Community Care

Sep 1st, 2023

If you are single parent struggling with kids, do not go community care camp; if they get slightly chance they will call the cps and your children remove from the house. Im single mom. I have been struggling with my 11 year old son who was has behavior issues. He was place summer program and was place in special needs class. He got frustrated and agitative to them cuz maybe he was board. According to their report he was violently towards staff and throw furniture around. When they informed him that they were gonna call his mom, he insisted not begged them. He said if you do, she will kill me. The immediately call the cps on me.
May 18th, 2023

I am immensely grateful to be employed as a behavior specialist through Community Care. This company approaches both the clients and employees with unwavering compassion and support. This company is deeply knowledgeable, creative, and caring.
Mar 9th, 2023

Ive been employed here since April 2022 and have had nothing but good experiences. The work is rewarding and you are prepared and supported enough to do it and do it well. The staff are friendly, professional, and communicative. 5 stars all around.
Mar 3rd, 2023

LMAO. Eric referred to my review as a unabomber rant. Bruh, i feel like im being very reasonable. I dont think its cool to ask your employees (who work with kids) to move heavy appliances out of apartments and disconnect a stove from the gas line. The day in which Eric had us remove all the heavy appliances from one of his units, we all felt exploited and very uncomfortable. When your boss asks you to do something, by nature of the power dynamic, it is nearly impossible to say no or express reservations. Moving a fridge, water heater, stove etc. is dangerous and we had no idea what we were doing. I wish Eric could at least take accountability for that. As a former employee, its taken over a year for me to realize the full scope of how bizarrely awful Community Care was. I will do my best to be objective. There are many things to critique. First of all, their programming and philosophy surrounding Autism is very troubling. In their training videos, the owner advocates for interrupting non-harmful stimming behaviors. He seems to be coming from the perspective that repetitive behaviors are inherently problematic and dont serve ASD individuals, which showcases such an egregious lack of understanding of autism, its almost laughable. Their approach to de-escalation and restraint is very dated. Much of this is complicated by the conflicting populations they enroll; their summer camp has a range of ASD students and behavioral students with mental illness/trauma. They are very different populations, but Community Care used an oldschool CPI model for restraints across the board. I witnessed supervisors respond to SIB from ASD clients by immediately going into a restraint. Their understanding of SIB and functional communication training was very poor. Safety Care seems to be the new industry standard in the autism world (for good reason), the help, prompt and wait strategies are very usable and teachable when supporting ASD students. Community Cares approach to de-escalation is almost non-existent. Secondly, I never saw a supervisor or any staff member model on AACS or attempt to support communication in a structured way. Most SPED agencies have speech and OT built into their programming. Fundamentally, many of these issues arise from the owners business model. They enroll clients with high intensity behaviors when other agencies cant support them anymore, and they enroll as many as they can. During my time at the camp, it was clear that the space was not able to accommodate the needs of their clients. Its a tiny space, on a busy Seattle street, with no easily accessible outdoor space (you had to walk to the park). The small outdoor area in the back is not truly an option because it is shared by people renting Condos/apts on the property (courtesy of the owners business savviness). They had one student who would ALWAYS have a big escalation when they went to the park, and they would end up putting him in a prone hold multiple times during the week. Perhaps the most bizarre portion is that the owner is trying to run two businesses at the same time. A niche special needs agency for high need students, and newly renovated apartments, right behind said agency. The quintessential story is when the owner asked me and 3 other behavior specialists, to move heavy appliances out of one of his units. We moved a fridge, stove, microwave, and cleaned an apartment that had been severely soiled in urine and trash. It was profoundly inappropriate and exploitive to ask us to do that. When we expressed reservations about moving certain appliances, and feeling ill-equipped for something that was so hilariously out of our job description, he met us with a psychopathic gaze and tone, sort of a you will do it because i said so and because i own you. Very sinister and weird vibes from that guy. I saw reviews talking about how CC has a very cultish energy to it, and I realized thats very accurate. Community Care, you are a wicked beast.
Sep 12th, 2023