They do business with integrity and rational thinking. Overall, it's an excellent place to work, with products that are winning in the marketplace.

Seneca Family of Agencies cultivates a very safe space for all of their employees and clients served. Seneca does an exceptional job of training all new hires (2 week orientation prior to starting at your program-specific location) to provide you with a deeper understanding of the mission, vision, values, ethics, etc. They require First Aid and CPR training, and it's all built into the 2 week orientation. They have a nurse available for employees. Excellent medical, dental, vision, chiropractic, and mental health services. Seneca is very thorough and they take care of their employees. Weekly 1:1 and group supervision is provided. Supervisors are also almost always available, and if it's after hours and you're on an on-call shift, then there's the Rapid Response Team who is incredibly supportive and acts as an interim supervisor (and communicates this with your supervisor later). Seneca offers ample CEUs and other professional development opportunities. Although I did not take advantage of this, but Seneca recently partnered with USC's online MSW program so that you can continue working at Seneca (and you'll still get paid and it'll double up as your required internship program), and have some (if not all) of your tuition covered. Seneca is truly an amazing place to work because of the supervisors, the co-workers, the opportunities to move up the career ladder, the work, the mileage reimbursement, the clients, and their family members. Only reason why I left is because I went to an out-of-state MSW program. Seneca was everything I was looking for and more. I am a much better person and social worker now because of them. Thank you Seneca!

There is a high turnover rate at Seneca. I personally did not feel burnt out because I really optimized my supervision time, but a lot of my colleagues were exhausted and disliked being on-call. Although I didn't mind it, others might, so I thought it would be important to note that I had about 5 supervisors in the over a year time I spent working at Seneca. The supervisor turn over was due to promotions, personal leave, pursued higher education, and more (though I always had the Rapid Response Team if I needed someone). Pay is not great especially for the amount of work you do--if you speak Spanish or Vietnamese and you're able to pass the language test then you'll receive a pay increase. A lot of my colleagues felt as though they fell behind with the progress notes policy (completing notes within 24 hours of client interaction) in our wraparound program. Again, on-call can be exhausting (when I was there it was 24 hour shifts 3 times per month), especially if you worked a full-shift and get called out overnight (you do receive a stipend for that though). Although the orientation to Seneca is excellent, the job-specific training occurred way too late (I had worked at Seneca for 3 months before the conducted their formal wraparound training). By that time, I felt like I was thrown in without any training, and then when I got the training, it was validating that my work was on point, but that sink or swim style was not good. I was lucky I had a few other people from the 2-week orientation start with me in the wraparound program.