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First Place for Youth

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First Place for Youth reviews

3.6

66% would recommend to a friend

(56 total reviews)

Thomas Lee

85% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

First Place for Youth has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 56 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The First Place for Youth employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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56 reviews
5.0
Apr 11, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Honestly I love my job at First Place. Especially during COVID, it has been great to have the flexibility to set all my own meetings and work mostly from home. Pay is good and I get a decent amount of PTO - I'm taking a two week trip to Europe this year, as well as several shorter trips. Management is always open to trying new things when possible. It is also a very diverse environment and very LGBTQ-inclusive. But the best part about this job is that you really do have the power and resources to make a difference (including extra funding for things like youth transportation, school supplies, and even birthday gifts).

Cons

Because this company relies heavily on data, you can be "punished" for youth not meeting their goals. You won't be fired, but you might get a smaller yearly raise. Documentation is tedious (but not any worse than similar jobs). While you do get free supervision, my supervisor is an LPC and there is a waitlist for LCSWs so I may have to pay for a few external sessions.

4.0
Jul 27, 2021

Great Company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Get to work alongside other passionate people Organization is mission driven Great place for professional development Utilization of data to see what is working and what needs improvement Innovative and willing to shift to make changes to better support youth

Cons

This is hard work and if you do not have good work/life balance, you will burn out

1.0
Jul 27, 2021

They Do Not Care

Recommend
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Pros

coworkers support while in the trenches working long hours and hours many times just thrown upon us last minute. Ah, wait, there is another one, being able to work remotely.

Cons

Upper management support and lack of knowledge of the population of foster youth they are servicing. "forced" to work with foster youth and take them in our vehicles without any other co-worker with us. some of the youth had criminal offenses, BUT they made us drive them around, again with no other co-worker in the vehicle with us, very unsafe, extremely. But they do not care truly if anything happens to their employees. They spend resources meant for the foster youth on their ventures and create a fictitious reason on where those funds are being allocated and why. They place foster youth in horrible housing, where many youth reported they felt unsafe, but FPY just kept them there and when those youth moved out or got kicked out of the program they continued to place other youth there and the cycle continued. How this organization is still standing, I have no idea. Unless this is just typical of non-profits?

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