Alternative Family Services Family Support Counselor Reviews

AFS honors this feedback because the work truly is emotionally difficult. At the same time the work is deeply important and critical for our communities. We strive to support all employees throughout all aspects of the work, and see this support as a mandate. We are clear that giving the best possible service to our clients depends on members of our AFS community being able to find balance between work and personal/emotional needs. We hope to help employees in multiple ways, including supportive teams and an intensive training and supervision environment that anticipates stress and supports staff resiliency. Many of our social work and mental health clinician staff feel this is the hardest job they ever loved.

Thank you for taking the time to express your honest assessment. While we are happy to hear that you found many positives about your job, your notes about your supervisors, available support internally and compensation are well received. We have recently invested in increasing our supervisory trainings and have made a commitment to improve our new hire orientation process within each program. Compensation within the Non Profit social services sector is a challenge, but we continue to do all we can at the local, state and federal level to fight for fair reimbursement for the work we do to serve children and families in our communities. Jim Gold, LCSW Chief Program Officer