I see reviews on here and they are mixed as people do have mixed opinions on everything in life, but please read this. My parents hired transporters to come to my house and wake me up at 3am and tell me "Come with us and if you make a move, you'll be picking your teeth up off the ground." At that point, I knew something was off about this whole thing. I arrived at Storm Ridge Ranch on October 14, 2012 until I left (early) on July 16, 2013. 9 months and 2 days is what the total came to. The reason for my placement there was disobedience to my parents, minor theft, and truancy, all valid reasons to seek help to change my life around. In that 9 months I was there, I scrubbed the bathroom floor on my hands and knees with a rag for an hour every day to earn 20 points. The program is based on a level system where you have to stay for a certain amount of time and earn enough points to level up (3 months, 9,000 points.) and once you get to the highest level, you get discharged. Every week you earn around 400 points and if you do the math, you won't level up on time. So the only way to level up on time is by doing extra work which entails things like scrubbing the floor, pulling weeds with your hands in 100 degree heat because you are in the desert. The family running it is corrupt. They are liars. They are manipulators. They will take as much money as they possibly can from you and then more. My parents paid $35,000 that they didn't have. There was kid there whose parents were paying close to $70,000 a year! Now that money should be enough for air conditioning in the summer, heat in the winter, and hot water right? Guess again. You take your showers in freezing cold water.In the Winter you need to wear layers of clothing and wrap yourself in tons of blankets just to get a wink of sleep. The school is a joke. I use the term school lightly. Literally they give you a packet of work and say do it. There is no teaching. There is no help. And if you for some reason don't know how to do the work that is way to underadvanced for even the least of brightest of kids, there is no help and you will fail. The food is absolutely terrible. Once again, $35,000-$70,000 per kid should be enough for good food right? Nope. The staff are all undereducated jerks who hate being there almsot as much as we do. So how do they take out their frustrations? Most will take the smallest kid in the room and "restrain" him which entails an extremely painful set of twists and cranks in your body by about 7 grown men. They'll drive their knee into your throat so you cant breathe, and will laugh later on and joke about how bad they were hurting the kid. I remebr there was a kid who got his arm snapped by staff and he didn't get any medical attention for months. The staff moniter everything, so if you want to tell your parents over the phone about the mistreatment, the phone call will be shut off. If you write a letter to tell them, expect to see it in the shredder. This place is a fraud. PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD HERE!!!
Don't send your child here. Don't do it.
The best in care, going here made a huge difference in my life. While some kids may hate the structure and want to rebel, the same thing that brings us to SRS in the first place, some of us take the lessons we learn and shape ourselves int better people with brighter futures. I learned the value of work, rules, and structure, to become a better more productive person. It is not easy, or a vacation, but it is life saving.
i was there it was horrible they broken a kids arm who was like 80 pounds and bony and broke his humor bone. The only way to graduate is to manipulate the staff. They see how much money the parents have and that affects the stay as well. Why would they want you to take out your child when they are making money. $3,000 Dollars per month per Child
Storm Ridge ranch saved my life. The Larsons are good people. Yes the program is tough. Yes you have to work. Yes when I was there I had dislike for the larsons and everyone else in charge. When I look back on the experiences I had and memories made, I realize how much my time there molded me into a succesful individual.
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