I went through the first phase of turn for Christ and a bit of the second. I went to the Kauai location. I was charged $3500 but none was spent on me. They live in tents with no electricity, no restrooms, no sanitary cooking area, and outside showers. All food is donated and old. It is dangerously unsanitary! There are rats, mold in tents, roaches, and everything else that comes with outdoor living. There are no counslers or any info about addiction. You just work for free daily and read the bible and go to church. Nothing is allowed or tolerated and I mean nothing! Not even talking about drugs or listening to music! Your stripped of everything and abused till you are even more broken then when you arrived! I love Jesus but trust me when I say you don't need this joke of a place to become sober or to know the lord. There is NO form of treatment whatsoever! Not even an indoor place to get healthy or the correct food your body will need. I finished because I had no other options and I am no quitter I wanted to finish for myself and now I can speak the truth about what I experienced without any bias. I don't know where the $3500 went and there was no planning as to my next move when I had completed the 1st phase in July the director, or any of the two (yes 2) staff volunteers helped me figure out what I would do when I left since I learned nothing and they offered no help! They discipline you and make you dig a 5x5x5 hole if you swear, smoke a cig, or disagree with any beliefs or reason, or question anything! What they are doing is brainwashing addicts while taking they family's money and trying to justify it. Anytime I brought up the conditions or begged for help I was told to leave if I didn't like it. There are 2 pastors and one overseer who is 20 years old. He is a power tripping Jesus fanatic with a closed mind and the other two pastors are Polynesian bobybuilders I only saw maybe 5-7 times over the 2 month period. I was abused mentally and it appalls me to think of my time there. Please ask every question you can muster in your mind before even thinking of sending a loved one there. The intake coordinator says everything is paid for yet it does not even exist (living quarters,food,etc.). Ask for photos or their view on personally helping the people there and how they do that. Why are there no progress meetings? Or any meetings to see how an addict suffering is doing? Why is the woman on the phone saying room and board and meals yet it's a campsite with canfood? What if you get ill? What if you try to reason? What do they personally do to help with your addiction? Not what Jesus does. And what is the $3500 donation go towards!? This place needs to be shut down immediately. If you don't believe please ask the neccesary questions and see for yourself. If it could save one person I would be thinking different. I helped myself while being subject to tremendous mental abuse and a brainwashing atmosphere which was unsanitary and disgusting to say the least. I am sober because of my mindset and the lords help! Everything I said can be proven 100%. This review needs to be posted everywhere to actually find a way to change the program through awareness and to help those who are suffering there now. Call the intake coordinator and get the number to any of the 2 leaders to ask these questions and see credentials. I've seen many people arrive then leave that day with no refund. The 3-5 people who are usually constant are there because they are lost and family will not take them back if they leave, but the family does not know the trial the addict faces. Please help me to help make a difference.
Review from Guidestar
In 2008 our family was rocked by our son's addiction to heroin. We didn't know what to do, and we began to search for somewhere to send him that would get him far away from the associations he had developed that had brought him to this place and almost killed him. We found Uturn for Christ in Kauai, and it was a complete Godsend. Besides being extremely affordable, especially at a time we were hurting greatly with the real estate industry going down, the program changed the direction of our son's life and the legacy of our family. He now has been sober, has a family and is happy and well adjusted. Thank you to Uturn for Christ Kauai for causing a true U-Turn in our son's life!