The Faison Center Reviews

Being taken advantage for any skill you may have without being compensated. The blatant discrimination toward non white staff. Being expected to multitask with more than 1 autistic client at once (sometimes they make you work 3 clients to 1 staff). The extreme way you have to adapt and typically figure it out yourself in order to survive each day. Higher up staff only care about clients not their team. Very little effort to provide staff morale and appreciation. Being made to feel small and unheard when you have some sort of grievance. Telling supervisors about abuse toward clients from incompetent staff and no solutions being made or it takes way too long for anything to be done. They literally hire anyone that is capable of working with autistic clients even if they don’t have any experience and then you train many people and they end up leaving within a month. Training people over and over again and not receive trainer compensation. HR is extremely unorganized and can be very dismissing. The CEO does not care about the staff and only goes towards opportunities to make more money for the company and himself, his salary increases every year and teacher assistant wages increase very slowly. No opportunities of growth unless you know someone in a higher up position. There is an extremely amount of favoritism and nepotism within the company. It is an anti-black and anti-brown company, you do not see any or it is rare for them to have non white staff in higher up positions. Overall all the higher ups are an issue, and the teacher assistants are left to fend for themselves.

It's been years since I left this job; I've sustained serious long-term injuries and am still talking about the psychological damage in therapy. Faison builds you up and quickly breaks you down. I threw my back out on multiple occasions and HR told me it was my fault. I still have tissue damage from the worst human bite I sustained (I truly cannot count how many times I was bitten in my few years there). It's not the fault of the students, but management's lack of care. They do not listen to staff concerns, they try to make you stay at work even when you get injured, and at the end of the day all they care about is making a profit. I also recommend doing your research of ABA and how controlling it can be. Listen to Autistic people. They are human beings, not puzzle pieces.