ServicesFox Run Center for Children and Adolescents is a Mental Health Provider is located in Saint Clairsville, OH. A mental Health Provider can treat; Bipolar Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Phobias, Panic Attacks, Personality Disorders, Schizophrenia, and other Mental Health Practitioner disorders.
Please call Fox Run Center for Children and Adolescents at (740) 695-2131 to schedule an appointment in Saint Clairsville, OH or get more information.
I have been there many times and I think this is a very dangerous place for anyone who is admitted to this facility! I have seen very troubling things about this place first hand. You you are told you can can call there every day from 6:30 to 8:30 PM, well good luck with that! I have called for over 1 hour straight with no answer or answer just to be hung up on. Sometimes I have gotten a hold of my loved one to only to here like there was a mad house in the background and this has happened on numerous occasions. In my opinion this is a place where I think it is a accident waiting to happen. I am very reluctant to say to much at this time because our loved is still there and I am scared to Death about their safety.
I was also admitted into fox run when I was 13 and it really wasn't helpful they diagnosed me with ODD (oppositional Defiance disorder) cannabis abuse and promiscuity problems. My therapist name was Lisa and I felt like I connected and opened up to her although I font really think she knew how to help me really I was suppose to be there for 3 months and it turned into about 4. The way u get out of the program is by telling Ppl what they want to hear & completing ur (levels)... The levels are a joke! Most of the staff are nice the once that worked there when I was there anyways, this wasn't my first placement and like all placements you have staff that hate their jobs and Dont wanna be there but news flash for them they can can be else where and we have to be there! My first day it was sad because I saw little kids there kids as young as 8 yrs. Old or younger that were highly medicated by fox run I had never taken prescription medications before I went to fox run an by the time I got out I was hooked on them and illegally found and took prescription meds when I got out as well as continuing my cannabis problem. I tried to behave as they wanted me to so that I could leave in a timely matter and that's when the levels came into play I was eating lunch and at a table with two others from my group all groups are separated by age and sex. There was about 2/3 bisexual girls in my group or gay whatever u wanna call it 1 girl had expressed that she liked me she was friendly at 1st until I immediately told her that iv never been that way was never gonna be that way. She started starring at me I could tell she didn't like me. I sat down and are lunch she was at the table next to me I was eating she said down put her tray on the table and charged at me I was sitting down and had to stand up the staff members usually sat a a different table together. So this big butchy girl is running at me I stand up to defend myself and I got a lot of scratches all over my neck where she was tryna choke me and u know she was a big girl but I did get my level dropped because I defended myself and the girl got her level dropped but she had been there for quite some time so she didn't care and because I lost my level it would keep me at fox run for a extra 30 days to regain the level back. They never disinfected the cuts on my neck and face which I felt they should have. While I'm talking about lunch the food is better than most facilities the portions are smaller after a while u start wearing jackets do u can sneak crackers an butter back to ur room in case u get a lil hungry at night. Anyways 1 of good friends in the group had a eating disorder she would go for days without eating I guess nobody could force feed her but I feel her therapist should have fixed that for days she would only get crackers and crush them up then open the package lick her finger and eat cracker powder she ended up fainting multiple timed and going to the hospital to get iv fluids. At times I felt like I might never get out just because so many kids are there for so long but then I realized at 13 yes old how the system worked and it comes down to money that's also why they do the levels the way they do. I requested to switch rooms when 1 of my roomates - another bisexual girl kept wakin in on me when I was showering or usin the toilet I could tell she was doin it on purpose because she did it about 3 times in 1 day and was smile everytime and say she was sorry. They did move me about 2 days later.Also there was a number of kids there that I think had a real mental physical problems severe problems they ever had a form of retardation or another case scenario could be that they were just on so many medications you know so I'll be rolling down them not being able to talk walking around like zombies. Those were the kids that what are the most difficult for me to deal with they weren't in my group but they did sleep in the same side that I slept in and at night time all you can here for hours and hours or people screaming and fighting and going crazyand you cannot sleep at all and my first month and a half was the worst I kept complaining about it my therapistand finally she just prescribed me Seroquel she also prescribe me something else and she was prescribed and lithium and things of that sort to friend's mine. there was a few times doing shower time that in the morning when we wake up and at night during shower time or afterwards and my good friend and myself started feeling bored of goin thru the motions we had a staff member that smoked cigarettes and would sometimes if the close was clear let us step out right by the side door and take a drag or two so we got a bunch of good meds pain pills anti depressants and sleeping pills some of the pills were ours some we talked other group members into giving use some of their meds in exchange for things they wanted or trades for ex. 1 Grl was band from writing letting and receiving letters from her bf and she really wanted to talk to him so in exchange for meds I let her write the letters then I filled out the envolope as if it was mine so that they could talk through me it actually lasted a while since I had no restrictions on my mail. Anyways the staff had over looked my belongings when I got there and I had a bra with wire in it at night I bit a hole in my bra where the padding was and that's where I hid the extra meds depending in the staff member we had ur was a piece of cake to cheek them at shower time me and my friend would take take showers and sneak and get that bra out we would take the meds we wanted and take the wire out of the bra go to the bathroom and turn the water on and take that wire to shave the pills down into a powder and snort them only 1 staff member suspected us of being on something but never did anything about it plus she had no proof they would dcontrabandpections from time to time but still couldn't find contraband. I later started having dreams of escaping if I had