House of Hope of North Carolina

House of Hope helped me reconnect with my daughter. We were having a very difficult time before. They helped me become a better father and thought my daughter valuable life skills. My daughter is now more loving and responsible. Thank you House of Hope.

House of Hope was a fundamental part of my childhood and a journey I am forever grateful for. It shaped me to the woman I am today. I was provided with housing, schooling, counseling, and the most wonderful support group while I was there. The staff was incredible and made me feel safe and loved every step of the way. I would highly recommend this organization.

I've been a psychotherapist in Raleigh since 1999 and have had several teens I've serviced stay at House of Hope when they have been unable to remain in their homes due to emotional and/or behavioral problems. House of Hope has been a lifesaver for them. The staff truly cares about teens and their families. We are lucky to have this valuable resource in our community!

We are at a girls graduation right now. She has regained her love of life and she and her family are so close now. This place is transforming our family too. This is a great place to regain your hope and be healed.

A wonderful place for growth, change, and hope!

I was sent here when I was 16 because I had severe issues with depression. During a session with my therapist I told her I did not feel like I could keep myself safe. She said that I trapped her in her office and I was punished. They also have rose bushes lining the entire front of the house and when they found out I was taking thorns off the bush to use for self harm they punished me instead of helping me work through it. Later that night after I had tried to speak to the therapist I ended up attempting to end my life. The staff made me wait for my dad on the hallway floor while everyone else went to sleep. They didn’t even have the decency to call an ambulance. I’m truly traumatized by my experience here.

I was literally kidnapped by an escort service early in the morning. My mom awoke me out of my sleep and told me there were people here to take me somewhere safe to help. I was handcuffed and not allowed to touch any of my personal belongings. I was put in strange people’s car and drove to Clayton. Your intake consists of checking ALL clothing including underwear. You were not supposed to tempt anyone else there with your clothing. We were forced to do Bible study almost 24/7 and remember verses for each phase. No secular music (anything that didn’t surround around Christianity). They determined who you talked to and how many friends you could talk to from home. They used taking away foods as punishment…. Phase 1-4. Phase one you could only write your parents a letter every week and then earn a phone call. They punished us for saying wrong things or not doing something. And when I say something, I’m talking about every day things that are basically an auto pilot kind of thing. If you were late, punished. We had to wear these mormon jean jumpers to school, with a purple, white , or yellow shirt underneath. Like literally told when to do anything and everything. I had never experienced being in trouble like I did at HOH. All the seminars and church gatherings. They literally brainwash you into the Christian religion. I WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH CHRISTIANITY EVER! I finally ran away after I reached phase 3 and could go home for a weekend. Of course all rules applied while at home. I had finally had enough after 2 years. They lie on their page and say it takes about a year. In my 2 years being there I never saw any “graduate” in under a year. It was torture. I have nightmares to this day about waking up in HOH. There have also been several deaths of girls that were there the same time as I was, 3 to be exact over the past 5-7 years. These are girls that “graduated”. Notice that all the good reviews are from parents of staff… haven’t seen one from a girl that was imprisoned in this place. That’s exactly what it is a Christian prison. THIS PLACE TRAUMATIZED ME!!!!! DO NOT SEND YOUR TROUBLED/MENTALLY ILL TEEN HERE!!!!!! She won’t come back the same and not in a good way.

If there is any love in your heart for your child, please dont send them here.

I noticed another review that spoke about being punished for Self Harm, and I was, frequently. Every time I self harmed, I was punished. I received punishment for 'stepping out of line' in any way that did not fit the bill of the 'perfect straight christian girl' this establishment tries to mold everyone into. I was punished for wearing the wrong makeup. I was punished for wearing a shirt that had a singer that 'wasnt approved'. I was punished for mentioning folklore. I ended up in the ER for a meltdown and suicide attempt during my first month here, and as soon as I was brought back, I was dealt their worst punishment.

This place completely cuts you off from the outside world, and I am saying that as someone who has been in intensive inpatient care, and state level hospitals. Every single hospital will give you a 15 minute phone call every day to your parent or legal guardian, because they are legally required to. This place gives you two phone calls a week, they are each 5 minutes, and are revoked with most punishments. You get punished with 'silent time' frequently, meaning i had to go hours or days not being allowed to speak to people. I have so many repressed memories from here, so much trauma and quite frankly, brainwashing, that even more than 2 years later, I'm struggling to heal from.

I came here from a residential hospital where me and my parents had been working on fixing our relationship. We were so close to being healed, so close to having a functional family, until I was transferred here. Everything in our relationship, our healing journey, and my own recovery, was violently ripped away.

My time here ended with a suicide attempt where I almost bled out, but the staff at the establishment had to call the manager before she was allowed to call the police and ER. When i ended up at the hospital I begged them to not send me back, and I ended up in a residential placement. Then ensued 6 months of working to undo all the damage this place has caused. 6 months wasnt enough, 2 years hasnt been, and alot of the damage this place caused to my relationship with my parents still causes problems daily.

This is a discipline centered place, which might work for disobedient teenagers, but not severely mentally ill teenager with self destructive tendencies. Punishing someone for self harm is the worst thing you can do to someone who self harms. Punishing someone for showing symptoms of their illness isnt effective

This place forces you to eat things that you arent comfortable with. You get 2 exception foods and they have to be sides and they have to be stuff that you dont eat frequently. Rather than providing meal substitutes, you are punished. For someone who struggles with multiple eating disorders, this was devastating, and I cannot imagine what someone with ARFID or anything similar would experience in this environment.

I'll try to update this as I remember more things about this place!

I was working on my own healing as an adult, and several repressed memories of HOH came up. in fact, I have repressed memories of this place so well I often forget it was a part of my life, despite having stayed here for quite a while. hoh was an extremely traumatic experience where I was made to feel as if I was somehow bad or wrong for acting out symptoms of mental illness. I noticed when looking through the hoh website they advertise themselves as being here to help work on the root of the issue rather than disciplining the behavior, but I can even remember getting in actual discipline trouble for instances of self harm. Im BEGGING that nobody else send their kid here, and seek more legitimate and mental health focused treatment instead. hoh has had a very negative lasting impact on my life . Id also like to point out that there is only *one* positive google review from a girl who stayed here.

I was here back in 2010, it was one of the worst years of my life. I went through so much mental and emotional abuse. I especially went through it with a house staff member that isn’t there anymore. Her name was Sara. I wasn’t treated equally to my peers. To this day I still have nightmares and problems as a 23 year old adult that this place has caused. Do not send your little girls here. My grandparents who sent me here even agree.

Please DONT send your kids here, christian or not. I have so much suppressed trauma from this place, it is mainly punishment based and especially not good for teens who have hospital - level issues. It will make things worse!!! This place also stole SO MUCH of my stuff!!!

vibes are rancid and u have to eat lasagna 8 days a week 0/10