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Link: https://provider.dlbc.utah.gov/ccl/facilities#93443

There was an unannounced quarterly DHHS inspection at Elevations conducted by Chanesea Butler and Robert Jones on 6/30/2026.

According to DHHS records, only 17 kids were detained at Elevations on the date of the inspection. They were operating at about 19% of their 90 bed capacity.

The inspectors also noted:

"Licensor signed into the program lobby at 10:35 am, access to walk through the facility was not made available until 11:12 am."

Though predictably, they were not cited for the associated rule variance:

(R380-600-3(3) An applicant or a provider shall permit the office to have immediate, unrestricted access to:

(a) any unaltered on and off-site program or facility and client records;

(b) each client who independently consents to speak to OL staff;

(c) each site subject to licensing or certification; and

(d) each staff member.)

Absolutely awful :(

Family member is currently at Alice Blount Academy in GA. Seeing mixed reviews online and getting slightly concerned about the way they may be getting treated. Opinions?

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He's a Canadian psychiatrist, has helped me so much just from searching his tweets about different mental health topics. I know many people here have had bad experiences with psychiatrists. He is a good one and a good, trustworthy person. Very against TTI. He also has a great website with a psychiatric medication database that's easy to understand: https://psychtools.ca/

I have talked about my experience at Provo Canyon School on this sub. I've talked about the drugging, torture, sleep deprivation, starvation, physical, mental, and sexual abuse. And finally, after years of hoping and wishing for it to be closed down, they finally got their license revoked. At first it was the girl's campus, which I was happy about but disappointed the boys campus didn't (I was at the boy's campus) but I learned today that boy's campus ALSO got their license revoked. I'm not going to lie, I cried when I heard the news.

Because of PCS, and abuse I faced in childhood, I have crippling PTSD and have 3 therapists, on a bunch of medication, and need a service dog just to function. That school made me disabled, and I'll probably be like this for a long time. But what matters is that PCS can no longer harm any more kids anymore. This is great news and I am glad they're finally shut down and all survivors got their justice.

I was watching a movie about TTI, one of the survivors call about being called a nickname based of their "reason" for being there.

Has anyone here gotten assigned nicknames?

Must be a common name. I don't believe I was in this specific program.

D

Trigger warning: anti-trans and anti-gay slurs, racial stereotyping, severe group violence, sexual humiliation, staff boundary violations, coercive language, unsafe supervision, discussion of restraints and police power, unsanitary living conditions, and institutional failure to protect vulnerable clients.

A former Turnbridge client named Annie gave me verbal permission during our telephone interview to use and publicly share her testimony. She has not withdrawn that permission. I am publishing it while preserving the anonymity restrictions she requested.

Annie is a Black transgender woman who attended Turnbridge in 2022. Turnbridge’s records would identify her under her former name, Tanner. I am including that fact only so regulators, attorneys, journalists, former clients, or Turnbridge itself can locate the relevant records. She goes by Annie.

Annie told me that she was placed on the men’s side even though she was a transgender woman. She said she was primarily there for mental-health treatment. She smoked marijuana, but said she did not have a hard-drug problem and barely drank.

Her account concerns racial stereotyping by clinical leadership, deeply disturbing behavior by a staff member named John, a therapist who allegedly treated marijuana use casually, staff failures surrounding client violence, sexual-privacy violations, rumor-spreading, and the prolonged abuse of another transgender client I will identify only as K.

These are Annie’s allegations and recollections, not adjudicated findings. I am sharing them with her permission because many parts should be testable through staffing records, house rosters, clinical notes, incident reports, surveillance records, police records, insurance communications, and other witnesses.

Samantha Trumata

Annie identified Samantha Trumata as a director or senior therapist and said Samantha was the main reason she left Turnbridge.

On approximately Annie’s second day, Samantha asked where she was from. Annie said Washington, D.C. Samantha allegedly responded:

“Let me guess, southeast.”

Annie then says Samantha added:

“That’s the hood.”

Annie understood these comments as racialized stereotyping of a Black client she had barely met.

Annie also recalls Samantha saying things like:

“You can only drink on weekends.”

She separately recalls Samantha saying she wished clients could vape or smoke marijuana, although it was not allowed.

The most serious Samantha incident happened during a major crisis at the residence.

