Long Island Crisis Center

While I haven't volunteered here, my wife, a Fordham trained, licensed social worker with advanced counseling skills, has. She committed to all their training and to requisite numbers of shifts over nine months. Yesterday, she received a call (out of the blue with no prior feedback that this was being considered) that she was "no longer needed" as they thought " this wasn't really for her". This was both unexpected and seemingly arbitrary. Since they have a fresh class of new recruits, I guess they just wanted to hold out for what they regard as most suitable ( whatever that means!!). What a disrespectful, unprofessional and cowardly approach. After nine months, they couldn't even bring themselves to have a face to face conversation? This is not the behavior of empathic and skilled professionals. It is crude, cruel, & capricious conduct. And these are the folks training others to handle crises on the phone? Give me a break! Oh, not even a thank you. Volunteers beware!