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Catching up with all the news recently in a fortnight dominated by the murder of a British soldier in London and the tornado in Oklahoma, and the bank holiday in both countries, one of the biggest stories followed on from a legal court case where Lord McAlpine took Sally Bercow to court. A court ruled…
Look, if you work at a non-profit, you do so for a reason, and that reason is usually tied to the work that the organization does. It’s something you believe in, feel passionate about, and in most cases agree to work for a lower salary to be part of. It’s a massive part of your identity.
Double all of that when the organization works on behalf of kids.
So imagine, if you will, a scenario where you have so much of your own identity tied into the good work done by you and your coworkers, and someone comes along and claims that actually, there are kids being harmed in that environment, not helped at all.
Are we all so sure we wouldn’t at least hesitate and consider for just a moment, that we’d be better off ignoring that and continuing the “good work” on behalf of kids?
I can believe that happens. I can understand how it happens. I can understand how crushing it would be to have something you believed in that strongly, and have part of your team be accused of something so heinous.
But we have to fight that, and make sure that the work we think we are doing on behalf of children, is the whole truth of what is going on in the organization. We cannot afford to lose ourselves, and our better judgment, to our passion for the work. We have to stay level-headed and aware.
Those kids deserve that, and the good work you want your organization to continue doing, requires it.
It’s amazing to me that these are still popular beliefs, but they are. This is why we talk about mental illness being stigmatized, because there are way too many people in this world who think it’s contagious, or cannot be overcome. Educate yourself, and others, please! 7 Mental Illness Myths People Still Believe
Yes, you can help people recover, just by being a good friend. “In a study published in Psychiatry Research in May 2017 researchers followed a group of more than 175 people who had experienced an episode of psychosis for two years and compared those who recovered and those who did not. More frequent social interaction…
Over at Allies Opinions, I spotted a review of this book by Christopher E. Pelloski, MD Pelloski chronicles the evolution of his devastating legal battle alongside his concurrent journey of recovery from childhood sexual abuse. He shares with us the lessons he learned from these experiences in the hope they can serve as both a warning…
The Survivors Club isn’t a book that is specifically about child abuse survivors, but there are some interesting takeaways from the book that I think are very relative to abuse survivors. Due to that, I’m not going to do a normal “review” type of post, but just bring up a couple of points of interest….
