OhioGuidestone

Employees/future employees beware of the consequences working for this business. At any time an incident happens among the adolescents, YOU will be the one held accountable. You WILL be the one with the record, charged with assault, neglect or severe neglect. From that, termination and disqualification of future employnent opportunities within certain fields of interest. Majority of the unfortunate situations that bring the youth into this facility are above and beyond any training they provide. Having to be only 21 years of age to work there does not make you fit for the role and incredible responsibility they put on you. Some of the kids are coming from juvenile incarceration, important "need to know" information held from staff, violence from adolescents against personnel, a lack of supervisor intelligence and the children in need of much more appropriate care. The company basically hires babysitters instead of qualified personnel, the pay is low too. These kids are in need of and deserving of much more and the staff doesn't deserve to have things on their record preventing them from pursuing the futures they hoped for.
They DO NOT inform you of this in training.

i was sent here when i was 12 years old and i absolutely need to tell my story because this was possibly the worst experience of my life. i was put in Crossman cottage after a suicide attempt. the first night i was there a girl said she didn’t want to eat because she was sick, and they sent her to the hospital to get a tube. mind you all the other girls, and even some staff confirmed that she had been
eating just fine before then and it was absolutely not necessary. a girl named Tiana was 19 years old and working at our cottage, all of the workers were inexperienced people who were working for the paycheck. A 17 year old girl who had autism among other mental illnesses had been there for two years and the staff would tell her everyday how much they hated her and wish that she would just leave. there was multiple girls there for anger issues and the staff allowed these girls to beat up on the 17 year old with no consequences. a girl that was only 9 had told me that her mother would do unspeakable and disgusting things to her at a young age and she peed the bed every night because of it. the staff would punish her and send her to solitary every single time. boys and girls couldn’t be in the same cottage but at the school they could. a boy grabbed me and other girls in way that i hate to talk about, we told staff multiple times and they did nothing about it. i have so many more stories about this place but in conclusion, PLEASE dont do this to your kids.

I was just there for a visitation with my child

An A-MAZ-ING place that helps SOOOOOO many in so many ways!!!

I was there in march 5, 2019 to Feb 20,2020. I was at a cottage called STC. The staff there was decent but only cared bout themselves not helping the kids. Ms.Alicia was awesome staff at STC with Ms.Sandy but (Rip to Ms. Sandy). But the nurces don't care if ur suicidal bc they wont send u to the hospital if u actually open ur head. But They really needed more staff at STC. But while I was at STC the boys and girls bathroom was exreamly nasty. But STC was an okay please for OGS. But this is my experience. Mr.T.C if u see this thank u for ur staff at STC.