Green Chimneys — Local services in Town of Patterson

I was a resident at green chimneys from march to september of 2024. the experience i had there was lets just say interesting. some parts were nice but a lot of times the bad often outweighed the good. my parents ended up pulling me out of the program mostly because of an issue me and multiple other residents had with a specific staff. he was the supervisor in my dorm and often made weird sexual type comments towards me and other residents. me and my friends from there decided it would be good if we said something about this to a different staff we trusted. we reported everything to ms kelleher and she really made us feel invalidated when we were speaking with her on the issue. often contradicting our claims. me and my friends looked into it more and this wasnt the first time residents had issues with this staff behaving inappropriately. green chimneys had knew about this and swept it under the rug. this staff was not supposed to talk to or have contact with the residents of his former dorm. he ended up still speaking to me and that was kind of my parents last straw. there was no official investigation conducted (to me and my parents knowledge) and he was just moved to be the supervisor of a different dorm. green chimneys turned a blind eye to this issue as they do with many other things. they allow residents to get bullied and tourmented by other students and the almost never do anything to change the behavior. i believe the reason they turn a blind eye to a lot of staff mistreating the students is because they’re INCREDIBLY understaffed. there are some great people there i will say that and there are some great things they do for the kids but they need to start taking action when a resident reports something. especially multiple residents reporting the same issue. the staff i am speaking about is mr. joerg rivera. he is now the supervisor of hawk dorm. if your child is a hawk dorm resident, i suggest you make sure they are safe and comfortable.

edit: i dont know why she replied because she never cared before i wrote it in a review. please dont send your children here and please ignore the “positive” reviews from parents. the staff can be very manipulative towards your parents too to make you look bad. its been months since i wrote this review and theyve changed absolutely nothing (not suprising). dont fall for it. they make it seem like such a nice and wonderful place but its just a facade.

another edit: i cannot stress this enough stop sending your children here and stop enabling this school. if your child says there’s something wrong LISTEN!!! STOP. SENDING. YOUR. CHILDREN. HERE. please dont listen to the positive reviews i am pleading with all parents considering sending their child to this school. what happened to me there was barely even the worst of it. disgusting vile program. danielle kelleher deserves to be behind bars with everything she’s let slide in there. if you genuinely care abt ur children’s well being and want them to improve DONT bring them to...

Hi I was a residential student at gc between the years of 2011-2014 and the only thing I liked about it was all the animals and the outdoor activities around the campus but otherwise that it was hell. The way the kitchen was ridiculous the head chef would make wonderful food for anyone but staff and students what I mean is that when they had private events and stuff the food looked so good and made by head of the kitchen staff and I would have the same but nope the food they served everyone was awful. Another issue I had was with a staff I had just had a traumatic break up with an ex and when I would have a behavior a particular staff ( Ms. Pemberton ) would say things like this is why so and so is dating him now and I believed it I nearly attacked another girl and she had no idea what I was talking about and then when I reported it I was accused of lying and making it up and guess what everyone of those other staff stood up for that staff and and lied for her and there was only one girls dorm with 8 girls and when they see that your in your teens they start discharging individuals to make room for other girls one thing that ticked me off was that there was a girl who was having at least 3 tantrums a week and she was given awards for most improved even tho she didn't while I was doing much better than her than within a couple of months they discharged her eventually when I was about 14 almost 15 they were looking to discharge me December of 2014 I moved to another school. I didn't necessarily get physically abused but I had witnessed 3 different times a certain staff in the intervention room would be super rough when restraining them to an extent that they end up hurting the people. If I can give one piece of advice to parents wanting to send their kids...

Went to this school from 2014-2020, it was no different than a mental hospital due to the students and residential setting & residential staff. Some residential staff & students would bully and take advantage of me/ make fun of me when I had physical weight issues, they would also either curse or get verbal and pick favorite students and gossip about students. They would even also ridicule neurodivergence, students would even do and say dirty things that were beyond TMI countlessly in the residential, like I said it was no different than a mental psychiatric hospital. Speak of students a student once sexually assaulted me in the dining hall and he kissed me on the neck and no one ever did a thing and at this point, all of this ridiculous nonsense is in the past and I really and fully don’t care at all, just sharing the experience I had. But just teaches a lesson that in life traumatic experiences like this school will make you act and mature/ improve yourself better so you don’t do the wrong thing to end up in this school or suffer something in green chimneys or a place like green chimneys ever again in other words I should’ve never made monumental mistakes when I was younger. Ever since I left (graduated) that was the most relieving day of my life EVER & the fact ever since I came back home to my parents, my life has been peaceful, I still live with them peacefully to this very day & my parents said they totally regret sending me here ever and they feel bad they ever sent me here & they even apologized to me but it was my fault at the time, I was the culprit for...