TW- ABUSE, SUICIDE ATTEMPTS, DRUGS
So I agree with the other review on here. People were leaving left and right without graduation the program or being helped into a new home, including myself. My reason? I was verbally and physically assaulted by another girl (the same one who was sneaking Jack Daniel's, weed, and non-prescription Xanax probably among other illegal substances despite supposedly being drug tested- interesting if you ask me), who was incredibly mentally unstable and should have been in a lock-down center at the very minimum, upon BREAKING IN to my room at late night hours as I was asleep.
Another two students were psychologically abusive. One ran away a month into the program and ended up homeless and jobless. The other one even had a nickname for me. I crap you not, that nickname was "ugly b!@#h" and staff never did anything about it. Oh but when I bumped her shoulder she threatened to press assault charges and it was then that staff forced me to CALL HER MOM (HIPAA violation) and APOLOGIZE to HER. This girl had recorded many videos of me being bullied by the girl that ran away, posting each one to her TikTok. They were removed when everyone called it to her attention that the behavior was unacceptable. She was largely annoying, we could be having a serious conversation and she'd come flying into the room wearing underwear as shorts and as for the rest of the outfit, you would have to look closely to see that she wasn't entirely NAKED, and she would throw herself across the couch yelling "LOVE YASELF" with her phone in selfie position complete with a full sized duck bill on her mouth. It made us all very uncomfortable, and everyone in the room was mortified, some laughing uncomfortably. The best part is that this happened on more than one occasion.
The girl I just mentioned and the girl that ran away were making pizza rolls in the kitchen one night, loudly making TikToks and pissing off everyone in the house. To be clear, the staff leave the house at night, and I was literally able to sneak out multiple times as a result. But anyways. My room was literally the closest room in the entire house to the kitchen and my door wouldn't shut all the way. Understandably very annoyed, I came out of my room and asked, "Why the actual hell do you have to do this at one in the morning?" to which I was countered with the most cruelty and abuse I have ever faced in one night and I'm pretty sure I have never heard so many derogatory terms being used to describe someone's appearance in one sentence. It was enough to make my already miserable self leave the house and eventually stand in the middle of the road in hopes that a car would hit me. But instead I ended up being taken to the ER by police for being at risk of suicide. For whatever reason they had to contact ATC, who conned them into not placing me in better care. I was driven home by a staff that had the full on AUDACITY to be mad at me. Nonetheless, the footage from that night, and one of the day staff watched it too just to sympathize with me by saying "Yeah she was intense!" And that was all. This same staff showed up to the program, with her vape, every day, and whenever she got the chance, would go on the driveway and vape for ten or more minutes at a time and if we needed something and went outside to ask her about it, she got UPSET with us. Like hold up. Who's vaping in a program with a bunch of recovering drug addicts? The best part of that is that she wasn't even the only staff who would vape at our house.
Staff did nothing about the bullying. Abso-freaking-lutely NOTHING. I had to leave with no graduation and go live with my then boyfriend in Colorado.
But that's the rainbow after the storm. Years later, we are to be married in two months. Sucks to suck ATC! read more