Life Skill Trainer - Anonymous employee Youth Progress Employee Review

2.0
1 May 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You have the opportunity to change the lives of the youth you work with. Amazing Co-workers and working with fantastic youth. You will gain a ton of experience in various areas you never thought existed. You will come out stronger and more prepared with hectic situations after working at this company.

Cons

COMPANY in itself. This company drains you of every last energy you have. They make you feel less than and make you doubt the abilities you already have. They make you doubt everything about yourself. They lie, as if lying is their only language. The company believes, due to doing trauma informed training, they are indeed trauma informed, but instead they continue the cycle of trauma. They leave the youth guessing what is coming next, instead of informing them of lies ahead. They somehow believe that leaving the youth without answers is better than letting them know what they are going to be faced with in order to be prepared. This company wants to be different than corrections/locked up facilities but instead they continue the vicious cycle of violence and continue to harm the youth in the program. This program, like other non-profits, only seems to care about funding rather than the safety and well-being of the clients in the program. Along with the safety and well being of their staff. This company lies about the income you will be making; do not be fooled by the number they lay out on the application. This company will hide evidence regarding events that could and would get the company shut down.

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Youth Progress Response
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Thank you for the review and expressing your concerns about providing high quality programs and services to youth. As an organization, we are deeply committed to youth in our programs' success and are working tirelessly to ensure that we are in fact providing safe and stable homes for youth in the juvenile justice and foster care systems. We also take concerns about client safety and allegations of that nature incredibly seriously. If you have any concrete information that you can share about evidence regarding "events that could and would get the company shut down" I would strongly encourage you to contact me directly so that we can look into them immediately.

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