Cenikor Foundation

Went here for 8 months, the people who live there are amazing....I’ve met some amazing people here in 2017-2018 but the staff DO NOT CARE. Except for the counselors WHO I LOVE they are very over worked. In the end of my time there staff and the job management woman lied and claimed I did something I hadn’t and changed they’re stories to my loved ones so it would not look bad on they’re ends....the people who go here want change and want better as they deserve I left and was okay, but the staff need to remember where they came from. -Love.

My husband graduated from Cenikor in 1984. He also had the opportunity to work for the facilities in Lakewood, CO. Houston, TX. And Ft.Worth, TX. We recently visited my daughter in the Ft. Worth facility, and know without a doubt Cenikor gives her the best opportunity for success. We have worked with, and my husband has worked for top rated treatment providers. Cenikor is not easy but in our eyes one of the very best programs in the country!!!

My son has researched Cenikor...spoke to Eli and prays each day that he can be accepted here. He was kidnapped at gunpoint, by some men who are now locked up...this happened June 21, 2016. His dad committed suicide December 21, 2019. Five months to the day after the kidnapp ohng. He has not been the same. He is now 21 yrs old and so very ready to start healing and forgiving. Im headed to the cenikor office now. ...

I was seeking long term inpatient facilities in Texas with no insurance or money to offer....this program seemed like a good fit and I was excited to have another chance at recovery after so many relapses...I left the pavillion of northwest Texas health system. I was concerned by their attitude about mental health conditions as I was questioned vigorously and told bluntly that my mental health conditions could deter my acceptance to this program....but because my options were limited and they paid the bus ticket for me to come there I decided to give it a shot. As someone who has been in therapy since i was 7 and been to 14 different treatments since age 20, I was floored by how these people dealt with me. I have never felt so demoralized by anyone claiming to want to help me. When I arrived I called the number I was given before getting on the bus to alert them of my arrival and arrange transportation from a pay phone and kept being informed that it had been disconnected. I was a few miles from the center and had no money for a cab so after three hours of waiting in vain I decided to walk that way....I had stolen some otc medicine to get high not a good choice to have made but after the long walk and having taken too much dxm I made it to their building at 2am and sat outside for several hours before I found out how to go in. Shortly after getting inside and being given breakfast i collapsed in the office from the walk and not having eaten all day and the otc meds....I went to hospital and was released back to them I took city bus straight there the hospital provided me a ticket didn't use anything even otc meds when I got back I was secluded in a back room the nurse said the er drug tested me and I was only positive for PCP which is one of the only drugs in the history of the world I haven't tried and dosent appeal to me as I am a mental dissociative and I have that type of experience on my own often it's not euphoric or beneficial to me it's quite confusing to have time go by and not recall what I did during that time. Nurse gave me another test which I passed for PCP and failed on opiates....the very same day. She said there was no such thing as a false positive not sure where she got her license from but she told me to go back to my room and rest which I did until staff finally came to the room to say I was being sent back to Amarillo on the bus. I was so disappointed with this experience because I attended the ARAD shelter program in Amarillo and it was very helpful I learned so much even though it was short term outpatient I still use so many of the things I learned there. I urge anyone who is able to accept help wherever it is being offered but I am still baffled by the way things played out because they treated me like I was nothing they didn't listen I felt like they thought of me as a homeless psych patient who had no one to get upset over how they treated me. It was very unsettling to say the very least.