The Ones We Sent Away
I worked in a facility like this for the first 5 years of my career<p>Many of the clients are very aware they’ve been abandoned. Especially so because there are a select few who do get regular family visits.<p>It was crushingly depressing to work holidays and have the regular crew of kids that never went home or had visitors. If you work with adults it was significantly worse, many of them had no visitors for literal decades<p>Also those places pay terribly but I’m sure that shocks no one. When I worked there it was at one of the places known for paying very well in the industry and they payed 13&#x2F;hr for children and 9&#x2F;hr for adults (2010). AFAIK the rates are only 2-3 dollars more an hour now 13 years later