support associate

direct support professional

licensed practical nurse

program supervisor

direct support professional ii

Evergreen Life Services

I have worked in the caregiving field for a very long time, I take pride in caring for the community. This company has a toxic work culture, they over work you and underpay you. You will have multiple jobs without the compensation only a gift card when they see fill like rewarding you. You will be given jobs not in your job description to help out Like doing nursing duties. They make you sign contracts to work shifts when you volunteer to help because they stay short staffed. They do not treat their employees or clients with appreciation or respect even though this is the way they make a living to take care of their families. The client's do not have a voice, they work their employees to death. The disrespect in the office is on another level. In the office they talk behind each other's backs and employee's backs and have the nerve to call employees out of their names when they cannot work or have issues that comes up. The clients can be sick, and they write them up as attention seeking or difficult but what I found was the client had legit issues. They allowed multiple people to work infected and failed to do accurate cleaning protocols on lung irritants. If people can open a business like this then they should know how precious the disabled community is. I will leave it here, but I have so much more to say being my safety was jeopardized and health was taken for granted.

My two years at Evergreen Life Services have been rewarding! I absolutely LOVE my clients and I work with a a great staff. If you have a passion for helping others, this is the job for you. If you don’t, then keep looking. With this job it requires someone with dedication. The mission is to ensure that those individuals served receive the best care, love, and support. It also requires being a team player! The job is not always the easiest and it can be stressful at times, especially when you are short staff and have many deadlines to meet. However, there is a job to get done. You have to be able to multitask, think on your feet, handle stress well, creative, and supportive of your team. Oh and COMMUNICATION is key! My biggest issues at Evergreen have been the salary and no room for advancement. However, a lot of people have been with the company for over 10 years, which says a lot about the organization. Evergreen truly has a great vision and mission, but they lack in providing adequate pay for the staff.

This position is great if you have the knowledge about the industry. If not, you will be forced to know.  There is no formal training given. You are expected to learn on your own.  Since this is a salaried position you are expected to work outside the normal day schedule.  The hours may vary for your on-call duties.  It's best to live close by the work location.  Upper management, also salaried, does not have to work outside normal hours.  They hardly come into the office and will delegate job tasks from home to you while you are at the office.  There is high turnover for this position.  Other management have left and moved on to other companies.  There are a lot of things out of compliance with the state agencies. Files are out of order and have been for years.  You are expected to be a self starter.  However, how can you self start without being trained properly? You are expected to work independently.  However, you will be critiqued when you do something wrong although you were never trained on the proper way to do it.  The whole division needs to be restructured starting from the top.  If not, it needs to be shut down by the state.  

I worked for this company for about five years and there is honestly very few good things about it. I loved my patients but that's where the good parts ended. Management is a joke and they treat their employees like garbage. The pay is horrible and there is no opportunities for advancement. The benefits is laughable and they do not care about their patients. The turnover rate is extremely high so if you stick around expect to be required to work at least 3 double shifts (16 hours a day) a week, if you say no they will be assigned. Employees gossip and backstab and if someone accuses you of something true or not you could be facing very serious abuse charges. And people love to try to get others in trouble there. Management nitpicks every little thing but when you advocate for your patients health and rights you're punished for it. They play favorites, and those favorites tend to lie about other employees to get them in as much trouble as possible. Bottom line if you consider applying here, run away as fast as you can unless you enjoy being miserable.

The management does not work together or have the employees back. There is no room for advancement and there are no raises, there are employees working that have been working there for 10 plus years and make the same as an employee working there for a year... Not acceptable The rules don't apply the same for each employee, they definitely play to the favorites there at this company between the departments. There seems to be a competition as to is better in the HR department verses the Finance department and it is noticeable. It's almost like being in high school again!!! You have to be in the whose who and who knows who in the office The ladies in the Finance  department all work really well together and get along outside of work as well. I think that some people just need to grow up and show a little more respect... the management definitely needs to set an example and show a little more respect toward the president of the company and each other along with their staff as well!!!

I worked at this agency for 3 years as management. I would say if you are in a management position you need to be aware that no one can make a decision on anything and corporate has to be contacted about everything. The director was a tyrant, micromanaging pain to work for. All he wanted to do was call everyone to his office and complain about how much money the agency RN made and how little work she did and talk about all office staff to each other. The company at the corporate level including the division director only care about money and how everything looks on paper and are definitely not there to support their staff or the individuals that are supported. They don't show the staff they care about them or their well being and issues you take to them are not handled properly or promptly. If you are looking to work long hours, no family time, no compensation and to be treated as if you are beneath someone then this is where you want to work.

A typical day at Evergreen would start out with morning exercises with the clients, Bathroom breaks per group. Working on job applications, arts and crafts, monitoring behaviors, Redirecting clients, Serving lunch, Janitorial crew clean up after lunch. Bathroom breaks afternoon medication pass. coffee break and checking clients out to go home for the day. The hardest part of the job would be not having enough activities to keep those clients that can not go out on work crews or job sites to do. The most enjoyable part of the job is introducing new activities to the clients and seeing the joy come from them with excitement . Think the work place area could use some up grading on a lot of levels. Bigger building  space. more bathrooms for clients and staff. Management was good. gives employees to many chances. Very compassionate manager.

My co worker mistreated the individuals on a daily basis the last week I worked. The supervisor of the house also mistreated the individuals. I reported it and was ignored time and time again. You are told you have to work 16 hour shifts not asked and if you get lucky with your 8 hours you won’t get off on time ever. You have to work by your self cause the person I was working with stayed on the phone instead of working. The pay sucks everywhere else gets paid at least 4 dollars more. You don’t move up they hire house managers from the outside instead of promoting someone there. They don’t pay holiday pay even though it clearly states it in the manual. When you call to ask about it the corporate office starts quoting stuff that’s not even in the manual. The worst company ever!
These individuals are human beings they deserve to be treated as such!

This is the worse company. Their suppose to assist mentally challenged, handicap and disabled individuals. Their suppose to assist with their daily activities, treat them with respect, assist them with paying their bills. Instead they steal the individuals money, tell the individuals they can't have the things that they want (with their own money), don't take them to the doctor when they need to go, have them just sitting in there homes all the times and don't make them edible meals and talk down to the individuals. Evergreen treats their employees like slaves, schedule them to work 8, 12,  16, 24 straight without breaks, no benefits, pay $8.40 and no pay raises for years at a time. Management uses profanity towards the workers and individuals on a regular basis. 

Working with the clients is absolutely the best part of this job. It's very heartwarming and satisfying to go to work and know you're making a positive difference in someone's life. The gossip that some of the clients' families like to stir up is another story. And when staff drinks it in, it makes for a very toxic work environment.  
The pay isn't enough. A raise should be given annually for loyal staff. In the long run wouldn't it make economic sense to keep your good employees rather than hiring all new ones? And yes folks quit this job because the pay is way too low. And one last complaint and that's communication - or the lack thereof. It's tragic how bad communication is.  The higher-ups are great. They're kind and they care. But as a whole, us low men and women on the totem pole are ignored. 

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