Caron Renaissance in Florida

[Anonymous]

I was at Caron Renaissance back in 2010. I am doing very well now, but I had to actually recover from my experience there. It was horrific. They tore apart my family relationships, which had previously been fine (a healthy and supportive family). They miscommunicated information to me (wouldn't allow me to speak directly with my family members or close friends, and they lied to me about several communications that went through them, which I found out later through my family members), broke their own rules, and behaved in ways that not only broke their own rules, but in some cases, broke the law. I can't fully describe how awful the experience was. I left there after a few months, but didn't leave without being completely scarred by the experience.

[Anonymous]

It took months before my two children recovered from the abusive behavior on the part of Caron Renaissance. I feel such guilt for sending them there. I feel traumatized from Family Week that I still at times suffer from. The experience was very damaging to our entire family. Plus it cost us 6 figures that put us in debt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It took months before my two children recovered from the abusive behavior on the part of Caron Renaissance. I feel such guilt for sending them there. I feel traumatized from Family Week that I still at times suffer from. The experience was very damaging to our entire family. Plus it cost us 6 figures that put us in debt.

Sorry to hear you had two children in this situation. How are they doing in their recovery now?

[Anonymous]

I personally experienced renaissance in my early twenties to get sober after college. This was 8 years ago now. I want to post an honest review, which reflects my experience in both PA and then the house of horrors they call renaissance in Delray. Caron PA saved my life, 28 days of therapy, self care & a loving, caring well trained staff.

The transfer to Florida with their “Olympic size” swimming pool and palm trees was pitched to my parents and I over a video call. I obviously did not want to go on to a “90 day” program. Truth is I did need more care, but I had no idea what was coming. I don’t want to post my story unless this is something members of this group want to hear.

If you’d like to know more, let me know and I will spill the beans, good and bad. Unfortunately, the detailed experience I am willing to share involves more negative and quite haunting events. 7 years later, my life is full of love and healthy relationships but I’ve realized much of my time there (8+ months until I basically escaped) had been shut off from my memory, until just now looking at old photos. PTSD is real.

[Anonymous]

My experience at Caron Renaissance was like a game of thrones of rehabs, that wasn't covered by any insurance, and was the byproduct of Caron violating my HIPPA rights in order to convince my father to make financial threats unless I went to Caron Renaissance. What I found was a fairly pleasant living quarters and relatively easy day program-wise. There was just this undertone of extreme manipulation of your condition to your parents and recommendations of longer stays. It was $15,000 a month, with a three month commitment at the beginning. If you left early they wouldn't give the money back. You just had credit at the rehab for a prorated number of days. No insurance was accepted. They would engage in abusive techniques, where they would pepper a person with accusations of various misdeeds and negative characteristics. They would go through our personal possessions looking for any contraband constantly. They would kick people out of the treatment center for "therapeutic discharges", where they would take the person to a homeless shelter and say see you in three days for readmission. Exposed to the vagaries of the street and vulnerable to using drugs or being exploited sexually by some crazed predator.Then you would have to start over in the phases they have to gauge program progress. Which would cost your parents more .money. One time a guy in the program had sex with one of the girls without a condom in the laundry room of one of the apartments and got caught. Caron called the girls Dad and had him come to the group to hostilely confront this guy about fucking his daughter. It was absolutely beyond insane. They were empowering the parents to exercise abusive behavior as appropriate in response to addiction and addictive behaviors. The girls father said nasty things to this guy, and was in an impossible situation. It doesn't seem therapeutic to have Jerry Springer in the Uber posh rehab, it seems like it's indulging the unnatural craving for human conflict by the staff at Caron Renaissance. They are professional sadists, who prey on children of wealth people, using mental health treatment as a means to extracting wealth over a short period of time. They also in another case encouraged a patients father to drain her bank account that he had some attachment to as a supervisor or trustee, but it was her money. She had to withdraw all the money and aggressively confronted the staff about there possible involvement in the scheme to deprive her of money so she could leave Caron to live on her own. The bottom line is they are charging 15k, and that was in 2009, so I am sure it went up, for every month of a minimum three month stay, and that is after the 45K 30 day inpatient rehab you just did. Which invariably was only partially covered by insurance, because of how inflexible Caron is with insurance companies. Caron Renaissance abuses it's patients and exaggerates peoples conditions by internationally harassing them. Invariably people get angry when provoked, so it's easy to produce a person who is averse to therapy and in need of extensive aftercare. The State of Florida should send undercovers there.

[Anonymous]

My ex sent our 18 yr old daughter to Renaissance after years of her being emotionally abused by him.
Her therapist was only a social work intern. Most of my daughter’s once a week therapy were spent on the phone to me because she did not have the training to deal with the kind of help needed.
I spent 4 1/2 days there. I was shocked. The staff was abusive and encouraged personal attacks during group settings. During a session for parents I was attacked by the group because my 18 year old daughter lived with me. The nastiest attack came from a father have never even met his 20 year old daughter due to his alcohol and drug abuse.
In another group setting the leader argued with a woman because she didn’t like the use of the recovering when she described herself as a recovering addition. The poor woman after enduring the attack for more than half the session left in tears.
My daughter who is overweight was put in an eating disorder group with only anorexic. It was appalling.
Residents were having sex in the washrooms during group sessions.
Drugs and alcohol were rampant
I can’t even describe the mess they caused when she left.
They destroyed her sense of self esteem.
I left half a day early because the place was so incredibly toxic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My ex sent our 18 yr old daughter to Renaissance after years of her being emotionally abused by him.
Her therapist was only a social work intern. Most of my daughter’s once a week therapy were spent on the phone to me because she did not have the training to deal with the kind of help needed.
I spent 4 1/2 days there. I was shocked. The staff was abusive and encouraged personal attacks during group settings. During a session for parents I was attacked by the group because my 18 year old daughter lived with me. The nastiest attack came from a father have never even met his 20 year old daughter due to his alcohol and drug abuse.
In another group setting the leader argued with a woman because she didn’t like the use of the recovering when she described herself as a recovering addition. The poor woman after enduring the attack for more than half the session left in tears.
My daughter who is overweight was put in an eating disorder group with only anorexic. It was appalling.
Residents were having sex in the washrooms during group sessions.
Drugs and alcohol were rampant
I can’t even describe the mess they caused when she left.
They destroyed her sense of self esteem.
I left half a day early because the place was so incredibly toxic.

You left, but without taking your DD with you?