Children's Farm Home

I am a former client of the SAIP program, this program was horrible. Not only did the staff abuse the children going here, but other patients abused each other. I had to be separated in my room because a patient said they wanted to kill me. Staff did nothing, then proceeded to lock me in my room for my safety. I was restrained multiple times leaving me with injuries and trauma that I deal with to this day. I was locked in the seclusion room multiple times due to my autism and the staff not wanting to deal with me. Do not send your kids here. #Isurvivedthefarmhome

I have learned many things about myself working here, nine years and counting.

One review is from 2 years ago. The second paragraph is from now.. 2024. I’m 21 now, have learned what healthy looks like.. here’s my review now.

I would not send your kids here.
The farm home is not well run anymore. I was there. It is a very hard job when staff are getting punched in the face and having their things destroyed. A patient I knew in there destroyed a staffs brand new iPhone 13 and was going to use the glass to slit his wrist. They had 1 group that one staff did if it was calm enough to do it that week and that is about it. I have been to many facilities and this one was by far the most out of control, violent, traumatizing facility I have been to. When you go to sleep you will wake up to children screaming. It is a traumatizing place and the dynamics are very easily learned, especially when you are a child. Kids that weren’t violent before will start being violent on the daily or getting in restraints for fun because you have nothing else to do. Or other kids will ask you to riot with them. I have seen people come in and they are calm before they come and then they see other kids getting in restraints 4 times a day and they start doing the same thing. It’s just what kids do. They follow. And I wouldn’t doubt that anyone in that environment would do the same thing if you don’t have a good head on your shoulders. Even staff break. Right in the middle of a restraint a staff said she was done and walked out. It’s hard for everyone because of how traumatizing the place is. I tried to play a card game and there was a kid slitting his wrist in the chair next to me and the staff and I just continued playing. The kid wasn’t stopped. Just kept carving. I tried to tell my counselor that I did not want females touching me because of past trauma and they did not listen even when I continued to tell them please get her off of me. The next day a situation occurred because that’s just the kind of mindset you start to adopt when you are in there. I was told by one staff that sometimes they will test the kids “to see how they react to their traumas” but really I just ended up getting charged. You can’t work in a high security place like this and charge the children when they feel the need to protect themselves in ways that they shouldn’t. It’s what you should be teaching them NOT to do instead of provoking it. I was not there for long. Some are there for years. But this is just what I know from the small amount of time I was there. Don’t send your kids here! The farm-home has no clue what they’re doing. How could they? It’s chaos!

Oh my god, would still not recommend children going here until they get this place fingered out. And based on the recent reviews I just read, it’s still the exact same..
One of the reviews talked about the great doctors.. the doctor when I was there was narcoleptic and continuously fell asleep while talking to me.. but who knows, that lady is probably gone by now I’m surprised she lasted when I was there because everyone saw it.. they just could care less. That place is so violent. And yes, the people who came in calm ended up super violent and suicidal, and toxic, they would just learn such unhealthy habits and behaviors. They would come in with a kid mentality with some depression and come out a extremely damaged and traumatized kid who now has a new normal, which is acting out your pain and struggles by attacking yourself and others, doing things to end in restraints cuz that is your new normal and not really knowing why your doing these things but now your conditioned and that takes a while to unlearn. I still can’t even explain how these children so drastically change from when they come in from just weeks of being in there. And they change in ways you don’t want for you child as a parent. The behaviors they are there for get 100x worse. And the way they deal with those things gets 100x worse. It’s so sad.. I feel so bad for those kids stuck in there.. getting more and more lost.

I was At Trillium for 4 months starting in February. While I was there I witnessed many hostile situations that could have been prevented. I was involved in one being kicked in the uterus area leaving a horrible bruse across that area. I have very frequent trauma attacks and when I was having one staff would ignore me. Also the residential units are very under staffed. When they put residents in hold when trying to climb the fence or run away from the staff they leave bruises and they put 5 staff on one kid even after they stop resisting. Don't take your kids here!!

My child was in the SAIP program for about 8 months. Within the first week my child was "restrained" to the point of bruises and scrapes on his body. Nobody informed me of the restraint that caused the injuries to my child. We happened to come for a visit and found the child in an empty room because they were "put on reflection." I learned that "reflection" was basically a very long, literally hours, time out. We were allowed to visit my child and I noticed several bruises on their arms. I then inspected my child's back and observed several more bruises and scrapes on their body.

I confronted staff about my child's injuries and was not given a reasonable answer. I then demanded that my child receive medical care. I was told that I could take them to the ER if I wanted. We had the bruises and scrapes medically documented at the ER. I then demanded that the person who abused my child not to be around them. The decision was made to move him to the other cottage.

My child was there because they needed a nueropsych evaluation. This was supposed to happen "soon" but took almost eight months. Once we had a discharge date the evaluation was done quickly. The results were not accurate. The report was done haphazardly and was very short. No reliable information was attained. We have since had another evaluation done that is informative with recommendations and an accurate dx.

During the time my child was at FH they were attacked by a group of older and bigger teens in the program. I reported the attack to the police who investigated and told me that there was enough evidence to press charges against the older, bigger boys who attacked my child.
They were ridiculed by staff. They were over medicated. They gained an enormous amount of weight. The school program was a joke. My child was allowed to sleep all day with no consequences. We visited at least once a week. I watched my child regress and become more angry and crude with each visit.

I provided my child with new clothes and shoes almost weekly because of the weight gain. When they were discharged most of his personal possessions were missing. Their glasses were lost within the first weeks. Most of their nicer things disappeared quickly.

The program would call in the middle of the night to report issues such as restraints and behavioral issues. Emails didn't specify that they were from Farm Home and were often found in the spam files. Communication was sparse and unreliable. One staff person would say one thing and another would say something completely different.

