Alpine Academy review: Do your own research!!

This is a dark place that cares nothing about youth, only their bottom line. My teen, along with many other "survivors", have reported Alpine Academy to be a very abusive program but nothing ever happens. Allegations of abuse and neglect include physical abuse, blatant conversion therapy, forced manual labor, and social isolation.

They hire and then cover up and conceal known and convicted child predators. Do your own google searches for Johnathan Carver, Kayla Walker, Royal Robins who are all past or current employees and also close friends of their CEO Shanna Draper. Kayla Walker is still allowed on campus and invited to company events and you can see her in many recent posts on their social media account. Best of all, Shanna lets Kayla live with her at her private residence!

In 2011, a 13-year-old resident, Astrid Valdivia, ran away from Alpine Academy. Five days after her escape, she was fatally shot by the 31-year-old man with whom she left the state of Utah, Anthony Martinez.

Even with all this they do not care and continue on with hiring these type of people. As recently as June of 2025, one of their employees, Joseph Stevenson, who lived in an Alpine home with 8-10 young male teens, as arrested on out of area warrant for suspected child molestation in Washington state with a bail amount of $225,000 which means this is a really serious suspected offense. Alpine quietly took him and his spouse down from the their website and let them "resign" from Alpine. They didn't alert any of the youth or their parents... just swept it under the rug.

They currently are facing multiple lawsuits against them seeking substantial damages and more and more survivors are showing the courage to fight back and join these suits. Financially crippling these cash cow treatment centers is the only way to end all of this abuse that has been prevalent during Alpine's entire existence.