Cebtral Valley Training Center, a good place to work if you don't care that your boss has a chip on her shoulder!
Pros
To get experience working with those that have developmentally dissabilites and to learn how to deal with difficult people at all times. To better understand those with dissabilities and to learn that they are no different than everyone else. To get an understanding of behavior and how it effects everyone especially whyen the behavior is negative or harmful. To learn the process of behavior management and how to identify it. Learning ways of responding to beahvior you don't want and gedtting the behaviors you do want. Working with others on a team to get the best out of your consumers.
Cons
Having to do restrainsts, dealing with managers that have little training and bad interpersonal skills. Stress realated to the more severe cases and having that stress doubled when you have a supervisor that doesn't support or listen to you. The possibity of injury, the pay, dealing with staff that have little to no training (subs) and who complain when they are assigned particular consumers because they don't want to deal with the behaviors of that consumer. Not being able to take a lunch break due to thier "working lunch" policy. Being sick all the time from the bad hygiene and drool and germs passed around.
