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Case Study: Nonprofit Organization for an Impoverished Neighborhood
Suppose you are the director of the food distribution program in a nonprofit organization. The nonprofit organization serves a rural Hmong community that is largely organized around the church. The church is not well funded, but the nonprofit organization receives funds from the state, allowing it ample staffing support.
Members of the community rely on the church pastor and believe that the church should be providing food support to members of the community who are unable to feed themselves, since there are very few jobs in the community that pay a living wage. The community is thankful for the food distribution program you direct, but they want the church to control distribution, especially of the foods they prefer. Your program relies on an outside charitable warehouse for foods that are generally available to commercial outlets, but mainly canned foods and packaged foods. The community wants fresh food and the pastor agrees they should have fresh foods, including greens and fresh meat.
You are responsible to the state for providing food to this impoverished rural community; however, the community does not want to rely on your organization, but the church instead. You must make an ethical and programmatic decision that satisfies both the community and its church, as well as the state authorities providing the money.
Explain your decision, based on ethical principles. Assess the ethical obligations you have to the state versus those obligations to the community.
Riverbend city mental health:
Organizational Ethics Concerning Mental Health
Introduction
Leadership in human services requires navigating situations where the needs and expectations of different stakeholders collide. The right course of action may not be apparent, or may require one party to accept an outcome very different from what they would prefer. There isn’t always a clear-cut correct answer, but a skilled leader should be able to apply ethical principles to a situation and determine what approach does the most good, or at least causes the least harm.
Three scenarios will be presented in this course to illustrate the kinds of dilemmas a human services leader might face.In this first scenario, we will examine the point of view of a manager at an organization who is concerned about balancing his desire to create a diverse workplace with his need for clarity in communication with the community his organization serves.
Rhodia Care Services
There’s a problem developing at the Rhodia Care Services. Read below to learn more about it, and consider the ethical dimensions.
Rhodia Care Services is a clinical organization with a mental health care focus in Riverbend City.
Mary Frehley is the general manager of Rhodia Care Services. In this role, Frehley oversees a number of staff members who do both clinical and administrative work. One of these staffers is Ana Cruz, Rhodia’s receptionist.
Cruz often chats with patients while she is in the middle of her duties. Yesterday, she was talking to Brian Spiegelman, 55, as he waited for an appointment with his therapist. Spiegelman is a longtime patient suffering from clinical depression and anxiety; he and Cruz have known each other for quite a while and have often talked about Spiegelman’s children and his dogs.
Spiegelman often seems depressed—that is, after all, why he’s at Rhodia—but yesterday’s conversation seemed unusual to Cruz. In between talking about his German Shepherd, Spiegelman mentioned to Cruz that he knew that his problems often made things difficult for his family, and that they might be better off if he just ended it all so that he wouldn’t be a millstone around their necks. Startled, Cruz assured him that this was not the case; an embarrassed-seeming Spiegelman immediately changed the subject.
Cruz was haunted by the exchange. As a staff member who doesn’t perform clinical care, she wasn’t sure what her official duties are in this case, especially considering her friendship with the patient. Two days later, she told Mary Frehley about the conversation, apologizing to her supervisor for taking so long, saying that she was worried about creating more problems for Brian Spiegelman. She also informed her supervior that she hadn’t heard anything from Spiegelman since he left the clinic that day.
After talking to Cruz, Frehley needs to balance her concerns about confidentiality with her concerns about the well-being of the facility’s patients. She also needs to decide, as a supervisor, how to respond to the way Cruz handled the interaction.
Conclusion
You have completed the Riverbend City: Organizational Ethics Concerning Mental Health activity.
Reflection Questions
What is the central ethical question involved in this scenario?
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What ethical framework might provide the best guidance for how to handle the dilemma?
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Organizational Ethics Concerning Mental Health
The central ethical question involved in this scenario is about privacy and confidentiality.
The case study presents a situation where Spiegelman disclosed to Cruz his suicidal intent after
causing suffering to his family. Althoug...
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