#child rights advocate

[alicenowonderland]

STORY TIME !! 🖊

Unlike any other people, I have an idea what a Social Worker is. Pero ang alam ko lang ay taga-bigay sila ng relief goods kapag may kalamidad, taga-tulong sa mga nangangailangan lalo na sa mga kinapos sa pambayad sa ospital at mag-bigay ng edukasyon sa mga Mangyan.

Both my parents are community organizers and community developers. Kaya siguro hindi gaanong bago sa akin ang magtrabaho kasama ang mga nasa laylayan ng lipunan at mga considered “vulnerable” sectors.

I finished my degree after 5 and a half years. Hehe 😅 Oo, hindi ako on time grumaduate. Sobrang pressure pa noong Board Exam dahil mag-isa akong nag-take sa school namin, so it 0% or 100%. Pero syempre hindi ako na-pressure, nag-inom ako 😂😅

Matapos ang exam, pag-uwi sa Calapan, nag-volunteer ako bilang community profiler sa Conservation Innovation Philippines. Noong pumasa ako ng board exam, kinabukasan nag-apply kaagad ako sa mga field na interesado ako. Pero naka-set talaga noon ang mind ko na sa Province ako mag-wowork.

Kasama ng ilang mga Social Workers kong naging kaibigan sa Luna Goco (hindi ako don graduate pero naging friends ko sila) nag-apply kami ng trabaho sa probinsya. Hanggang sa nakapasok ako bilang Medical Social Worker sa MMG Hospital sa amin. After 3 months, tumawag ang Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office.

Naaalala ko pa noong nag-aapply ako sa PSWDO, pinasulat ako ni Mam Zarah kung alin sa tatlong method ng Social Work ang strength at weakness ko. Syempre, strength ko ang community organizing at weakness ko ang Case Work. Bakit? Siguro dahil mas nababad ako sa komunidad. Mula sa mga magulang ko, hanggang sa mga gawain sa simbahan, pulos pag-oorganisa. Isa siguro sa dahilan kaya ako mahina sa Case Work ay dahil tamad akong mag-sulat (nang hindi literary fiction) at medyo hindi fruitful ang experience ko during my Field Instruction 1 and 2. Nahirapan ako sa Case Work.

Surprisingly, inilagay ako ni Mam Zarah sa Bahay Kanlungan. Isang temporary shelter para sa mga abused and neglected women and children. In other words, maraming Case Work. Maraming Case Management. Tamad na tamad ako nung una pero pipilit kong mag-trabaho. Ina-apply ko iyong mga mga bagay na napag-aralan ko. May times pa na kapag uuwi ako matapos kong gumawa ng Case Study Report ay masusuka ako o lalagnatin dahil sa stess sa mga cases na nababasa at napapakinggan ko. Sa kakapilit ko sa sarili ko, sa kakapush nila Ate Net at Ate Mira sa akin, sa tiwala nilang tatlo ni Mam Zarah at nang mga kasama namin sa BK, masasabi kong nag-improve ako sa pag-gawa ng CSR at Case Management.

Habang nasa BK, naranasan ko rin na maging taga-balot ng relief goods at mag-monitor ng bagyo. HINDI KA SOCIAL WORKER PAG HINDI KA NAKARAMAS NG RELIEF OP! HAHAHAHA!!! Naranasan kong pumasok ng 2pm to 10pm para dumuty sa pier para mag-bigay ayuda sa mga Locally Stranded Individuals noong kasagsagan ng Pandemic.

Nag-part time ako bilang Research Assistant sa project ng USAID at Ateneo de Manila tungkol sa epekto ng illegal drugs sa relasyon ng mga substance abuse users at sa kanilang mga pamilya.

Sa BK ko naranasan maging Nanay, Ate, Tita at maging warrior rawr 😂 Nang-aaway nang mga guardian na nagpapa-urong ng kaso ng mga bata. Sa BK ko nadevelop ang marami kong skills tulad ng courage, patience... OO PATIENCE na laging paalala ni Ate Nen dahil mainitin ang ulo ko at ang Integrity. Always na paalala ni Mam Zarah at kahit saako makarating naririnig ko ang bilin niyang INTEGRITY. 😇 Blessed to have a boss like her. Blessed to have colleagues like them.

