For many of us who work in non-profit and/or social sector organizations the election of Donald Trump as president has been extremely traumatic. Nonprofit Quarterly just posted a wonderful piece about acknowledging election-related trauma in the workplace. The article touches on a variety of difficult issues that many people are grappling with in the wake of this election, including LGBTQ+ folks, survivors of sexual assault, immigrants, and people of color.

Time magazine reports that messages to the Crisis Text Line doubled over the past 24 hours to 2000, with the majority coming from LGBT teens or their friends. According to the organization’s chief data scientist, they mainly expressed the perfectly reasonable fear that the policies that protected their rights would be eliminated. Meanwhile, the same was going on at Trans Lifeline, a crisis line for transgender people, which said it received 426 calls in a single night, breaking a previous record of 250.

For immigrants and their families and friends whose children are worried that they will be split up or deported to a place they don’t know and is likely very dangerous, for the Muslims about whom he attempts to spread fear and loathing, for those living in Black communities Trump blithely describes as hotbeds of criminality, and for people with disabilities whom he has openly mocked, Trump’s public approbation has quite simply been a shock to our systems—the kind of shock that comes from real or impending injury.

Check out the full article here: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2016/11/10/pausing-acknowledge-election-related-trauma-workplace/

And please remember to be kind to each other.

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