Belmont Pines Hospital

From what I was told by the state it is for the worst of the worst. Kids are taken there when no other facility will take them. My stepdaughter is there now because she was suicidal because her birth mother wants nothing to do with her so she attempted suicide and she was cutting herself. Now she’s getting attacked by other patients and she isn’t fighting back but she still lost her home passes for a month. I just need to get her home and I am working with my attorney now to have an investigation done there. I just don’t want her to suffer more because of this. It’s a horrible place and I wanted to let you all know the experience we’ve had with this place and if you can help it don’t send your children here. Our experience has been nothing short of a parents worst nightmare!

I was in different units since i was 7 and i was in every one of them its hard but im 30 now and it still pisses me off

Idk how much it has changed over the years it has been since I was a teen there. But it hasn’t been that many years. I know that I’ve been in many facilities since then and that is by far the nicest one I had been in. Staff treated me nice, if I acted nice to them, place was clean, room was decent. I know that I begged my daughter when she was having issues and needed to go somewhere to go there instead of western psychiatric hospital in Pittsburgh. That place is a living Hell! Almost as bad as prison. And yes been there too. So while you are complaining about this place. Why don’t you start learning from it. And know that you are lucky to be there and not stuck some place worse.

i thought it was awful but some of the staff is really rude and the rooms are bad and they have isolation rooms if u act up

Only if you are on their list

I have personal experience with this place and it is absolutely awful.. I am a teenager and I spent most of my childhood there.. that place only increased all of my problems.. they say its "for help" but that didn't help ANYTHING, it just made all my problems worse

My stepdaughter has been there almost a year and she’s getting attacked by other patients and she is being punished for being involved in the altercation although she was attacked from behind and she went to the ground to try to cover herself and she was beaten and lost her home passes for a month. I think it’s a terrible place and it’s for the worst of the worst. No other facility would take her so she is almost 3 hours from home and things like this are going on. I’m working on having an investigation done at this place and expose how these children are treated and how they handle situations like this one. If you can get your child somewhere else please do so! This is not a good place and the kid that went there is not the same kid now. Her innocence is gone and now that she’s there and she’s being attacked by other mental patients it’s “not a criminal offense.” I disagree! She was only supposed to be there for a week but somehow got trapped in the system.

No

Yes they can if they are custody of the state and I am not involved with Children’s Services but my stepdaughter is and they won’t allow her to come home with me and her siblings because they say if she will hurt herself then she will hurt someone else. I’m currently fighting this with my lawyer because she loves her siblings and I can keep an eye on her if she’s home with me. I just want her out of there. She’s had nothing but horrible experiences there and I fear for her safety. Children’s Services can do whatever they want to and that’s what is really scary. She went in there with her innocence still in tact and now she’s not the same. I’m very disappointed and she’s being attacked and nothing is being done. It’s horrible. Sad horrible place. I’m so sorry your son is going through the same things that she is. Something has to be done!!

it’s the worlds worst mental hospital. you go there and they tell at you like a criminal. not a child who needs help. it’s awful. it’s the worst facility i’ve been to by far. I do not recommend in the slightest.

The ones who are saying it is horrible, don't want help. They don't do rules or structure. I cried for hours putting my son here. I was so afraid after reading the reviews. But he absolutely loved it, he made friends But most importantly he received the help he needed. And I am forever grateful to them. He was suicidal and without their help it could have went horribly wrong.

Safe House, Buckeye Ranch, Avondale are probably better bets

Yes but you need there code and have to be on there contact list.

Absolutely not, and they will press abandonment charges if you do not have a way to get the child!! It's ridiculous!

No electronics or personal items except clothes. No jewelry either

7 to 18

Yes u just have to be put on a list of people she wants to visit