arms from a girl in my room. She even tried to stab me with a pen. The Staff would beat the kids. And the counselor was more than willing to tell e information from my case file that was supposed to disclosed only upon my 18th birthday. I was 9 at that time. Do not I repeat do not send your children here.

I was there four years and I will never go any where near that place again on more than one occasion did two different male staff choke and broke my finger hopefully in the future they are shut down cuz they may be fooling some very stupids parents but I would never put my kid in the system because they dont help they make them worse with the medication they give them and thebullshit about coping skills they dont need coping skills to survive this world do you see how people are just shooting each other what they need to be teaching f them is survival skills and if they cant do I hope they get shut down. Cuz no child should have to go through what they put them through. Those happy faces on their website it makes me sick knowing none of that is true.

My daughter has been injured repeatedly from the staffing.

It was 1979 for me. Eventually, my mother kidnapped me to get me out of there. It was a nightmare. Clearly, nothing has changed. DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN HERE.

This place scarred me for life, I dont like talking about it but lets just say there crooked