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This place has promise because the counselors are amazing.  They help each other, manage an insane amount of stress, laugh together,  provide good care, and genuinely want to help patients.  The company and management however,  are horrible. Any suggestions are met with sarcasm or demeaning comments when the director is involved. Humiliation is used as a motivating tactic  The morale of the place can't take any more of a beating. My direct supervisor was adequate, but the director and her bosses were hard to take.  There also seems to be this hard refusal to develop any sort of open door policy, which is desperately needed.  With little interaction between the counselors and upper management,  there's no real understanding of what is happening,  what has happened,  or what needs to happen. Major changes happen without any communication.  LPN's make poor decisions about patient care that they don't have the experience,  education,  or right to make, and no one holds them accountable because "we don't want to step on the nurse's toes". Meanwhile, bachelor's and master's level staff are ignored, dismissed, etc. Turnover is incredibly high. Training is scattered. Case loads exceed the state maximum. Expectations are unreasonable. You are micromanaged to the point of harassment. You'll be chewed out for doing what you were told to do because management has no accountability. They cater to new employees but do nothing to keep them once they're hired. You'll be promised supervision for certification,  but it's cancelled far more often than it is held so you'll never get that certification. The sad thing is, I could go on. There's so much more. SO MUCH MORE. Honestly,  the only good things I can say are that the counselors are fantastic and most of the patients are easy to work with. That's it.

Clinic Director was TERRIBLE! Very rude, disrespectful, antagonist, sarcastic just to name a few things. The clinic doesn’t keep management for too long. Not because the work is too hard, but because leadership is so bad! You’re given little to no training or guidance but are expected to perform and exceed expectations all within an 8-hour day (being pulled in so many directions that you have to focus on more than just your job duties) The clinic culture is just as bad as the patients they serve. Sometimes you can’t tell the difference between the patients and the employees-by the way they dress and the way they behave. On any given day, there’s someone fighting in the parking lot, selling their medicine or buying/selling other illicit drugs! Parking is terrible-so bad that the companies on both sides of the clinic have threatened to or have called the authorities because patients park and loiter on their property. You can’t go to the directors superior because they’re best friends! I like my leader to lead by example, but I refused to follow THAT leader because she doesn’t know the difference between being a good leader and being a dictator! As long as Schantee Sales is the Clinic Director, I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND ANYONE APPLYING OR WORKING FOR THIS COMPANY!!!

Executive leadership all work remotely and are completely detached from the ability to have any oversight of clinic or facility daily operational or staffing needs. 

DURING MY 14 months as a director i witnessed over half of the staffing rotate out with 3 core primary complaints

Uncompetitive wages
Unfair workload
Unrealistic performance expectations

Unrealistic expectations and standards are set. 

There is a claim to incentives and bonuses, however the standards are not location specific and do not take into consideration of demographic or fiscal barriers. 

Middle management are placed in an exhausting role of responsibility and accountability for daily operations with limited support.  As a director, you are literally a puppet and it feels like you are in a continuous cycle of defending corperate changes and applying motivating strategies to retain quality employees from moving on due to corporate decision making

Corporate Solutions include: reduction in staffing
Cutting man hours
Work loads for salaried employees working 50 - 55 hours per week over the span of 6 days (minimum)

DONT APPLY FOR ANY POSITION IN THIS AGENCY.  The majority of all staff at any given site is less than 1 year!

Working at Acadia Health Care was an experience and I have learned a wealth of knowledge from the fellow counselors, nurses, doctors and previous supervisors from Racine CTC.  Anyone working in the field understands how draining yet rewarding it is to work with people with addiction issues. In my years I have seen some wonderful counselors, nurses and a previous supervisor who truly cared about the patient's well being.  It's unfortunate Acadia Health Care doesn't value their employees.  Many professionals have left due to unrealistic job demands,  disorganization and lack communication from upper management.  The new upper management is not concerned with their employees nor do they care about the patients.  Upper management is only concerned with numbers (patients make money).   Acadia Health Care doesn't offer an incentive for employees to stay.  I stayed as long as I did because I enjoyed my job working with patients and valued my co-workers.    

Work hours Monday - Friday 5 am - 2:30 pm alternative weekends  

Got seriously injured at work and management began to treat me terribly. Management sent important emails to my work email, which I have no access to from home, and stated that if I did not "comply" by sending documentation by a certain date that my "noncompliance will be considered as my resignation". No plans to resign and missed the deadline to submit my documentation. Found out about this from HR. Would have technically resigned without my knowledge had I not emailed HR. Management backpedaled to avoid accountability and consequences. HR tried to get me on a phone call to avoid a paper trail. Since I have been on medical leave, there have been terrible rumors circulated by coworkers about me that are completely false. Management has turned to micromanagement. You are not trusted to be a professional clinician. Work environment is hostile, toxic, and full of childish gossip, cliques, and immaturity. Even when you do everything for your patients and everything to help your coworkers succeed and be more effective and efficient, they still treat you like you don't belong. This work experience has been heartbreaking.

