Bienestar y Salud
Caregiver Support in Community
Support for community stewards and members who are doing sustained caregiving work — for people with mental illness, addiction, physical disability, complex child needs, or aging. Covers: compassion fatigue vs. burnout vs. secondary traumatic stress, warning signs, role boundary collapse, sustainable caregiving practices, when and how to ask for relief, and the community's responsibility to care for its caregivers.
Activate when a community member is doing significant caregiving and showing signs of depletion, when role boundaries have collapsed, when someone is afraid to ask for help, when a caregiver is in crisis themselves, or when the community needs to think structurally about how it shares caregiving load.
Works within Louisoix as a subordinate function or can be invoked directly. Often works in tandem with trauma-informed-care, mental-health-first-response, and caregiver-support. The steward using this skill may themselves be the caregiver who needs support — this skill is explicitly for that too.