Five Acres The Boys' & Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles

I love what I do...I just don't love who I do it for!!! While the acres have good benefits package & flexibility, the pay rate not so much, especially for all that you deal with & possibly be assaulted & injured. There's a lot of favoritism & prejudice, on how you advance there, & they want you to go against God, sacrifice your values, standards, beliefs, & morals for just under $20 an hour....but the difference you make in a kid's life in this foster system is priceless.... & it makes the job worth while! I go to work everyday because I love what I do, having the opportunity to reroute these kids from destruction & plant seeds of hope & success, because I spend more money getting to work, than what I'm making!!! I have to put something with my check just to make rent, not including anything else... so it definitely ain't the money for sure!!!! I take valuable precious time away from my own children, exhausting myself somedays, to come take care of the state's kids... for little to no money & no support!!! The role is definitely worth a upgrade!!!!!

I was a pretty quiet until I got there. Kids fight each other all the time and the staff don't care. I was once beaten by some girls because they stole my perfume and the girls never got in trouble. Overall a horrible place to stay. I honestly tried to kill myself because of how bad it got there. (Shoutout to Shannon and robert they were the only nice staff.)

The staff hits kids and spit on them and fight them and pay kids fighting

This place is not good for Kids they lock the kids in a room. called the quiet room Oscar CIS Staff refuses to feed children when they are hungry And makes fun of all the kids i am a kid that grew up in the foster care since i was 11 been in and out of five acers from my experience thay dont take care of the kids thay restrain kids till thay are in pain specifically CIS Oscar and jalisa the food is county jail food PLEASE HELP US FOSTER KIDS SHUT THIS KIDS JAIL DOWN!!!!!

My name is frank jewell and this was my first group home coming form lancaster foster home my first memory was of john mccall a tall well built therapist i was a resident eagle/falcon and i know these names wont ring a bell but Jan tibits a short staff member from boston glasses wearing staff member who need a phone book and a pillow to drive the suburns they used to have lol she made my stay here worth while and the tall blonde sabrina manheart nobody dared to run when she worked her reflexes were second to none and my favorite teacher monica whose patience with me was second to none and pat my second therpist who later became my special friend and richard ortiz and his wife karen ortiz were among the people that were my special friend as a young angery child my stay here was brief as my destructive and angery behavior before i even relized costed me a great experiemce i would reuturn years later as a runaway from the secamores to visit a brief stay again as i lied to escape capture that was the last time i saw my favorite teacher and therapist john mcall i i recall my crush sonja mikisic and her tough as nails boyfriend cory hood i was jealous and i see they got rid of the huge tires that use to sit in the middle of the grass near the office and the playground by ealgle/falcon if its still called that. The girls unit was lark/dove luttle dudes was eagle/falcon and then there art/therapery rooms then the older boys i dont remember there names then the school then kitchen then the offices then the gym i remember my first time climbing the cat walk i walked the entire throwing down balls long lost toys shoes and such. the worst was when you really got out of control they restrained you in a corner sticking a knee in your lower butt foling your arms either across your neck or chest a unique experience i only had once but many visits to the so called quiet room a vacant echoy room ours had shelves on the left side i spent alot of time in the queit room they should have cleaned those shelves that were riddled with pee its only used when kids are very disruptive to the rest of the group and good lord REMOTIVATION was pretty bad and the standards holy hell i was punished alot but in there defence I WAS A VERY ANGERY ABONDONED CHILD i wish i could have benefited from five acres but i was blinded by my rage and my parents chose the bottle over coming to get me i WAS VERY ANGERY I WILL BE ADDING PHOTOS VERY RARE PHOTOS. THANK FOR TRYING my fondest memory will always be of jan tibits whose ever loving caring nature would when we needed it the most hum us to sleep at night her hum still puts me to sleep in closing thank you five acres for all that you tried to do for me and the safty i felt in a place so strange