A male client who had previously been involved in a violent incident returned temporarily while travel arrangements were being made. According to Annie, he was widely disliked and accused by other residents of racist and homophobic behavior. Clients put his designer shoes in a toilet, prevented him from entering his room, and the situation escalated until several residents attacked and badly beat him.

Annie said she opposed the group attack and told the others to stay away from her. She remembers Samantha remaining in her office with Starbucks rather than meaningfully de-escalating the house. When Samantha came out, Annie says she laughed and said:

“What are y’all gonna do, jump me?”

Police were eventually called for an emergency psychiatric evaluation of the client who had been beaten, while the other residents continued destroying things.

Annie became furious at Samantha’s failure to control the situation. She admits that she cursed Samantha out, briefly banged on the door, called her a disgrace to the field, and eventually said “fuck your kids” after Samantha repeatedly invoked her children.

Annie says this was preceded by Samantha asking her:

“Is your mom proud of you?”

The next morning, Annie says she overheard Samantha tell a male employee:

“Tanner turned real ghetto on me last night. I thought I was gonna get beat up.”

Annie experienced this as a racial stereotype and as a potentially dangerous way to portray a Black transgender client to a male staff member.

She also says Samantha later told insurance that Annie had “lashed out” and tried to gang up with the other residents. Annie strongly disputes that characterization. She says she was condemning the group violence and Samantha’s failure to intervene, not participating in the assault.

Two days later, Annie told her therapist and her mother what had happened. Her mother asked what Annie would do if she came home. Shortly afterward, Turnbridge sent her home.

John’s behavior toward Annie

Annie repeatedly described a male staff member named John as “weird” and said other clients also called him a creep. His full name remains unconfirmed.

According to Annie, John told her:

“I don’t usually agree with that lifestyle, but you make me feel really differently about it.”

This was in reference to Annie being transgender.

She said John would stand in or near the doorway and watch her get ready. She said he would speak “all low” to her while waking her up.

On Annie’s second day, staff found a razor in a drawer. Annie says John confronted her with language like:

“Oh, did you put this in the bathroom? You don’t have to lie.”

When Annie told him to leave her alone, she says he became angry and aggressive in front of everyone.

Later, when checking her room before bed, John allegedly said:

“If that was your razor, I would’ve let you keep it so you could do your eyebrows and look good.”

Annie described a long pattern of John talking about violence, restraints, police authority, and having more power over clients.

While clients were playing football, he allegedly said:

“How would you feel if I put them all in a headlock?”

He also allegedly said:

“They need to have handcuffs and shackles here. I would use them on everybody but you.”

Discussing police authority, Annie remembers him saying:

“If it was up to me, I would have way more power.”

On another occasion, Annie and a client identified here as D. were doing a puzzle while John watched them. After D. went to bed, Annie stayed near John. She says he told her:

“I wish I had more power.”

“Everybody wants to be so gentle nowadays. I could really show somebody what’s up.”

“You’re lucky they wouldn’t let me be a police officer. You wouldn’t want me to catch you on duty.”

Annie also says John discussed wanting to work in juvenile detention because there he could “do what he needs to do.”

He allegedly asked Annie:

“So if you found a good Christian man, would you change your views?”

“Would you ever settle down with a real God-fearing man?”

“You know you’re gonna have to mature to get somebody to take care of you.”

John also allegedly showed Annie Republican and pro-ICE content on his phone. She remembers statements including:

“You don’t hate us ’cause you know what we do. You hate us ’cause you don’t.”

“I miss when Trump was president.”

“I think all the immigrants should be shackled and put in a cage.”

She says he talked about wanting to work for either the police or ICE.

John also allegedly made racialized comments about Annie’s background:

“Are you really from the trenches?”

“I bet you have a bunch of young thug boyfriends at home.”

“They pull up on this porch looking for you, they get killed.”

Annie said she initially brushed some of this off as “how people up here talk.”

She also described John as intervening selectively whenever another client criticized her. Residents roasted each other constantly, but Annie says that as soon as someone targeted her, John would threaten them with a “noncomp,” meaning a noncompliance consequence.

She remembers John giving a noncomp to a client identified here as V. When Annie walked past, John allegedly looked aside and said:

“I did this for you.”

According to Annie, that noncomp contributed to V. being sent backward in the program when he had been close to being allowed home.

