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Apr 2nd, 2024 Shelley Clay
Feb 28th, 2024 Kim Phillips
Feb 7th, 2024 Jennifer Beck
Nov 12th, 2023 Whitney Faust
I was a resident here from 2005-2009. Everything from staff restraining to outside law enforcement coming into said facility and tasing me while restrained will forever be with me. When I turned 18, I was dropped off at Ohio university with a laundry basket of belongings and the $309 I had earned during my 4 years there, expected to both live, buy everything I needed, and someone be a fully functional adult after going from a lock down facility with zero preparation for real life. The few staff who were kind were reprimanded for being so, I will forever remember the woman who prepared our meals crying when she said she was no longer allowed to interact with us. This facility is faith based, there were consequences for not praying before meals and if you went to the owners church on Wednesday you were rewarded, but church had to be earned. Mrs. Edwards was the teacher, but all school was self led homeschooling. I cannot accurately count the number of reports I had to write on why I deserved to be there and why children like me would likely end up in prison over trivial things like finishing my work early and not staying stimulated all from her. I was so overmedicated here that when I left in 2009, I had a prescription list of 18 medications, many that were counterproductive of each other. I was given them all in a bag when they dropped me off with no instructions or knowledge on how to refill them, even though many needed a weening process I had no idea about. They care about money, not the children. I lost any sense of who I was here, we all wore the same clothing until we leveled up to the next color shirt, but even that was a pipe dream. Please, do not send your children here. If you are a case worker or parent, fight for better for whoever is in your care. The trauma they will live with isnt worth it.
Mended Reeds Mental Health is located at 700 Park Ave in Ironton, Ohio 45638. Mended Reeds Mental Health can be contacted via phone at 740-532-1613 for pricing, hours and directions.
