Vista Maria

This place was a nightmare when I was there. The staff they hired should not have been there. Male staff praying on weak young girls is sickening. And just because a clear is called it doesn't take the whole damn campus of staff to restrain one individual. I saw way too much, and encountered way too much. You go in with trauma and leave even more traumatized.

I was about 12 when i was here so it was 2017-2019 i was there. I was placed in rose hall. I think about the only good thing there was my therapist. The staff were very rude and i have witnessed staff members getting into physical fights with the residents. Staff would also love to make fun of residents and they thought they could do it because they had power over us. The pictures are nothing like the experience (which is horrible). And the way we were treated was not fair at all. I have seen about 4 hospitalizations when i was there. And you can say they encourage good behavior and all that bullshit but they do not care. I personally would not recommend sending your children here. I mean like there are so many horrible experiences i have went through when i was there. Not to mention when someone was sexually assaulted you would just get a peer separation, your caseworker was not informed of this either. I feel like this place needs to seriously be investigated or shut down because it was absolutely disgusting living there also. There were roaches in my room and in the shared bathroom. If you really want to continue to keep this place open i suggest really rethinking and considering who you hire and keep a close eye on them. There was only one staff member I appreciated there besides my therapist and he was my primary at the time. But again i do not recommend

All this bad stuff about the program. I was there many years ago. It was clean, supervised, great education. The media has it wrong!@ Shame on the media when these people are here to help

I live here now , just moved to Shepard hall. The staff here refused to take me to the store for 3 days . I have no food , I’m feelings dizzy , I’m sick and throwing up. And I can barely walk . They laugh and talk about me because of my situation. Caseworker doesn’t respond to any of my text when I need her to . I weighed 130 before I came here now I weigh 103 . This place is buns . ALSO Ms , Stevenson from Shepard hall is the best staff I met here

This place is a very scary place you definitely do not wanna be.. can’t trust anyone, or anything. If you do or think you can DONT. Especially the creepy male staff, and the fact that there are roaches 🤢 This place needs to be shut down immediately There is not an option for “no stars on negative stars” unfortunately DO NOT GO TO THIS PLACE

I was a girl at vista Maria. I was in Beata hall. I can honestly say there are staff there when I was there that cared, but at the same time we were treated like animals and some days they didn’t have staff so we had to sit in our tiny rooms. I also lost my tooth due to being restrained wrong. Which is something I have to live for for the rest of my life . Overall I think places like this should be shut down

I’ve been involved with them for around 5 years. In the recent months I’ve had nothing but major problems. A new foster worker monthly, and adoption workers are being caught in lies. Feel as I can’t trust this place anymore after 5 years. Which is really sad. A child’s life is in its hands not toys. Wondering how to contact the main director at this point.

I was almost sent here when I was 17 years old due to extensive trauma, behavioral and mental issues. They were talking to the placement about it. But my therapist at the place (that was only meant to be for about 40 days) advocated for me to stay. I stayed for 7 months until I turned 18. I thank God everyday for that. If not for that, I fear my life would be very different and not good. I've heard from girls I've lived with that it's a terrible and frightening place to be, with creepy male staff and cockroaches. Needs to be shut down or heavily reformed.