#case worker

Relax, Hal. Have a seat.

I’m deeply convinced that my work as a social worker is as political as it can get. Yes, I work for the German country, and I have to follow some rules; comes with the territory. But I also think, that our job is the one point to really make a difference for young people. 

1. You as a social worker are usually the first one who really cares about these people. Often their parents are rubbish and the police and the state don’t care either. There is no lobby for the interest of precarious teenagers.

2. Except you, of course. So let’s take this seriously. 

3. You have to care about stuff like, racist shit that is happening on a daily basis to them. Or other discriminatory behavior that they are surrounded by. Maybe from teachers, parents, police, society, advertising, during the job search or in romantic relationships. 

4. Make sure that they know that you are on their side. Stand behind them. Believe them.

5. If nobody tells you, that it’s not okay, what's happening to you, how should you learn to be an assertive, resistive, loud and independent person? Without anyone on your side, it’s hard. So let’s be on their side.

6. And that is fucking political. It’s political to stand up to your coworker who reproduces racist shit. If you hear a parent say homophobic stuff and you interfere.  It’s political to go to your majors’ office and tell them if they close the youth center, or the skate park, or the $randomplacetheyliketohangout that the office is metaphorically going to burn.

It’s also providing permanency, safety, support, love, and guidance for not only kids, but families, that didn’t have it before the system stepped in. It’s the kids who had a bad life thank you for saving them. It’s hugs for comfort, thankfulness, or just joy. It’s reuniting families and rejoicing for parents who fought so hard against their inner demons.

 in this AU David is Max’s Caseworker and hes struggling to find a good family to put him, David has been max caseworker for 3 years which is probably the longest Davids gone without finding a child a good home. Over the years hes developed a fondness for max. Which is problematic because David cant just focus on Max he has other kids he need to help.

  Max cant live with David because hes his caseworker but he was lucky enough to convince Gwen to to be his temporary foster parent just until he can find a better home for him.

I’m going to try to do this every Monday when I usually write my goals, but yesterday ended up being a wonky day and I never got to writing stuff. In part because of some ptsd issues, and in part because of a migraine. Ugh. Anywho, I’m functioning at the moment so here’s the update ;) 

Last Week’s Goals: 

1. Butt in chair writing 5 days or more: I made it five days this week. I knew my streak of doing seven days in a week was gonna end at some point XD 2. Short Stories: Complete and post at least one of the active stories. Finish initial drafts on the other two. Yeah, this didn’t happen. I did write two pages of notes for another idea though >_> Oops. 3. The Quake: Fix the end of pt. 7, write pt. 8 I needed to talk to my brother to figure out one bit, but once that was done I got both of these done, and even made a few notes for the next two scenes! 4. Life stuff: Make some progress on the list every day. Eh, kinda? But the days I didn’t were because some of the previous days kiiiinda broke me so I needed to rest and recover. Which is important too so I’ll take it.