My child has been home a few months and is slowly recovering from the trauma from the Children's Farm Home. My own guilt from allowing my child to suffer through almost eight months in that place is almost overwhelming. I truly wish that I could take the past year back.

The Farm Home makes a huge deal about the horses. Yes, there are horses but most of the children never get within touching distance of the horses. The buildings my child was in were dirty with worn out, filthy furniture. The entire place was depressing and worn out. You would think that with the amount of money that the Farm Home receives for each child that the program would have better educated staff to be with the children/teens in the cottages. It seemed as though most of the staff had no idea what they were doing. Mostly kids are either restrained or put on "reflection" or both.

Anyone considering the Farm Home for their child should be aware of the negative effects it will likely have on their child. It isn't a healthy place for anyone, especially not troubled kids who need a higher level of care.

My stay at the farm home changed my entire life and I am grateful for the staff that put all of us in the top priority I stayed in the Mallet unit and honestly I was happy to get to know other kids who had the same problems as me and I remember keenly a staff there named Darby who was one of the best staff there I was there for 4.5 months and It set me on the right path to success if any of the Mallet unit staff are reading this you made it so I could be in high school plus I got accepted into bend tech academy downtown bend it is my dream school and it has been 2 years since I left so thank you for all you do

I stayed here at Mallet for residential around 2 years ago for about a month. Though my stay was short, it was incredibly horrible. My first night there I struggled for hours to fall asleep as throughout the night all I could hear was screaming and banging as a patient was being dragged down the stairs by staff and most likely being put in a hold. The windows had holes in them that we had to cover up with tape because of the bugs and spiders that kept coming into the mallet house, as there were thousands of bugs that would swarm outside all around the house. There were some nice staff and there were some horrible staff that would abuse their superiority over us and threaten to take all of our privileges away for something petty that that certain staff didn't like. for example I had a friend in there who almost got all of their privileges taken away for 2 WEEKS because they were eating tajin (a literal seasoning). While I was there me and other patients received very very little therapy. The therapists that they provided us with were absolutely horrible and not helpful to anyone, and other than short individual therapy sessions a few times a week, we practically got no other help. The most I had learned from my stay there was to do square breathing and nothing else. During most days, we would go through a cycle of spending time downstairs usually playing cards, and then we had times where we were not allowed to talk or make any noise for an hour. While I was at Mallett there also happened to be a huge covid outbreak which only made both mine and everyone's stay there even worse and ended up with many of us stuck and isolated in our rooms all day with a toilet paper roll and if we were lucky, a crappy cd player that was most likely barely charged.

at the moment, I can not even cover everything that happened during my experience there but I hope this gives you enough of an idea about this place.

The staff are super low all the time wouldn't recommend to bring ur kid here because sometimes they J's leave them unattended most of the time also the staff there are very kind but some not so by saying all that still wouldn't recommend for your own child to come here

I have never been, but I know 3 people who have gone and ALL of them are completely traumatized. One of them told me about some preventable suicides that occurred here and that absolutely disgusts me. HOW IS THIS PLACE STILL OPEN??

My child was in inpatient here for months. They told me they would release the child because they needed the bed. I told them no that the child was not ready. They said the child was doing fine. I told them that the child is very manipulative and was not ready. They ignore me. Less than a month after being home, the child attempted to stab me and went to juvenile detention. I was told they did this with another child once and he went home and started a fire under his care givers bed and killed her. Not a good place.

Wonderful people, and nice place.

If I could give this place negative Stars I would. They wouldnt let me shower bc of "not enough staff" (I was not a a board) and when i was in a hold i had shown calm body for 5 MINUTES. the whole time I was actively bleeding and had told them as calmly a kid who's being held down can that they were bending my finger the wrong way. I now have a crooked finger and PERMANENT hand pain. They also refused to help with any of my mental AND medical needs. I needed to get my blood drawn frequently because of a medical condition and non of that happened. And whenever I would try to get genuine halp for my mental health I was put on more meds. By the end of my stay I was VERY behind on credit and much worse. I was taking 10 DIFFERENT meds every Morning and 7 every night. I had given up on everything. Once I was in the foster system I was finally able to get the help I needed and am much better now. DONT GO TO THE FARM HOME. IF I HADN'T I WOULD BE MUCH BETTER NOW.

I was in this place back in 2000 to 2002. When I was 7-9. While it was hectic at times, the staff were pretty indifferent about how we all acted towards ourselves, while preparing for if we did anything to anyone else. I would love to see if anything is different about this place as well as possibly seeing the Northpoint cottage.. i think it was that at least. Could've been better in several areas and was traumatic in others..

please do not send your children here unless you’d like to see them in worse condition then before they went in. I promise you will regret ever sending your baby to this horrible place .

7-10 years ago, the Children's Farm Home brought me nothing but pain and anguish, and it still remains one of my number one weaknesses in my adulthood. I wanted people to see this place as I've seen it for the years of damage it has caused me and others alike. But in the end, my true goal is for no one to have gone through the same experiences I have, and with that being said, I want to entertain the idea that things can change. As much as it hurts using that context in the same place that caused me hell for so long, I've started to truly believe it can become different than it was many years ago. I've spoken with Sandy Boyle (the senior vice president) over the years and learned many things. The number one is that Kim Scott, the previous CEO, retired and that my voice does matter. For so many years, no one heard my screams and my cries for help, so to have someone to acknowledge them for what they are and to make changes that I never believed would have been considered puts my 12 to 17-year-old inner child to rest. It's a slow process to forgive many years of pain, and in an ironic and strange way, Trillium has finally given me the hope I had once forgotten many years ago. Please take my review seriously, and please still heed caution. There are differences being made. I am one. #FarmHomeSurvivor.