St Joe's was a horrible place to work. Upper management was always no were to be found for questions and even the lower management such as supervisors were lazy and never wanted to deal with situations. I can remember plenty of times I called a supervisor for help and it took them 20 min or more to respond to my crisis situation. I would walk by a supervisor dealing with a client, they would ask for my help then walk away and leave the paper work to me when I didnt even know what was going on in that situation!! Laziness was the supervisors middle names at that facility and being sneeky and unfair was there best game. staff would be trying to actually teach the kids lessons and about life and how every thing is not just handed to you in life. If a supervisor walked on the unit and a kid were to ask for somthing they would would get it.... JUST HANDED TO THEM, "I want a toy" they would get that toy "I want this, I want that" they would recieve it. After we took all the time and effort teaching them that, thats not how it is in life. That place needs to be checked out by its supiriors ASAP. The kids are not learning any thing there and they are just being run in circles. Maybe thats why I saw the same kids coming back in there time after time of me being there. They end up right back in the unit. The main problem there is the supervisors Higher and lower management need to be observed. For such a important facility they need much more mature supervisors and management
Just an awful place to volunteer, to work and to be treated. Primarily an adolescent mental-health treatment facility, the "clients" run the place, running all over the staff, etc. The management (upper-management) hides somewhere between the ceiling tiles and wall cavities. It's just a shambles there. To be completely honest, there are several TERRIFIC people on staff there and most (I guess) of the children are grateful for one's generosity, however MANNERS is apparently NOWHERE in the treatment plan, although proper use of profanity seemed to be a focus. This place is in desperate need of a regime change and the State, County, and Municipality Boards of Mental Health need to take a SERIOUS look at discontinuing their funding until there are some RESPONSIBLE, respectful, and effective people doing some actual "managing" of the facility, staff, and programs. I (and/or my spouse) will NOT return there to volunteer unless and until some major conditions improve. Thank you.