Damar Services Reviews

I worked here for 7 months and absolutely loved it at first but that declined quickly. The only reason why I stayed was because of the girls in the unit that I was caring for. I could not walk away from them. I could handle getting my hair pulled, objects thrown at me, verbal abuse and physical from the clients but when things got out of hand and staff didn't help I was done. The thing that pushed me to my limit was when myself and others were put in a dangerous situation by management and a client could have gotten seriously hurt, nothing was done about the incident and I could no longer support this company. You don't get paid for the work you put in. It's a hard job and can be very stressful. You don't receive adequate training for the individuals you care for. They hire anyone, they're are a lot of Africans that work there and this makes communication very difficult. Management is terrible. You put in incident reports on staff harassment and nothing gets done and your manager is never there on the weekends to provide every day necessities. Some staff fall asleep and nothing is done about it. There are a lot of lazy staff and managers that will throw you under the bus to cover themselves. In my opinion I really feel that they should only hire people who have went to school and got the education needed to take care of special needs children. Not just anyone who needs a job. Turnover rates are outrageous with employment. They care more about paper work than anything else. The company tells you in orientation the reason why people quit is because they can't handle the work. I find that very untrue. The place is very disorganized and management is ridiculous. This is why people leave.

-The newer employee orientation, in addition to being dull and boring, doesn't seem to address the seriousness of the job, nor provide adequate training or preparation of the job and what to expect nor address challenges which may arise, the challenges of the work seems to be glossed over to avoid scaring off new hires, which takes me to my next point. -They seem to hire anyone off the street with a clean background check, whether you have motivation, passion, or experience in this field or not (which results in a lot of incompetent and lazy employees only there for the paycheck). Also there are a lot of non-English speaking employees or where English is a poorly spoken second language and this creates a lot of barriers for both staff and our clients (many of whom already experience barriers to communication) -There are staff members who are burned out or don't care, but there are just as many who do care. A lot of people get burned out (and there's a high turnover rate) from a combination of behaviors, management issues, and lack of support from the administration (there is definitely a disconnect and gap in communication and what's happening from direct care/management to the administration.) Also the direct care managers are often overburdened with too many responsibilities and management of too many clients/staff, often in addition to poor pay. -There is definitely a communication barrier in terms of language,