I will never sleep like this again, safely sheltered from the cruelties we inflict, one upon the other. I gave up more than I bargained for when I became a social worker. My last call tonight is with a young mother. She gave birth 2.5 weeks ago and is hiding in a hotel. She gave […]
Read More Loss of InnocenceWhat?! Seriously? No! Don’t walk out of the agreed upon choice we made to help you get a job and THEN come here to tell me you’re losing your housing because the owner of the house said you had to be working or looking for work to stay housed with them.
Read More Frustration: Helping someone doesn’t mean living their life for them.I don’t know why or how, I just know that it is possible
Read More starbucks – free on July 13, 2012Donate funds. #StopSummerHunser @MendPoverty #fbThe agency putting the food boxes together has a good feel of who their clients are and what their dietary needs and cooking facilities are. Often a food drive co-ordinator will already have corporate sponcers donating non parioshable foods, but the food bank also needs cheeses, meats and milks that can […]
Read More Don’t Donate Food to Food DrivesThe lady is homeless and now arrested http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/06/21/400-pound-woman-arrested-for-wearing-birthday-suit-on-bus-bench/
Read More Changing clothes; bare babe on bus benchAs I sit in the stands at East Los Angeles Community College listening to Dr John Deasy and Cory Lopez and Bennet Kayser and Miss Yosemitie Escevera welcome the graduates: I think this ceremony looks like every other graduation I have witnessed. But it sounds so very different. The Options Program was almost demolished this […]
Read More Options Program at the LAUSDAt East LA College. For the last year I have had 156 high schooling parents added to my cases. Today I get to watch many of them graduate in a combined ceremony of the alternative schools. This is cool. So damned cool.
Read More Teen Mom Graduation #fbDon’t have a cool slogan, and do require refrigerators, but it can be done.
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