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Center for Transforming Lives

I’ve never worked for a company that cares about its staff as much as CTL. The Executive team conducts monthly surveys with the leadership team to see how each department is doing and look for ways to improve. They don’t just ask for feedback, they do something with it by meeting each month to discuss solutions. 

The CEO is incredible! She is a very strong leader but also kind and down-to-earth which is not what I’m used to seeing in a CEO. 

What I like most is that everyone here is working towards the same goal, including taking care of each other.  Amazing work with amazing people! I would highly recommend CTL to anyone looking for a meaningful and purposeful job. 

Program chases grants and tries to grow too quickly without first creating a strong foundation for success. Cares more about metrics and numbers than actual performance and development. The staff suffer from burnout, lack of support, lack of work life balance, lack of financial compensation. Staff may often be asked to cover 2 FT roles due to staff shortages, without support, compensation, or an end in sight. Staff don't get to be creative problem solvers or future thinkers because management does not support it. The families and children suffer from burnt out staff and lack of continuity of care (because teachers and advocates and therapists leave within a year or two). This agency is a place filled with really great potential and really loving people, but unfortunately management makes it difficult to actually live out the mission & vision of the agency.

The Center for Transforming Lives is a great agency to work for. A typical day of work includes checking the voicemail and responding to the calls. Checking the e-mail and corresponding to each individual. I learned to multi-task and service the individual on the dimension they arrive. The management is awesome in assisting the staff with carrying out task. The department in which I worked helps one another with obtaining resources. The hardest part of the job is when the family does not cooperate with the assignments given; therefore, they end up back in the cycle of homelessness. The most enjoyable part is when you witness the individual overcome the obstacles in which they have so long been challenged and they succeed in the face of adversary.

What is the best part of working at the company?
They consistently hire great employees.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
All of upper management is absolutely awful.  It is extremely chaotic and a very stressful environment. I would never recommended working here to anyone.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
No one takes accountability for their actions, likely because they are scared to. The environment is very stressful and toxic.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I managed a team of wonderful employees. My director, however made it impossible for me to manage and made the environment for myself and staff very uptight and depressing. No one (including myself) ended up enjoying the job.

You will receive plenty of students who have behavioral issues. You will get mistreated physically and verbally by these children and receive zero/fake support. They will have "meetings" with parents and support staff, but the child will remain in your class (with more paperwork for you to do). All they care about is the number of students enrolled, attendance, and unnecessary paperwork, all of these things equal more money for the company. Keep to yourself no one is your friend, not your director nor upper management. HR job is to protect the company not you. Protect yourself!

A typical day at work is starting with clocking in. Then you arrive to your classroom and making sure that your classroom is ready for the families and their children. Set up breakfast for the kids, clean up after them, change their diapers, take them outside, documentation and other paperwork, implementing lesson plans, and commmunication with parents about their children. 

What I have learned from this job is to really manage your time with your children and your paperwork. If not, then you'll be behind on paperwork.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Helping the community and provide aide. I just wished their application process would be a little different 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Making sure that the ladies don’t come back from work drunk or high

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Loved the environment and their staff 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Supervising everyone’s duties were met and that they were indoors before their curfew

I enjoyed working there. I did learn some new things. There were things I wish I could have implemented, such as Homework for students and parents. The atmosphere was peaceful, the outside held adequate shade for the children and teachers to play and relax. The curriculum was involving and educational. Patents were free to come visit with their students whenever. 

This company was once  YWCA. They changed the name and with it went all the trustworthiness.  They are supposed to be about helping women and children, but care nothing about their employees.  The benefits suck and the Management is rude and rarely tells the truth. Not sure about the other Center Directors,  but the one at RKM is incompetent and stupid.

The pay was good for Childcare and most of my co-workers were great. Management were unorganized and petty. The top level execs were not involved in the childcare business and used lower management as authorities, which they weren't. 
A typical day involved serving breajfast, lunch, then naptime, then play.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
School principal 13 salaries reported	$19.00 per hour
Residential specialist 2 salaries reported	$16.00 per hour
Case manager 1 salary reported	$53,000 per year
Family advocate 3 salaries reported	$48,333 per year
Child care teacher 8 salaries reported	$19.00 per hour

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