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If you a good ethical professional, stay away from this place! Now if you don't care  about anyone, selfish, heartless, unethical, cut throat, immature, then you will do good here. If your a suck up to the bosses is the only thing that matters here. The managers in place now, that's the only way you will be secure in your job. This place changes all upper management about every 4 to 8 months, so that right there is a clear sign, that this place has not learned how to care for their clients and certainly do not care for their staff. There is so much distasteful events that take place at work its mind blowing, affairs, employees taking care of their personal business while at work instead of focusing on their client, which that's what they are getting paid for. The management is dishonest, have no management experience, and get by on lies and deceit to suffice with the  corporate office in Russellville. The clients this place is suppose to serve are sweet and very nice to work with, a lot of the problems the clients do have are related to the instability and constant change in rules and their staff. Just as they get close with someone the company fires them or runs them off. There is alot of jealously among the staff, very petty mean hearted people here that do not care about  their clients at all. If you decide to work here, put your very thick amour on, keep to yourself, dont say anything to anyone about your personal life. And you will probably make is for a while. The clients are wonderful to work with although they no longer do the one on one care, your always with a group that you care for now. Which is very demanding for very little money. 

I enjoy very much working with people with Mental and Physical limitations! Its where my heart is, I have total of 10 years experience working in this field and I look forward to many more!  A typical day was filled with fun learning activities, arts and crafts, music, exercise and computer labs! I learned total acceptance no matter what, I learned to be a better person and learned so much from people with disabilities, they are excellent teachers! The management was great, very family oriented and cared about each other, the families and all staff and consumers.  I have had a lot of awesome co-workers while in this field, it takes heart and not just being there for a paycheck, it takes true heart. The hardest part is when there is a behavioral problem and people are upset and it becomes difficult to get them to deescalate and come down from the "high" of being upset about something that is important to them, you dont always know what to do and that can be hard to feel helpless for a moment when you may not always know what to do to help them calm down. Without doubt, the most enjoyable part is learning from them and finding out something new about yourself everyday! The hugs are amazing and the conversation enlightening!! Its the most rewarding job in the world when you are blessed to work with individuals with Mental and Physical Limitations!!!

This program & work environment has the potential to wonderful & way less stressful with proper management & thorough training. I've worked for similar programs in the past but none were as hectic as this one. Regulations & procedures were constantly changing from management. Managment even a bit disrespectful sometimes.
  I noticed my short time there it at times it was stressful on the students & parents too. It would get so confusing & over welming because of lack of clear direction,  lack of training, constant change, adding stuff at VERY last minute & being told it's needed asap & so many days all of us being called in managments office for yet another "meeting" of what needs to be done or why isn't it done. Many times i drove across town to go to work & was there when I was suppose to be there but the office door was locked & no one was there. Sometimes they were running late or just failed to tell me ahead time they were in a meeting or doing work in another County. Or I would get a text in the morning telling me no one's in the office so just go straight to the school...an hour lost of pay & hour lost of preparation for my class or paperwork. 
Just not organized at ALL!!! 
I had ALOT of fun with the students tho. That was very rewarding.  I loved each and everyone one of my students & they loved me. Great program...poor management.  As the saying goes  " work smarter not harder".. #TRUTH! !!!

What is the best part of working at the company?
Residents make the job feel rewarding 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Having no communication from management to any lower level employee 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
More of a fend for yourself, very little help from any of the management, coworkers can be petty if you don’t help with their prep, you’ll always catch an attitude from someone because you ask them for help getting something done. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day you come in before any sort of management is in the building so even if something goes wrong, you have to call them and there’s like in 70 to 80% chance that they’re not gonna answer the phone so you’re most likely just defending for yourself for the first 2 to 3 hours of your shift then when they get there things kinda lighten up as more people start to show up but morning shift is always the bare bones and sometimes the cook is forced to serve and cook at the same time which can be stressful for the pay of this job the stress level doesn’t make any sense