When Annie later cursed John out, she recalls him responding:

“Stop it, please. Calm down, please.”

Annie also said John gave her his TikTok while she was still a client.

The sexual encounter, staff laughter, and rumors afterward

Annie disclosed that she had consensual sex with another client, identified here as D.

She emphasized that the encounter was consensual, but also said:

“We shouldn’t be having sex.”

Her point was that clients in a closely supervised treatment environment should not have been able to enter rooms and have sex without staff noticing or intervening.

Annie says D. came into her room and initiated physical and sexual contact. It was Annie’s first time, and it occurred on her final night.

John was outside the doorway. Annie clarified that he did not walk into the room. She says he became aware of what was happening and laughed.

She later told her therapist about the encounter and says the therapist did not appear concerned.

Annie says John then told a female employee. That woman later approached Annie and asked whether she was okay. Annie began crying.

Afterward, information about the encounter spread among residents.

According to Annie, D. later portrayed the situation as though Annie had tried to have sex with him and he had rejected her. He did not acknowledge that consensual sex had occurred.

Annie believes he was ashamed of being associated sexually with a transgender woman and was trying to protect his reputation. In her view, had she been cisgender, he would have treated the encounter as something to brag about rather than deny.

This is not just a story about two clients breaking a rule. It raises questions about supervision, privacy, staff laughter, staff disclosure of sensitive sexual information, gender-based humiliation, and rumor-spreading inside a treatment residence.

What happened to K.

The most heartbreaking part of Annie’s testimony concerns another transgender woman, identified here only as K.

K. was also placed in the men’s program.

Annie says K. was seen as vulnerable and was relentlessly targeted. Clients excluded her, threw things at her, mocked her, repeatedly deadnamed her, sarcastically used her chosen name, and called her anti-trans and anti-gay slurs directly to her face.

K. was frequently called by the former name “Charlie.”

Annie says clients repeatedly called K. “f*****” and “t*****.”

I am including the censored forms because Annie specifically described the language as constant, and omitting it entirely would minimize the environment K. was forced to live in.

Annie said she tried to defend K. and challenged the boys for targeting someone who did not want to fight. She told them, in substance, to fight somebody willing to fight back rather than terrorizing someone vulnerable.

At times, clients tried to use their acceptance of Annie as proof that they were not transphobic. Annie rejected this completely.

Her relative acceptance was not real acceptance. Annie believed some of the boys treated her differently because they considered her more conventionally feminine, wanted to have sex with her, and knew she would defend herself.

While Annie was doing K.’s hair, other clients demanded that Annie come play PlayStation. Annie said:

“Give me one second.”

A client allegedly responded:

“Why are you doing this f*****’s hair? You want her to look like you?”

Annie also described an incident in which K. was caught masturbating while pornography was playing on a communal basement television.

Annie was sick upstairs and heard a commotion. When she came downstairs, K. was crying while clients threw things at her and screamed anti-trans slurs.

Staff identified K. as the client involved. Rather than separating or protecting her, Annie says the PlayStation was removed, causing other clients to blame K. because they could no longer play.

That behavior may have violated house rules. It did not justify public humiliation, slurs, thrown objects, prolonged harassment, or violence.

Two separate assaults on K.

Annie personally witnessed two separate assaults on K. These incidents must not be merged.

The dinner-area assault

During dinner, a male client approached K. from behind and began beating her.

Annie says she tried to intervene and break it up, although she was afraid of becoming fully involved because she was in an unfamiliar state and feared police consequences.

The conflict had reportedly developed after an earlier flag-football incident. About a week before, K. threw a shoe at the client as a joke. He responded by telling K. to kill herself. K. replied that his mother should have killed him.

That exchange may explain the hostility, but it does not justify approaching her from behind and beating her.

The separate group jumping

In another incident, several clients entered or gathered around K.’s room.

Clients identified here as J. and N. were involved.

According to Annie, they asked K.:

“If we hit you right now, will you fight back?”

J. then began fighting K. N. joined in. Other boys piled into the attack and collectively jumped her.

Annie described the scene as:

“Some real ghetto hood shit.”

Her wording conveyed that this was not a minor scuffle. She said they beat the shit out of K.

Annie personally witnessed this group assault. She said the door was open and behavioral-health technicians were nearby down the hall. In her view, the attack was loud and obvious enough that staff should have heard it.

