Applewood Centers Inc's Online Review Report Card

You people traumatized me as a young child in 2006-2007. You don’t care about children. And you make your own uninformed assumptions/interpretations. My mom lost custody of me and I gained more trauma from the system then I ever did from my own family. I recently requested my records over the summer and none of the information is correct. I was a 3rd grader during this experience so yeah kids remember. 26 now. Why would any child want to talk to heartless people like you.

This place is a terrible services. I had my daughter come here for a year and a half and had me waiting 8 months for an IEP to tell me that after a year that find somewhere else. This place did not help my daughter in nothing. Cleveleand clinic has better services than this place. Oh and her therapist Josh it was a joke coming to him had me waisting my time he was worried about me coming to therapy than my daughter. Never again

No one is in the office before 10 am to even speak to aside from the smart mouth receptionist. Canceled services for my child for missing a nonexistent appointment.

Never send your kids here for therapy, the staff will take anything that has sentimental value from your kid and you will not be given it back

I was a resident for an attempt I made on my life and this place made it worse I left that place worse than I came in. I have trauma from this place now on top of the issues I came I with.

I was there at the age of 16 I was there for about 8 1/2 months maybe 7 1/2 and I absolutely love every single staff there except for maybe one. Everybody treat you with kindness and respect their absolutely the best I just got out November And I can actually say that my life has turned for the best if you go in there thinking that it’s not gonna work then it’s not gonna work but if you go in there with an open mind, it will work maybe not for everyone, but it definitely worked for me I went in there thinking that you know I could just get my time served and be out of there But my last month me and the girls unit manager sat down and had a conversation saying that I needed to start working on myself and if I didn’t then things might turn out for the worst and I’m truly glad that I listened to her because I started opening up more in therapy and I started taking this whole process seriously and it came down to my release authority meeting and I let the elephant out of the room and I told everybody what happened and they all looked at me in shock and the manager whom was with me told me that they were going to request another six or six months I don’t remember but I changed in that month. They approved my release and 90 days later I was home and I’m not gonna say that I want to go back because I don’t but I truly do want to go back to those moments that I had with the girls because those are the moments that I’ve held onto and those are the moments that I will always cherish because those girls in there were truly one of my best friends weren’t like peers as though Applewood would call them, but they were like family they were like sisters, and it was the most heartbreaking moment to tell them that I was leaving them, because I knew how it felt to not be the person that was leaving but it also felt good to be the person that’s leaving and I truly do hope that all the kids that were there with me truly do enjoy their time and learn something from the experience because I learned that there are ways to stand up for myself and I learn that along the way it is OK to let people help you. It is OK to reach out for help. It’s OK to give up sometime and it is OK to take breaks but never once should you give up so I want to say thank you I don’t know if anybody of the staffing will read this, but thank you so much to my therapist, my cottage manager, my original prime and my second prime and all the staff on the unit and some of the staff on the unit. Thank you so much for everything that you guys have taught me and thank you for being there for me after all my visits for being there for me to talk to at night for being a shoulder for me to cry on for showing me that it is OK to cry at points that I don’t need to hide my emotions and it is OK to scream. Thank you so much to the staff who screamed with me when I needed to scream , who allowed me to support my peers who were going through things for allowing me to sit in the doorway when I felt anxious and there was stuff going on I truly do not know if you will get this, but I want each and every single one of you to know that I appreciate you more than anything because my parents now have their little girl back and I am no longer doing drugs smoking cussing at my parents throwing things at my parents. I have learnt how to control my anger just the other day, my Boxers Were fighting and I went to stop them, and I got scratched, And if it was the old me, I would’ve definitely done some things that I would have regretted but Instead of that, I Simply separated them I went to a place where I was alone, and I took me a five minute break and I recomposed myself I washed up my arm. I put a little Band-Aid on it, and I went To the Boxers and I simply checked on them to make sure they were OK and I put them in time out. My mom was so impressed with how I handled it because not only did I regulate my emotions. I also on the Dogs Who had scratched me and hurt me instead of going after them.

mercedes deserves a raise, shrek 4eva

Staff never answers calls, and wont return messages. I've left several messages over an 8 day period, and not one was returned. I don't know if they're under-staffed, or they just don't care about the children they serve, but I even left a voice message for the Director, but that was ignored as well. I finally had to get the County involved. If your child needs this kind of service, keep looking, this is not a good choice.

My favorite person was Ms.mai I lover her and I miss her

I lived there for 5 years growing up the staff restrain kids 24/7 I have nightmares as an adult because of this facility you cannot see your parents. The staff beat on you and one choked me uncontious in a quiet room staff member mr banks ! Kids would awol and go missing and never tell anyone they did (I would skip head count) I was restrained for hours and when you get in trouble they take ur blankets and all your belongings and an orphan and call it a stripped room <_< kids had every right to fight against the system this place is evil beyond it I was lied to and was told this place was torn down in outraged it even has reviews. There’s nothing but punching and rioting. I took 6 hour therapy seessons a day this was torture !!!!that being said there was only a select few staff who even wanted to work here it’s wrong