May part time din ako noon na counseling. May bata akong na basic counseling cause she seems like lost. She has plans for herself, hindi niya lang ma express and I am happy to see that she is okay now. She is vocal and an achiever sa school 😭🥰

After almost 4 years sa Bahay Kanlungan, I tried new venture. I worked at TeleCPU. A project by Child Protection Network (#AkoParaSaBata) and Unicef. 🩵 A Multi-disciplinary team na ang focus din is crisis intervention to abused children. Child Protection Unit (CPU) is a "one stop shop" for the children victims of abuse. Dream job ko ang Philippine General Hospital (PGH) but knowing na mataas ang standards nila, I did not go for it at balak ko nga sa Province lang mag work, but then, God really has plans. God really knows our greatest desires. Pinagtrabaho niya ako sa PGH-CPU. 💙 A dream job. A dream team (SHOUTOUT MGA WENGWENG!) Dito ko na experience kumausap sa mga Barangay Officials at Barangay Workers. Na-experience makipag deal sa mga tao, sumagot ng helpline calls at maging MASTER TYPER sa APSB 😂 🧡 Naranasan ko rin tumulong mag-organize ng big events, gumising nang maaga at matulog ng late 😂 kahit na tinulugan ko si Doc at si Papi nung sinabi kong tutulong ako 😂 BEST BOSS SI DOC MARIANNE. 🤍 Natutunan ko maging organized (medyo) at mas maging professional sa working place. FOCUS kung FOCUS. Higit sa lahat natutunan kong respetuhin na may iba't iba tayong working styles at working phase. 🥰

Pero sabi ko nga, may plano si Lord. AT syempre, darating ang time na kinakailangan kong umuwi ulit sa province dahil ni Tala. Kung pwede ko nga lang siyang dalhin sa Manila eh. Honestly, ito na yata ang pinaka-challenging na trabaho para sa akin. After almost 5 years of working with child abuse cases, sea abuse naman 😅

I am currently employed at Malampaya Foundation. Isang napaka-generous na NGO. Wala akong masabi, bigay talaga sila ng incentives sa employees. Hindi ka tatamarin ng work, sa halip ma momotivate kang pataasin ang incentives at bonus mo. 🤣 #MukhangPeraWithAHeart Isa naman akong community organizer dito. Ang funny noh? Ang sabi ko ang strength ko ay COMMUNITY ORGANIZING pero heto ako ngayon sobrang nag-aadjust at hirap na hirap 😅 Kaya ko naman. I know I can pero dumarating talaga tayo sa career life natin na nalilito tayo at nahihirapan sa ginagawa natin. I am convincing myself to strive, to be better. Alam kong kaya ko and I am doing my best to help the communities na maiangat iyong livelihood nila at matulungan sila sa Marine Conservation kahit na basic lang ang alam ko.

Siguro isa sa kalakasan ko iyong adventurous akong tao. Tuwang tuwa ako noong nag-training ng Mangrove Assessment, wala man akong naintindihan sa terms pero noong practical na super go na go ako. Nag-enjoy akong mag-lakad sa putik at mag-sukat ng mangroves. Na-eenjoy ko na tuwing pupunta ako ng communities ay may mga kwento sila at naka-ngiti ko silang iiwan matapos ko silang matulungan kung paano nila matutulungan ang mga sarili nila. ❤️💙💛 Sa trabaho ko ngayon nahahasa ang resource mobilization skills ko at ang mediation skills.

I have a looooong way to go.

Marami pa akong gustong field na maranasan.

Ang pangarap ko talaga ay maging doctor. Pero one way or another, na realize ko na nanggagamot din ako, hindi man ng lagnat o anumang pisikal na sakit, pero nakakagamot ako sa kalidad at estado ng buhay ng mga tao. Nakakagaling ako ng mga emosyonal na sakit.

Masaya akong naging Social Worker ako.

Kahit minsan, litong lito na ako sa buhay ko.

HAPPY WORLD SOCIAL WORK'S DAY 💜 Maligayang Araw sa atin mga Manggagawang Panlipunan 💜 Nag-iba ka man ng landas, successful o nagiging successful ka pa lang

ARAW NATIN 'TOH! 💜🌻

#HappySocialWorkMonth

#HappySocialWorkersDay

[froody]

The argument around elective abortions for fetuses with profound disabilities are like “I aborted my deeply wanted and loved child because the quality and quantity of their life would be abysmal and I could not stand the idea of giving birth to a child I could never take home who would spend their short existence hooked up to innumerable machines and pumped full of medication.” and antiabortion activists hear this and say “You killed your child because you couldn’t stand the idea of having a disabled kid. You evil eugenicist fuck. The doctors could have been wrong and they could have been fine but you’re such a bad parent you gave up on them before they were even born.”

