Discovery Academy

DA is a wonderful program located in an absolutely beautiful area! All the staff I have been in contact with were friendly, professional, and helpful.

They take good care of kids and are very professional to work with

I worked there for 2 years in management over one of the girl's programs and it was so exhausting. Always getting texted when I was off, always expected to do more work than I was trained for. Poor, POOR management. They say one thing, make a lot of empty promises, and give bare minimum resources. Office management is a joke. Residential department is a joke. They advertise a school of arts but kids get bare minimum time with studio or anything art related. If employees or therapists don't volunteer to help the kids with studio or plays, it doesn't happen. As someone looking for employment: be ready to be short staffed, undertrained, unsupported, and getting calls and texts asking if you can come in. Get ready for upset kids who need better resources and attention acting out. As a parent looking to send a kid here: your kid will not get the help they need because of the lack of resources available. Staff to student ratio is never appropriate. The staff and therapists are great, they just are outnumbered. It feels more like a juvenile detention center than an actual treatment center. Don't send your kid here. Employees get a week of training before they are thrown on the floors. Therapists are overworked and have an overwhelming caseload. Admissions take in kids who should be in lockdown facilities putting other kids at risk. Kids are genuinely getting hurt here at times by untrained staff or their peers and nothing happens when its reported. HR states he is a 3rd party but doesn't do anything productive for the programs or staff. There have been multiple times decisions are made off of how much money the company gets instead of what is best for the client. It takes awful things to happen to staff or kids for them to finally take action. If your kid is coming out with more trauma than what they had going in, it is not a safe place!

Numerous reports of mental and physical abuse, taking advantage of desperate parents, and they take no responsibility for any of it! A school claiming to help kids become responsible when they claim to not be responsible for the damage they’ve done to numerous kids and staff.

WORST DECISION OF MY LIFE! Don't send your child here. My son was here for 10 months, it was the biggest waste of time and money and it was detrimental to his health in addition. He received no education here, that was a joke. $70k for nothing.