Pros
Your coworkers are fantastic, hardworking, dedicated, and awesome to be around for the most part. Watching the kids change over time and get better is wonderful. Lots of room for moving up in the company.
Cons
Awful hours- primarily second shift, but I have worked 2:30-10:30, had to stay until 1 in the morning due to paperwork, and then had to wake up and work 6:30-2:30 before. The administration is completely out of touch with reality and cares more about filling beds and making money than they do their employees. There are typically 3 staff for 12 kids, which is a joke. Administration will berate staff for making hard decisions when it comes to the kids, but when they are on the floor they will make those same judgment calls and sometimes make them faster than direct care staff would. Seriously,staff were lectured at for 2 hours about one such hard judgement call one day, and THAT SAME NIGHT an administrative member made the exact same call that she had just lectured us on earlier that day.