Pros
If you want to work with special needs kids I had a great experience when in the field, but all my concerns were with home office and management.
Cons
- Management is disorganized (constantly canceling & rescheduling appointments) and disrespectful of Behavior Specialists' time (sometimes keeping people 1-2 hours after they were scheduled for training) -Several times my manager said they would visit me onsite and they never did, even the teacher in the classroom I was working in asked if my supervisor was ever actually coming by. - Owner is rarely around despite him being the only one with medical credentials. - Culture is very white (No BIPoC in management, and very few BIPoC on staff) - Very poor handling of Covid-19 pandemic (when school districts went remote for certain days the owner required everyone work from the office rather than from home, defeating the purpose of being remote to limit Covid spread) -They promised 100 hours of training in the interview, but I only recieved about 45 hours total. - The owner is a big fan of Broken Windows Theory, which he says was a great success for the NYPD, despite the fact that Broken Windows Theory led to the worsening of racial profiling in policing. - Owner said questionable and insensitive things about mentally ill houseless people and s3x workers during the "Trauma" training, so there is really no social justice approach to the work. - Other employees seemed terrified to lose their jobs. I began to record the most concerning things in my journal. Other employees told me the following: "They (management) make stuff up all the time. You can't trust them." "They (management) used Covid as an excuse to clean house when people tried to unionize." "They (management) don't trust us. That's why they are trying so hard to fix the camera in here, so they can constantly keep their eye on us." "They (management) know we care about the kids and won't leave them, so they can continue to treat us like dirt."