Helping Hand Reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(71 total reviews)

Bill Dwyer

74% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Helping Hand has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 71 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Helping Hand employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Non-profit and NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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71 reviews
5.0
22 Jan 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The people we work with are amazing. We are all passionate about the mission to serve people with disabilities to achieve their greatest level of independence. The clients and families are all wonderful. The best thing in the world is the feeling you get when we can help them and provide them services they are in need of. It's a great community where it's located. The atmosphere you work in is wonderful - facilities are beautiful and clean! Helping Hand Center is also known around the community for such quality and they are looked at by other partner agencies as being one of the very best at what it does. Most of all - the people you work with are AWESOME!

Cons

The pay could be a bit better BUT I wouldn't trade it for the world. I would rather get paid a tiny bit less just so I can work for Helping Hand Center.

1.0
27 Jan 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The only good thing about working here and that kept me for so long we’re the amazing people working in the classrooms day in and day out. I made lifelong friendships here and will never forget the experience. The hours were also a plus.

Cons

The higher ups are oblivious to what goes on in the classrooms until someone ends up getting injured or there are too many complaints. The company is trying to change into a school that has no physical interventions which I think would be a great idea if they had gotten rid of the aggressive students first. Just accepting any student for the money is detrimental and unsafe for staff. Of course working with children can be overwhelming but the only thing that made it better were the people you form connections with that made the day better. Other than that, the school is like a short staffed circus and the management has no concern for over working staff. Giving a gift card every now and then instead of listening to the people who are actually in the classrooms and know what it takes to make the students and outcome better is just being plain blind to the fact that things are turning for the worst. I understand it being a high profit but everyone has left in the past 2 years for a reason.

1.0
30 Jun 2022

DO NOT WORK HERE

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Hours, relationships with your coworkers.

Cons

Red flag when a company asks you to give them good reviews so they look good! Notice how a lot of good reviews are from “directors” aka the ones asking for reviews. The school has become a baby sitting service all they care about is taking any student they can just to make money. The 3 new Administrators in charge do not care about staff, talk about staff, do not care about safety of staff or students and do not communicate! This school went from a amazing therapeutic day school to not one right after the old director left. So sad to see how families are lied to and how they always have a way of going around things to make it ok to families. So much safely concerns and they don’t even care it’s become a business.

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