Pros
Flexible hours, some good staff members, lots of resident contact
Cons
My experience at Wild Acre was very negative. As a paraprofessional, I didn’t receive any formal training for working with residents (some of whom were psychotic and violent). Medication management was a disaster- staff often forgot to order enough meds so they would run out. The worst instance of this was when a patient with psychosis wasn’t given his antipsychotic, and he went into full psychosis the following day. Instead of owning up to the mistake, staff recorded that they administered the medication to cover it up, and they made it seem like the resident was just psychotic out of the blue and in-need of med adjustment. Additionally, staff do not have a solid understanding of co-occurring conditions. Behind closed doors, staff would insult residents for relapsing or acting and blame them, rather than take a more understanding and therapeutic approach. Finally, groups were rarely actually run, so residents would often stay in their rooms all day and isolate.