It’s an all-too-common truth that children and adults who are served by nonprofit help organizations are often marginalized by the very people who are placed there to help them.
The fact is, the staff of such organizations are often underpaid, overworked, and undereducated for their field of expertise. These effects are not necessarily anyone’s fault. Nonprofit organizations typically lack the financial means to support staff, let alone a staff that is well educated to handle the deep emotional and psychological issues they’ll be dealing with.
And although many people carry emotional struggles of their own, the constituents of such organizations often carry the heaviest of psychological burdens from past abuses and other misfortunes. That being said, workers of these nonprofit organizations, who are often short on time and energy, are faced with individuals who are difficult to care for and can often times be cast off as “hopeless,” “impossible,” or similar.
The reality is unfortunate—the same people that who need great love and support from their caregivers often receive the opposite.
Caregivers, in turn, can easily become marginalized further as their emotions are spilled out, without knowing how to set healthy boundaries while still doing the best they can. That’s where burnout comes in and it is abundant in the nonprofit realm all over the world for these very reasons.
What may be the most disappointing fact is that this cycle can be prevented. With the proper education, these caregivers can be learn some extraordinarily important skills that can dramatically increase their ability to help in healthy and constructive ways.
That’s where we come in.