What an amazing company! They are a non-profit company that assists the disabled community in various aspects. It's quite a large company with many facets within it. They have adult services that include residential living environments, sheltered workplaces for the disabled, home health care, senior activity centers, etc. In the pediatric department there are preschools that include some ABC classrooms as well as therapy services to the children that are served at the schools. It is heartwarming to see the difference that this company makes in the lives of the people that are served by them. Working here makes me feel like I am making a difference in my community and my state by helping people who aren't always able to care for themselves. If I am having a frustrating day all I need to do is to go over to the preschool and watch the special needs children and see what a difference we are making in their lives and it makes everything totally worth it! Sometimes we all just need a little perspective!

DO NOT WORK HERE the high up management do not care about you at all, the only look at the company as a business and will kick you onto the street as soon as they can. There is a large amount of nepotism within the company due to family of the clients being on the board. Management does not help you and is in some locations non existent and they expect you to answer your own questions. I loved my consumers and was good to them but let me go because of the favoritism that runs rampant here. The pay is too low for the work you do. They lie to you about your job duties to get you in with a specific client. They care enough about the consumers to look good to the public eye and that is all. CEO is unfriendly and unprofessional. They do not take into account when you go above in beyond for example working 5 day and 4 night straight, 24 hour shifts when we had that bad snow storm. Go to Bost, CANCEL FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CARE!

The job itself wasn't too hard, it's the management and the company culture that are offputting. I accepted a job offer at a sister site and they shut that site down within 5 months. Told me since I was the last hired, I had no seniority. Luckily before it closed new positions opened up. At first I was indifferent about it, then once I moved to working with the age range I was comfortable with, I enjoyed it.

When staff quit and call in, they move kids and staff around and it is a cluttered mess. Company can't seem to keep employees because they offer no bonuses, little time off. (You'd think a daycare would follow the school system more closely but no.) A job where you take care of children with special needs, sometimes physical or medical, should not pay minimum wage. There's no incentive to stay other than some nice coworkers you meet and having weekends off.

This place used to stand for something great , which was the ability to provide superior care for the intellectually deficient or physically handicapped. However they have restructured so many times that they have truly let there reputation and services crumble. They have horrid workers because the good ones are smart enough to know there self worth and leave this company. Those who choose to stay are subjected to the constant struggle to show management the issues to which they either are blind to or they just do not care! I recently applied for a position within the company again thinking the new restructure would have made it better , I'm more than qualified but due to a horrid human resources department I was not even selected for an interview. If I had to do it over again I would not have waisted my time with this company , I suggest you do the same...

So much abuse and neglect can be found on the patients, and when brought to upper management, they literally laugh in your face and tell you they won't do any thing about it. You work long hard hours in difficult environments, under poor conditions. The pay isn't really worth it, but the worst part is seeing how the patients are treated. Any funds needed for them has to come from your pocket or yours, never the company budget, which they tell you exists, but you never see. It is a popularity contest for anything you need to be done. If management likes you, your job is smooth sailing, If not, it's he worst work environment imaginable. Which is always the case if you actually care for your patients. anyone who tries to do the right thing gets shoved down. It is a horrible place veiled in billboards of smiling patients and staff, under the false pretense of "caring friendship." They do not treat their staff or patients with any kind of respect.

Worked for this company for 9 years! The consumers are great but management is the worst I’ve ever seen they are all buddies and they won’t you to follow a chain of command when issues arise but when you go to them they never get anything done so when you go to higher ups you get wrote up. So you never have anyone to talk to at all! The place I was at had 7 different bosses in less than 2 years that says a lot! Firing people that put their heart and soul into making things run right. Never enough staff. When I first started it was a great place to work. It’s the management they have in place that’s the problem!  They’re  always having you sign MOU and they tell you it’s just a letter of understanding but it’s not it’s a way they can fire you if something does come up. Rights of the consumers are being taken away! I could definitely go on and on with the 9years I’ve been there. They need to clean house all the management and CEO! The worst place ever to work! 

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