Cultural Care
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--Edina
Deceitful Practices- False Screening, Poor Screening at Best
"We just read the CYA article regarding the Rape of a recent Au Pair. Natalie Jordan is A TOTAL SPIN DOCTOR. She and Cultural Care have been entirely too sneaky and deceitful about this story. We are not strangers to the practices of CCAP and Ms. Jordan. So many families we know have been sent Au Pairs who admitted that their in country Cultural Care offices instruct them to falsify their applications, references and abilities in order to get their foot in the door to the US. I know as a host family that the screening of our family was a joke. We had the money upfront and a child, therefore we quallified!
Cultural Care's first priority is MONEY paid upfront. LCC's are often ill equipt to handle the issues that arise. Cultural Care has an enormous turn over with staff.
We had 3 LCCs over a 5 month period because they would quit out of frustration and disgust. Our most recent LCC was a licensed, clinical social worker and she quit after 2 months and stated in an email to me that "working with Cultural Care just felt so dirty"
Our Au Pair falsified her application, drove without a driver's license(in a stolen car)with our child and ADMITTED ALL OF THE ABOVE to the LCC and guess what? Cultural Care recycled her. I could write a book about the terrible things our Au Pair did and all of the things she neglected to do, like feed our 4 year old all day, which she happily admitted to....We had a meeting in our home with the Au Pair and LCC and the Au Pair admitted everything too the LCC, but THEY STILL MOVED HER TO A SECOND FAMILY. Would you want this girl "supervising" your child???? By the way, our Au Pair had no complaints about us, our child or home and she asked to stay with us. Natalie Jordan summarized our problem with our Au Pair as being a "cultural difference".
Natalie Jordan has to live with herself. Sooner or later justice will prevail.
We lost our money and discontinued our relationship with Cultural Care immediately."
Sadmom
Cultural Care Au Pair
Cultural Care Au Pair is not a well established agency what-so-ever! Once you sign up, the contact is no longer there, the support is gone, and send you an Au Pair who does not have the expereince or the qualifications you asked for, then you complain and they do nothing! The Au Pair comes and sleeps, eats, stays on the computer, talks on the telephone, and goes out all hours of the day and night and gets paid! Then does not meet her duty time, comes in drunk! Meets people online all hours of the night, and climbs out the window! I make contact with the LCC and she does not call or return emails! Then the Au Pair makes an allegation and Cultural Care does not conduct a fair or imparcial investigation. They side with the Au Pair, takes my money and closes the case! This is an agency who bring Au Pairs over for them to do nothing and make money and lie! If anyone is interested in a class action law suit against Cultural Care Au Pair, post here! I would not recommend this agency at all! Contact your BBB, Consumer Affairs Department, The State Department, and the Attorney General's Office if you had a bad expereince with Cultural Care Au Pair.
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Edina