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Kind Behavioral Health

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Kind Behavioral Health reviews

3.6

69% would recommend to a friend

(105 total reviews)

Keith Laabs

85% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Kind Behavioral Health has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 105 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kind Behavioral Health employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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105 reviews
5.0
Aug 23, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

This was honestly a great place to work. When reading about the ABA field online, I read so many horror stories about people getting underpaid and overworked. I fully expected this to happen at this job-- however all I experienced here was support, clear pay structure, the resources that I needed to get the RBT certification (payed for by the company), and really kind and supportive supervisors. The only downside is the high burnout and turnover rate, but I believe that is just a feature of the industry as a whole.

Cons

Work is demanding and the pay is low (but standard for the industry)

3.0
Jun 23, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

In-house CEUs, Central Reach data collection system, fully electronic billing, up-to-date assessments and materials provided, plenty of clients, NCABA paid for, senior BCBA mentors provided (transparently, quality is hit-or-miss), KPIs every six months for performance evaluation feedback (although these vary greatly depending on your evaluator), low caseloads for BCBAs (6-8), some clinics are nice. Good work/life balance for supervisors.

Cons

Only a handful of federal holidays are actually observed, meaning that you either have to take PTO or go unpaid for days such as New Year's Eve, Christmas Eve, Black Friday, Veteran's Day and President's Day. AND-- they advertise the company as diverse and inclusive but they don't observe MLK day? This is not great. In addition, RBT cancellations were typically the BCBA's responsibility, resulting in extreme burnout and high response effort for BCBAs. Although there is a "scheduler," they are only responsible for finding RBTs for team placement. The day-to-day operations are fully on the BCBA and if issues occur, you have to solve them yourself and also deal with RBT performance issues. From my experience and observation of other's experiences, pay is based largely on outward agreement with company values, "soft-skill" performance and being agreeable (not raising issues when you disagree). In the last couple years the company was "bought out" by the CEO and CFO from the original founder and they worked to make CCABA into a profitable business. As a result, hitting hourly medical recommendation (billing) has been pushed heavily. Many employees feel/felt that the push for hitting the billable hours was disguised as an initiative to make meaningful progress with clients, but in actuality was a push to increase income for the company. CCABA is rapidly expanding to new cities and locations but employees are not happy in the existing locations. Most employees that are unsatisfied are afraid to speak out. Pay was also lower than competing area clinics, and I constantly felt like the feedback I got from my RBTs and parents did not match the feedback I got from upper management. 6/7 BCBAs at my clinic voiced to me privately that they felt unappreciated and underutilized, which unfortunately is common in the field of ABA. Lastly, at the risk of sounding harsh: regardless of experience, if upper management chooses you as a "favorite" (agree with everything!), you will do well here. CCABA isn't all horrible-- they have a good foundation and many stellar clinicians. But they still have a long way to go.

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Kind Behavioral Health Response
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Thank you for your feedback. Creating an exceptional environment for our team is a top priority and your note moves us to open more dialogue with the group. We are an organization that is built on our shared value of diversity, inclusion and celebrating differences. and our PTO policy is written to support that. Salaried team members have a bank of PTO flex days to use for the holidays that they find meaningful, whether those holidays align or not with specific federal/bank holidays. The intent of the policy is to be as inclusive as possible- providing choice and freedom to make personal decisions about time off. We will work to clarify this with the team. Since 2006, the mission of our organization has been to expand access to high-quality, evidence-based services. In the early years, our efforts towards access needed to be focused on insurance reform so that every child, regardless of socioeconomic status, had access to clinical care. Since reform in 2015, our efforts have shifted to expanding the field of clinicians and bringing services to those families that need it most. We have invested heavily in building a dedicated operations support team as well as into technology systems to ensure our clinicians are well supported in “day to day operations” and able to instead focus on what they do best – which is to provide outstanding quality clinical care. Pre-service activities such as client intake, benefits eligibility, credentialing, pre-authorizations and re-authorizations, as well as post-service activities such as billing and claims submission are largely handled directly by dedicated, specialized staff, in service of our clinical team’s and clients’ needs. We are proud of our team’s dedication and will look to continue those efforts, while also working to create an environment where our team feels valued, supported, appreciated and connected. We share in your desire for more community building activities, including but not limited to happy hours and team lunches and are hopeful that the improving trends in the ongoing COVID pandemic will enable us to get back to more of these activities with one another that we all so sorely miss! BCBA and RBT burnout should be a huge concern for all companies, ours included. It is important to keep a pulse on the needs of the team, keep communication open and allocate resources to ensure the team feels supported, balanced, and equipped to do an amazing job for our families. As you mentioned, our caseload numbers are intentionally low, helping to ensure that our BCBAs have both personal balance and the professional opportunity to lean in heavily with their families so that they can have a dynamic impact, and to ensure that every one of our clients interacts with their BCBA every week, with BCBA supervision ratios far in excess of BACB standards and common practice across other ABA providers. We will continue to work to better understand what else we can do, from an operations standpoint, to meet the changing needs of our team and will take this opportunity to learn more. If there are additional ways in which we can continue encouraging direct or anonymous feedback from team members on an ongoing basis, we would welcome your thoughts/suggestions. - Denise DeCandia denise@carolinacenterforaba.com, 919-434-9319 (cell)
5.0
Jun 13, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

BCBAs matched with Mentors for regular collaboration and case conceptualization, 20% case supervision (or more if clinically recommended), lower than average case loads, lots of support for RBTs, many student opportunities, relatively large clinic space, strong and invested leadership.

Cons

Parking can be an issue during peak hours. No outdoor playground.

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