Pros
Getting to know the girls and getting trauma experience. (But you aren’t getting the benefit of seeing trauma INFORMED treatment or being trained in it in any way. You see the way it’s NOT supposed to be.)
Cons
The messiness between the staff and the hostile work environment is unreal. They fire good people left and right yet keep the laziest, most toxic employees. There is 0 job security here. Also, you spend 12 hours watching movies all day. This program is in no way therapeutic. The very few groups are a joke, by no fault of the therapists. The only form of consequence is bribing the girls to be good. Staff are put in dangerous situations with aggressive girls or suicidal girls, with no procedure, protocol, or training on what to do. Suicide attempts happen and they take hours to 1013 them. This job is a liability and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. I was told by other coworkers not to put it on my resume from day 1, because it is well-known how irresponsibly the organization is run. They are money hungry, have favorites, and have no organization. The girls run the house 100% and you have ultimately no authority with them because management changes rules everyday to make them happy. I never thought my past direct care jobs would look so good. Such a disappointment of a job.