Franciscan Children's at 30 Warren Street, Brighton in Boston, Massachusetts

Customer Reviews about Franciscan Children's

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  I would give them zero stars if I could. Stay away at all costs! We brought our daughter there when she was suffering from exhaustion due to an illness. She was also having suicidal thoughts after reading the book "Thirteen Reasons". She was unable to sleep for more than a few hours at a time, and she was in a bad place. After a 15 minute consult the psychiatrist (who we later learned was a second year resident) wanted to label her as manic, bi-polar and a whole host of other things, and to put her on a bunch of medications. We refused, and asked if they could just give her a sedative to help her sleep. They reluctantly did so, and she was much better the next day. Then I (mom) went to meet with them yesterday when my husband was at work, and they called DCF and reported us as neglectful parents because we did not bring her in sooner. We are not mental health professions, and she never told us directly she wanted to kill herself, it took a few weeks for us to understand what was going on with her physical and mental health, and we were in contact with medical professionals throughout this process. Now we have the state investigating us for abuse. They have now changed the diagnosis to ADHD and autism spectrum disorder (based on the fact that our daughter did not look a clinician in the eye). She has no trouble looking people in the eyes when she is in her normal state. She has been there for less than 72 hours, and it has been a nightmare for us. While we are leery of posting this must personal information online, we feel the need to warn other parents about what is going on at this place. The social worker was also a witch, very cold, and not helpful at all. Her treatment plan consisted of e-mailing us a bunch of links to programs for counseling support after our daughter is discharged, and basically telling us to figure it out on our own. This has been a grueling ordeal, and a massive waste of money. With our deductible, we will be out over $5,500 for this mess, and they have done very little to help!
  August 16, 2017

  by Anne Yount
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  ***WARNING WARNING WARNING*** I was forced into stay there when I was younger because I was acting out (running away, and saying things to get attention) when my parents divorced. I hated everything about it. The staff were abusive and inconsiderate. The only way they knew how to “help” me was by putting me (a 10 y/o) on 15 different medications. They diagnosed me with ADHD, Bi-polar, BPD, ADD and manic depression. I’m now an adult and I found out the only diagnosis I have is PTSD from growing up in a toxic environment aka Franciscans Children’s. I function perfectly fine. I also NOW have been diagnosed with epilepsy due to being over medicated for to long starting at a very young age. Talk to you children, try to understand them. Don’t just put them in a placement because you don’t understand, try. Because if you want What is best for them if you love them. You won’t set them up for failure by putting in a place like this. All that will come out of it is your children seeing other children kill themselfes and getting abused. That is the reality of places like fransiscans. That is what they don’t tell you. That is what I saw.
  June 08, 2017

  by Melonie Rodriguez

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