[ivygorgon]

👰‍♀️Say NO to Child Marriages in America! Implement Standardized Marriage Age Laws

AN OPEN LETTER to THE PRESIDENT & U.S. CONGRESS; STATE GOVERNORS & LEGISLATURES

2 so far! Help us get to 5 signers!

I am writing to express my deep concerns regarding the discrepancies and alarming loopholes in marriage age laws across the states and to advocate for action towards implementing a standardized marriage age of 18 nationwide, with strict provisions that prohibit underage marriage below 16 and set an age of consent not below 16. Additionally, I recommend setting a consent age gap provision that is no more permissive than at least 14 years old and up to five years older, further ensuring the safety and well-being of our youth.

It is alarming to note that four states—California, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma—currently have no official minimum age for marriage but require parental consent or court approval. This inconsistency in laws creates dangerous loopholes that could be exploited by individuals seeking to harm or exploit minors. Allowing underage marriage below the age of 16 poses serious risks, including increased vulnerability to exploitation and abuse.

I urge you to take immediate steps towards implementing a consistent and protective legal framework by advocating for standardized marriage age laws across the nation.

Thank you for considering this urgent matter. I strongly believe that uniform marriage age laws are essential to safeguarding the rights and safety of young individuals and preventing potential harm.

Together, we can say NO to child marriage and child exploitation!

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[kkoct-ik]

how are you supposed to react to the realisation that your parent is like actually abusive

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

once again thinking about a version of the story where 13 lands in sheffield three years earlier when ryan and yaz are still sixteen and a whole lot angrier

13 turning out a bit more immature bc she spends her first twenty-four hours after regenerating with these reactive and kinda fucked up kids. ryan dealing with grace and graham recently getting married or getting ready to get married. probably feeling abandoned by his grandmother after his mother and father. feeling alone with his grief. maybe kinda just has tibo to confide in. yaz meanwhile is in hell getting bullied and either recently got driven home from a running away attempt and is now dealing with the familial aftermath of that, or is planning the running away. maybe kiiiiiiinda just has sonya to confide in but probably not really. probably doesnt confide in anyone

13, still malleable and fluid, running into these messed up teenagers who reflect all her own lonely angry betrayed abandoned feelings back to her, shaping herself in response to them. they dont trust her at all to start with, but i think she'd win yaz over in a similar way she does in canon, presenting herself as an authority who listens and understands. perhaps slightly more the understanding than authority part at this point in yaz's life. maybe she lands in front of yaz actually in the hills before anita can get there. yaz is like "where the fuck did you come from" and shes like "um the troposphere i think" and yaz is like "how are you not dead" and shes like "oh i was! but then i decided maybe i shouldnt be. so. now im here :) with you!" and that kinda strikes a chord with yaz. and then the doctor's like "do you happen to have a sandwich in that backpack im starving"

then aliens happen and once they run into ryan, yaz is already won over and she and ryan recognise each other and she convinces him that, like, no shes not nuts, theres definitely aliens shes seen them

11x1 would go entirely differently obviously. maybe grace wouldnt die and graham wouldnt travel. ryan maybe decides to travel a little bit out of spite and home doesnt really feel like home, and yaz isnt having fun at home or at school either and she was running away anyway so this is not a hard decision

the emotional instability and bad decision counter of a team tardis thats just 16-year-old yaz and ryan and 13 is kind of amazing to imagine. it'd be so volatile but they'd love each other so much i think they'd be the best friends bc instead of starting off closing herself off from grief, 13 would start off having her justified and irrational anger sort of validated and coaxed out i think by yaz's and ryan's. in the tardis between the three of them there would be a place to express "nobody cares about me" whether thats true isnt the point, i think theyre all feeling it a little bit. "everyone just moved on like mum didnt matter/'tell an adult' like what are they gonna do?/okay it wasnt all their faults but all my friends are dead" you know? i think they'd be heard with each other and i think there'd be space for the injustice of it all and especially as the doctor is like a children's advocate most of all, she would take ryan and yaz seriously in a way i think they wouldnt have been by any other adult in their lives at that point. and in return they, just by being there as they are, would make room for the hurt child that 13 is and will turn out to be

