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Facility Question and Answers / Re: Unita Academy, Wellsville, UT
« on: March 25, 2010, 12:35:41 PM »
Quote from: "Oz girl"
I was wondering if you would mind filling us in on the specifics of the program.
Was mail monitored? Under what circumstances?
Under what circumstances could you use the phone?
was there a level system. Was it similar to other programs that you attended?
What about schooling?

When I was there, mail was monitored, but only to a point. Letters & packages had to be opened in front of the staff member that is passing out the mail. If a girl got a package the staff would have to make sure that the content being recieved was check thoroughly. I got to use the phone, but to be completly honest with you I don't remember how often. I do remember that I was only allowed to call certain people and I remember wanting to call my mom more then I was allowed to. There was a level system and it was pretty easy to get from one level to the next if you are truley motivated. Uinta was very similar to my other RTC in Utah called New Haven School. Infact I went to New Haven before Uinta and suggested that our nightly group meetings be called "Community" just like at New Haven. If they still call it that, I don't know. However when I first got to Uinta I was not drug tested or put on a manditory "saftey" level. (http://http://www.newhavenrtc.com/treatment-levelsystem.php)

As far as the schooling goes. I actually liked the BYU independent study program. I don't know why. I just really enjoyed it.

Hope that helped a bit.

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Facility Question and Answers / Re: Unita Academy, Wellsville, UT
« on: March 19, 2010, 08:25:50 PM »
Wow, there's so many things I have to say about Uinta. Good and Bad.

First I'll start by saying I'm 22 years old, I live in Marin County CA and I have been to 5 different programs. I got sent away at 13 and came home 3 months before I turned 18.  
Sagewalk, a wilderness program in OR,
New Haven an all girls RTC in UT, similar to Uinta but has been around MUCH longer :tup:
Nawa Academy, a Co-ed boarding school for non-traditional learners located in Northern CA, THEY ARE AMAZING CHECK THEM OUT!!! (no seriously, check them out, http://http://nawaacademy.org/) :tup:  :tup:  :tup:  :tup:  :nods:
Uinta Academy, I was there 14 months.
and Coronado Academy, a co-ed therapudic boarding school in Costa Rica, which shut down in 2004, they were wonderful too!.

But back to Uinta. Like I said I really liked it at first. Very small program, expanding was a given from the beginning. Uinta is still a buisness and expanding your buissness= more $$$$ . I did learn alot there so don't get me wrong. Apparently I have amazing people skills now,(I don't see it, but that's another story)  I can accept "no" and accept feedback and work on the problem.

The "skills" I got out of the program are amazing, I couldn't have thanked Jeff and Becky more, but some of the stuff I experienced there... all I can say is  "Wow! Really?!" For Example: We got in trouble for buying HEINZ Ketchup[/u] because John Kerry owned the ketchup plant, we were banned from Heinz from that point on, HUNTS ONLY! I think if I remember clearly we "lost points" & privledges. I'm sorry but just because you're a Republican does not mean you have to throw a fit about the ketchup!! ketchup is ketchup!!  :fuckoff:
We were having the horses' hooves trimmed and 'my' horse was a bit nervous, (we had gotten her from an auction in Idaho I doubt anyone had put any real training into her) she started shifting around a bit and was obviously stressed and when it came time to trim one of her front hooves and she was still moving, Jeff kicked her SO hard in the gut that I felt like I could feel it in my stomach! Horses are big animals and you have to be a bit more rough with them then say a dog or a cat, but I've also been working with horses since I was about 6 and I have NEVER EVER seen someone treat a horse like I had seen that day. ::deadhorse::

We ate nothing but crap food there :spam: , I gained 60 lbs at Uinta, and when I saw a doctor when I left Uinta they said I had pre-diabetes.... uhhh??? I started there at maybe 160lbs. I know I wasn't tiny, I'll be the first to admit that. At Nawa (the program I told you about above), I did all kinds of stuff like rock climbing, swift water rescue, cross country, hiking, you name a physical activity, we did it there, so I may have been kind of "big" going into Uinta but I wasn't a damn blimp! When I got out, I was 220lbs! Barely 17 years old and 220lbs?!?! AND A PREDIABETIC?!?! In 14 months?!?! WOW!  ::OMG:: oh and  I know it was supposted to be a little "fun joke" at the time, but Jeff gave me the nickname "Garbage disposal", so if one of the other girls couldn't finish her meal, "well hand it over to Garbage disposal! she'll finish it for you" Now that I think about it, that's really horrible but oh so true. :waaaa:

All the experiences I shared with you were all stupid right?? So if we're there to learn "values" or "get better" with our self esteem issues, body issues, anger problems etc., should we really be called mean nicknames, punnished for our political views, watch frustrated adults get mad at horses when they should clearly be joining us in our anger managment sessions, and making us in to future diabetic research polls that you see on the evening news.??? No. So I don't know how it is  there now adays but just know that some of their thinking there is kind of.... what's the term Jeff used... oh, "irrational".

In any case, Uinta along with EVERY OTHER PROGRAM is going to be good for some people and bad or useless for others. It's always going to be hit and miss. Your daughter has to want to change. Most of the girls I was there with would tell the staff and therapists exactly what they wanted to hear but once those girls got home, they were back out there doing coke and getting knocked up at 18 years old :dose:  (I still talk to 90% of the kids I met in my programs that's how I know this info). I didn't love Uinta enough to name my first child after one of the program directors, infact, that's just creepy and kind of gross(no offense) but I didn't hate Uinta, It did many things I may not have done otherwise.

UINTA NOR ANY OTHER PROGRAM IS GOING TO "CURE"  YOUR DAUGHTER, SO IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, YOUR EXPECTATIONS ARE TOO HIGH.

On a 10 star rating 10 being the highest, I would give Uinta a 6. Not good and not bad. Good luck parents :shamrock: . I hope you find what you're looking for.

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