Jasper Mountain School

We are grateful for Jasper Mountain, specifically for their excellent and experienced therapists Larkin and Kiva! Larkin and Kiva were wonderful to our child and treated him, and our family, with understanding and respect. They held our son accountable for his actions but were very caring and experienced with our child's emotional issues. They kept us accurately up to date with our son's progress and were genuine and honest with us regarding rough patches they faced with our son. Most importantly, Larkin and Kiva never hesitated to get as much background information as possible about our son and our family to help better understand our son's needs. We greatly appreciate all of Larkin's and Kiva's time spent with our son at Jasper mountain and wish more therapists were like Larkin and Kiva.

I worked at Jasper Mountain SAFE Center for 5 years! They have a strong workplace community, value diversity, and strive to excel in teamwork and communication. Their employees are appreciated, respected, and their voices are valued. Their team works hard to support a vulnerable population: children who have suffered trauma and struggle to regulate their emotions and maintain safe behaviors. It can be emotional work, but it is fulfilling work. The JMC team endeavors to create a family-like environment that is therapeutically supportive. They are regulated by state licensing agencies and are required by law to provide a safe healing environment for their clients. All employees are subject to strict background checks and on-going training. They have a highly educated and thoroughly trained team who chooses to work in a nonprofit line of work because the work they do helps our community heal and thrive. They have two locations, one in Jasper-Lowell, OR and one in Springfield, OR SAFE Center. They partner with Looking Glass and the Child Center to support community members in crisis via the Crisis Hotline.

I worked on and off at Jasper for 6 years. If I had a child that I struggled to manage, I would send them there. A structured, safe, and consistent environment is the only way to truly help stabilize children with dysregulated emotions. I also have nothing but great things to say about the new management team!

Terrible counseling service

I was broke down coming home from lowell one night. The driveway to this Jasper Mountain was the only place safe for me to pull over with my trailer. 8-10 vehicles must have pulled out of the driveway where i was broke down and not one of them offered assistance or even checked to see if we were ok. In fact a couple people yelled at me to get outta of the driveway. While others honked. If this is the kind of people here than thats the rating of the facility.

I went to school at the Jasper Mountain Center and they were very abusive. What they would do is if a kid was misbehaving, they would force them onto an outdoor mat and even perform corporal punishment. There where even a few times that a teacher broke a child's arm. As far as I know they are still doing it. What a school should do is try to solve the problem with the kids. Violence is never the answer.

The director of this establishment is an arrogant creep, who is very much out of touch with reality. He constantly toots his own horn about how smart and rich he is, and how great his facility is. On the other hand, I have spoke to many employees at this agency over the years and have heard the same things from every one - there is some truly evil stuff that happens here, and this facility is grossly mismanaged. 1The management encourages its staff members to literally break the law in regards to containment holds, at their risk, not his. Instead of putting the children in safe rooms like most facilities, children are often violently restrained in ways that definitely could be categorized as child abuse. i.e. shoved in corners, 'sat down' forcefully, or picked up by the arm and dragged away from the other children. 2The director meets with the children every Sunday morning to literally indoctrinate the children with his liberal christian views which is highly insensitive to children in the program who have alternate views, and afterwards he awards two hugs to the children who have been very compliant, one hug to the children who have been mostly compliant, and the children who have a hard time following directions because of their traumatizing past are simply neglected which is extremely messed up, some of these kids who have a hard time listening need love the most. Drawing this parallel between following rules, and love/affection is a very dangerous one to draw in the mind of a child. 3The management has really gone out of their way to screw over loyal employees. The pay is very sub-par in relation to the amount of work put in, there aren't any breaks Which is also breaking the law, and in addition, when the minimum wage gets raised employees who have been there for a long time don't receive anything more than the minimum, meaning people who have put in a lot of work for the agency basically get metaphorically spat and shat on, getting paid what brand new employees there are paid. 4The children spend LARGE amounts of time indoors often even when it is not raining outdoors they are kept inside, and are basically only fed bread and carbs at almost every meal. Almost no fruit or vegetables enters these children's bodies. They are fed in the cheapest manner possible to increase the bottom line. These main points sum up the messed up things that happen at this facility. I highly encourage you - if you are considering working here, steer clear and work for an agency that will value you. and if you have a child in this facility to keep very close tabs on your child and what is happening in this program. and if you are a child who has been through this program, realize it is not your fault for the terrible things that may have happened to you at this facility.

It was mostly a painful experience there I just wanted to be loved and all they would give me is therapy and put me in holds like the police do to criminals, but there were times were we would go on hikes and field trips and other things, but like I said I didn't want that I wanted someone to truly love and care for me at the most critical moment in my life but it didn't happen, they failed horribly on there part, but that was for me, not all kids might have this happen to them there.

Dropped by for a drink of water while on a long ride because I had no idea what the place was and was treated very rudely

Wonderful place that helps abused children.