Pros
Amazing interpreters, and kind staffs
Cons
DeafLEAD claims to support mental health and crisis services like 988, but behind the scenes, the leadership does not care about staff wellbeing at all. It’s deeply hypocritical for an agency that promotes mental health awareness to create such a harmful and toxic work environment. Staff are treated like numbers. Leadership plays favorites, supporting family members and friends while pushing out those they don’t personally like. People are fired constantly without genuine reasons, and new staff are brought in every couple of months. There’s no consistency or real effort to support employees. Even worse, Tyler — the Vice President — openly badmouths staff during HR and leadership meetings. This kind of behavior from senior leadership is unprofessional, demoralizing, and makes the environment feel unsafe. If you're not part of the inner circle, you're disposable. For an agency that talks so much about supporting others' mental health, they completely fail to protect the mental health of their own team.
