Our recently adopted 15 year old son spent a month at this RTC. They were kind, caring and treated…read morehim with respect. When he came to live with us, he was out of control...violent, abusive and defiant. We tried different doctors, different meds and different therapists. Nothing helped very much of for very long. Our family was "circling the drain" . As a last resort we tried Cedar Crest. We didn't expect much. Wow!! Within 24 hours of his admission, his new psychiatrist called us and we were on the phone for over an hour. She really cared and with all the professionals, our family and our new son we made a plan for his treatment and meds. And it's working!!!! He's been home several weeks now and he's really changing for the better!! They've even called several times to check on all of us. If it wasn't for Cedar Crest, our son would be in the correctional system. It was our only other choice for his safety and ours. Thank you for saving our family!!

I went here as a teenager I was 15 when I was admitted. The staff who watched us during the days…read moreand nights did not care what other teenagers were going through and basically would simply tell them to "get over it.". There was a teen around the age of 14 who was in there for sexually abusing their younger cousin yet they would still room this teen with other patients who had been sexually assaulted and this teen tried to pressure one of his roommates into sexual acts. They didn't move the unit they were in until someone decided to punch them because they were tired of them trying to touch other teens inappropriately. They don't really care about your treatment care they will just throw meds at high dosages in your face even if you said it wasn't working for you they'd just up the dosage and add another med onto it. I left bringing home 8 medications that didn't help and gave me painful side effects. The therapist I had didn't care about what I had to say or why I was in there she refused to believe what was going on with me or in my home would just blow it off and say that I wanted to be in control of everything, when that wasn't true I was tried of living in a abusive household and she just said I was trying to control the people who were abusing me. Do not send your kids or teens here especially for a long term stay!!! I'm 20 now and just figured out that some of the meds the prescribed me were causing me to have something we believed were seizures. They don't care about treating you or anyone! It's more like a juvi.