A new Times investigation sheds light on troubling conditions at a Windsor Hills group home.
David McKnight-Hillman, 25, grew up wanting to help people. As a child, he helped care for his mother, who had sickle-cell disease, his family said. He spoke of wanting to be a social worker or a psychiatrist.After graduating from San Francisco State with a degree in sociology in 2019, McKnight-Hillman took a job counseling teenagers with mental health issues in Long Beach.
Former employees said the facility had long struggled to prevent children from running away, curb the use of drugs brought back to the facility by runaway youth, and protect staffers from violent attacks. “I would actually say to myself ... ‘Is it actually safe to come to work today?’” said C.J. Cormier Dunnick, who quit his job as a counselor, in part because of safety concerns, two months before McKnight-Hillman was killed.
Sweeping reforms approved in 2017 have led to an increase in the number of children housed under one roof. Critics say that fosters an environment that endangers workers and fails to meet the needs of the kids in their care.
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