Venture Academy, Ontario: Investigation Uncovers Years of Red Flags, Abuses

August 11, 2025

Nestled deep in the Ontario countryside, on the outskirts of a small, rural town, sits a facility that few outsiders know exists, marked only by a small, metal letterbox and an unassuming wire gate.

Beyond the modest entrance, little else belies its true purpose — a weathered ranch house and a few scattered outbuildings, hemmed in on every side by towering pines and white birch trees. This woodsy setting is billed as a sanctuary for troubled teens, where wellness and structure are intended to replace chaos and turmoil.

Because this is Venture Academy, where families from across Canada send their children, desperate for help in the face of addiction, mental health crises, or behaviours that have spiralled out of control. But for those left there, this is also where, some say, they suffered psychological and emotional harm under the guise of therapeutic rehabilitation.

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2025-08-17 17:16:55
My daughter she was sent to Crestwood rehabilitation center in Bakersfield California she got there on March 5th 2024 and on April 6th 2024 she passed away they claim she hung herself by the bathroom door knob but prior to that she was in a rehabilitation center in Merced for 3 months doing well doing great she was ready to come home so she was going to be coming home in April but they transferred her over there cuz they didn't have enough room here anymore so she was going to be coming home in April but she kept talking about how corrupted Crestwood rehabilitation was and how they allow the patients to have sex with each other she also was hit and they didn't give her no medical attention so we all talk to her the night before she was fine she ordered all these goodies and we told her to hang on she'll be coming home soon next day they called us in the morning to say she passed away I think they knew that she was going to tell on them everything that was going on in there and they probably just wanted get rid of her. We have so much paperwork and seen so many red flags..

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