My Mental Health morning

Learning about mental health enhances my understanding of many homeless clients.

50% of Homeless Women have Experienced Sexual Violence

The #Trumptapes have made sexual assault a topic of conversation again. Donald Trump said he likes to grab pussies. FYI, “Pussy” is a synonym for vagina. Grabbing one without permission is violating someone. He said women let hem do anything to their bodies because he is a celebrity. That logic translates often to housed people […]

Politics are Personal

“All politics are local”-Tip O, when speaker of the house I take politics personally because they touch my lifeet. The laws and the people who pass them create the system in which we live. We have clean water. We are not being bombed. My kids have access to vaccinations. Our food is safe to eat. […]

The US Debt is $19.3 Trillion Dollars:Blame the Poor People

This always gets me. A sweet girl (Amy Cudworth) I knew in Jr. High posted a rant about how families could and are abusing the welfare system and she personally is paying for them. Dear Amy, your simple knee jerk reaction was to look at the most visible consumers of American Tax Dollars and assume they […]

All School day at @usc

Every year the School of Social Work has an ally School Day. This year we celebrate the renaming if a building. I kinda hope they give out all the merchandise with the old name away for free. These are the faces I see in all of my classes. They are my friends, my partners in […]

This Assisted Living Facility Is Designed to Look Like a Neighborhood

I love this idea. I worked in an locked down Alzheimer unit for a while and I think the patients would really have warmed to this. https://shar.es/1wxtQl The elaborate interior layout is meant to help patients with anxiety and depression. This message was sent using ShareThis (http://www.sharethis.com)

The Ugly Truth of Obama Care Users

The woman was on her knees, holding my hands and openly weeping. Her son sat at the desk looking a pale shade of green, his deep eye hollows shading the tears forming there. They were thankful, grateful, relieved and so overwhelmed by the Cancer diagnosis that they could not formulate a reasonable reaction to being […]

Home, Homelessness and Kindergarten

My little one started Kindergarten yesterday. I posted her photo in Facebook and enjoyed the comments updating the ad I waited out the hours before I would see her again and hear about her new adventure. One of the comments.was from the mother of a childhood friend, she said she remembered my first day of […]

Whirlpool Care Counts Improves Attendance In Schools

http://www.scarymommy.com/whirlpool-care-counts-improves-attendance-in-schools/?utm_source=FB

Child Care, All That Stands Between Us and Poverty.

Dear LAUSD and all public schools, Please make more room in your after school care program. I can’t be the only parent facing this challenge. I could not work if I did not have child care and I could not afford child care if I did not work. Right now I am a single mother […]