and i dont have details for this but i think it would be really nice if the way 13 listens and takes seriously yaz and ryan in the first season (not like consciously or deliberately or anything, shes not trying to Do anything, this is just who the doctor is) would be mirrored in the second and/or the third when they have calmed down a bit, dealt with some of their issues at home, talked to some family members, become a little less depressed and angry etc, and they return the way she treated them when she finds out abt the timeless child and tecteun. she took their anger seriously and she took them seriously when they said "this isnt fair" and in return they can take her anger seriously, probably are angry on her behalf, and they can stop her from overcorrecting from like being 10 by pointing out to her that this isnt fair and shes allowed to be angry abt it

and when yaz inevitably gets a crush i think it shows up as a kind of out of character/seemingly regressive prickliness and snappiness toward the doctor getting more intense over the course of s12 that ryan and the doctor first are puzzled by bc like sure in the first half of s11 maybe they were all a bit snappish with each other but theyve been friends for like a year now whats this about all of a sudden? and yaz is like Nothing!!!! it's nothing!!! piss of!!! bc shes having feelings she doesnt know what to do with or how to interpret so theyre just manifesting as Angery. that same need to prove herself + probably worry abt the doctor as in canon except a lot more combative and a lot less inhibited. shes probably picking fights abt everything the doctor tells her to do. trying to provoke the doctor into actually getting mad and yelling at her or, god forbid, grabbing her, shoving her, using her hands bc yaz wont listen to words. sometimes youre 17 and horny and you dont understand you want one of your two friends in the world to kiss you bc it hasnt occurred to you that girls kissing girls is a thing that can happen. ryan figures it out first

in this version ryan probably stays until the end too - or the same as in revolution happens and yaz feels betrayed that he'd give up on the doctor so easily and feels alone in the entire world again - graham and dan wouldnt come into the picture. ryan's and yaz's family would come into the picture a little more actively. theres a lot of plot to figure out that i cant and it would be a very different era in many ways but i think it would be nice

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

Anyway I think the twist being the main character was what they despised all along fucks actually

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Soooo wait a minute.

Royalists get a-hold of a video of Meghan as a child pouting at her dad and instantly insult a then-child-Meghan and also still drag her literal children constantly nowadays...

...But when a video of William as a toddler gets brought up to show he had clear temper issues even as a child, suddenly we need to leave children alone???

Oh the double standards are truly strong...

[fightaers]

sleepy thoughts rn but people tend to overlook iruka so much because he’s incredibly ordinary and in a world filled with characters who have enhanced ability, iruka is clearly mediocre and average at best and yet people better not be forgetting that my man CONSISTENTLY was voted top 10 each time they had a pole bc iruka is THE HEART of the story. specially because he is naruto’s HEART. every condition that the shinobi world rejected, he embodied so openly and thoroughly: he is compassionate, he is caring, he’s not without flaws as we see him angry and easily snapping at people even @ jōnins above his level, and yet there is care and an inherent kindness driving the act. he was never malicious, and while many in their world would consider it a huge flaw: iruka wore his heart on his sleeve, consistently. proudly.

[tentacle-therapissed]

The more I get into the mental health field and the more my own mental health has worsened the more it astounds me how many people- who 100% believe themselves to be mental health advocates- would rather have a society in which people who are more likely to harm others as a result of untreated mental illness are tortured and/or killed instead of, yknow, treated. Some of yall are so obsessed with dispelling the stigma that mentally ill people are inherently more dangerous, you wrap back around to straight up ignoring that severe untreated mental illnesses can and sometimes do explain awful and often criminal behaviors. You don’t have to have sympathy or compassion for ANYONE who is mentally ill if they’ve done terrible things but if you’re more interested in supporting systems that punish abusers and perpetrators than systems which support the victims— who in our current society are given very minimal resources in comparison to the resources put into our punital systems— maybe you should re-evaluate what your priorities actually are. When all the evidence shows that rehabilitation, reform, and mental health treatment are most notably and consistently effective at lowering crime and re-offence rates, it genuinely baffles me how anyone could actually be against these systems while continuing to believe they’re truly on the side of bettering society and supporting mental health. I’ve seen so many people say ‘yall support mental health symptoms until they’re not palatable’ and ‘abusers deserve to suffer and die’ in the same breath, like where is the self awareness?? I totally understand such extreme emotional responses on a small, personal scale to those who have wronged you but if you’re allowing your own unhealed wounds to inform your genuine beliefs about society and capital punishment as a whole you seriously should work on that.

