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First Place for Youth

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First Place for Youth Reviews

3.6

66% would recommend to a friend

(56 total reviews)

Thomas Lee

85% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

First Place for Youth has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 56 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The First Place for Youth employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Non-profit and NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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56 reviews
4.0
2 Feb 2023

First Place for Youth Rocks

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I love that our organization cares about its employees' well being. First Place provides 2-month PAID sabbaticals to employees who have worked for 7 years. We received 8 PAID days off so that everyone could enjoy the holidays during Christmas and New Year's. We receive 8 in-person counseling sessions available from one EAP provider, PLUS 3 more from a 2nd EAP provider. I've worked with SEVERAL friendly peer and colleagues! Our CEO is approachable! We have work flexibility and several of us work a hybrid work schedule whereby we only have to report to the office one day per week! If we want to work in the often more often, then we have the freedom to do that too. We have a DEIB program in place that offers ongoing training throughout the year. It is mandatory for ALL employees to attend it.

Cons

Because the organization went from 30 employees to over 130 employees, there are a lot of system processes that need to be improved in order to accommodate our growth.

2.0
24 May 2022

Bad UpperManagement

Recommend
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Pros

Vacation time and time off

Cons

upper management creates and fill positions amongst themselves. They say they don't have the funds for bonuses or raises but somehow manage to create new six figure positions.

1.0
9 June 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Awesome mission... helping foster youth who have aged out of the system.

Cons

They set the youth up for failure here. Management is out of touch with what these kids have dealt with in their pasts. The organization is way too numbers oriented and don't care about the kids at all when it comes down to it. All they care about is numbers. The staff's caseloads are too high and they are overworked and totally underpaid. Seemed like 24/7 crisis management. Turnover rate is very high here.

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