These are coworkers likely to be interviewed by the Anchorage Commission.
Residential
"Sue" was the only person I worked with regularly in Residential.
Sue is an honest person who genuinely enjoys helping clients. She comes across as a very sweet and innocent girl. The perfect "straight-arrow" girl who will do what the boss wants.
She also liked to have sex with clients. She probably would have been disciplined for that eventually, if she had not quit for a more prestigious job.
She will probably tell the AERC investigator that we worked well together and she did not have any problems with me.
The Residential Director, "Pinnochio", seems very charming.
He is also thoroughly corrupt. He cultivates a fake religious image that few people see past.
Prior to being a Director at Clitheroe, he collected canned foods and organized volunteers for another local religious group.
He has neither knowledge nor interest in addiction or psychology issues.
He will try to impress the AERC investigator with how righteous he is. Then he will tell a long string of fibs (Some of which can be listened to on the audio page). He will end the conversation with something like "as much as I tried to help him, I hope he finds help".
The Residential Director was the only male employed in a supervisory position at Point Woronzof. He is almost unable to make a major decision without a matronly figure (i.e., older woman) present.
The D.D. Director and Reflections Director are similar.
The Dual Diagnosis director has the bad habit of not taking responsibility for any of her mistakes, and for aggressively covering up the mistakes of other directors. Example here.
She also is fond of monologues and anecdotes about how manipulative clients are. The hypocrisy and irony are not lost on most employees (she is very manipulative).
note: Clitheroe Directors and Supervisors all have very weak academic backgrounds, and no significant education or experience to qualify them for their jobs. Only one, out of all of them, had any sort of occupational license in the state of Alaska. That person got their license some years after they were made a Salvation Army Director.
"Candice" was the assistant to the executive Director.
She was a very nice person. For whatever reason, she felt obliged to support the Directors who worked under her, no matter what they did.
She will try to help "her" Director, but she knows the Residential Director is not the squeaky clean choir-boy he pretends to be.
----------Detox----------
--Nurses / Supervisors--
"Caryn", the Detox supervisor was a young (late 20's) LPN.
She is a nice human being, but has very little education and experience. She was promoted to supervisor only because of religious affiliations. Like the Residential Director, she is an "absentee boss". On average I saw her about twice a month.
She will tell the AERC investigator that I was a difficult employee. If asked to explain, she will say "just look at all the things he was accused of".
"Sandy", the nursing supervisor, was a mid 30s LPN.
She found comfort in a network of powerful friends. Some clients paid a heavy price because they were not as "respectful" to her as she felt everybody should be.
She had firm control of the Mental Health Specialist, who ignored his responsibilities so he could do improper special favors for her.
She will say something to the AERC investigator like "Oh, I wish we could have helped him. He is so mentally ill that he just was not able to function".
"Zelda" was the nurse I worked with most often.
She could work anywhere and she would be respected for her competence as a nurse. Anywhere except Clitheroe.
Once Sandy's husband visited Detox, and walked into the nurse's station. Zelda closed the drug cabinet when he came in. Because Sandy's husband is black, Sandy accused Zelda of being racist (for closing the drug cabinet). 
Then, Sandy got out her disciplinary pad and wrote Zelda up, for "walking with an uncovered hypodermic" in her hand, and "giving medicine to a client outside the nurse's station".
She might tell the AERC investigator that Clitheroe has a lot of problems, but I was not it's biggest problem.
"Frank" is also an experienced nurse with sound judgment.
He was the most knowledgeable among Detox staff on practical addiction issues.
He was the only RN that was employed at Clitheroe.
He and I were not friendly, but I listened to what he said because he always knew what he was talking about. A smart and wise man, even if a bit of a prick.
He will tell the AERC investigator "that little shit was obnoxious, but I think he should have been given employee medical benefits".
"Billy" is a nurse with some experience, but stunningly poor judgment.
Only once did I see him talk to a client for an extended period of time. The client was an eager, young female alcoholic who was making herself "available". They were talking about birth control for a bit. Then they were gone. He liked to say that clients needed to "suffer". She probably didn't suffer too much, since she was still a little drunk.
