Jasper Mountain Child Care Center

From all the reviews I'm reading, and from what I've heard from a family member who's gone here. This place should be in investigated by the feds. The federal government should get involved in an investigate every single person that works there. Sounds like an extremely abusive place and the people in charge should be held criminally responsible. Maybe I'll make a few phone calls myself and get the ball rolling

I had previously gone here in the second to third grade and it was absolutely terrible. I had been sent outside when it was hailing and spoken to in offensive and rude ways by teachers for even the very slightest of misbehavior or misunderstanding of the education as a child as well as forcing me to put my head down and not look up causing severe neck pain because of severe misbehavior. This place also did very little about bullying and assault because every time I'd report it, the kid would twist the story upon being confronted, the school would believe it, and I would get punished. DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN HERE!

My determination of the "Star Rating" for Jasper Mountain is kind of torn. I have good experiences with Jasper Mountain, as well as I have negative experiences...which ultimately was a major contributing factor in the removal of my child from this program by myself, before his treatment was completed. My son was in the program for 7 months, and being there was hard on everyone involved, but most importantly it was very rough on him. It would be rough on any child with RAD, with their parents living in another state/time zone. While my son was in that program, there were times that I would express my concerns about medication decreases and him being punished as a result. The response that I would receive would embarrass any parent reading it. The doctor they use (Dr. S) suggested that I take parenting classes, and immediately dismissed my concern and made me feel like a horrible parent. First of all, I only have a child for the fact that I adopted him from foster care. As a foster parent you are required to go through multiple classes, and trainings, and certifications. As a matter of fact, Dr. S...I would say that foster parents are far more educated than natural parents....strange fact for you. At one of my visits, my son told me that there was inappropriate touching going on (other patient/residents touching my son). I reported that to my child's 1:1 support and I was instantly told that what my son told me was false. I told him that I just wanted to make someone aware what was being said. He shortly dismissed the entire conversation. Nothing was ever said of it again. Shouldn't that staff member have investigated the allegation just made before being so dismissive? Multiple times, I would call my son and he would be eating or in the shower, or in the restroom. I would be told that they would tell him that I called and that they would have him call me back. I never received any call and when I would ask my son, he would tell me that nobody told him that I called, and when he would ask to call me, they would tell him NO it's time for you to go to bed. Way to go Jasper Staff....let's reinforce that RAD and then complain about behaviors from children. During our conference call about my son, it was stated that Dru does nothing, and continues to do nothing with no improvement, and that he is breaking down staff members. Well, no kidding Jasper Staff. He is there for a reason! Don't complain to parents about their children's behaviors. That's the reason that they are there! I for one could honestly say that Jasper was the last resort, and that every other avenue has been exhausted. Jasper failed my faith in every way imaginable. About a week ago, I was made aware that his therapist no longer represented Jasper Mountain. I was shocked. I called and tried to find anything out. I even asked if my son was safe there? If anything had happened. Their response was that they could not speak of it. I begged them to tell me if my son was ok, and they told me "I'm sorry." That is when the decision was made that my child would no longer be in the care of Jasper Mountain. A facility that we as parents should trust our children with. I would never trust my child at this facility again. I would say, that my child has made great strides while he was at the facility. The medications that years of foster care placements put him on were no longer hindering him from feeling emotion. Through hard work from the staff and my child, our current team of out patient providers in the community feel that my child now has a chance that he never had before. So Jasper Mountain, I would like to say thank you for medically detoxing my child from all that garbage.

I went to school at the Jasper Mountain Center and they were very abusive. What they would do is if a kid was misbehaving, they would force them onto an outdoor mat and even perform corporal punishment. There where even a few times that a teacher broke a child's arm. As far as I know they are still doing it. What a school should do is try to solve the problem with the kids. Violence is never the answer.

We are grateful for Jasper Mountain, specifically for their excellent and experienced therapists Larkin and Kiva! Larkin and Kiva were wonderful to our child and treated him, and our family, with understanding and respect. They held our son accountable for his actions but were very caring and experienced with our child's emotional issues. They kept us accurately up to date with our son's progress and were genuine and honest with us regarding rough patches they faced with our son. Most importantly, Larkin and Kiva never hesitated to get as much background information as possible about our son and our family to help better understand our son's needs. We greatly appreciate all of Larkin's and Kiva's time spent with our son at Jasper mountain and wish more therapists were like Larkin and Kiva.