Professionals versus volunteers

The community draws an explicit line between matters for trained professionals and matters volunteers can hold: clinically dangerous behaviour, medical emergencies, and legal processes are referred out, and the community maintains a list of external resources for situations beyond its capacity, expertise, medical, or legal scope. The community does not take responsibility it cannot competently carry.

Deliberately left open

The resource list itself is to be compiled (feeds SYN-047).

The external-resource list is yet to be compiled

The draft commits to maintaining a list of external professional resources for situations beyond the community's capacity, but the list itself has not been compiled. It feeds the reference library (SYN-047).

If left open The professionals-vs-volunteers line only works if the referral destinations actually exist. Until the list is compiled, a volunteer facing a clinical or legal emergency has nowhere concrete to refer to.

Options for resolution

Compile an initial vetted resource list (medical, legal, crisis) before go-live
Start with a minimal referral list and expand it as gaps surface
Assign a custodian to keep the list current in the reference library (SYN-047)

Where this comes from · 3 source items

This draft merges what the community actually said across 3 source items — every source ID is permanent and traceable.

GTC-040 Drawing line between what is for professionals and not volunteers
GTC-073 External resources for situations outside our capacity/expertise/medical/legal
OPIN-104 The community cannot be held responsible for cases where there is a clinical behavior that is dangerous to others. That is for professionals, not volunteers

Themes · scope of community safety · legal interface · reporter support

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