Center For Discovery Whittier

I cannot express what a great experience I had with the Center for Discovery in Whittier. I am a single father and my 15 year old daughter was not responding to any of the treatment options I had tried with her. Nothing would help her deep depression and anxiety. Finally after multiple hospitalizations I was referred to CFD. Initially it was a nightmare. My daughter hated it and was miserable. After two weeks she had settled in and for the first time in her life made some real friendships. After a month when she was ready to come back home she was actually sad to leave.
CFD is very tough on the kids. It’ll be hard. But they can help. I won’t tell you they are perfect or that every staff member cares as much as the next, but overall it is a great place.
If you are considering CFD for your teen; feel free to private message me with any questions you may have.
Best of luck to all and thank you Heather Marshall and CFD!

The Center for Discovery played a huge role in helping us to secure the much needed resources for our the 13 year old daughter. It was the most difficult ordeal to send our child to residential treatment and especially because we live in Northern California and were so far from her. The decision to send her the The Center for Discovery was one of the best for her so far. She had been hospitalized somewhere in the range of ten different times, was suffering with extreme depression, engaging in self-​injurious behaviors, and had been on so many different medicines I couldn’t even recount them all. The Center for Discovery helped us to actually figure out our daughters true diagnosis using data driven information and testing. Additionally, they were able to ensure that she was given the correct medication and the correct dosage of them. She was also given an opportunity to really work through some of the root issues that had been triggering her behaviors and learn tools to cope. The staff at The Center for Discovery was very compassionate and caring. They wrote letters and even sat in on conference calls at our child’s IEP in an effort to help us to secure appropriate services and supports for our child through our school district. After leaving The Center for Discovery the staff continued to make themselves available to us as we tried to get our school district to understand our child’s diagnosis, what her needs were and they were a huge asset to us getting our child properly placed and support through the public school system. I would recommend The Center for Discovery to any family with an adolescent suffering with emotional issues. The program is not easy for the child and at times the parents but if families are willing to put in work, take responsibility and realize that the road to wellness in mental health is long and arduous the The Center for Discovery may be a good place to being recovery.

Our son was leaving the hospital and needed additional treatment for severe depression and we did not know where to turn. The recommendation was to find placement in a residential treatment center for 3 to 9 months. We were overwhelmed by the immediacy and urgency of the situation, trying to research programs in and out of state, and battling with the insurance company. Unfortunately, we chose the Center for Discovery in Whittier because it was closeby so we could visit, our insurance partially covered the cost, and the 30 days would buy us time to find a longer term program if needed. To this day my son still has flashbacks of the horrible treatment he received by the staff at this facility, and his father and I will forever regret sending him there. He was abused by an older teen while supposedly under «24 hour staff supervision» and a police report was supposedly filed. Staff at this facility showed the adolescent residents a complete lack of empathy, often abusing power and control, and telling the teens they should lie to their parents in family session and say that they’re getting better or elso they would be sent away to 2-​year long programs. For the exhorbitant fees they charge, you’d think that they would not only most imnportantly have decent staff, but also a decent facility. The pathetic little basketball hoop in the parking lot was bent. Luckily, after this horrible place, our son went to the Anasazi Program in Arizona, which was truly a healing place, and he still talks about his good memories of Anasazi. If you need to send your teen into a therapeutic recovery program, it can be heartwrenching. I recommend avoiding Center for Discovery and the physical, emotional and financial pain it will cause you and your family.