Don't be fooled by their empty promises and organizational values - Anonymous employee St. David's Center Employee Review

Very, very poor supervision across all programs - supervisors only seem to care about appeasing their money makers (the parents) at the expense of providing the children quality care and support. When staff reached out for support, there were several occurrences of denying support and "encouraging" them to figure it out themselves, even when it was as serious as illness, harassment, or emergency family situations. They will support you, though, if you are one of their preferred staff members (that is to say, they pick favorites). Talk the talk, but won't walk the walk - there is a LOT of privilege in the ECE program that's not acknowledged. If you are a minority in any way at St. David's, they won't know what to do with you. Expect empty promises of support. You will have to go straight to the top if you want to ask for anything that you deserve. Even then, it's not promised that upper management will be any more helpful. ECE is gossip-y and clique-y - work here if you miss high school drama. Supervisors will put "making parents feel good" above actually suggesting the mechanisms for support that their child needs. In other words, work here if you DON'T have a passion for early intervention as a primary tool of support for young children! PTO is not generous when you're first starting out. Expect to get sick often without paid sick time. You'll be expected to use your vacation time to account for that. ECE is NOT inclusive - they will tell you they're moving a ECE room to another part of the building to be 'closer to the other ECE kids' when in reality, it is to be farther away from the "problem kids" in Family Place and ADT. St. David's prides itself in being an all inclusive organization with kids of all types of abilities and needs... whereas children here who are not "typically developing" are disregarded by other programs as to not be seen or heard by anyone else (i.e. autistic kids get "too big", kids who have trauma are seen as "violent"). Many of the TOP ECE teachers do NOT know how to interact with neurodivergent kids or kids with trauma. In fact, their interactions with them can be quite problematic and harmful.