Listen to "sent away"from NPR, that is all I have to say. Great listen It was an eye opener read more

Listen to "Sent Away" on whatever podcast app you use. Very surprising this place is still open, or that nobody has heard of it.

If I could give 0 stars I would. I went here in 2006-2007. 15 months of pure hell. Yes, I was a troubled teen and my parents didn't know what to do with me. I started to believe that everything these people were doing were for my "own good" because I knew I was a bad kid... But this place has HAUNTED me. I went in at 16, came home when I was almost 18, and I'm about to be 33 now. I left this place and hugged my parents and family tighter than ever before.. But I only saw my parents twice in 15 months. I was dropped from level 5 to 1 when my parents came out for family weekend and I asked to go to lunch with them because I "manipulated staff" to go. How does that make sense when I was told I could go with them? All my hard work for nothing. I was pulled into one of the bedrooms and yelled at by Julie while 3 other staff members stood there and watched. Most of the staff were just there for a paycheck, only a few actually cared about us there. The girls that were on medication to help you sleep, we would take our meds, then go back to GROUP! We were forced to stay awake on sleeping medication until "Reflections" were over, and if you fell asleep you were given a "Consequence" which happened to me and a few others, many times. You weren't allowed to speak your mind or even slightly disagree with anyone because if you did, you were given a "Consequence" which okay, I can understand that to an extent considering it is a "School for troubled youth"...However, we were suppressed. We were made into people we truly aren't. We weren't allowed to be our authentic selves out of fear that we would never move up and be free from this place. So I can confidently say 99.9% of the teens there, faked their entire program. I know I did. Near the end of my program, my money ran out. We could no longer pay to keep me in the program. Staff and therapist had me brainwashed that my family was not healthy for me and that I'd relapse immediately if I went home, so they convinced me to finish my program at The Academy Of Eastern Arizona per Daniel. They told me that if I wasn't happy and I wanted to go home, they would let me go home. Fast forward, Arizona was worse than Cedar City. One of the staff members, Ruth, was horrible. I was about to move up to level 6, and on that morning, she pulled me into the kitchen and gave me a "Consequence" for a crumb on the stove. I wasn't on kitchen crew that morning. This prevented me from moving up a level. The next week. Another consequence. And so on and so forth. She was power hungry and cruel for no reason. We would work for hours in the hot sun with hot water to drink, no food until we got back to the facility. Girls would get sick from the heat, but still be forced to participate in groups and therapy. I will NEVER send my children to a place like this. I would kill myself before I ever went back. There's no way in hell I'd ever send my own kids. PARENTS: Do your research, EXTENSIVE research, reviews, get to really know the people your child is going to live with before you just blindly throw all your money away, and possibly your childs life. Many of the girls that have left Integrity House have passed away. The trauma from this nightmare is real. It will probably haunt me for the rest of my life. I have more incidents that have happened, but I just wanted to give a tiny taste of what it was like to live there. I hope this opens your eyes to the horror behind closed doors. read more

I actually worked here between 2004 to 2006. I always had an odd feeling about the place and Daniel gave me the creeps. He would constantly pick girls to take out to lunch or off property which I thought was really weird. I worked the graveyard shift but I often had to read their essays and count the words, but some things that the girls would write about just struck me as odd, like going to his parents house or out to other locations. read more

Over a decade later this place is still haunts me. I will never understand how parents can do such little research and send their vulnerable child to a place where the abuse continues, the mental terrorism is amplified and education is interrupted. The staff was not qualified in any sense, and Daniel was perverted. I remember when we dressed up for a "dance", The comments he made about the thinner, more stereo typically "pretty" teenage girls was absolutely disgusting. I later learned that my parents paid more than a brand new Corvette to give me what I can only explain as a cornucopia of betrayal, trust, and self-worth issues created at this establishment. If you have a child that you feel is out of control, it's your fault. Period. You did too much or too little of something and sending your child away to a place where they will be mentally and physically abused is despicable. I will never get the 18months of my life back and I will have these traumatic memories forever. I think twice about sending your kids away. Daniel, Zelpha, Julie, I HOPE YOU ALL BURN IN HELL read more

Least integrity! They rip off graduated students who work there. I applied as a therapist, had a negative vibe.