Stop growing until your centers stop failing!
Pros
Coworkers are awesome, residents are great and the relationships I built here will hopefully last a long time.
Cons
Where to start! It is very sad the way that coordinators are left out to dry so often and thrown under the bus. They have been opening new centers left and right, but won't listen to the fact that sooooo many of their employees are unhappy and frustrated. -Feedback may be "listened to," but nothing ever gets implemented. -Upper management makes unilateral decisions about programming when they have never even been to our apartments or met us. Things don't work the same way across different properties, but they just call out the 2-3 success stories and ignore everyone else (any other previous employees remember "radical self care september" in fall 2022? lol) -There is a huge push for attendance over quality. -Having to run a full after school program and basically summer camp ALONE is mentally and physically exhausting. -You receive NO training on how to actually help residents (applying for assistance, mental health training, trauma informed care for students, how to build partnerships...) so you are completely on your own and starting from scratch on everything MOST IMPORTANTLY I don't think that this is an ethical nonprofit. Their funding model automatically makes it so that genuinely low income apartment communities cannot have PA at their centers because it is PRICEY to have PA there. Also, once my coworker got a grant from whole foods and they ended up spending it on fundraising. Yikes. They don't want transparency with their employees OR funders because they KNOW they're being shady, and that was my last straw
