Youth Villages reviews

For a company that is centered around helping people, they’re horrible at helping employees. They require 3x the amount of paperwork than other social service agencies (and the majority of the paperwork has no legal/state/insurance requirements, it’s purely internal), and when you end up falling behind because the workload is impossible to manage, they don’t try to help you, they have one half-hearted “problem solving” conversation with you and then write you up. Very few people in LifeSet are able to work there for more than a year or so because burnout is so quick because they expect you to work 24/7. For people with mental health or learning difficulties, they give MINIMAL accommodations and do not listen or care when you ask for help. This job traumatized me because the work culture is so toxic—you aren’t allowed to breathe, you should be working. Also, you’re expected to blindly follow the consultant’s orders (yes, orders) to do whatever they want, even if you know it wouldn’t help the client in any way. Also, you are required to force clients to meet with you, despite no court/DCF mandate—including when clients are sick or dangerous, which risks the health of employees. Any time I tried to take initiative and do something I believed would be helpful for the clients, the clients responded very positively but I was punished for it every time. In summation, the company is more focused on getting paperwork in on time than actually helping clients or helping employees grow.

Management Inappropriate match up for family needs Disregard of evidenced based approaches approved by insurance Tunnel vision on certain approaches with ineffective and inappropriate roll out Condescending management complete disregard for what the employee needs to support the family Horrible work/life balance No flexibility with school needs to better oneself Not enough promotion of self-care leading to high turnover and quick burnout Not enough training around cultural diversity