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Working in the State Mental Health facilities is better than working in group homes. In state run facilities CNAs get training for the areas they will be working. When they see abuse happening and report it. They are not targeted after the fact. I was working for an agency in Beaverton, Oregon. I reported some abuse that I had witnessed. First let me tell you I had only been there for about a month. The person I reported for the abuse was well liked. The manager of the group home turned the report in saying I was the one who neglected the client. That the neglect was the abuse, not the hitting a client in the face, because he wouldn’t listen to him.
Now I’m not saying the same thing doesn’t happen in State facilities, because it does just not as bad. All MRDD facilities seem to use the “GOOD OLD BOY Syndrome.” Only people can change the way things are run. When they see you won’t bow down to them or cover their asses. That’s when they put the target on your back. Wish I had eyes in the back of my head. I still stay true to the course. if it does feel right in my gut then it probably isn’t.
I have worked for both the State mental health institutions and private sector. I have mixed opinions about both entities because I have seen less than optimal environments at both.
While at the EOTC in Pendleton, OR, I suspected sexual abuse on a male client that had been allowed to go home for a weekend with the manager of his cottage. The client had a injury in a place that could only have occurred from some kind of inappropriate behavior. I told my suspicions to the director of the program and she immediately denounced the possibility of this occurring. (She would have been held liable for allowing the client to spend the weekend with an employee.) At that time in my career, I did not know that I could go to protective services as well. I thought I was reporting by telling the director of the program. Nothing was ever done or investigated. A year later after I had moved from that area, that same employee was caught raping one of the female clients in a state vehicle while supposedly out on an outing. He was parked in a remote area by the river and a game warden happened by and caught him in the act. It was determined that this had probably been going on for years. He is now in prison.