[forbiddnsky]

bro stop letting ur ugly ass kids hurt animals and carry them inappropriately when they are clearly hurting the animals and stressing them out. it's not cute filming them doing that shit, teach them how to properly pet or take care of animals. its common fucking sense why do so many parents have shit for brains

[just-rogi]

I’m fucking venting here bc I’m angry and don’t have anyone to talk to and I’m not sure if this is political correct or right or whatever but I’m fucking pissed - I’m a public school teacher who works in the inner city and this year alone there have been two shootings in my neighborhood involving students not dying school hours- and one student who went missing due to gang ties (they were found ALIVE a DAYS later) -

I’m fucking TIRED I’m FREAKED OUT and I’m ANGRY because I have to go into work tomorrow and I have to have that conversation with the kids during our SEL block because they will have questions and bc they are in middle school some will not know how to process it and will joke while others will be genuinely upset

and I feel nauseous thinking about the fact that my mother and four of my closest friends are all going through the same fucking shit as teachers at different schools right now- and my roommate who is trans- and unrelated to his identity is also kinda an asshole- has been shitting on me all night about how I’m not I’m danger like he is and how I don’t know his pain (and while I’m not making excuses I’m an openly gay teacher who works directly with the lgbt students and activly educated my kids on trans rights AND I work for a nonprofit organization that directly works to protect trans and queer rights and JUST LAST WEEK put out a video for our organization on antitrans laws - I’m not saying I fucking get what it’s like to be trans but Jesus fuck I’m fighting the fight for trans youth more than you are working at Whole Foods) why the FUCK are you quantifying suffering, why the FUCK are you lashing out at ME of all people, and why the fuck are you telling a public school teacher in inner city Boston that I have no idea what it’s like to be afraid- motherfucker I’m angry I’m sorry but why the fuck are you monopolizing suffering why do you think you have the right to talk to me this fucking way. I get you are scared but you work in Whole Foods in Massachusetts- the bluest state there is- )

there is no fucking cap on grief- sorry I’m upset at this as well but you saying it doesn’t directly effect me is just so fucking ignorant and suffering shouldn’t be quantifiable mf we are on the same fucking side why are you infighting right now (and I know this isn’t relevant and this is entirely unrelated to him being trans but god he is so fucking sexist- saying shit like I have no idea what it’s like to have my bodily autonomy at risk as if roe v wade didn’t get overturned THIS year???) sometimes it pisses me off like fucking sorry I’m being over emotional and overreacting to a school shooting as a fucking public school teacher GOD I should be allowed to be angry too in my own goddamn apartment-

you don’t get to sit on your high horse and say you suffer more than me and that I’m not allowed to be afraid ok I’m done I’m gonna go in tomorrow and make sure to hug my one openly trans kid extra hard bc I know they are suffering just like I know my roomate is suffering and needs a place to express his anger- I get I’m an easy target bc I’m a safe person to lash out at and I’m not telling anyone how to grieve and I know a lot of this is just knee jerk reaction to violence and anger- I just wish he wasn’t expressing it at the one fucking person who doesn’t deserve it, like fuck, the one thing people always say about public school teachers is that we have it TOO easy, especially the night after a school shooting

*Also fuck terfs and fuck anyone who is using a tragedy as an excuse to hate trans people*

[drakonovisny]

am i supposed to take this seriously after all the shit she's said and done before?

lmao

[surpriserose]

okay was informed aboht how colleen hoover writes sex again so i have to turn into a cringe sex ed teacher but like oh my god

Penatrative sex should not hurt!!!!!!! Anal or vaginal!!!! If you are going to penatrate your partner you should make sure one that its uh what they actually want and two make sure it doesnt fucking hurt them????? Because no shoving shit in dry is not good for anyone its not hot its not sexy it hurts and it sucks and sex should be good not shitty because your partner doesnt care about you!!!!!!!!!! Like you wouldnt want a girl going in dry penatrating you dude she isnt gonna want that shit either!!!!!!!! Also penatrative sex is not the only way to have sex even for cishet couples oh my god and if penatrative sex is consistently painful or bad for you its okay to seek out ways to improve it or other ways to have sex!!!!

[fosteringinsc]

SC Out of Home Abuse and Neglect (OHAN)

In your foster care training you may have heard about OHAN. Over the years I have always been told it isn’t IF, but WHEN you get investigated by OHAN. That is why documentation is extremely important for foster parents and social workers alike. You can read the importance of documentation in one of my other articles, but here is what OHAN is. Sounds scary doesn’t it? The Out of Home Abuse and…

[katamarigender]

Not my manager being anti- safe injection sites...