Managing Hunger Trauma in Community Food Support

Managing Hunger Trauma in Community Food Support: How do we address the systemic betrayal, moral injury, and distress in staff and volunteers?

This talk is based on a new piece of research exploring the psychological and ethical challenges faced by staff and volunteers in community food support organisations, given our status as an essential yet unofficial part of the UK welfare system. The report calls for urgent action given the scale of moral distress, moral conflicts and burnout in staff and volunteers, the national systemic failure of food policy and provision, growing food insecurity and its profound psychological toll on both those who use and provide community food support. It then covers a new project being developed by a group of food activists, academics and food partnerships to explore what collective representation could look like to give a voice to those in community food support, particularly for staff and volunteers, but also users. 

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