mental health therapist

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high school teacher

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Adelphoi Village

I have been working for Adelphoi Village since 2011. I first began in a group home (community based) for youth men, I enjoyed my time working with them. At times the group could be stressful, but learning from the experienced workers helped a lot. I later transferred to a secure unit on the main campus. I have remained there since, and don't plan on leaving anytime soon. Each day the schedule is well put together, the focus is on the treatment for the clients. We operate with the focus of improving themselves and proving that they don't need to be in a secure setting. In my time in the secure program I have watched dozens of youth men change their lives for the better. I have more success stories to share than non. Adelphoi Village has provided my team and I training that has been helpful and insightful. I personally conduct treatment groups on many topics, ranging from anger management, PTSD, grief and many more. Adelphoi has provided me with help going back to school to get another degree, they have provided me with a huge amount of paid time off of work. The hardest part of the job is managing the time of the duties, working with teenagers in a placement requires paperwork, this should be a know fact. We are in charge of their monthly reports, court proceedings, contacting the families and keeping them up to date and including them in the treatment process. The team I work with is highly experienced and works well together providing the time needed to complete these tasks.

I started at the secure location part-time as I worked for the state full-time when I got hired. I was immediately promoted for my job performance and when I was offered a supervisor position if I came full time I couldn't pass it up. I actually left a state job of 12 years to come full time at Adelphoi and I have never regretted that decision! Besides from the normal disagreements between co-workers and staff over small things everyone has everyone else's back day in and day out. The unit I work in is focused on safety and security first since it is a secure unit and it is easily met and exceeded by staff daily and management has our backs 100% of the time. I've witnessed staff doing something the wrong way before I was promoted to a supervisor and the management team never questioned the staff in front of the clients but pulled them aside later and addressed any issues professional and behind doors to keep morale up. I highly recommend anyone interested is helping troubled youth or looking to get into any type of corrections or juvenile law to look in to Adelphoi even if just for the experience! 

The unit that I worked for at Adelphoi Village was a very stressful and uncomfortable environment in which to work.  During my tenure with this unit about 2 1/2 years my job changed approximately three times.  Each time my job position stayed the same and only the job duties changed.  I created the position through trial and error and had to develop my own Job description to encompass the new duties that were placed upon me.  I learned a great deal working there as I am an investigative learner, but the lack of training is evident within the unit (employees learn as they go and if they don't catch on they are dismissed-fired). The management team is very cohesive, however it is a top down management style and management rarely interacts with employees unless to discipline them.  My co-workers were wonderful as each one was proficient, honest with integrity, however the working environment is so stressful that the overall attitude of the workforce is negative.  The hardest part of the job was independently learning new demands and duties assigned by management.  The most enjoyable part of working for Adelphoi Village was helping to achieve the mission to help families, children and youth to overcome social and  emotional difficulties.

This place is abysmal. I do not know where to start. I understand that every job has their pros and cons and you must take the good with the bad but Adelphoi is a difficult place to work for many reasons.
 
The schedule is a rotating one making life stressful for employees. Supervisors will flat out refuse to schedule around college students and penalize you if you call out to attend classes that are endorsed by the company. Your job security is non existent. Kids can and will try to get you fired if you restraint them and they don't like you. All it takes is one call to childline and you can be labelled as an abuser. Adelphoi severely underpays it's employees which attracts low level talent and contributes to ridiculously high turnover rates. Upper management puts extreme expectations on it's employees and does not give them the resources to carry out their duties. This company is a nonprofit that is trying to operate as a for profit business at the expense of the kids and the employees and its sickening. This job is only good for establishing work experience other than that stay away.

Adelphoi really is a great place to work at. It is not for the weak of minds, you will be put into stressful situations with the youth. You have to remember that these are youth with either criminal history or mental health. Some will try to fight you and will threaten your life, but if you are willing to work past that it can be a great place to work at. The pay can be better for what you have to do. It is sad that you can make more money working at Walmart than here. You have to be able to be compassionate with the youth and not let them see your weak side. The benefits are great, health insurance is amazing. You do get paid time off and all the overtime you want. Which is great, but you will want to take personal time off for the sake of yourself. It can be mentally draining. Have to remember you're working with kids who some don't think they did anything wrong and to them you're the reason they are in placement. You will have kids who truly do want to turn their lives around, and that is when it become rewarding. Sometimes the money aspect of it can be put aside when you think about how you are changing the lives of some of these kids who are truly trying. If you live at home and don't have any bills to pay and are looking for a career in this field, then yes.

A typical day at work…there isn’t a typical day, residents can become violent and aggressive at any time or they can just be extremely petty and cause constant issues amongst each other all day and night. Also, depending on who you are scheduled to work with, you will most likely be fending for your safety and the safety of the children by yourself in the event the one or more of the children become violent. I believe I learned that Adelphoi doesn’t truly care about helping the children, that instead they like to keep them for as long as possible for the money. Management is a joke, it’s a weird circle jerk honestly, prepare to be completely ignored if you bring up safety concerns or concerns about a hostile work environment. Workplace culture….toxic. The hardest part of the job is the mental toll it takes on you, but helping the children that actually want help is usually the most enjoyable part of the job. The pay is okay and probably the only reason most people work there, but the rotating schedule is horrible. Overall, I do not recommend it if you actually want to make a difference in the lives of at risk youth. 

Decent benefits- paid vision and dental, pretty good pto especially when just starting out with the company. Hours can be long, are totally dependent on your client and foster family needs in regards to sessions needing to occur. Management continues to demand more without realizing the needs of your caseload even if they had previously done the job themselves and knew what all it entailed. Constantly wondering if you were going to even have a job in the near future due to ever changing flows in the system- agencies placing within other agencies, etc. Can be somewhat flexible with your hours and time. Company car was available if not in use by others. Often felt like no matter what you weren’t doing well enough because something would be found that wasn’t right in their eyes- also didn’t always feel supported by management. 

As an employee, there is little to no reward for the work put in. There is no "typical" day at Adelphoi. Your day is unpredictable due to the success of it relying 100% on the behaviors of the clients and your relationship with them. Often times, employees are expected to work their full work day and stay after with no pay in order to complete tasks that should've been taken care of throughout the day (however, it was impossible due to the behavior of the clients). You have the opportunity to work with awesome people but they usually don't stay long due to the lack of support from supervisors or program directors. All in all, Adelphoi is an organization that values politics and popularity on a much higher scale than they do a genuinely good and honest, hard-working employee. The clients are they only thing that make the job worth while, if you can hang in there long enough to establish lasting relationships with them.

I have worked for this company three times since 2009 and each time I had inflexible supervisors or extremely lax supervision with no in between.  The schedule for life quality is non-existent and the stress levels were unbelievable.  One of the biggest things that I have noticed in my time there is that the practices of choice theory and other therapy applications are not uniform throughout the company.  Their system of Safe Crisis Management appears to re-traumatize children and keep them in a perpetual cycle of maladaptive inner behavioral discord.  Children eventually become conditioned to lie to themselves just to get through each program and do not receive the benefits of behavioral change and a life of freedom from their trauma.

This organization has tremendous potential, however, they do not really care much about their employees.  The shift work is totally brutal, the wage compensation is under average and the management are not very friendly and are completely cliquish. The training program is done primarily online and there is no real face-to-face learning opportunities.  Advancement can only occur if you act outside of your integrity and do favors for management.  The protection of the children and their betterment is completely done on paper and the group homes are constantly understaffed and ill-equipped to help an at-risk adolescent to change.  This organization would require a complete educational and cultural overhaul in order to succeed.

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