Provo Canyon School - Springville Campus — Local services in Springville

I came here and stayed about half a year. What pcs is most notorious for no longer does happen. It honestly just sucks to be there so nobody likes it and only says the bad.

The staff there were amazing and kind and some of the rules make sense though if you blast the ac in the summer to the point i shiver without a coat please allow us the option to wear a coat. Those who will self harm will just cut their thighs if this is the concern.?

I really enjoyed how the staff were very caring for all though they did play favorites and at times some restraints that I saw could be a bit rough or even unnecessary which I honestly get because of human nature.

There was plenty of time to have therapy though when i tried to kill myself during my time here I did not feel as though my needs at the time were met.

If you get in trouble punishment does make sense though i think it is a bit excessive and goes against human nature to just have us sit their silently not able to do much. On the topic of this there was many differences between the girls side and boys side due to how ferocious the girls were though it is a huge imbalance of rights that I found to be unfair. Just look at the two stabilizing dorms on this campus i believe it was. Among many others such as girls getting paid to clean and boys not.

I did not like how I had to have the door open when I showered.

I spent half a year in this facility and coming out of it I still didn’t know all of my diagnosis. Physical health help was very negligent whenever I would tell staff I was tasting blood. Please work on communication.

Pills may help yes though I was put on a pill and when I left a month after i was allowed to go outside to go on a hike and was falling asleep on the hike due to the pills prescribed while I was here.

All in all I think this place is okay it just sucks to be there. Staff are great so please allow them to give more input because they spend all day with those attending. Please have common sense with rules such as blasting air conditioning in the summer and not allowing us to wear a coat when a majority of staff there wore long sleeve/sweater/etc. Not everyone needs or wants medication and the medication prescribed by the doctor who we very rarely see might not even know how we act thus what we need. Communication, please communicate effectively with the students on diagnosis and give more information on why you are giving them specific treatment or pills. Handing them written notes would be very efficient and straight forward I believe.

I was here for running away and suicidal ideation and for psychosis (unbeknownst to me) which wasn’t even psychosis and just my parents lies so please listen to those attending? Upon turning 18 i have ptsd and avoid therapy and “mental health help” due to places such as here. Any time i think needle i feel pain. Any time i see a pill i freak out and when offered sometimes i blow up thinking they want me to be a drug addict again or that they want to trap me inside of places like pcs again.

Psychiatrist called me “incoherent” and i just recently learned as to why. The reason why was because before being locked in pcs and given other drugs to become addicted to was because i was rarely allowed outside at my house and my communication skills didn’t develop. I wasn’t crazy I just had issues that weren’t listened to. I have laughed and cut myself and i didn’t tell my therapist because i didn’t feel a close enough attachment to them and then they yelled at me when they told me something personal about their life which was sad when i smiled and felt sad. Also i’m a bit to lazy to write a very good review as to what had happened on a phone where it’s difficult to edit and whatnot when this will probably not even go into consideration of those who are in charge of pcs...

I’ve spent the better part of the last 11 years of my life at Provo Canyon School as a full time teacher and when Covid situations caused a need for additional student life mentors, and since my heart broke for the many teens who were in treatment during the pandemic, I became a substitute evening, and sometimes weekends overnight staff member to help during this time of needed compassion and supervision for the situation of these teens. I am also the parent of a child named Mikey (naming him here because I have four other children and don’t want any of them to feel that their identity and reputation could be compromised by anything I say here about their brother and his experience in five separate behavioral and treatment facilities that he and I together chose to place him in to help him learn to deal with his addiction and his life traumas). In-patient treatment is at best always tough because vulnerable children are away from their parents, family and familiar friends as they voyage into living in a dorm setting with other children with some similar issues, and some with much more complex issues. Provo Canyon School provides these children with fantastic psychiatrists who also work in private practice outside the facility. My son, (who was a student body President, a medical assistant, and, sadly an Opoid addict who sometimes used illegal drugs to self medicate his bi-polar mental disorder) was prescribed, and responded very well to medications similar to what the PCS doctors prescribe our patients. Like some of these respondents on the PCS comments page, he went through spells of feeling inadequately or overly medicated until the right dosage was attained by his doctors and his compliance in taking the meds correctly and having nurses, teachers, staff, and therapists work together to help him communicate and observe the meds that helped him feel “right” mentally. This process is not easy for the patient, family, nor staff or facility in general, and a lot of patience and energy is required to just get the meds right for the desired behaviors to happen. I question negative comments by some of our past students here because time and time again I have witnessed some dramatic and wonderful mental and behavioral improvements in my PCS students within a couple weeks of getting on properly prescribed meds if needed and getting away from the substances that some may have been detoxing from. In 11 years, I have never seen any patient not have more than enough clean water from clean drinking fountains and more good food and tasty snacks, all planned and reviewed by competent dietary professionals and good cooks. Teachers and staff often dine with patients in the cafeteria and requests for special diet accommodations are often honored. As far as academics are concerned, I have worked at five accredited public schools in two states and have never worked with more distinguished and professional school academic directors than we have now at PCS and both have been at the school for over ten years. Many of the teachers have masters degrees and most have double majored with special education credentials to help both gifted and special needs students. As far as I have been able to determine, comparing PCS with the five facilities that my own son attended, (wish I had known about PCS at the time) the school directors, leadership and all facility employees that I have observed are doing an amazing job of using Trauma Informed Care, best practices, professionalism and kindness in helping patients learn the skills and have the knowledge to become happy, successful and productive members of...

I wish I could give 0stars I have spent time at several psychiatric hospitals and residencies in my home state but this was the first out of state visit, and it truly made itself unforgettable I was enrolled at PCS from late June 2023- mid August 2023 when I was 17 Upon arrival, I was strip searched and asked if I had snuck anything into the facility by hiding in my ass; their reasons for asking such a question was, “due to my patient profile stating my orientation as gay.” I quickly realized that the facility was nothing like I had experienced before. The first step in starting your “treatment” is staying in the stabilization unit for observation purposes. While there, you are expected to sit in complete silence not even able to hum to yourself and are only able to ask questions at the beginning of the hour. Any behavior that disrupts the extremely strict rules, kept you in the unit longer. After you had shown that you were not a threat of any sort, you were moved to the unit based on your age and level of supervision you would need. I wish I could say that the other units were better, but they weren’t. Yes you could speak and interact with your peers, but considering that the other patients were able to freely make comments that are racist, homophobic, sexist, etc., I can’t imagine why you would want to include yourself. For my personal experience, the facility constantly changed my medications(dosage, receiving times, and medication in general) so often in attempts to show that I required more time than expected. In a behavioral response, my mood constantly changed and affected my ability to communicate correctly. At some point, they started giving me a dose that basically sedated me after an hour of taking it so I would fall asleep quickly and stay asleep until it wore off hours later, and was unresponsive to attempts to wake me up before it wore off. No one on my care team outside of the hospital was ever asked for permission to prescribe me such a medication let alone notified that I was being prescribed it. On top of all the very much illegal actions that took place in my stay, I was sexually assaulted by a peer and when I reported it, the staff I told( Isiah was his name) said, “ I don’t really believe that, and I mean you’re gay so aren’t yall into that,” I still cannot believe that was the response I got from a trained employee at that facility. To say that to a child who was already attending a program that was supposed to help me get better. There’s more I could say about that horrible excuse for a mental health support center, but I shouldn’t have to if you have read through everything else that others and myself have said If you are a parent considering this facility for your child, the decision is yours but as someone who wished someone had advocated for my treatment, I beg you to please never let your children be sent to Provo Canyon Hospital and please don’t let anyone else consider it as...