Behavioral Health Resources Reviews

Short staffing is a constant problem that management ignores and leaves staff to deal with the results. This results in staff being left alone on the floor with dangerous mental patients and or without adequate staff to manage assaultive patients. Management constantly micromanages and nit picks staff's every move while hiring unqualified friends and relatives to work as Mental Health Aides. Pay is low for the level of skill and danger involved in the job. Staff only get paid once a month, recent employee strike, sometimes paid late.

Management tried to control every little tiny thing, there was no room for initiative even to keep the place running smoothly. When we were short-staffed and I stayed late to help day shift, I was called out and embarrassed publicly in a staff meeting for doing too much, when every one of my coworkers had privately thanked me for stepping up in a time of need. I understand some of the reasons for management’s hyper vigilance, considering the clientele Harvest Home serves, but cracking down on their people does not help. There’s a strong tendency to work their people til they burn out and to not trust input from caregiving staff despite us having closer relationships with the clients. I did recommend this job to a friend, and she quit on her second day after management left her to a full shift in a residential environment with hard-drug-recovering strangers, alone.