Horsham Clinic – Broomall

The worst place in the world

actually helped me with my depression and helped me to actually believe there was something more to life❤️❤️ heart goes out to every1 who worked there ESPECIALLY Mr.Sean. luv u Mr Sean ❤️❤️❤️

This place is terrible and needs to be defunded... horrible staff and they refuse kids that actually need help .. never in my life have I wanted a place to burn down so bad

They really don’t care. They will throw you out even if you aren’t doing well. They should be shut down.

I was put into the inpatient psych ward back in 2021 and this place taught me self harm and a lot of other bad habits. Dont go here, its just not worth it. If you are considering sending someone here just get them a… therapist, it might help more

The sole group therapist spent the whole week telling the kids about God and Christianity. He insisted that the purpose of life is to serve God. This is not advertised as a religious facility, and there's nothing… therapeutic about proselytizing, especially when some of the kids are from other religious backgrounds (there was at least one Muslim kid in the group -- can't see what therapeutic good it does for an authority figure to suggest the kid is betraying the therapist's God). My 11 year old, who is atheist, was not particularly helped by this. Beyond this unprofessionalism, the program is very disorganized -- social worker was entirely unclear about the discharge plan and did not know kid's age. Bus often shows up an hour late for transport. Lot of sitting around doing nothing. absolutely ZERO individual therapy, so really all you're getting is the religious indoctrination stuff. My kid, who had made two suicide attempts, was discharged with no checks about whether she was actively suicidal or practicing self-harm. It's pretty terrifying. More trivially, the food is really awful (just sugar, fat, fries, meat, served with sugary drinks) and they never go outside (it's in a warehouse in the middle of nowhere). If I weren't feeling bad before I got there, this would be enough to make anybody feel pretty awful in their mental health. Very depressing that kids are being "treated" like this.

It helped me I loved the program there nice people don't get me wrong I still have my issues but I am using the tools that they gave me.

My experience was like being in a building of kids from school you know you'll never see again because they'll end up in jail or become hermits. Atleast a third of the kids anyways. I made some friends on my 10 day stay… which i cant get in contact with because well, i was sent away to a school out in utah for a year after i was evaluated hear and either the kids switched numbers moved as recommended by the facility or something else. Staff didnt know why i was their because i wasnt violant or rude, i actually tried to make friends and help staff get on with their schedule but that almost provoked my first roomate to fight me. Btw he was the same kid who stole my underware and then asked if i wanted them back as he showed me he was wearing them. Needless to say i switched rooms within the first 2 days and had no problems with my other two roommate's for the rest of my stay. Anyways i say all that the kids hear arent all bad and actually i didnt think half of these kids needed to be hear. It was obvious that a third of these kids were not taught how to act properly and that was a fault of their parents. This is not a place to send kids who need better parenting. One third had real issues and their cases were too complicated to get into but they also had issues with the parents and they developed bad behaviers due to the lack of authority and love in their homes. The last one third were just confused, bullied/sensitive children who cant find a place in this world of violance and substance abuse. My roomate and another nice kid i met in their are good people but they had to devolpe some attitude that they dont want because its not normal to not be like the rest of the kids in school. They were quite and didnt have too many friends because they had morels and cared about others, they werent loners by choice but out of necessity. They didn't sacrifice the quality of their beliefs and friends to fit in. For that i respected them and they respected me, so we became friends. Wish i could get in contact with some of yall but its been 9 years since than and i know you wouldnt really think to even write a review because fighting establishments like this is what got us put hear. Hope your doing well alexia and warren. Cool guy with the spanish name and Dark hair, hope you remember trying to sniff the cold hair through the cafeteria doors. And to katie the girl i gave a pen tattoo to on the play ground i thought you were adorable and tried calling but i was sent away for that year and when i called no one buy your name was on the line. Thanks mr. D for helping me and 2 of the on duty staff were cool too. The huge spanish guy who works out and the staff i tried to help by telling the other kids to stop talking over him. I understand it was your responsibility to get the kids to quite down but they were being to disrespectful and i apologize for almost starting a fight. You saw it coming befor i did.👍

Nice place to help adolescent children to get mental help and continue with their education

Two of my friends both said that they had the best experience there and it helped them out so much

My 6 year old son was in the partial program for 10 days. During the initial meeting we were asked general questions about behavior, I felt very rushed and as if they did not want any details. At first I was offended… but figured maybe they simply wanted to get their own impression on what needed to be addressed. My son did very well the 1st day, but the 2nd day the Dr came out and asked about putting my son on meds due to their observation that day. I did not like the fact that the Dr. wanted to discuss this in the general waiting room even though no one was there at the time. Again she made me feel very rushed, especially when I started to ask some specific questions about the meds and she was hard to understand. We had already started to look into meds so we decided to proceed with the recommended one. He continued to attend the program for the recommended days and we filled out the paper they sent home every night. I feel someone should have sent feedback to the parents on what was written by the parent for night observation. Maybe some guidance on how to handle certain situations. NOTHING. We had our half way meeting and again it was just with the director, but I feel the Dr and teacher and anyone else on the team who spent time with my son should have been involved so one could ask direct questions to him/her. During the discharge meeting we went over the things my son said would help him calm down and what needed to be worked on. We once again were given papers to seek additional services elsewhere. Knowing this meant a LONG Waiting LIST was ahead of me I asked what happens once his meds run out or we feel he needs to be evaluated for a higher/lower dosage? Lisa the Director said not a problem, we will continue to help determine the medication until there is a psychiatrist involved. After the Dr messed up the medication twice by not sending the information to the pharmacy she left me a message saying I had to go through our pediatrician for any future medication refills or changes. Our pediatrician declined to refill at first because she had received NO discharge or any information from Horsham Broomall about why my son was there or what they observed. This was over 2 months later!!! I had to put in several calls to finally get the information sent over. Our pediatrician agreed to refill, but refused to determine if a new dosage is needed or med since this is NOT her expertise. Understandable actually. I have been calling the DR at the clinic and the director for over a month now asking for help and NO ONE wants to return my calls to discuss this. We are on a 4-8 week waiting list just to be assigned additional services including a psychiatrist. It is like once you leave that facility, they wash their hands of the client unless brought back to them.

It's a very nice place and clean. However, it was not explained to me that after completion of the paperwork, my son would stay for the remainder of the day.

I went here for 10 days and Honestly I felt better am glad I got to talk to people and the teachers there are funny and I felt safe

noone picks up the phone here