An agency with heart - Adoption Social Worker Lutheran Adoption Service Employee Review

I have been with the company over a year and am so pleased. The office is small and close knit. Supervisors and program managers are really open to feedback and very encouraging. The safety and emotional well being of employees is a priority. I have never felt pressure to place the bottom line before the well being of the children or families.

You aren't going to get rich at this company. It IS private agency child welfare after all! That said, salary is competitive for the field and they are very generous with paid time off.

I had lovely co-workers (for the most part) while working for this agency. The team is small and close knit. The training period is very lengthy, but it helps prepare you for the immense amount of paperwork the position requires.

The training was broken down into weeks in the office shadowing and weeks out of the office training. The shadow weeks were extremely long and underwhelming. You are at the whim of your supervisor and co-workers to provide you with opportunities to shadow and learn from them. The only time my supervisor offered me any opportunities to learn from her was when she planned on sticking me with the case after I was done with training. These were usually cases that no one wanted to deal with.