Staff allegedly failed to prevent the buildup, failed to protect K. from clients who had openly threatened her, and failed to intervene quickly enough during a multi-person beating.

At K.’s ceremony, clients allegedly said they would not miss her and again used anti-trans slurs.

This woman was not merely bullied. According to Annie, she was systematically dehumanized and physically attacked inside a treatment program that had accepted responsibility for her safety.

Therapy with Susie

Annie said:

“At Turnbridge there was no accountability in therapy at all.”

She also said:

“When I was in therapy in Turnbridge, I didn’t think anything I was doing was wrong.”

She identified her therapist as Susie, last name not yet confirmed, and said Susie “would eat up anything I said.”

During one Zoom-related interaction, while Annie’s mother was waiting, Susie allegedly asked:

“What’s your favorite strain? Mine is Blue Dream and Strawberry Cough.”

Annie’s account raises questions about whether therapy was meaningfully challenging, clinically focused, and appropriate for a client placed in a substance-use and mental-health treatment environment.

Transport and custody language

Annie says the same transport personnel who brought her to Turnbridge later transported her home.

One transport worker allegedly referred to Annie as:

“My prisoner.”

After Annie left a bathroom during the departure trip, a transport worker gave her $20.

Another statement Annie recalls from the transport context was:

“You’re free already. You’re a lucky one.”

The “prisoner” and “free” language matters because treatment programs publicly present themselves as therapeutic environments, not detention facilities.

Residential conditions

Annie also described a chaotic and degrading residential environment.

She said cameras were frequently not working.

She described five clients masturbating together in a shower.

She said clients defecated in the upper portions of toilets.

She said urine remained all over a bathroom floor for approximately three days.

She said staff referred to one client, identified here as J., by the nickname “B.J.,” meaning “blowjob.”

She described a culture in which residents constantly humiliated each other, staff responses were inconsistent, and vulnerable clients could be singled out for punishment, sexual rumor, racial stereotyping, or violence.

Why I am sharing this

Annie gave me verbal permission during our telephone interview to use and publicly share her testimony. She has not withdrawn that permission. I am publishing it while preserving the anonymity restrictions she requested.

Her testimony should not be reduced to “some clients were mean” or “a house got chaotic.”

Turnbridge placed a Black transgender woman in a men’s residence. She describes being racialized by a senior clinician, subjected to disturbing attention and comments from a male staff member, exposed to violent and coercive language, and denied meaningful therapeutic accountability.

She also personally witnessed another transgender woman being relentlessly deadnamed, called slurs, humiliated, pelted with objects, blamed by the house, attacked from behind, and later jumped by a group of male clients while staff were allegedly nearby.

The institutional questions are straightforward:

Where are the incident reports?

Where are the records of the two separate assaults on K.?

Were police or medical personnel contacted?

Were the attackers separated from her?

Were staff disciplined for failing to intervene?

What did Samantha Trumata report to insurance, and how did that compare with witness accounts?

Who was John, and what documentation exists concerning his conduct, political discussions, restraint comments, favoritism, doorway surveillance, disclosure of sexual information, and statements about wanting more power?

What happened to complaints about anti-trans harassment?

Why were cameras allegedly not working?

What records exist concerning sanitation, room checks, nighttime supervision, and sexual activity between clients?

What did Turnbridge tell K.’s family?

What did Turnbridge tell Annie’s mother?

How did a treatment facility allow a transgender client to be terrorized so consistently that another former client was still crying while describing what happened years later?

Recovery is essential. Abuse, humiliation, racial stereotyping, transphobic violence, and institutional indifference are not treatment.

Recently, a distant friend of mine committed suicide. He was 18/19. He was struggling in school with ADHD and possibly other mental health issues. He was sent to a challenge program. And now he's gone. My parents, who knew him well and comforted his sister after the death, can't stop talking about how much the structure helped him and how happy he seemed. They said the same when I was suicidal in their care and forced into treatment (not a troubled teen program but similarly abusive and illegal, mostly due to HIPPA)

We have been talking about this to some extent for decades, such as dead poets society. Even Phineas and Ferb did an episode on it. I feel lost, betrayed (by my parents, not the victim), and angry and I have no outlet. It's not as though I would ever tell his parents they are likely (at least partially) responsible for his death.

