McClendon Center

I've had the opportunity to work as an office coordinator for the CSA.

THE DOCTOR ASK ME WHAT WAS WRONG HOW CAN SHE HELP ME I STARTED EXPLAINING WHAT I HAD GOING ON AND HOW THEY WASN'T HELPING ME AND STARTED CRYING THE DOCTOR TOLD ME TO GET OUT OF HER OFFICE I WAS CRYING. FOR 2 WEEKS I WOULD NEVER GO BACK THERE. I WANT TO SUE THEM BECAUSE IT WASN'T RIGHT AND NO ONE CALLED MY PHONE TO SEE IF I WAS OKAY

I miss AUTUMN (case manager) and Dr. Moghimi (psychiatrist)! They truly saved my life! 💜💜💜

Great Place! Steve Luteran is a God Send and amazing, will work and help you 24/hours as will the rest of the staff. Highly recommend. They care!

Nice people

I was informed that I started working for the agency during a “bad time” due to the amount of changes that were going on internally that didn’t work out. The executive director is very condescending and has no respect nor appreciates his employees. In my years of working I’ve never experienced someone saying “I thought I made myself clear” and that you’ll be fired for not signing a document you didn’t agree with. Without having a direct supervisor the clinical director oversaw two teams but wasn’t readily available to address the ongoing needs the two teams faced. I was poorly trained, constantly told one thing by one person and something else by another. The agency likes for you to believe you have people to talk to to address your concerns but when you do everything gets flipped on you about what youre not doing right. Never taking into consideration how they play a part into that. They want people to blame, so they blame the community support workers instead of looking at the agency as whole. No one from upper management on down is doing what their supposed to be doing so everyone should be held accountable. I wish I could say I learned something from working here but I didn’t. Fair warning, be expected to be thrown into the work without any guidance and being the blame for not reaching clients who don’t want to be reached. You’ll find yourself almost forcing services on people who don’t want or need them.

I am a previous client of the Center....they suck...life is so much healthier without them...especially any contact with Alan !!

One of the critical problems facing the Washington dc metro area, and large cities the Nation over has been the insidious creation of a primary tier of psychiatric services being administered by local. Jails, many of which are privatized thus ensuring their primaryconcern is to their shareholders dividends, thereby motivating private wardens to cut to the bone essential services across the medcal spectrum.
Many,if not most,of these mentally ill offenders would be better seved by the Somes and Mclendon Centers of the world, at a dramatically different price tag to the American Taxpayer while at the same time providing better supervision working with mental health courts the Nation over.