youth worker

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Methodist Home for Children

Shifts are long, at least 15 hours a day and you sleep on site. A typical day includes driving the students to school and appointments, grocery shopping, continually typing notes on student progress, helping students search for jobs, do homework, cook dinner, play sports. Assist students through behavioral outbursts/crisis using the given teaching model. The students I worked with were coming out of youth detention centers and are older (16-18) so they are difficult to work with and do not take instruction well if they don't see the immediate personal benefit. You will learn a LOT about communication, feedback, and working as a team.

Management in Raleigh's head office seems dedicated to the children and consistent in their efforts with new hires, but at the home was very biased towards certain employees and inconsistent with training, meetings, and giving feedback. Working with coworkers was even more difficult. Some didn't do any work, others didn't communicate, others seemed like everything was fine until they got a chance to talk to management.

The hardest part of the job is figuring out where you fit in. It seems like every time you start to figure it out something gets messed up. Turnover is high, which doesn't help. The most enjoyable part of the job is having those good moments with the kids where you know you've made a difference and feel that they really learned something and appreciate that you took the time to care.

When you are hired you go through an extensive training. Going into the home you feel very equipped to handle the situations that take place. What they fail to mention in training is that the kids would be the easy ones to handle. Yes kids had outburst and they cuss and yell back sometimes, I was even threatened by kids. This was the easy part. Direct management was poor, lacked experience, did not have personality. Direct management would degrade employees and schedule them for 50-60 hours in one week without the enployees permission and if you didn't come you would get written up. You are told constantly that you the employee are responsible for consequences and daily interactions but then would reprimand you if it wasn't to their liking. Head-quarters seems like their head is in the right place but fail to act when employees are openinly discussing how unhappy that are with direct management. In my time there were 8 employees through. 1 was fired all 7quit because of management, me quitting makes 8. A co-worker who has been there for 2.5 years has watched 38 people come and go! If you want stability, a therapeutic work environment, and good pay look elsewhere. They nickel and dime you at every corner!

The company as a whole is a great company to work for. Until their employees lodge complaints on immediate management. Program manager was difficult to communicate with, encouraged employees to falsify information on daily reports and with outside sources to prevent upper management from becoming involved, and treated employees poorly. Explains the high turnover rate in this particular home. The majority of employees who have left have stated that they would be willing to return with a new program manager in place. The main offices in Raleigh would be wise to take this to heart. They have lost/are losing excellent employees due to poor management creating a hostile work environment. Program manager also demanded that employees worked overtime, sometimes upwards of 20 hrs per week due to understaffing caused by the program manager's attitude and way of doing things. Employees were/are over worked and under paid. Take care of the salary issues and replace this manager, and this would be a great company to work for.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Being hands on eith children and families. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The most stressful is the lack of growth and opportunity within the agency in the early childhood dept. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It is stagnant. Things are done certain ways simply because it always has been. While the overall mission is wonderful. The execution lacks diverse perspectives because there is no change and no other perspectives allowed. While they are great listeners, there is no freedom to see it to maturity. There are no check and balances. Just stale still water.  But there is water there and I'm great full for the experiences I have had. I could not have been here without first being there. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Greeting staff and families. Checking emails.  Developing systems to manage the day. Checking list and following the flow.

I used to work at the home in Edenton. It is an unfair and biased work environment. Certain resident counselors are allowed to do nothing while others work very hard. Ex: R.C. will be in the office lying in bed while they are supposed to be on the floor working. The shift is 7 a.m.- 10 p.m. Staff should be on the floor helping the other R.C. and watching the youth. Instead; they are allowed to go to bed before the shift has even ended. Also; there is no communication between certain staff regarding the events of the day. 
Also; there have been issues with staff speeding while driving the company van and getting tickets but the program manager sweeps it all under the rug as well as certain staff cursing and yelling at youth but it's not reported to corporate. 
As far as corporate goes; when you attempt to inquire about pay issues, etc.; you're not even given the courtesy of a return phone call. Certain staff is shown favoritism.

Outstanding organization that helps children with behavioral health issues. Great work experience if you are considering a career in psychology. This is the place to gain a wealth of educational experience in the field of mental health. Staff are awesome and fun to work with, the children are awesome. Methodist Home for Children utilize their own evidenced based learning/teaching model and they send you to training. This type of training will help launch you into your next career stage. The job allows you to build your resume, gain experience in the field, and make great professional connections. Highly recommend this job to anyone interested in working with children or entering into the field of psychology.

This is a job that can be rewarding but with their pay rate and lack of ability to hire and keep staff, you will always be asked to pick up extra shifts whether it is day or night and your morale will be low. Being so short staffed, there is never opportunities for training and your life will turn into just work. The kids are wonderful and the model of care used here is exceptional. If you heart is in it, it’s worth being here. Otherwise you can make more money working on fast food. Management, including the clinical team is hit or miss. Corporate isn’t very involved anymore and your facility can feel isolated. When higher ups do come to “review your facility” all they do it nitpick and bring up what you’re doing wrong. 

This is a horrible place to work as a teacher.  They are more concerned with Operant Behavioral Management than they are with making sure students get a quality education.  I have been in education for 45 years and I have never been treated with such disrespect and unappreciation.  They do not value quality education and educational supervisor will award students with credits for courses they do not complete.  Leadership is very lax and actually violates some significant human resources issues including bullying, favoritism, inappropriate relationships between staff and administration, unfair discipline practices.  Horrible place to be an educator.  Avoid this job if you are a teacher. I cannot say enough about how bad this place is to try to teach. 

This is the most drama filled environment for a group of "adults" to work for on a daily basis.  Supervisors show up for their shifts reeking of alcohol.  It is a hostile work environment because of the lack of supervision and favoritism shown to certain groups.  The children aren't given the proper care they should be given, due to the antics going on in the facility.  There is a "slop bucket" in the kitchen for a farmers pigs!  Supervisors are allowed to leave the facility, smoke on the premises, and use foul language in front of the kids.  Meds have been unrefrigerated and then given to a child.  The state should shut them done for non-compliance to state laws.

I started off working evening shift, which consisted of much more than night shift. There is a lot of planning, implementing the schedule and activities. I have several coworkers, we all work together as a team. The hardest part of the job is dealing with an emotional outburst from a child because what their mood will be like is unexpected.We never know if the kids want to physically harm themselves, staff, or another child. I work with dually diagnosed children, mentally and emotionally with severe behavioral problems. But see the kids improve on their behaviors and complete the program to go back home is definitely a tear jerker.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Youth worker 4 salaries reported	$16.75 per hour
Teacher 4 salaries reported	$48,375 per year
Residential manager 1 salary reported	$52,500 per year
Counselor 4 salaries reported	$18.88 per hour
Registered nurse 2 salaries reported	$35.00 per hour

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