My Nonprofit Reviews

I was a client of Recovery Ventures from 2007-2008. During the application process I was told that I would recieve job trainning. I was very intrested in not only getting clean and sober but in also recieving job trainning that would allow me to enter into a new vocational field. I had performed construction work for twenty years, but had fallen off a house in 2005 and broken my back. I expressed intrest in recieving training in another vocation. I was told that I would be required to use my knowledge and experience in construction to benifit RVC's in house remoldeling business. I did work on other jobs as punishment for expressing my desires not to work for the in house business. There were times at RVC that I worked 60 to 70 hours per week. I also worked for peroids in excess of thirty days straight without any days off. Rvc Did provide me with excellent Theraputic services. I have remained Clean and sober since graduating. However RVC did not help me in any way with job training services. They are very interested in producing revenue for the CEO who makes in excess of 95,000 dollars a year And only appears at the program on special ocassions and at weekly staff meetings. while their clinical staff make less than half of that and are expected to work 10 to 12 hours a day 6-7 days a week. Now I hear that they are merging with another non-profit which has only part time clinical staff, and that they have fired their theraputic director (The Theraputic Compontent was the best part of the program) In conclusion I would like to say that although they HAD an excellent theraputic compontent . They seemed very profit driven and it appears that it is even more so now that they are dismantling the clinical staff. I would not refer anyone to their organazation now or in the future.

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