Pros
An okay foot in the door for mental health. PTO was generous, but had to be taken as convenient to management. Extremely difficult to be fired, even intentionally sleeping during your shift comes with zero consequences.
Cons
When you're in the ECFs, you're not so much a clinician as you are a babysitter/billing machine. No self-respecting behavioral health provider would impose "quotas" and stretch the truth as far as Cascadia does to make money. They've faced several Medicare fraud suits due to dishonest and poor billing practices and nearly went under in 2008 for this very thing. Supervisors are poorly trained, if at all. The morale of the office was perpetually in the toilet and management just fed the beast by encouraging employees to tell on each other. There were no actual CLINICAL Supervisions to speak of; and despite the so-called open door policy of management, asking for a moment of a supervisors time was generally frowned upon. The office environment was clearly unprofessional and there were "clinicians" with zero mental health background and no qualifications working with adults with severe mental illness. A few were obviously just trying for a paycheck and it's too bad because there are others who are trying to start an actual career; but they're all lumped in together as far as responsibilities and skills (and pay) go.