Volunteering @Mendpoverty
This is Darla and Christian
Read More Volunteering @MendpovertyThis is Darla and Christian
Read More Volunteering @MendpovertyMy job working with the homeless and poor has a risk factor threat level of red that something each day will depress the living gumdrops out of me. Today found out a potential client I had contacted a while back lives right behind me. That’s cool. Her newborn baby died at 3 weeks old. That’s […]
Read More Depressing factorAll children deserve a quality education. 1 on 1 tutoring Toll free number to keep in touch Tutoring in shelters Locating school records Scholarships for extra classes and college 2030 students served last year. The goal this year is 2,800 students.
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Read More Job Fair Dec 7thI’m popular with the kids. But it also sparks the conversations of 1. Do you give toys to charity 2. What was your favorite childhood toy. 3. Have you purchased a similar toy to your favorite to give away?
Read More Just Some of the toys on My DeskA.K.A. another day in the life. 80% of social work is paperwork. "Flex your fingers and prepare to sign your name like a rock-star!" But all the forms you sign get processed by me and then filed. (The alphabet and I are arch enemies , just f.y.i. ) Every day I bleed for my art […]
Read More Stabbed by a Manilla Folder in the Line of dutyParanoid frustration is being on hold while calling the Los Angeles P.E.T. team. (Psychiatric Emergency Team). I have multiple people calling every number I know and all numbers gutter into the same phone bank and we are all on hold. This is *after* selecting 1 for English and navigating call option choices. If you ever […]
Read More Suicide Hot line … on HOLD!My friend Bonnie likes to reference the Eye Poke. I am surprised I have eyes left for all the times I have tried to carefully consider all circumstances and personality traits of my clients (and sometimes friends) and make a plan for success that honors the obsticles in our way. Sometimes it works. Once I […]
Read More Poking Myself in the EyeI thought I had lost this video of Anne. She died Christmas Eve a few years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j24PVf85ILA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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