MICHAEL MARTZ
Richmond Times-Dispatch
STAUNTON â When the aides who work at Commonwealth Center for Children & Adolescents pick up lunch at a local convenience store or buy their groceries, they see signs advertising jobs paying $14 to $15 an hour.
But when they return to work, theyâre making as little as $12.58 an hour for a job that requires them to work directly with children and teens who may be psychotic, suicidal and violent.
âThey work 16-hour days and get hit,â said Nancy Snead, the centerâs human resources manager, who has to face those facts while trying to fill 50 vacant jobs for direct-service aides at the only state mental hospital for children and adolescents in Virginia.
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