Do not, under any circumstances, send your child here. I graduated from this program & I have several friends who have graduated, or at least attended, a good number of those evil programs in Utah. They will do nothing but destroy your child's well-being. Even if your child genuinely had problems to begin with, your child will walk away with a hell of a lot more. The majority of the girls in this facility are there because there parents found out they tried smoking pot once. Or, they have an older boyfriend. Those are NOT good reasons to take your child away from everything they know and love for months & even years. Girls lose their minds & their selves in places like this. I know I did. I've been home for a year at the end of this month & I am still haunted by the abuse I saw & endured in this place every day. Also, I know one single girl who I knew from Sunrise who has come home to be sober. And that's not by choice - it's only because she is still a minor & her mother is hair-testing her.
I can't go to college for a long time because all of the money I would otherwise spend on college, is now in the bank account of this god-forsaken place. I'm 18 & I've been working 65 hours a week since I got back to support myself & save money for college because there is nothing else I can do to get my life back the way it was before I got sent away. The 8 months of pain I spent locked away has extended into this past year & I expect it will continue.
A girl who graduated Sunrise right after I got there died recently of an ecstacy overdose. Girls tried to kill themselves while I was there. Staff told them they were pieces of shit. All I could do the whole time to ignore the dark circus going on around me was read books the whole time. One of my best friends went to a program called Crosscreek, which is right down State Street from Sunrise, in La Verkin. Since the year & a half she spent there, she has tried to kill herself 3 times. Before she went, she was a very happy girl. We met when we were 12. We're both 18 now. She & I both share the same agony when we hear of these programs, because we knew each other before & after.
So, please, coming from a survivor - do NOT put your child through the same pain we all went through. Love and understanding is far more effective than $60,000.