If you've worked in healthcare before, you know what type of environment to expect. This job is no different. Some days are hectic, can test your patience, and make you feel like you're in the wrong field. Thankfully, those days are few and far between. It's the good days that make it worthwhile. The day a patient comes in and tells you they didn't use last night because they didn't want to disappoint you. The day when someone finishes out the program and is strong in their sobriety. The day when you take a new patient in from a bad situation and give them hope. The day when our patients realize someone cares. Those are the days to keep in mind.

As a whole, it's a lot of on the job training, but there are resources to help you along the way. It is team based and everyone, regardless of job title, works with one another to achieve the best possible outcomes for our patients. My clinic director is approachable and really cares about the patients as individuals, not just as numbers. The hours are nice, and the benefits are great. There is also potential to move up within the company. 

I have no plans on leaving my current job, and have even thought about continuing my education to further my role within Acadia.

With a little patience and hard work, you won't be sorry you work here!

My experience with this company was an absolute nightmare. Unethical supervisors who consistently undermined and devalued the counselors . The treatment of staff was deplorable as expectations and caseloads were extremely high with no compensation or appreciation from clinical supervisor or upper management staff. Constant tension and conflict among co workers due to lack of organization and direction from management. Constant turn over of clinical staff due to un bearable working conditions and dis organization of clinical responsibilities. Patients were so enabled in this clinic which reduced chances for a positive and healthy recovery and created a treatment culture of dis regard and dis dain for the counselors from many of the patients, because some of the patients did not really want true recovery. Counselors were blamed for everything that did not go well for the patient, without the patient ever having to be accountable for their own behaviors and choices. Worst experience of my Professional Career that almost caused me to contact the EEOC due to the hostile work environment caused by the clinical supervisor and other management staff. Don't apply here, you will regret it.....!!!

I have worked at HCTC for over a year. The new clinical director that took over at the end of 2020 is phenomenal. She has changed the work culture. The previous reviews should not be considered because of the dramatic change in a positive direction. She is focused on patient care and makes the patients and staff feel important. Employee motivation and engagement has increased ten fold since she took over. Yes, Acadia, the parent company, is very concerned with numbers. But, productivity simply means you are doing your job. If you are not being productive, which means seeing patients, then you should not be working as a therapist. Policy changes occur but at least 90 percent of them are in the patients' best interest. The job is very rewarding. The entire staff is very friendly and works together very well. Management is supportive. Coworkers help each other anytime it's needed. The pay is average but acceptable and benefits are good but pricey. There is a signing bonus and free life insurance policy. You can learn a lot here and be a part of patients changing their lives for the better. 

I have been with Acadia/ CRC for 5 years and I loved it. It is fast paced and client centered. It is completely what this particular clinic wanted it to be. We decided together as a team that we were tired of chasing the patient's around and held them accountable. WOW what a concept. They are learning something about recovery, and health, and self-esteem while on their way to a healthier way of life. Instead of pouting like children we did something about it. Of course it's about numbers, but that's our responsibility not the patient's, they should not even know about that. It's the Counselors job to Motivate the Patient's to rise up to any amount of progress to help them feel that they can do this, and they can. EVERY PROGRAM IS CREATED FOR SUCCESS IN MIND. That means this is treatment. They do complete the program and go on to lead productive clean lives, a lot of them. I love this clinic and I have loved watching the patient's evolve and the clinic evolve itself and I have been proud to be a part of it.

Good work environment, friendly co workers, excellent group cohesion among counselors.

Low pay, no future raises but they are honest about this at interviews.
Lack of clean, allergy free office space
No budget for clients (books, group material etc,).
Excessive and unnecessary paperwork that keep counselors at work unnecessarily.  Clients resist appointments for quarterly or annual reviews. Counselors are asked to complete too many administrative functions of upper management.
Too many walk in intakes
COUNSELORS RUN the lab primarily without compensation. Counselors are expected to clean rest rooms during COVID-19. 
The building contained mold, clients were not informed at all, only staff knew this.
If counselors work OVER 40, management says " this is fine as it will be erased" and it always is. 
If there is a death in your family, you are given time off over the phone and then called in the next day. The loss is addressed with a group memo on bereavement in the next administrative meeting. 
New counseling caseloads are known to be challenging and this is intentional.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Registered nurse 7 salaries reported	$49.26 per hour
Nurse practitioner 7 salaries reported	$77.71 per hour
Addiction counselor 1 salary reported	$22.00 per hour
Licensed practical nurse 2 salaries reported	$33.25 per hour
Psychiatric nurse 1 salary reported	$35.00 per hour

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