Salvation Army Clitheroe

Employment papers are on the  Employee   page.

February 24-25

• The Residential Director heard me use profanity twice with clients.
  Both times he claimed that the clients made complaints about the profanity, after the clients left treatment. Both clients have spent a lot of time in jails, both were labeled "Antisocial" by that same Director, both were in the process of being expelled by that Director. One of the two, Zack, ran the Clitheroe henhouse for some time.

• A conversation with these two clients contained profanity. The director was in the conference room 15 or 20 feet away. Several minutes later, the Director offered an academic psychology lesson. At a Sept 14 hearing, the director remembered that I was disrespectful of his lesson.    Audio (Audio 23 sec) He claimed not to remember where the conversation took place, or why. Both clients were close to being expelled by him.

• After one of the two clients left Clitheroe, the Director waved what he said was a grievance from the client, about my foul language. 

• Every complaint at Clitheroe is copied into a client's records. A complaint used in a warning notice would be saved. In September the Director claimed the complaint was now verbal. (Audio 1 min 39 sec)  That complaint is discussed further here.

March 21-29

• I got a haircut at Trendsetters. See   Confidentiality        
• The hair cutter asked for the Detox phone number, so she could send a friend in.

The next day

• The client joked that the hair cutter had given him the tip for the haircut. At this point the client had received every discipline available from the Director. Several other clients (A.L., S.T....) said he was going to "use the haircut".
• The client told the director that I had told one of his girlfriends he was at Clitheroe.

April

• The background check on the new employee is not yet done. I agree to continue covering Residential until it is completed. The friend of the hair cutter came to Detox. She was treated much more poorly than most clients and denied treatment.
• The Residential Director apparently spread a rumor that she came to Clitheroe to see the above client.

April 4

• I received the first of two warning notices. This notice regards use of profanity with a client, near the Residential Director, on Feb 24-25.(See above)

April / May

• A Clitheroe client learns that she is pregnant. The director apparently violates the pregnant client's confidentiality. (Audio 68 sec) The pregnant client is later expelled.

May 4

• I receive the second warning notice, because of the March 21-29 haircut. (See above) The director claimed under oath he conducted an "extensive investigation". (Audio 2 min) The only people he talked to were the client and me. He ignored me.

May 4

• My benefits are retroactively denied by a Salvation "Amry" document, dated March 21. The March 21 Document has blank spaces for a change-of phone / address that had not occurred yet. My first phone bill from ACS for that phone number shows when the phone was activated in early April.
• The accompanying 90 day evaluation is written by the men's Residential Director in May. comments. It was written by the men's director and denies my medical benefits.

May 26

• I give written notice that I would not work anymore in the residential unit. Another employee agrees to cover the unit until the new hire arrives.

May 30

• A client from another unit asks for help finding outpatient services. I'm accused of interfering in the client's treatment, because I did not ask for permission to get the information. The Residential Director calls my computer use a violation of Salvation Army computer policy.

June 8

• My medical benefits are denied again using various documents. The accompanying evaluation again contains criticisms that are worth commenting on.
• Over the previous 5 and a half months, my "violations" have been thoroughly documented. Each is addressed somewhere on this website.