Pros
- The support of everyone at the center (not corporate) and this is why I have stayed as long as I have - The programs being taught work (see caveat below)
Cons
- Everything else! - The programs being taught work, but you are made to believe you are "changing lives" and you can see the students making marked improvements, but the amount the programs cost is INSANE especially with how much employees actually make. Really we are only "changing lives" of the wealthy, or exploiting the ones that aren't and have to spend their life savings on it. It's one thing for clinicians to be paid what they make if it's a nonprofit or we are servicing low income students and making it widely accessible to them but that's not the case. - The trainings show ideal case instruction with students, but 95% of the time the students' behavior is not ideal. Also, we work with really severe students but aren't certified (or get paid training to be certified) so we get all this experience of working with these students but no certification to show for it when we find other jobs this would be beneficial for. - High turn-around rate and frequently understaffed because of above mentioned issues.
