As one of the nation's thought leaders in the #Moralinjury field, we dedicate our efforts in helping individuals who are battling with moral injury to overcome #TheWarInside.
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Moral injury is a relatively recent term used to describe a crisis that soldiers have faced for centuries, the internal suffering that results from doing something against your moral code. In essence it is a wound to the conscience. However, it is not just military members that can experience this. And what is this?
It is soul anguish, a broken spirit, a shredded soul.
Anyone who works with marginalized, at-risk populations has probably seen that empty stare that can be moral injury. People in poverty. People struggling with addiction. People whose daily lives and their choices erode their feeling of being a good and decent person, worthy of respect. People who carry unprocessed grief and guilt in ordinary life. People with stressful life-and-death type situational jobs such as police officers, doctors and nurses. Because of things we do, witness, are ordered to do, or fail to do in high stakes situations. We can lose our moral foundations and our sense of being a good person.
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February 24, 2022New Incubator Program Launching to Support Community Health Entrepreneurship Serving Vulnerable Populations
Volunteers of America and the Humana Foundation are partnering to accelerate social enterprises that improve quality, equity and access to care for Medicaid patients and other vulnerable populations
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November 5, 2021Volunteers of America’s CEO Mike King Takes Helm of LeadingAge Board of Directors Succeeds Jewish Home Family’s Carol Silver Elliott in Two Year Term
Mike King, national president and CEO of Volunteers of America (VOA), will chair the board of directors of LeadingAge, the association of nonprofit providers of aging services, for a two year term effective January 2022. The board transition announcement was announced to association members at the 2021 LeadingAge Annual Meeting & EXPO in Atlanta, GA.
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July 28, 2021Volunteers of America National Services Selected as a Development Partner for New Affordable Senior Housing Site at The Oaks in Dallas, Texas
Volunteers of America National Services was selected by DHA Housing Solutions for North Texas to partner on a mixed income senior affordable residential housing project to be known as The Oaks in Dallas, Texas. The projected is slated to be completed in 2023. VOANS is the wholly controlled nonprofit subsidiary of Volunteers of America created as the sponsor and parent entity for new Volunteers of America housing development projects.
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January 29, 2021Millionacres Podcast Features VOA Affordable Housing and Senior Healthcare Services
Millionacres Podcast Features VOA Affordable Housing and Senior Healthcare Services
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July 24, 2020The New York Times: Providing a Pandemic Safety Net, Nonprofits Need Their Own
Social service organizations like Volunteers of America, and other nonprofits, continue to be on the front lines during the pandemic providing life-saving resources to those who need it most. Now, many nonprofits are in jeopardy during the current economic crisis and are in need of support.
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June 11, 2020Sharon Wilson-Geno, EVP National Services, on KCBS radio
Hear from our Executive VP, National Services, Sharon Wilson-Geno on what a second wave of the virus could mean to our older population, and how VOA continues to be on the frontlines of the coronavirus crisis.