Elevate Academy in The Heritage Community

Elevate Academy helps adolescents with attachment traumas, mood and anxiety disorders, and adverse childhood experiences. Our relationship based model based on the evidence-based ARC model of Attachment Regulation Competency helps students heal and thrive.

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I was at Heritage for almost two years. I witnessed and experienced extreme bullying, cruelty by staff & students, sexual harassment of female students by male staff (for instance, a male teacher loudly ordering a girl in class to cross her legs because she was “making the whole place smell like tuna”), inappropriate use of serious psychiatric medications, mental health issues treated as behavioral problems, blatant homophobia and racism, denial of medical treatment, forced “confession” of drug use that never happened, and children leaving far more damaged than they arrived. And always the cloying Mormon atmosphere in this supposedly non-religious school. Some people seek employment in these places because it’s easy to get hired. A few people want to help kids. Some people want to be *seen* to be helping kids. Many people want access to children who lack credibility. I still have nightmares about my time there and it has been decades. I’ll never shut up about these abusive scam “treatment” centers who prey on parents’ desperation.