Reviews of Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents - Baltimore (Psychiatrist)

Shay ask

This place is not a good placement for any child, or teen, I was sexually assaulted more then once here. Also abused mistreated and when I told I was locked in a room and given a needle in my butt for 1hole day. I still dream about this place but give thanks to The Lord jesus I didn't grow up to do all what was done to me to my own children or someone elses this place is horrible and this was back in 90 imagine what it is now I feel sorry for any child there because no help is coming.yes and staff are involved

1971musicislife .

I am 42 years old and when I was 13 I was placed here. When I got there I was a fairly normal teen boy but being there for 1 year turned me in to a monster that I didn't even recognize. The staff would encourage the patients to fight, steal and generally reward bad behavior. I developed extreme anger problems while here and I blame the staff. Only one person gave me the encouragement to do well, Wayne Cottman former Baltimore Colt was the only one here doing there job the right way.

Retr0

I hated every second of being there. However, it did help me quite a lot.

Charles Ashkenasy

When I was 13 I was placed in Rica Baltimore what a place to be!! The staff were ok with me got in a couple of fights ,The food SUCKED but the staff were cool.Wayne from the Baltimore Colts was a good dude along with Mike and Mr.Loudin the gym teacher Then you had Mr Naigol the teacher who thought Akkido I always thought that was kind of Funny being thought to fight there I was on the first floor girls on second and boys on the third Remember how we would talk to the girls through the pipes Was on Eventually U graduated the program a year and a half there will definitely do something to your spirits I made the best of it Now I live in Pittsburgh pa And own a Masonry Restoration business that just got top ten award for being the best great feeling to know I came from nothing to where I'm at now I feel everyone's pain but if It didnt kill us it only made us stronger,What up Mr.Mike

Chuck Thurgood

I was touched by other patients and the staff tried their best to sweep it under the rug even after I told my parents. Therapy here is really just shoving pills down the throats of patients. I still have nightmares from this place. Thank God for Alcohol.

Julia Humphreys

I lived there for almost 2 years and it was horrible um I got hit and the staff chocked me when restraining me not a good place for kids who need help the staff don't care and if you are sick and if your parents say to call a ambulance they will not a kid killed there self on the cottage I have not lived there in almost a year now but it just gets worse over the years

Makayla Greason

i was reclwety discharged from this place it was a very good place for me to get help at but there were alot of fights

Fatu Koroma

Thanks

Carolyn Smith

I found the way they do intake was racist

Lilly Brown

I was there from 16 through 18 and I got to say living there for that long gave me a great deal of help. Even though the staff were hard on u at times I had made great friends and got a lot of help from the staff there. I loved every fun thing there was to do. I was happy to be there . Some of the staff came really helpful.

Rebecca Harley

The staff showed much concern for my child on a regular basis. RICA holds meeting twice a month to teach the parents/caregivers the life skills that they are also teaching the children.The skills that are taught to the children are real life skills that can be used throughout life with whatever life may bring their way. This is so helpful because the great work that is being done can then be carried into the home to encourage the children to continue their journey on a positive note once they leave this treatment center.I highly recommend RICA Baltimore.

Meredith Dhillon

RICA is a great facility, the staff try their best to make the kids feel "normal". The staff truly care about the children there and work as a team to care for them.

Sunset Cowboy

Absolutely terrible!! I was admitted there when I was 13-14 years old. I still cannot believe I'm alive today. The staff members there would start arguments with children and myself for no reason, just to throw them in quiet rooms. We knew when we would get thrown in one because the staff members would make better that they could get me in those rooms without pinching my fingers in the door before they would lock in me. So of course I fought against them. I would pay Nintendo and they would get a running start, pick me up and drag me in there multiple, multiple times to win bets. I got tired of it after a while and would throw things like chairs at them when the staff would attack me. I was growing up and getting taller and want the "new kid" after a while so they start hitting me, slamming me into walls, picking me up and dropping me on the quiet room floors and staffing me with needles to make me sleep and not tell anyone things they did. These guys were always over 200 pounds compared to me, a tiny scrawny pre teen, so I started getting taller and after a while, I would start hitting them back for treating me like an animal. I was a really nice kid, I loved talking to people and I helped build the greenhouse and trust fall outside the cottages. I loved the counselor ms. Jen and I had two friends, Erin Courvin from the girls cottage and Garrett my roommate at the time and we did alot of good things while on outings and I always kept a positive attitude, I still do, always will. However, there was a man that works there that best the living hell outta me there in a quiet room when I asked if I could speak to M's. Jen. Threw the phone at me, wrapped the cord around my neck and drug me into the quiet room and got me in the face and kicked my ribs and legs. I was screaming stop but he put me in a chokehold and made me pass out for a second, slapping my face to bring me back to it and pushed my head into the wall twice. I was bleeding, crying angrily to let me go, he did up so I tried to run but he body slammed me on the concrete and held his entire weight on my chest with his foot telling me shut the f up and he kept pressing his weight on my chest as I was trying to breathe so he stepped on my throat and was quietly telling me stfu. Finally a kid said in the doorway, " that's messed up he's the good one too". Meaning well behaved out of all the kids there cause I was, me and Garrett, so he got up and locked me in there all weekend. When ms Jen finally came back Monday she let me out and I was gonna tell her what happened but I didn't want that to happen again while I was there so I waited until I had a home visit and told everyone I'm not going back. I moved in with good friends and never returned. I'm 31 now and if I could, well I'm not gonna say, because then I'd be no better than him. But honestly, DO NOT put your children in this place, ever. It shouldn't even still be an establishment. Especially after that staff member raped that one boy, that's something that we all thought would shut that place down but it's still there. Overall it's was completely and totally horrible. Don't send your children there. Taylor Manor in ellicott city is like heaven compared to Rica.

juliana bendyna

I was abused and so was an autistic 14 year old she was choked for rolling her eyes and i was ounched in my chest for not wanting to close my door mind you i have severe anxiety and the staff would cuss me out and try to start fights with me i was starved and told i was nothing everyday dont send your kid there

VAFER VULPES

I've been there since November 2016 and what I have seen is a nightmare, the staff bicker as much as the kids nobody does there job properly the kids are treated horribly and teachers team up against students and the worse part is thats only what I've experienced as a day student