Company Profile
Alaska Children's Services
Company Overview
Since 1890, Akaska Children's Services has been providing quality care for children and adolescents. Originally founded as the Jesse Lee Home orphanage in Unalaska, Alaska Children's Services has evolved to become a nationally accredited non-profit agency providing quality psychiatric treatment in residential, foster care, and home based settings for children and their families. The mission is to provide quality care and treatment, based on the spirit of Christ's love, for children and families who need special assistance to develop self-esteem and the ability to live in harmony with others.
Company History
Alaska Children's Services was established in 1890 as the Jesse Lee Home orphanage by the Women's Home Missionary Society of the United Methodist Church. Moving to Seward in 1925, and on to Anchorage in 1965, the agency then merged with the Lutheran Youth Center and Anchorage Children's Christian Home to create Alaska Children's Services in 1970.
Benefits
Our health plan includes medical, prescription, dental, and vision benefits. The individual employee pays only $40 per month for their coverage, with the agency paying the balance. Coverage begins 90 days after the first of the month following your hire date.
· Pre-tax contributions to a 403(b) plan can begin as soon as you start work. The 403(b) plan is the nonprofit version of a 401(k), where the employee making the contribution owns the money contributed to his/her account from the start. After two years, ACS begins a percentage matching program.
· A 125 plan, which also sets aside pretax dollars, is available for reimbursing childcare and uncovered health care expenses throughout a calendar year. Life and limited disability coverage is paid by ACS, as is an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
· We offer 8 paid holidays per year. They are New Year's, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The remaining two holidays are chosen by the employee or may be added to a vacation.
· Paid leave at ACS combines both unplanned leave due to illness and planned leave for vacation. At the end of the first year, a full time employee could accrue as many as nineteen working days of leave time. The number increases yearly for 5 years to a maximum of thirty days.
· ACS offers a Higher Education Support Program wherein, after one year of service, employees are entitled to apply for a scholarship grant of $1,000 per year and for up to $2,000 after two years of services.
· Employment begins with a comprehensive paid orientation to prepare employees for working with our students. On-going monthly paid training offers internal and external opportunities for staff growth and development year 'round. An annual average of fifty hours of training are available to our staff.
· In the current fiscal year, staff longevity has been recognized by awarding checks to employees on their anniversaries - $100 for each year of service to ACS.
Our benefit program:
· Reflects the importance ACS places on attracting, developing and keeping quality staff dedicated to the ACS mission.
· Is key to our commitment to staff training and development in support of upward mobility.Twenty-eight percent (28%) of current staff has been promoted. Of those promoted, fifty-nine percent (59%) began in entry-level positions as Psychiatric Treatment Counselors.