My Nonprofit Reviews
katieherman-09@sandiego.edu
Review for Mental Health Association of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
I was a summer intern at the Mental Health Association of San Francisco, and I loved the whole experience. I was the Education Intern so a lot of the work I did involved MHA-SF's Institute on Compulsive Hoarding and Cluttering. I went to many hoarding trainings around San Francisco and learned how devastating the effects of compulsive hoarding and cluttering can be on people and their families. One of my favorite things about my internship was the wide range of tasks and jobs I was given. For example, one day I would be sitting at my desk working on some kind of excel spreadsheet project and the next day I would be handing out mental health information at a Tenderloin health fair. I really support MHA-SF's work to help mental health consumers become advocates for themselves and for others with mental illness, because I think giving people the tools they need to help themselves is the best thing an organization like MHA-SF can do. Everyone I worked with at MHA-SF was great and I learned something from every member of the staff. Everyone was treated fairly and with respect, so it was a really nice environment to work in. Working at MHA-SF has inspired me to pursue a career in social work in the future.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
successfully educating people about the effects compulsive hoarding and cluttering can have on individuals and the city as a whole.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
try and be as engaged and active in the organization's trainings, workshops and other events as possible so that the executive director really understands the work the organization is doing on a day to day basis.
What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
the variety of jobs and responsibilities I was given.
The kinds of staff and volunteers that I met were...
passionate, extremely helpful and genuine people.
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
hire more staff, expand its programs, move to a bigger office space, have more large scale events more often, and hopefully successfully keep more people from living on the streets through education and advocacy programs that could reach more people.
Ways to make it better...
I had been given a little more guidance when I first started my internship.
In my opinion, the biggest challenges facing this organization are...
employee turnover and a lack of organization in terms of supplies and old documents laying around the office.
One thing I'd also say is that...
MHA-SF is a great place to work and the organization does a lot of great work for people in San Francisco who suffer from the effects of mental illness.
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2008
