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Scenario

When your legal aid team disagrees about case prioritization and burnout

Our legal aid team keeps getting overwhelmed by asylum cases and we can't keep up with the paperwork deadlines, but when I suggest we need to triage more aggressively, my colleagues act like I'm abandoning our mission. We're burning out trying to save everyone and I don't know how to have this conversation without sounding heartless.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A team is struggling to balance their idealistic mission with practical limitations while maintaining their shared commitment to justice.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Refugee and immigration justice?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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