Siler City, United States
990 Glovers Grove Church Rd
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+19198372336
My wife and I will forever be grateful for the dedicated team of professionals at Auldern Academy who helped us get our daughter “back”. Our Educational Consultant recommended our daughter go to a wilderness program first, where she spent nearly 3 months before enrolling at Auldern Academy. We chose Auldern over 2 other schools presented to us as places that could support the social and emotional needs of daughter, primarily because of how genuine and honest the team was upon meeting with them during our tour, but also because of location (less than an hour from a major airport) and quaintness of the campus. In all, our daughter spent a little over a year at Auldern and while it was difficult to have her so far from home (we live in New Jersey) we wouldn’t have been able to give her what she needed at home. Our daughter did have a therapist change while there, but the Auldern administration made sure the transition to another therapist was smooth and one that would benefit our daughter and family. The only thing we would have liked to have seen more of would have been team or club sports opportunities as our daughter is very athletic, but overall we remain incredibly pleased, as parents, in our experience with Auldern Academy. Our family unit and relationship with our daughter is stronger than ever and none of this would have been possible without the guidance she and our family received from the Auldern team. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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Horrible institution and thankful it’s closing its doors. Kids did what they wanted and ran all over the staff. My child ended up far worse going there than before she went in. I can’t even type all I want too after wasting an enormous amount of money and needing to pull her out, and then having to send her to receive the correct structured treatment. Thankful other families won’t waste their money, energy and emotional well being.
The teachers at Auldern are amazing and as a former student who now works with young people who struggle due to mental illness resulting from childhood trauma and abuse, I now have a much greater appreciation for my therapist at Auldern and the often difficult therapeutic work she had me do while I went there. I definitely was not an easy student or client to deal with and tried many times to get my parents to pull me from the program, but looking back am thankful they didn’t. My relationship with my parents still isn’t great, but I think that has more to do with the issues they never had the courage to address while expecting me to change completely. I’m giving this review 4 stars because I hope they’ve improved on how family therapy is being done, and, because the previous head of school and a few other staff always seemed to have “favorites” that wouldn’t have consequences even though they broke rules. More consistency was definitely needed while I was there, but at the end of the day, I wouldn’t be where I am today and wouldn’t be doing the work I am doing today if it hadn’t been for Auldern and the many staff members who believed in me enough to finally make me face the issues that led to me having to go there for my sophomore and junior years of high school. I’m #BreakingCodeSilence by sharing my experience in this review and letting others know that just because I went to a treatment facility it DOESN’T mean it was a bad thing.
Terrible!! I was a student there for 14 months. A year later I attended treatment again at Newport academy. Newport academy is absolutely 10X better! Auldern takes an aggressive approach with treatment and it truly did not benefit my health. Girls got arrested for physical attacking. we’ve had to hide in bathrooms, crying and huddled up because of all the stress and uncontrolled environment. Only if your good, you can go out on trips with the other girls, I remember being intruble because of my eating disorder, and my friends got to go out to a movie. I had to stay simply because of something I just needed help with. I even developed my eating disorder there. I could go on and on about the terrible approach to treatment here. At Newport academy, they have multiple houses spread along the country, each house has a mass number of 6 girls. we do many enjoyable activities and therapy groups every day. There approach is much more gentle and thought out. I went to the Maoli house in San Rafael California for 4 months. Nobody loves treatment! But I feel Newport just makes it easier on the soul, they treat each individual with much respect and guidance. Check them out!
It’s taken me too long to write this post.. please do NOT send your daughter here. She will be stripped of her voice (emotionally and literally) and be taught that being herself is wrong. I spent a year too long here and I’ve been in trauma therapy ever since. They left me on Non-Communication (I cant speak to any staff or any one and have to write all words on a piece of paper) for months. I slept outside and pulled weeds all day instead of going to class. The staff was so mean, I watched a girl try to take her life because she hated it there. Everyone wanted to run away, it’s all we thought about. Please do not scar your children. There are much better options. I’m begging you.
In my opinion this place is not where I would recommend sending anyone. Especially not children! Terrible environment for children with a terrible staff. Kim Field and the rest of the staff is unprofessional and would not trust any of their employees around my children ever again. Definitely not worth the money to send your children here either. Please, please reconsider before sending your children here. There are plenty of better, cheaper, and trustworthy options for your children.
It has taken me years to write this, but as a former student of Auldern Academy, I have had to go through almost a decade of therapy to work through the abuse I suffered. As a professional in the mental health field today, I know there was nothing therapeutic about this place. Nothing that is deemed therapeutic should require therapy. Please do your research, and talk to your child. There are plenty of other ways to work with girls who struggle with their teen years. This place only wants your money, and then your daughter will have to carry the trauma with her long after she leaves.
As an ex student I can say this place left me worse then I was before I attended. I dealt with drunk staff verbally abusing me. Having my medication mixed up and even switched. Being punished for wanting to change from vegetarian to vegan. And did physical labor for punishment that just so happen to be fixing things up around the property. My needs were also not met academly with me being dyslexic. And the college prep was minimal at best. My time there was nothing but chaos and a waste of my parents money. (And no I will not be reaching out to you Aldurn academy to discussth this further.)
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