Before I left for work this morning, I grabbed a book I got at a training about a year ago. It's called Parents, Teens and Boundaries. I remember loving this book when I first got it. Mainly because I could see everyone in my life on the pages. My old co-workers and their over-indulgent style. My mother and her occasional "do as I say, not as I do ( Read more... )

I was expecting more juicy stuff. lol

"What do you consider to be the most fufilling aspect of your job?"Hmmmm. I guess the relationships themselves. The largest part of any long-term (successful) counseling is forming a relationship with the person. Seeing them do things like leave their pimp, get into school and get housing are all nice, but ( Read more... )

Where to start? Where to start? I guess I'll start with the rampant inconsistencies in the law (since I had two conversations about that pretty recently).

Fuck the laws
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So I think I mentioned before that we have daily groups at GEMS. One of which is Health Education where a social worker comes from Mt. Sinai hospital and talks to the girls about STDs, safe sex and blahblahblah. So Jess (the SW) had brought in dental dams for one of the members and the others kept asking about them so she incorporated it into the ( Read more... )

*peeks in ( Read more... )

Ok I have two Jessica stories I've been meaning to tell ( Read more... )