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1-Unlike the non-insider staff who lived separately from the communities they worked with and in, the peer-workers lived there, making boundaries and time for themselves away from their work very difficult. What problems does this create for insider workers? There are many benefits to having insider workers within community services, such as getting insight and a deeper understanding of the members' perspectives about the community. Although there are many positives to having insider workers, problems also arise. Some issues are created for insider workers when combining and confusing their personal life with their work life, possibly impacting relationships with friends and family in the community and creating role conflict. When working in the community where you are also living, you are helping people you are close with and live around. This may confuse your friends and family when you are talking because they are not sure if you are talking to them as friends or outreach workers. There are ways that people could take offence to something you say if you are acting as a worker, but they are confused and take it as something a friend is trying to communicate. That could create a riff in a friendship or relationship from just doing their job. The other problem is role conflict. When working in a community, you also live in, it may be confusing as to what roles to play at certain times. When you are at home, you are playing the role of either a spouse, parent, or friend. That can be hard when you go back to your place of work and are surrounded by those same people when you are now trying to do your job, not as someone they know as a friend but as an employee/community worker. When you come home, you might feel like you are still trying to do that job with the people around you. Understanding the role you play as a community worker is very important.

2- Come up with three strategies on how they could better support their community workers. Please explain how you would implement each strategy and talk about the potential benefits for both of them. The first strategy that could help them better support their community workers is by putting in policies that you cannot work with someone within your community that you are close with or related to. By putting in these types of rules, you limit the conflict that could happen if an insider worker were to be working alongside a friend or family member in the community. The insider worker can also benefit because they don't have to feel awkward if they don't want to be in that position if they think it might affect their relationship with that person. The second strategy is implementing new guidelines as to how one is trained to work in the community. One of these guidelines could be making sure that the insider workers must work alongside someone who has been working there for quite some time or is an outsider worker. This will benefit them because it will help guide them along in a way that will help them be professional and not let the knowledge they have or think they have about the community interfere with the job at hand. The third and final strategy is always to have the insider workers work closely with someone of high authority or a non-insider worker to ensure that they are influenced to do the job and not have any personal issues or biased opinions come in between focus. The benefits to this would be that they would be working with someone who has a separate personal life from the one in which they work and would have the influence to do the same.

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