BlueSprig is obsessed with corporate profits and veils that greed under the guise of “Changing the World for Children with Autism.” They are continually finding ways to cut costs and maximize profits at the clinic level in a way that severely impacts the children we serve. The individuals in executive level positions making these decisions are so far removed and out of touch with service delivery, they fail to see the day to day impacts, yet sit with their fancy salaries and let the center staff suffer with barely livable pay. Administrative tasks such as cleaning and making client materials required for care are not completed because BlueSprig fails to pay their technicians a livable wage to complete tasks. Illnesses are rampant, but hey, make sure the kids come in on a Saturday to make it up! Our kids don’t need their weekends. Neither do our clinicians! Let’s be passionate and compassionate about client care and ensure they have the materials and supports they need to be successful - But let’s discourage staff from making materials by cutting their pay when they’re cutting out communication boards. Budgets are cut and toys for the kids, supplies, reinforcers important for staff retention are considered non-essential. Who needs them right? Let’s go ahead and push our clinicians into schools and in home so they can have more clients, but let’s not offer any training or supports for those center-based only trained clinicans - Scope of competency? Who cares? We can take on more kids than our buildings can accommodate this way. The billable requirements for clinicians continue to increase at a rate that is unsustainable for long-term job satisfaction and retention and devalue non-billable clinical work that is absolutely vital for well-rounded client care. BlueSprig continues to turn a blind eye to the burn out crisis amongst clinicians and technicians because they have no problem continually hiring individuals with no experience in the roles, after functionally killing their tenured staff. PTO is accrued at a decent rate, but you are pressured to make up those hours on weekends or overdo billables in the following weeks. What was the point of the vacation again? They seem to have no value in retention, which is associated with better client outcomes, and instead have no problem hiring fresh off the exam BCBAs, who don’t know any better yet. And their benefits are honestly crap (2% matching is insane - Sure, I’ll work in this field until I’m 80 and can finally retire). We all start this field to help the kids, it’s companies like BlueSprig that make us want to leave and never come back.
