Oak Plains Academy

Reviews 6

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Jacob Allen

if your thinking about sending your kid her i strongly recomend you read this I would really like to give this place a 1 star but there was 3 maybe 5 nice people there not including the students that acuttaly cared about you even though there was about 50 that didnt care the first day there i went in into a bathroom stall and stared at a picture and cried like hell i tried so hard to not let anyone hear me but the group was leaving so a staff therepist found me and he tried to help but he sucked at it he really needs a new job me and another kid there saw staff dealing pot on diffrent acaions and i smoked pot for 8 months straight and one day they came out of the woods smelling like pot and he was handing the other guy money one day 2 white kids got in trouble and the staff that was responsible made them run, do push ups, up downs on the concreate and a lot more one of them was fat and had heart problems and he was crying and throwing up and if they didnt do it then at night they said that they were going to let the older big black kids go into there rooms and beat them up and ive seen and had acsess to more durgs in there then i did when i was home so y if your thinking about sending your kid there just drop them off in atlanta or comption but in all honstey i had a medical issue i was bypolar and i had got into more troubble than most of the kids in there and i behaved beter than anyone in there ive stole a car robed a bar broke into houses but i always was quiet didnt say much didnt do much untill one day a peer called a female therepist a bitch so i pushed him and we got into a fight and i got in trubble where i come form you dont say that to a nice woman trying to help you so if your thinking about sending your kid 2 things could happen come back nice and better than before but most likely he will resent u from sending him ther and be a hell of a lot worse thats if he dont kill himself ps. sorry for my grammar im only 15.

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James Alcorn

I was here in 2006 and remember every day still. being restrained and treated like garbage may I add in I was only 12 at the time not troublesome I was here for help coping with not having my dad around is what the courts deemed it as and was slammed into the wall and restrained when asking for a some grievance form all I wanted was cottage cheese back in the cafeteria I was calm and not a loud of violent child instead I had gotten restrained and slammed violently into the wall as a grown man almost 23 I can tell you no child should go through this treatment also I was such a bad child I voluntary started a boot camp program and enlisted in the services when I was of age.partially to stop the allowance of this treatment towards all humans if you care about your children youll keep them far away from here not to mention the rape of a 13 year old boy they failed to report to police or be medically examined because its not protocol. Heres protocol if a woman or man is raped is it considered an illegal act?then why was this different? Very little research will show you theres 100times more bad then good from here not to mention the ptsd being restrained gives you.particularly search for the nurse of 20 years who left the building on shift because she couldnt bare to see a human epically child be physically harmed so much from a restraint.

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Molly Henderson

I was sent here when I was 16 years old. I am now almost 22, and I still live with the long term effects of this place. Although most children sent here are acting out and cant seem to keep out of trouble, I was sent here because I was depressed and suicidal. I was still treated like a delinquent. The staff were grossly irresponsible and incompetent. On New Years Day, one staff member complained to us of her hangover and slept on her desk while letting us (girls between the ages of 13 and 17) watch Horrible Bosses. Another employee who I remember well, Miss Shay, tried to antagonize me and pick fights with me. I remember one time I was leaving the shower and she was staring me down. I asked her why she was staring at me, and she said, "Theyre my eyes." This is no place for any kind of troubled youth. If that isnt enough for you, look up the two instances where children have died here from the employees negligence. Dont send your children here.

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Ashley Christopher

I was a student there when it was the Chad Youth Enhancement Center. The staff treated me well and listened. They kept me safe and provided me with the two strongest teachers Ive ever had. Thank you to the Glasners,(I have yet to meet such a kind beautiful couple again.) Mrs. Oliver, Mr. Everett, Mrs.Berry, and the rest of the staff including the cooks that fed us. Thanks to Mrs. Oliver specifically, I have a family now, she found my mom. Now my daughter has a family tree. I am now a business owner and I can thank Mr. Everett for that, he taught classes and accounting in a way that I never encountered in regular school. I am forever grateful. I will never forget you all. You saved my life and took me away from a volatile situation. These were the only adults I ever knew that were good to their word, and I had never been safe before. They taught me trust is possible again. Ashley Johnson

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quinn nesmith

This place makes you worse and doesnt help at all.Every day theres fights and shouting,no schedule, the residents do whatever they want .I had a 100 degree fever and they made me use a jacket as a blanket.Theyre so understaffed that the employes never get to go home. Also mold in the showers from improper tiles used.when i discharged they lost my suitcase and everything in it and made me sleep on the hard tile with no matress or pillow .when oak planes was called by another name two murders have happened in the facility at staffs hands. Not to mention the fact that they claim its theraputic but i have seen over 15 mental break downs with no assistance from staff and staff telling a girl who was self harming not to get blood on the carpet.Over all this place is detrimental to your mental health I would never recommend it if you loved your child send them somewhere better and do not waste your 36,000$

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Les Dep

UPDATE:(The average star ratings are wrong. Goggle shows 3.3 but thats impossible with 4 "1stars" and 2 "5stars" should be 2.3 stars.)Terrible. My child was there on two separate occasions. Staff doesnt deescalate arguments between residents quickly. Its even been reported that staff encouraged fights or blanket parties. They let residents watch shows like 1000 ways to die, and listen to the most violent rap music. During a phone call with my child, I overheard loud banging in the background. I asked about it, and was told by my child that it was just a girl banging her head against a wall. I asked why staff doesnt stop her for her own protection and she told me that staff justs lets her do it. I filed a complaint with the state about Oak Plains. The worst part for me was that my child was discriminated against for being white. Most of the staff was black and favored the black residents.

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