02/04/2021
It is Thankful Thursday. Today we give praise to Support Staff.
‘Support Staff is a community of hospitality professionals working alongside mental health professionals, and community organizers to change the structures of the hospitality industry. Support Staff’s goals are to break down the stigmas surrounding mental health, give employers better tools to better support their employees, and give hourly employees tools to better advocate for their well-being. The hospitality industry relies heavily on the emotional labor of its employees, which leads to the inevitable dehumanization of the individuals within this industry. It is an incredibly unsustainable business model, and has led to many untimely and preventable deaths. Support Staff’s target demographic encompasses all hospitality industry professionals within Chicago. Since mental health affects everyone — all socioeconomic backgrounds, all ethnicities, ages, gender and sexual orientations — nobody within Chicago’s hospitality community is outside of the scope of our work’.
To date their Comp Tab Relief Fund has given out over $75,000 of need based financial assistance to over 150 out of work hospitality workers.
For more information you can check out their website www.please hustle responsibly.org
To donate you can go to https://secure.actblue.com/donate/support-staff-1
Thank you Support Staff for the amazing work that you do!