Center for Social Dynamics reviews

The company asked all employees to write good reviews to get more people to apply for the behavior specialist position. So be weary of the past reviews from about January or February of 2017 moving forward. This is not a good company to work for. As a supervisor all you ever hear about is productivity and billing. There hasn't been a real training for the clinical team in over a year. Behavior specialist get minimal training before they are thrown out in the field. They are hounded to convert sessions even if they sent a message and scheduling hasn't modified the sessions. They are required to request all holidays off. No holiday pay or vacation time for behavior specialist. They have zero full-time behavior specialist in the east bay location. Also management is run by people who have little experience and do not know what they are doing and how their decisions influence the clinical team. Some have the best of intentions but the results fall short. Pete will promise the world and never delivery. He will say that the increase in clients is due to a contact but then starts things like project 500 (increasing clients to 500 without regard to if we can support that many clients). Which shows me that it's not about families but money.

1. Burn out 2. CEO will seem like a great guy but you will slowly learn he is a clueless POS who screams at employees, makes unrealistic promises, has zero follow through, and fosters a toxic company culture. He will never actually implement a scholarship program or financial assistance for those enrolled in BCBA programs, he will never provide behavior specialists with health care. General rule never believe anything that comes out of his mouth. IF you do, be prepared for disappointment. 3. Horrible upper management including HR. Highly recommend keeping all personal matters to yourself. Do not disclose aspects of your personal life such as mental health diagnoses; it will eventually be used against you. It is not worth it because you will never be granted or have access to reasonable accommodations. 4. Constantly increasing billable hour quotas. If you have clients that tend to cancel sessions for tardiness, illness, covid, vacation, etc., regardless, you are still expected to meet monthly expectations no matter what 5. Exponentially high turn overrate 6. Unethical clinical and management practices 7. Training is an absolute joke. If you are a behavior specialist, you will be thrown into the lions den right away with little to no support. You will be overwhelmed, mad, nervous, and unsure of what to do, and that's not your fault, but it will be treated as such. If you are a supervisor, you will have to deal with everything that comes from a poorly trained specialist including you being responsible for providing intensive one-on-one training during and outside of sessions. You will be assigned an unethical number of clients on your caseload. They will likely start you off with a lower caseload, approximately 8-10 clients, then continuously (and often rapidly) increase your caseload (up to 15-30 clients). This will cause an increase in daily workflow, communication with families and staff and management. Expecting five days of 10+ hour days one week, then the next week bill a total of 10 hours. 8. Fake company culture 9. Poor client assignments. Little to no effort is put into at least attempting to schedule clients who are all in the same area. Expect to spend hour(s ) in your car a day.