Rosemont Treatment Center
The Oregonian, August 27, 2014
A Southeast Portland school that has housed and taught troubled teenage girls since 1902 has closed its doors.
Rosemont Treatment Center, a 27-bed facility that provides mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment and schooling is terminating its contract with Oregon Youth Authority and the Department of Human Services due to a chronic lack of funding.
Girls in the program have been sent to foster care, the custody of family members or other treatment facilities….Continue reading at OregonLive.com
Help? No. This place wanted us to be compliant, unquestioning followers, and placed us in the “time out rooms” or in an isolation room if we persisted in any undesirable behavior. There was a “6 inch rule,” meaning no one was allowed to come within 6 inches of anyone else, which meant the only way to get any human contact was to act up to a point where you had to be physically restrained. Hurting girls locked up with no hugs ever ever ever. Nobody was interested in helping me, no matter how much I begged and talked and pleaded. My therapist wanted me to, uh, consider the fact that I didn’t speak up about my father’s abuse earlier… And tried to tell me I was being brainwashed by my mother because I didn’t completely hate either of my parents. My request to work with a different therapist were not even considered, I was consistently told every problem I was having with the institution was my own fault. They only wanted us all to follow all the rules. Finding out Rosemont closed is one of the happiest pieces of news in my entire life.
I was placed in Rosemont as a young rebelious girl. I lived there in like 1983. I still remember this place.