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November 2023 by Angelica Wood
Thinking of this place brings back some of the most traumatic experiences of my life. Sleeping in a tent that we had to build outside. Urinating in buckets that we had to clean after everybody. Hiking the app trail and carrying giant loads on our backs. Eating outside with cherry roaches. This place is awful.
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December 2022 by Alfa Cat
I am so grateful to the amazing staff! As a desperate parent watching my daughter spiral down, it was draining and beyond painful. She spent 22 months here, and what a change. I can’t express enough what a gift this place is. Saved my daughters life.
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March 2022 by Estella M.
Personal exoerience: my daughter graduated yesterday. LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE! So extremely thankful and in awe of the level of leadership, the commitment of the chiefs and the overall experience. Saved my daughters life. Could not recommend this place more. (Although hardest decision ever to make)
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February 2022 by Olivia N.
My daughter started camp at e-nini-hassee a little more than three months ago. Prior to camp she was using marijuana, drinking, stealing, and had been suspended from school followed by an expulsion. The school board placed her in a disciplinary school, with a group of young adults with criminal charges, quite a few on parole. She had been a run away countless times. She had seen a handful of therapists over the years, refusing to go- and when she did go would close her eyes and not participate. As a single parent, I was consumed with fear for her, exhausted by what seemed like some new explosive drama daily. I, by chance, was recommended e-nini-hassee by a hospital social worker. I called and spoke with Carol, embarrassed to tell her our story. Carol listened and without judgement. She sent me enrollment information and put me in touch with Deb, who interviewed myself and my daughter so she could see if she would be a good fit for camp. Deb was very easy to talk to, extremely knowledgeable and empathetic. I have been a single parent since my daughters birth. And although it was extremely difficult to hand over my baby(recovering helicopter Mom) I felt very confident in their ability to offer a safe place for my daughter to get sober. My daughter not only got sober she also found her self worth again, learned to make meaningful connections, learning accountability for her actions and to communicate in a healthy way. She was just able to come home for her first home visit, and I felt like for the first time in a long time she was becoming who she is meant to be. She was sober, she was self aware, she was grateful for the support of Chief Lindsay and Chief Hope, and felt a strong loving connection with Nurse Kenny. The first night home she even said she didn't expect to miss her fellow campers, but she did. I can not extend enough gratitude to the staff that is there day and night guiding and loving those girls, communicating with us parents and offering support for a better home environment for when our girls return to us.
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August 2021 by Katie Katie
I can't sing enough praises about this program and the staff. Life changing!!! Thank you all for all you do!
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November 2020 by Rachel Hand
This is a super special place that is filled with love and kindness. Everyone gets a second chance to better themselves and to be a kid. I love it here and I will alway come back. These are my people.
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September 2019 by Isabella C.
What Adi said in her review is the exact reality I experienced. This place left me with forever trauma that I am still working through to this day. Please choose another place. Your child will thank you.
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May 2019 by Adi M.
Unless you want your child to be emotionally scarred for life don't send her to this god awful place. Undoubtedly, they make it look like it's the answer to all your problems but I can almost guarantee your daughter will come out worse than she went in. They make all the girls sit in hour long "huddles" sometimes all throughout the night and proceed to bully the girl into conforming or else the whole group will have to sit there all day. There's no real therapy had here and the educational system set in place is nothing if not disappointing. They don't educationally challenge the campers and use intimidation and invalidation among other things to make the girls feel small and trapped. Which makes the girl feel as if the only way out is to graduate and then in 3 months she'll be right back at it snorting coke off a Wendy's bathroom counter. When you open up about your feelings or act out you are called an "attention seeker" instead of getting to the root of the problem like any real professional would. And for all the parents out there please listen to your children. Please make them feel safe enough to come to you with their issues and hear them out before resorting to sending them to a place like this. You don't always have to see where they're coming from or understand why they do what they do and you won't so please don't try, leave it to the professionals. And I'll repeat, PROFESSIONALS, not this sad excuse of an establishment. There is nothing effective about putting a group full of troubled girls together and forcing them to live with one another for months (or years) at a time if anything it's a breeding pool for more trauma. Fighting, attempted suicide, emotional abuse, this is just a small list of things your kid will witness or experience during her stay here. You will get to see her for three days every three months, maybe, if everything goes well. And when she graduates it'll be expected that after all the isolation and restrictions she'll be able to function in society, but the chances are she won't. Chances are she'll have severe anxiety, maybe even drop out of high school because she's so behind from the lack of teaching. So I'll say it again do not waste your time on this place it's time that your child will never get back, time where she could be getting real help. P.s for the chiefs in the kitchen Feed us more we're starving
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May 2019 by John Murphy
Hello everybody. My name is John Murphy. I once was a camper there many years ago when they had a boys group there. We were called the Chiquita’s .