someone on the outside I would have but instead I just played around with idea me knowing I could leave if I really wanted to was kind of comforting we had a pretty good size group over time and I would notice certain staff members leaving their keys or setting them down and looking else where so I whatever section of the facility ur in there's big doors before u can go outside or any section and the doors are like the 1's at hospitals the had a lil thing on the side with a small button that stays red and when the staff puts their little plastic card up to it it turns green the doors open up I made a game out of seeing his many times I could get the keys from staff and I got the keys alot u would let the staff members look for them awhile and then give them back or place them somewhere the staff could find them during their search. I never got write up for that. Things u get written up for is talking back having a attitude or being distant and or isolating ur self not partaking in activities it school work they document it ur activity for the day at night during shower time and bed time on a clip board. School in fox run is a joke it gives us something to do but most the time its just busy work very rarely do u learn anything new they'll give us papers of easy attention subtraction maybe multiplication abd give us like 3-4 sumtimes 5 sheets to do and then they'd get mad when I finish everything in 10 mins and put my head down and go to sleep I was 13 I think the youngest in my group was 11 and the oldest was 17 to 18 aging out of the Program. Some Ppl could read well do math well some others that were older couldn't really do it but we all had the same work to do which made school a joke Everyone is at different ages and has different knowledge so I couldn't understand at first why they let us all do the same work until I realized that the Ppl really wasn't trying to give us an education their job was to keep us busy . depending on the day and the staff member we would get time to go outside as a group when u go out there its a big square of grass and we could only walk around that square no running I would walk around and around that square looking at the the grass i remeber it being so green talking with my friend about anything that took our mind off of being stuck in fox run after a few laps of looking down at the grass I'd look at the sky it was very beautiful and seemed so big and it would start to spin it could have been from meds or I think mainly from walking with my head down an just not being outside very often. I continued throughout my stay at fox run to tell my therapist the truth I told her hey I like cannabis I'm going to continue to do it and I was very firm at telling her that I want to get out off fox run but if they sent me back to my adopted parents that I would run away again she encouraged me not too but insisted that there was nowhere else I could go and pretty much brought me to the realization that I'm a kid some things I can't change I just have to deal with it the way it is and endure and deal.... I've never been that type of person. A week after I left I linked up with a former resident that was in my group we wernt suppose to talk to Ppl we where in fox run with but I still check in on my good friend she still has some problems but has a beautiful daughter a few yrs ago. I was living in Morgantown Wv. And my former group member was in Washington PA and I called her she expressed wanting to leave from where she was I still 13 at the time she was 18 which benefit me I told her hey I know some Ppl in Louisville ky we could both go so I talked her into finding a guy with a car and th coming to get me, the did show up on my road 1 night I got in and went back to Washington pa where I stayed with her for a couple days about 3 and during that time I had told her we need to get money do we can go to Pittsburgh and get greyhound tickets so we pawned some things at the pawn shop and we got a ride to Pittsburgh we told Ppl she was my older cousin and we went to Kentucky my former groupie she stayed for about a month and decided to go home but I was happy to see her leave because she was kind of embarrassing me she kept telling Ppl we were sisters and her behavior in Kentucky made me sick and ashamed to even know her .... And fox run said I'm the 1 that had promiscuity issues smh anyways I stayed on the run til I turned 18 had ups had downs I also learned a lot about myself as a person and what I was and wasn't capable of and when I turned 18 I called my adopted parents and said hey I'm okay I'd like to come back I need my social security card and birth certificate so I can make a I.d and I did it took me 2 months to get my g.e d I strayed a little after that then I became pregnant and iv just graduated school for Medical Assisting and I'm 22 with a beautiful son and he is my life now and I wouldn't have it any other way since Iv lived for myself a lot at a young age and I lived it fast my only goals now are to give my son the vest that I can and fill him love support and understanding and knowledge that I had to learn for myself and of course to make him the happiest he can be. With all that said fox run didn't help me at all if actually found that everyone has different levels different levels of intelligence different levels of common sense different levels of good & bad different levels of crazy! And once u put a child thats a certain level in a place with all these different levels that child u originally put in is most likely gonna come out of that situation at new level that's not necessarily good. A shorter way to put it is put a low level petty theft in a cell with drug dealers, con artist, and murders & that petty theft is bound to end up dead or become the next notorious international fugitive. I'm thankful for the person I've become today on my own and there's always room for improvement and I'm glad I know what I know so that I keep my sob from ever having to know certain things. And Fox Run isn't where you want to be or want your kids but if its a choice between fox Run Tyler Morgan or Presley Ridge White oak.... Choose fox Run... Or sumtimes its not what's wrong with ur kids it maybe somtjong u need to change within your self to better your parenting ways in helping your own children yourself. If can't help or discipline your child I don't know why people expect anyone else to be able to you're pretty much saying take them to jail let the police handle it the professionals aren't always so professional and as an adult in this world 2016 I've realized that. maybe if I hit the lottery I want to start up my own Center for children that have problems so that you can actually really help somebody kids they need help they need people to talk to but as a child in that same situation and I don't think people are really hitting those nerves addressing the issues need to be addressed and kids think in ways that you know are very different from a psychiatrist the therapist is going to buy the book life is not buy the book life is crazy chaotic it's just life and no degree going to help somebody to figure out how to help someone else in their life