Great Employees but Low Pay and Poor Management - Social Worker Crisis Connections Employee Review

1.0
29 Mar 2020
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Pros

Robust benefits package, great staff and volunteers in the phone room.

Cons

I would echo the concerns of many around leadership. They are at best unaware of the realities of the work and employees. There is significant mission drift and a lack of support for staff. There is no communication or transparency and anger from leadership when questioned. There is little change management to support staff and volunteers. The pay is not competitive. There is turnover of staff and volunteers, leading to chronically understaffed​ shifts.

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5.0
30 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great team, benefits, leadership, systems

Cons

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2.0
6 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great coworker, good benefits, swing shift hours worked well with school. Staff was very diverse too and I enjoyed getting to learn from so many great clinicians.

Cons

Management is very detached and is very numbers focused, does not care about their employee, sees them as replaceable. Very busy center, averaging 15-30 crisis calls a shift. Understaffed, sometime only 3-4 people available to handle the 225,000 calls the center gets a year. Employee turn over super quickly due to stress and poor management.

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Crisis Connections Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your experience and for the work you did supporting people in crisis. I’m glad to hear you found connection with your coworkers and valued the diversity of the team. That’s something we care deeply about. I’m truly sorry that your experience with management felt disconnected and overly focused on numbers. This work is deeply human, and our staff should feel supported and seen not just measured. Your feedback is a meaningful reminder of that. I do want to acknowledge that the pressure around call volume and metrics is real across all levels of the organization, including leadership. We’re accountable to our contracts, and if we consistently fall short, we risk losing funding and our ability to provide these services. That said, how we communicate and carry that pressure matters—and we clearly have work to do there. We also recognize the need to continue developing our leaders. We’ve recently expanded our investment in this area, including building out a dedicated Learning & Development function to better support managers in leading with empathy and clarity in a high-intensity environment. Thank you again for the honest feedback, it helps us keep improving.
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