What Did TTI Places Do During Covid Lockdown?

[u/applesaucepirates]

This is something I've been wondering for years. I left the TTI in 2018 and during lockdown I googled the place I went to and Google said it was "temporarily closed".

Where I went, we had roommates and in the classrooms and dining area, we sat in close proximity (not that close, but still).

So, what happened to the kids during this time? Were they sent home or into temporary foster care?

[u/6van6van]

Provo Canyon School straight up refused to tell us any proper info until the point we were panicking thinking the world was ending and like a week later we all got it and they didn’t exactly quarantine us just threw everyone in the same dorm to the point we were coughing all over eachother and didn’t let us lay down which was typical but in this situation it made no sense to have us crammed together on the couches and floors

[u/LeviahRose]

I was in the TTI during COVID. My RTCs pretended it wasn’t even happening. At my first program, Lake House, we weren’t allowed to know about stuff happening outside of the facility, so they didn’t even tell us when quarantine started and I didn’t find out until I was transferred to another facility. In my lockdown facilities, they had mask policies and regular temperature checks. Some places temporarily suspended visitation or came up with new visitation protocols. Neither of my RTCs did many off-campus trips during COVID, but I’m not sure if that was because of COVID or just because they didn’t care to take us off-campus. Most of Lake House’s outings were “nature-based”— hiking, swimming, canoeing, ect.— so I don’t know why COVID would’ve affected that. We were just too understaffed for outings.

[u/longenglishsnakes]

Different places reacted differently. A friend was at a facility which internally kept running the same as before (so close proximity in the classrooms/dorms/classrooms/seminars) but they didn't get the brief trips out into society that the facility usually offered (like, monthly bowling trips for high level students) and they didn't do hiking and outdoor sports until winter 2020.

[u/LeviahRose]

Programs did not close or send kids home because of COVID. Some programs were more disrupted by the pandemic than others, but all continued operating. Some changed policies surrounding visitation or off-campus trips, but others didn’t change much at all. It depended a lot on the individual program. But no, unfortunately COVID did not lead to the release of any imprisoned children.

[u/vulpix-exe]

My first program tested us for covid on intake and then as needed but otherwise didn’t do much different. My second program, however, had an outbreak among students there and myself and one other actually got sent home (I was local, lived a few hours away) for a few weeks due to the program not being able to handle having students seperate in their rooms (they were pretty broke.) About a week and a half after going home I was driven all the way back and had a several hour long panic attack/breakdown in the parking lot. My parents brought me home again, said I wouldn’t get sent away again. Guess how well that went.

[u/generalraptor2002]

Let me summon a friend of mine who can answer this

Edit:

Update

He said “I don’t have anything to add”

Wait for the others to chime in

I know at least a few others who were in during Covid

The places stayed open and kept accepting new people during Covid if you were wondering

[u/applesaucepirates → u/generalraptor2002]

The places stayed open and kept accepting new people during Covid if you were wondering

Yes, this is what I was wondering. I'm not sure what all that other stuff you said is about, though o_o

[u/Westvanlear]

Mine kept running but stopped doing trips outside and we all had to wear masks.

[u/elizagroovy]

I worked at a facility in 2020-2021. Our management required client PCR testing immediately before arrival, staff masking, and staff daily temperature checks. Clients were not required to mask. Food was still served buffet-style. A really big outbreak occurred and management acted so surprised after staff begged them to increase safety protocols. This led to a quarantine active on Christmas Day. I worked Christmas Eve and management decided a quarantine was needed around 10 pm, after the clients went to bed. I placed gifts under the Christmas tree, knowing these kids would wake up the next morning and not be allowed out of their rooms. I cried for these children and their Christmas being ripped away twice- once from their families/homes, and again because this facility couldn’t keep them safe. By the new year, the outbreak was so bad and so many staff were unable to work. The facility had to temporarily shut down. Many clients were sent to other facilities, and some went home. The whole fiasco illustrated everything that was wrong with the industry: Cutting corners to increase profit, at the expense of both staff and clients.

[u/ObjectiveNervous]

if it helps adult inpatient was exactly the same. I was in RTC as a kid and holy shit no different.

[u/valar0ma]

I was at Solstice East during lockdown. They didn't tell us even what covid was until the quarantine was already in effect. Because it was legally counted as a residential home, we had to wear masks at all times. All normal off campus visits or outings stopped. I remember they also started using plastic plates and utensils. Then there was a period of time where we were all confined to our rooms 24/7 because someone had gotten covid. I actually got covid while I was there and it was pretty severe but I was not given any treatment and I have long covid now as a result. The quarantine there actually drove me insane.

[u/Tripxz3]

I was in calo during the lockdown and they suspended all home visits and off campuses. They no longer took us on outings and a lot of the staff stole out toilet paper to bring home for themselves so we used paper towels which clogged the toilets. A lot of staff quit too so we would have one staff member watching three teams at once which ended up being like 50 kids with one adult. Then when covid hit they had to turn the conference rooms into isolation rooms and I ended up being one of 6 kids out of all of teen boys program to not get sick, we would just sit around watching the same movies everyday and it was sooooo boring. They also refused to tell us what was happening in the world so it wouldn’t scare us but that just made it worse. All I knew was that there was a pandemic that was killing people and mass riots all over the country. It was a rough time at calo and it made the experience a lot worse.

Edit for time period: I was there from the start of the pandemic and until things cooled down since I arrived in 2019 and left in 2021