see if there is a food bank in your area........our food bank is always short of volunteers........were DESPERATE!

it was interesting listening to the speeches today, about keeping kids safe. the chief justice, who is quite the inspiration, who i have heard speak on a number of occasions and she always makes me feel inadequate as a social worker because i feel content focusing on change in my own little corner of the world, she gave quite the speech repeating the mantra of no more child abuse, having us yell it over and over. she talked about all the kids who have died as a result of abuse, yada yada yada........but i sat there and thought and considered my life of abuse and the knowledge i have of the system that is in place to protect children. part of my job is to work in tandem with this system. my colleages work with this system. I know enough of this system to know that it would not have done anything to protect me from the abuse i had suffered. nobody today talked about the devastating consequences. nobody talked about how ill i am as a result of this abuse and there is no system in place that would have protected me, now or then. that made me sad.