Merced Behavioral Health Center

Positive experience: It's a great place

Fantastic experience: I loved working at Merced behavioral Center for 10 years as a team leader, program counselor, program clerk and weekend supervisor. The facility Administrator, Jeri, and the entire team treated me like family. The atmosphere between the lifelong staff was like home. The departments of Nursing, program, dietary, activities, maintenance, custodial, and the business office all work closely together to ensure a safe environment for the staff and residents. If you have integrity, grit, are a team player and have a passion for helping adults struggling to cope with mental illness, then you will definitely be rewarded and gain valuable experience if you choose to work there. Others will always have complaints but I believe life is what you make of it. Your attitude, approach, and work ethic will determine your success wherever you go. I will say that by advocating for myself, almost as hard as I did for the residents, allowed me to earn a wage I was very happy with. The best part of the job, for me, was making a positive impact in the lives and temporary home of the residents who lived there. Teaching them the benefits of medication for stabilization and how socially acceptable behaviors could ensure their safety in the community. I will never forget how Merced Behavioral Center and the people there touched my life for the better. God Bless them all for their service in our community.