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Pilsen Wellness Center Reviews

3.3

55% would recommend to a friend

(88 total reviews)

Francisco Cisneros

49% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Pilsen Wellness Center has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 88 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pilsen Wellness Center employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Arts, entertainment and recreation industry (3.9 stars).

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88 reviews
3.0
24 Mar 2018
Recommend
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Pros

My experience was largely positive, in all fairness. I took full advantage of the opportunity to learn and grow as a psychotherapist while working with a marginalized and high risk population, as well as becoming a clinical supervisor for MSWs. I have since moved on to work in private practice and I owe all of my clinical skills to working with my awesome clients at PWC.

Cons

That being said, this place is run by snakes. I won't go into too much detail since you can see for yourself in the other reviews and a Google search. Whatever you have heard about PWC is probably true. Therapists working towards their clinical hours, especially social workers, should be aware that turnover is high, up to and including clinical supervisors. There is no guarantee of consistent or uninterrupted clinical supervision. While this is a common problem for community mental health agencies in general, the PWC seemed particularly indifferent about consistently providing this to therapists. At a rate of pay of about $17/hour for Masters Level unlicensed clinicians, the job is pretty much worthless without the clinical supervision. While my experience was positive, it required a lot of luck and a little bit of savviness. I had to learn to play office politics while tolerating a lot of unprofessional nonsense in order for me to carve out a somewhat unique niche there. It's possible to succeed at PWC, but the odds are stacked against employees at all levels. Consider my 3-star rating as the mean of my 5-star experience and a 1-star recommendation to work there (if that makes sense). P.S. I likened working at PWC to being an employee at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and would refer to directors as "Mr. Burns" because there are security cameras everywhere at all sites. Get used to being watched at all hours by insecure and nosy upper management, some of whom have little else to do. "Smithers, let's fire some employees! Excellent."

1.0
30 Sept 2022

I finished depressed

Recommend
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Pros

-if you are a TN you would love the city. -QMHP title looks nice in your resume.

Cons

I sold a lot of my stuff in Mexico to come here. I said goodbye to many friends and my family. In the beginning, I was highly motivated, passionate about my career, and ready to help the Latino community. I thought that I was living the best experience of my life. Then, I was surprised about the lack of support and supervision also the high benchmark demands that add to this poor therapeutic adherence from the participants. In my role had been seven therapists already, why?? Well, there are no serious supervisors, and the only supervisor that I had hated the Mexicans and depreciated my psychological knowledge. Soon later I realized that the program was a simulated program and it only proposes unethical practices to extract money found from Medicaid. Nobody supports you to do your benchmark, Nobody training you for your that you are supposed to do hostile work environment.

3.0
20 Mar 2022

Residential Therapist

Recommend
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Pros

-amazing program in Chicago very much needed to help people with severe mental health illness. -you get to have full creativity of how to run clinical program -great team -good pto

Cons

-very bad management: clueless, unethical -a lot of unprofessional behaviors and bullying type behaviors from director. She seems incompetent yet admin refuses to get rid of her. -really bad admin work culture, adversive staff HR included. Worst HR and rudest HR I’ve ever encountered. God bless them. -no focus on development -a lot of nepotism Ceo is nonexistent

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