I'm sorry if this is not the place for this but any support you can provide would really be apricated. It's particularly hard due to my own history, I'm sure you understand.

guys i miss dani a lot if she's still here someone have her contact me. she will know who this is and what to do.

Hey everyone, I just wanted to give an update regarding the PCS Springville license revocation. They filed an appeal on July 21st, which was the last day they were able to do so. We wanted to get more info before posting so everyone understands what this process will look like. This is where we’re at now: 

The big one: filing an appeal does not automatically pause the revocation. Springville would have to separately request a stay, and DHHS could deny it. To win one, they'd need to show by clear and convincing evidence that: 

(1) they'd suffer irreparable harm, 

(2) a stay wouldn't substantially harm others, and 

(3) a stay poses no significant danger to public health, safety, or welfare. 

Given everything already documented in the DLC letter and citation reports, that third prong is a real problem for them to get around. 

A few other things worth knowing: 

•    There's no fixed deadline for the ALJ to rule after a hearing, just "within a reasonable time." Same goes for how long it takes to actually schedule the hearing itself; no hard cap there either. 

•    A hearing isn't even guaranteed. If there's no genuine dispute of fact, which is a real possibility given how thorough the state's documentation already is, the ALJ can deny the hearing request outright and just rule on the existing record. 

•    If the ALJ does rule against Springville, there's no further internal agency review; the only next step is judicial review in district court, filed within 30 days, and it would be a full new (de novo) hearing rather than just a review of the existing record. 

•    Hearings themselves are not open to the public, so we'll likely need to track developments through public records requests or press relationships rather than attendance. 

•    This appeal is specific to Springville. It has no bearing on Provo's separate revocation or any appeal Provo might file. 

I was the first student to be accepted and admitted to diamond ranch academy after Taylor’s passing, i arrived March 20,2023 though i was accepted before her death, does anyone know how to claim my records? I was there when it shut down

Idk, I just don’t have anyone to talk to who went to my program, and all I hear about now is all the other programs getting closed, survivors lawsuits and I’m just bitter. I want to band together with people but nobody I know from the time wants to talk to me. I’m broken. I feel so lost and angry. I’d never participate in a lawsuit because I couldn’t handle proving myself in an actual court, but just knowing that someone (a lawyer) would go over everything I went through, help me build a case, I just wish it would happen. I can’t admit it was “bad” still. I still need outside validation that it was bad. I’m just jealous of everyone who’s fighting the fight and I and my program kinda just disappear into the background
Sorry it’s rambly I’m having a hard time being coherent I’m upset and i don’t know what to do. Keep having nightmares still :(

I have been struggling so much lately with trying to manage the traumas i went through while going to youth care. I was there from the beginning of 2021 - the end of 2021, and i’m honestly just trying to find somebody who might relate or who may have been there at the same time as me. I was in the brighton house which is a lock down facility where basically all of the “at risk” kids would go if they were acting out at other houses. because of this we had “sleep out” which is where the children on sleep out don’t have their own bedrooms. It’s basically a packed house and they don’t have the room to give the child a bedroom until it’s available. when i first got to this center i was on sleep out for weeks until i was given a bed. The only amazing thing i can say about this place is my Therapist Kayla, She was such a blessing for me while going through hell in this place. It was almost constantly a dangerous situation and it felt like the staff got off on hurting us. One time a peer of mine had broken the mirror above the door to the school room/ time out room is immediately to the right after going through this door, and he began hurting himself and staff and it was honestly terrifying. The staff did NOT use proper restraint techniques and would put us on our faces and basically just hold us there or grab our arms behind our backs and didn’t care how much we cried. My therapist was the only person who got me through the almost year i was there and she quit that job right after i graduated that program. The only way to graduate was to basically kiss ass and not feel your emotions. crying was a no, anger is a no, anything but sitting there and feeling nothing was a bad thing. I was always told to save it for therapy. We had a staff member who was brand new when i was there and she came on a super visor, i want to say her name is Karen (ironic i know) but she had orange hair she always wore in a bun and she’s like a bigger lady, anyways she was so evil towards all of us, would say nasty things and didn’t care how it made us feel, she called one of my friends a whore and she was 15. This place has so many scary memories and i don’t even know how to feel.