I haven’t quit my job because it has awesome benefits. I did not have children specifically to receive cash and food and medical care. No one does. Or at least, no one who can do 2nd grade math would think cash aid is enough to live one, especially not with a child. There is a […]

Cash aid is available for women who are in the 4th month of pregnancy Legislative Victory! New Law Will Help Facilitate Financial Independence for Pregnant Women In a hugely positive development for pregnant women – especially victims of domestic violence – on September 26, 2014 Governor Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 1579, known as […]

Media: I only hear stories of homeless people who go on crime sprees or homeless people who returned a lot of money. There is no middle ground. We did not hear stories of the poor who are also just average people. Of course I work exclusively with homeless families and , like the general population, […]

Pregnancy isn’t fair. It only happens in women and not always when they want it. My conservative friends are talking to their screens right now, explaining that Sex is only for reproduction and any woman who doesn’t want a baby should not be having sex. Unfairly, they are not saying the same thing about men. […]

There are days when no one comes in to the office for a meeting with me. There are no days that I have nothing going on schedule. 70% of social work is really paperwork : filing , sorting , mailing, faxes, emails… . We all have bandages tucked into desk drawers just waiting for the […]

Sometimes when you work with a marginalized population, you hire from that same pool of clients and they become your coworkers. This means that your coworker is sometimes a toothless lady to hitched her way across the country to by performing sexual acts on truck drivers. Clearly, comprising is key. I used to give Spartan […]