Needs leadership improvement - Case Manager SMYAL Employee Review

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I do not have any cons right now.

Really none, they claim to be an LGBTQ organization but can't even get employees OR youth's pronouns right

This is a truly awful place to work. The Executive Director, is a terrible person and a total hypocrite, who says that he cares about LGBTQ youth but really only cares about donors and money. The youth who work at SMYAL and attend programs are wonderful and deserve better. This organization works with primarily youth of color and has called the COPS on young people multiple times. They don't care about the safety or comfort of the youth they work with. The upper management is really only concerned about getting donations from wealthy white gay men and caters to their interests, not the interests of the youth they claim to care about. If you are hired at SMYAL in a lower-level position, as a young person or on a coordinator level, best believe you will be asked to do things you totally disagree with and will have little to no say in the organization. This organization TOKENIZES people of color and puts the POC who agree with the interests of wealthy white people in leadership positions so that they can say they are "people of color led." Meanwhile, the POC on the bottom levels of the organization and the actual youth are completely screwed over. SMYAL has a terrible reputation in the DC community and you'll see why if you work there.