Recovery Brands, LLC
📍 12595 S Minuteman Dr, Draper, UT 84020
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<p><strong>ABOUT YOUTH CARE</strong></p> <p>Youth Care, located in Draper, Utah is <a href="https://wwwdasis.samhsa.gov/webt/state_data/UT16.pdf" target="_blank">one of Utah’s 74 facilities</a> that provide <strong>specialized treatment services for adolescents</strong> struggling with behavioral health concerns, including substance abuse. It focuses on correcting behavioral conditions through an <strong>immersive residential program</strong>. Detox is not available on site. </p> <p><strong>TREATMENT & ASSESSMENT</strong></p> <p>The treatment program at Youth Care follows a <strong>boarding school model</strong> supplemented by behavioral health treatment. Clients enroll in the residential program to receive treatment while continuing their education in a homelike environment. The facility combines <strong>traditional therapy methods with academics, substance abuse education, and alternative therapies</strong>. </p> <p>The program is structured into levels, according to a points system. <strong>Residents are given points hourly</strong> for behavior such as good school performance and appropriate social interactions. The immediacy of this system is designed to help students correct their poor behavior. </p> <p>The center's residential program has four main levels: orientation, awareness, proficiency, and mastery. There are also <strong>three correctional levels,</strong> which involve a variety of punishments including withheld privileges. If a client moves back a level, they must complete various therapeutic assignments before returning to their previous level.</p> <p>The center places a strong emphasis on family involvement, offering <strong>weekly family therapy sessions</strong> as well as parent days every six to eight weeks, which include conferences, therapy, support groups, and student presentations. </p> <p>The facility also offers a range of alternative therapies. <strong>Music therapy</strong> is conducted in a group setting to provide a community development aspect to treatment. Recreational groups are also held each week to promote <strong>physical fitness</strong>.</p> <p><strong>STAFF CREDENTIALS</strong></p> <p>The staff at Youth Care includes a psychiatrist, a psychologist, nurses, social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists, and advanced substance abuse counselors. There are also academic specialists onsite to focus on clients’ academic needs. The facility is accredited by a number of regional and national organizations including the Joint Commission, which <a href="http://www.youthcare.com/programs/schedule/" target="_blank">only accredits 19% of U.S. facilities</a>. The single individual polled by Rehabs.com to date on the staff’s level of training and experience gave it two out of five stars.</p> <p><strong>ACCOMMODATIONS & AMENITIES</strong></p> <p>Residents share bedrooms in a comfortable <strong>family-style home</strong> with a computer room and a garden, and clients must complete <strong>mandatory chores</strong>. The center also offers recreational activities such as cross-country skiing, indoor rock climbing, and snowshoeing, designed to instill trust, honesty, good communication skills, and strong self-esteem. <strong>Clients also perform service-based activities every week,</strong> such as volunteering at the food bank or playing bingo with the elderly. The center is a fully accredited academic institution with certified teachers.</p> <p><strong>WHAT ALUMNI SAY</strong></p> <p>The single alum review submitted to Rehabs.com to date about Youth Care was very negative. Julie gave Youth Care just two out of five stars for its family programming, and one star in most of the other 15 evaluated treatment metrics, including treatment effectiveness, counseling options, and treatment for co-occurring disorders. </p> <p>Julie described feeling unsafe around the other residents and uncared for by staff; she also cited excessively severe restrictions, including bans on going outside and speaking to their families, as well as apparently unwarranted punishments. “I had anxiety before but my anxiety became 10x worse because of this experience... I just recently recovered from the experience. I went when I was 16 and now I'm 24,” she wrote.</p> <p>On Google, Youth Care Treatment Center earned an average rating of <strong>2.7 out of five stars</strong> from 33 reviews to date.<small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a></small> “Being in youth care was absolutely the worst experience of my life,” Marie, a representative reviewer, wrote. Many alumni were forced to attend treatment by parents. Despite this, alumni noted how “some of the staff are nice.”</p> <p>However, on Yellowpages.com, Youth Care of Utah earned <strong>24 perfect five-star reviews</strong>.<small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a></small> Alumni indicated that the program helped them to reframe their mindset to be more “self-respecting, assertive, sober, loved, loving and most importantly happy.”</p> <p>On Yelp, there are five negative reviews and two positive reviews.<small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-3"><sup>[3]</sup></a></small> “Any place where your individual therapist is your family therapist is no good. That's a conflict of interest,” one alum wrote, while another added: “Place is in an industrial park. Nothing like website promotes.”</p> <p><strong>WHAT FRIENDS & FAMILY SAY</strong></p> <p>The single loved one polled by Rehabs.com to date would recommend Youth Care to friends and family. “It was good,” they wrote anonymously, giving the center three out of five stars for the overall quality of its addiction treatment and four out of five stars for the overall quality of its mental health treatment; however, they gave the center only two stars for its holistic offerings and its leadership.</p> <p><strong>WHAT STAFF SAY</strong></p> <p>On Indeed, Youth Care earned an average of <strong>3.9 out of five stars</strong> from 12 reviews to date.<small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-4"><sup>[4]</sup></a></small> On Glassdoor, it has a 4.2 out of five stars from five reviews.<small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-5"><sup>[5]</sup></a></small> Staff members generally describe an environment with “Great pay” and “some very kind people.” However, a few staff members also indicated that it was “regularly short-staffed.”</p> <p><strong>FINANCIAL</strong></p> <p>The cost of treatment varies according to the client’s needs and length of stay. The center is <strong>in-network with Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, United, and Value Options,</strong> and can also accept insurance on an out-of-network basis. Youth Care has also partnered with the health care loans company, American Healthcare Lending, to increase the accessibility of treatment to those who cannot afford to pay without a loan.</p> <p><strong>CONCLUSION</strong></p> <p>In April 2015, <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/4/21/abuse-utah-residential-youth-treatment-facilities.html" target="_blank">Al Jazeera America published a report</a> on abuse at adolescent residential facilities in Utah. These reports include potential deaths at this and similar facilities due to negligence among other causes. </p> <p><small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y8lazd7u" target="_blank">Google Reviews</a></small><br /> <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> <a href="https://www.yellowpages.com/draper-ut/mip/youth-care-of-utah-21628870" target="_blank">https://www.yellowpages.com/draper-ut/mip/youth-care-of-utah-21628870</a></small><br /> <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-3"><sup>[3]</sup></a> <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/youth-care-treatment-center-draper" target="_blank">https://www.yelp.com/biz/youth-care-treatment-center-draper</a></small><br /> <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-4"><sup>[4]</sup></a> <a href="https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Youthcare/reviews" target="_blank">https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Youthcare/reviews</a></small><br /> <small class="footnote"><a target="_blank" href="#footnote-5"><sup>[5]</sup></a> <a href="https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Youth-Care-Draper-Reviews-EI_IE699278.0,10_IL.11,17_IC1128274.htm" target="_blank">https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Youth-Care-Draper-Reviews-EI<em>IE699278.0,10</em>IL.11,17_IC1128274.htm</a></small></p>
— Melanie Green · 2018-11-02 16:29:19 PDT
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