Daybreak Youth Services - Inpatient Treatment

Celia Zuniga

Don’t recommend. Very bad, rude people service, food that was given was molded.

シherprettiestregret

A couple years ago I was court ordered to complete a treatment program and daybreak is where I ended up going. Before I traveled to brush prairie and checked into the facility I was serving a sentence at Martian Hall JDC so I appreciated the quick bed date approval. The check in process was fairly normal. It was a bit slower than I expected but I wasn't in a rush to say goodbye to my family. Before I was introduced to what us residents normally called "The House" I was further evaluated by a counselor. Honestly I believe the counselors there cared about us residents genuinely. The male counselor who managed my treatment plan made me feel pretty comfortable using a mix of pacing like psychology methods but mostly it was the adorable little dog he had that helped me relax. My in depth evaluation wasn't finished the same day I arrived so I'd say maybe 3 hours after I got there is when I got introduced to The House for the first time. I wish I was exaggerating when I say that before the door that separated the classroom and the hall closed I was greeted intensely by 3 residents who all frantically spoke over each other trying to get information from me. You'd think that maybe they were asking for my name or my age or what county I'm from but no. It was DOC this DOC that. (DOC stands for drug of choice) Only after I Informed them of this was I finally given a break from the barrage. Other than that I had no other issues my first day. I'd been institutionalized before but never in a treatment facility so I spent that day learning what it was I was allowed to do. It was better than JDC so I was more relieved then anything else. The first couple weeks I was at Daybreak was calm given the original 20 or so residents weren't abnormally troublesome. A few individuals had their moments but it wasn't effecting my treatment. A day at Daybreak was full to say the least. Residents are expected to attend all groups, school, and predetermined activities and in exchange we are rewarded with points. With these points we were able to exchange them for a lot of things like snacks, staff supervised outings, and we could even order tapestries off Amazon. The phase you were is what determined exactly what you could exchange points for. I thought that was cool but I also think the exchange prices were a little out there. These points are what kept most residents from acting out as you would have them taken if you did so. Anyway around the point I was among the residents who had been at Daybreak the longest we had a new batch of youth come in. Id say about 10 new residents in the span of a week. Everything changed with their arrival. Even before that new round of new people The House slowly grew more and more out of control with each new arrival. At this point in the timeline every bed in The House was filled. Fights and meltdowns were a normal daily occurrence. Every day that passed brought a new hole in the hallway walls or some other form of visual damage. Then we had a riot. The facility staff had no control over the residents and I'll take responsibility for my actions and say I was apart of said riot. Instead of trying to calm us down the staff threatened, ridiculed us, and even got physical with us. This treatment resulted in several youths making the decision to run away from the facility which wasn't handled correctly either. Every single person involved was dropped a phase and our points were reset completely. I forgot to mention the riot started over unfair treatment we received from staff so our consequences understandably made everything worse. It was hell after that. Around the same time as that riot not just one but a few residents managed to smuggle drugs into the facility. Cocaine, ecstasy, prescription pills, and even meth was being brought in and used. I was discharged successfully on more drugs then when I arrived. I was sent there for "marijuana addiction." Anyway 43 days at Daybreak and I came out worse. I want to explain more but there is a character limit. So I hope my experience isn't to chopped up to visualize. 𓆩🖤𓆪

Conor Duggan

My business occasionally helps patients in treatment facilities with a very specific problem. We've seen the good and bad of many of these organizations through assisting their staff and patients. Many services of all kinds struggle because of inadequate resources or mismanagement or because they are trying to solve a very hard problem (and Daybreak is trying to solve very hard problems). I've never worked with another treatment facility whose management was as professional, considerate, and compassionate toward their patients and appreciative of those they work with. I'm speaking specifically of our work with Katie Conner. A lot of people may say they care. Very few consistently demonstrate it through their actions.

Mac Moore

I AS A PATIENT FROM EXPERIENCE... The staff are great for the most part, But when it comes to helping the clients they can’t do there job correct at all. I’ve been to that treatment facility twice and I relapsed both times because they where no help to me all, they don’t look deeper into what’s really wrong with there patients. I 100% DONT RECOMMEND THIS FACILITY Plus the amount of lenience they give you is beyond me, they had staff offering to smoke cigarettes with the kids and they had zero respect when one of the clients was in need of something. THIS PLACE IS HORRIBLE IT NEEDS A PEOPLE WHO CARE!