I have to agree with the others... BRC is a NIGHTMARE to deal with. My daughter is a Regional Center client and lately it's been one problem after another with BRC. If you send them a respite worker of your choosing to be hired by them, the hoops they require workers to jump through to get hired are way more extensive than other respite agencies and take several weeks to several months to complete. Ridiculous! Instead of streamlining the hiring process, they play phone tag and send letters by Snail Mail, when they should be emailing and faxing, like a normal business. I think they avoid emails because they don't want to be held accountable for their sloppy work. It's nuts, because it makes no sense for them to drag out their already laborious hiring process, as they lose money every day a worker is delayed in being hired... it's self-sabatoging! We recently sent them a respite worker who had previously worked for us through BRC, I'll call her Sally, but there was no expediting her rehire process, even though all her info was still in their system. Sally set aside an entire Saturday to retake their 8 hours of required classes: CPR/AED training and Orientation. She gave up a day she normally spends with her young daughter, paid for childcare, drove from Mill Valley to Vallejo arriving by 8:30 AM, and after passing the CPR class, she was told by Cinthia, a woman from HR, that she would not be allowed to stay for the Orientation because she didn't have her original Social Security card on her. Sally offered to bring it on Monday, if she could stay for Orientation, but Cinthia refused. She asked Cinthia to please look to see if her SS info was still in their system, and Cinthia said that it was, but that wasn't good enough and insisted Sally leave. Cinthia raised her voice while talking down to her, humiliated her in front of the group, and Sally left in tears... she was so traumatized, she wanted nothing further to do with BRC, and I couldn't blame her. I complained to the head of HR, Maria Beltran, (who was as negative as Cinthia, surpise!) requesting that Cinthia not be involved in the hiring of my daughter's next respite worker, and they agreed. But after 3 months of delays, the second worker became frustrated and gave up, too! I found out Cinthia was handling her hiring, but having Paola sign everything to throw us off. Cinthia told our second worker things like, "Your paperwork was lost - you have to resubmit everything." I sent an email to the CEO, Katy Santillan, asking what was going on, and suddenly Cinthia said she found the "lost"paperwork. Any business that allows their staff to abuse others like my two workers were abused must have sytemic problems starting at the top. Word to the wise: RUN, don't walk, away from BRC! There are other respite agencies vendored by Regional Centers who are do their jobs and help you like they're supposed to. I'm going to file a formal complaint against BRC and hope they do everyone a favor and go out of business. read more