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Margaret vorih's avatar

So much of this I felt in my spirit when I ran a women’s shelter at a larger rescue mission. Especially the hours coming and going. I don’t know the number of times we had over does just after dinner because they wouldn’t have opportunity to use until the morning but they needed it to sleep and be calm which was required.

I appreciate your work.

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Monroe Free's avatar

Many rules in social service agencies are to make work life easier for staff. Safety rules are often that. It is an authoritarian approach. My place, my rules. My experience is the more you rely on authority the less you help.

Once we hired an off duty police officer to be in the overnight shelter. Behavior problems rose. When we stopped problems went down to previous levels.

Help and healing occur through relationships of trust. Hard for trust to be present when we operate from an authoritarian approach.

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