He will shake his head sadly, and tell the AERC investigator that "We tried to help him, but mental illness is insidious and vexing to those among us who try to give comfort to..."
"Francine" was young and inexperienced but sincere.
She took comfort in associating with people she saw as powerful. Very hard headed.
She was hostile from the start, and will probably tell the AERC investigator that I am "of Satan".
There were a handful of other nurses that worked at Clitheroe from Dec '06 to June '07.
One other nurse who is mentioned on the website died in June. She was a very sincere and compassionate nurse who did not "fit in" with the cliquishness of the Salvation Army crowd. Obituary
--PNA's--
The two youngest PNA's were utterly obediant to the supervisors. Watching the two youngest PNAs under the spell of the supervisors was like watching two children eating paint chips in an old building, and not being able to intervene.
"Jacky" was the most experienced of the PNA's.
She had worked on an ambulance crew and had a lot of skill dealing with people. She is a simple, honest person, completely out of her league dealing with the constant deceptions at Clitheroe. One supervisor tried to blame her for the death on the Banned page.
She will tell the AERC investigator that she told other employees to "just leave him alone".
"Stacy" was the person who trained me in Detox.
She is a person who is easily manipulated. When the nursing supervisor needed an innocent young lady to do something sneaky, Stacy would be manipulated into doing it, sometimes without being aware of what was going on. Examples here and here
She will go to great lengths to impress the AERC investigator with her knowledge about bipolar disorder. Then she will explain why bipolar people should not be allowed to work as PNAs. ("I mean, some of our clients are in a crisis situation, and you cannot have a mentally ill person working in an environment where people are crisising")
"Larry" was a fun person to talk to.
He had an interesting past.
A very complex person, unlike most salvation Army employees. A devout atheist fond of recreational chemicals, it is a mystery how he could possibly have been hired by the Salvation Army. Oh yeah... he is buddies with the Salvation Army's largest private financial donor.
He will tell the AERC investigator that I am a scumbag for putting information about his relationship with the United Way president on the website.
"Jack" was the night PNA, so I didn't see him much.
He will probably tell the AERC investigator that he never actually worked with me.
----------Others----------
The Mental Health Specialist is very loyal to his friends.
He was eager to do favors for his staff friends, often at the expense of clients. He was the person who refused to speak to a suicidal client on the Welcome page. He also admitted people to Residential who would not normally be admitted, as a favor to the nursing supervisor. That prevented other clients [who were more suitable for treatment] from being admitted.
The Mental Health Specialist violated laws by using his state license to provide favors for his friends, and by ignoring restrictions on the use of federal grant money.
The Human Resources Director is a crooked "good ole boy".
He lacks integrity, but that shortcoming comes in handy. So many Clitheroe employees are hired as "favors" that a big part of his job is making crooked things look straight.
He deliberately did not provide me with certain personnel documents that he is obligated to provide. He knows I don't have a lawyer, or any other way to force him to give me what he is legally required to give. Some of the documents he did provide were deliberately of poor quality. See photocopies
The Human Resources Director for the Alaska Salvation Army has violated numerous laws regarding hiring practices in organizations that receive government money.
The Clitheroe Executive Director is a thoroughly hands-off type leader.
To the best of my knowledge I only met her once, in passing. She may be a nice person, or she may be something else. I just don't know because she never made an appearance.
Like the other Clitheroe Directors, she was very loyal to Directors and Supervisors. Not so loyal to clients and lower level staff.
She never intervened when clients were being arbitrarily banned and expelled. Maybe she was not aware clients were being arbitrarily banned and expelled in the facility she was running.
note: There isn't any overt religious preaching at Clitheroe, other than weekly bible classes in Detox, and bringing certain clients to church (both of which are fine). Directors know that they have the $4 million golden goose, and they are aware of legal restrictions on the use of federal / state funds. They won't threaten their golden goose.
But... the net effect of the $4 million that Clitheroe received in 2007 was to strengthen the Salvation Army financially at great expense to Alaska's addicts.
Any of the above people can have unlimited space on the website to challenge anything on the website. email: walter@akweb.org