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Abuse Refuge Org.

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Abuse Refuge Org. Reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(11 total reviews)
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Kelly Dehn

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79% positive business outlook

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1.0
9 Mar 2022

Poor Leadership; Good idea

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Pros

1. The idea that is sold to volunteers is a good one. You're helping victims of abuse in a holistic way, the idea is great. 2. The people who "volunteer" truly believe in what they are doing and are passionate and talented people.

Cons

1. The entire company is volunteer based. They get free labor, while bringing in donations that don't go towards paying staff or actually helping victims. The money goes to fund the website and the founders pockets. 2. The company says they are there to help victims of abuse. They have no services, programs or anything else to help victims of abuse other than referrals to other organizations that are doing that. The concept of "Norm Therapy" is not endorsed by any reputable organization that offers psychological services. The certificates they provide to people who went through their "certification" course are not reputable certifications. They made the certificates themselves to make it look legitimate. 3. The org makes you sign a ton of legal paperwork before even becoming a volunteer. The only reason to do that, is if you are not doing things above board. They are trying to cover themselves from getting called out. No other volunteer organization asks for the amount of legal paperwork they do to be signed. Big red flag that I should have noticed. 4. The org asks volunteers to commit to donating money every single month, and guilts people who don't do it. The money goes where again? Not to victims of abuse. The founders talk about all their future plans and what is going to happen and how they are going to help. But they have nothing to show for it, just donations from people who think they are giving to something worthwhile, some social media posts and a steady stream of volunteers they treat as disposable. They will make excuses for why they don't have something to show for it but in reality the reason is because no one in the social service world or psychology community is going to take them seriously. They have no legitimate backing.

1.0
14 Dec 2022

Volunteer only if you have the time

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Pros

The volunteers are nice people.

Cons

When I applied in 2020, I didn't find any reviews on this organization, and I wish I did. It would have saved me some time. After reading everyone’s thoughts, I now feel comfortable sharing my experience. I only worked there briefly, given that I was volunteering, unemployed, and searching for jobs. For a volunteer job, it demanded more than it should. In fact, one time, we got a nasty message from the founder scolding us for not being committed enough. In addition, during the meetings we held, we were told we needed to ask for funds and advertise the company, but it was unclear what type of services they offered. And like many others mentioned, the mission and vision weren't clear. I didn't know exactly what we were trying to build here because it lacked vision. Because I am a very intuitive, my gut feeling told me something didn't feel right, especially after getting that nasty message from one of the founders. What I found very strange is that the other founder was always traveling and barely participated in the meetings. If you have all the time in the world, you should try it. But if you can only commit 4 hrs per week. Please don't do it; she will ask you to devote more hrs.

3.0
23 June 2022

Volunteer experience

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Pros

Good cause ( I still hope it's a legit organization)

Cons

Although I think it was for a good cause the backend work seemed very off to me. I was completing my volunteer hours and working on projects when suddenly I was removed from all permissions to access the platform we worked on and then I stopped recieving meeting invite emails as well. No warning was given. Numerous times from various people I was asked for my personal information and dob which I didnt feel the need to provide. This could have been nothing but just seemed odd 4 different people asking for that info in different ways. Also to become a volunteer you yourself need to donate money. That was a little off putting especially if you can't afford to do so and just wanted to share your time. Also applied for a management position and was told that those only go to individuals with several years of philanthropy in their backgrounds. 2 weeks in my manager left and then a new hire was brought on who did not have the background they stated was needed.

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