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Poetry from the Field (Social Work)
Inspired by social work career: Topics-Child abuse, Substance Abuse, Social work career
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Want to be a social worker? Had a difficult life yourself. Visit a social worker's folder full of thought provoking poems.
Those in any helping profession where you cannot separate your mission in life, your emotions, and your writing. Writing becomes a way to digest and deal with what you see every day and becomes a way to share a unique perspective with others.


Message to impart. "Can true humility and compassion exist in our words and eyes unless we know we too are capable of any act?" (from the book Love Poems from God by Daniel Ladinsky inspired by works from St. Francis of Assisi.



Portfolio -> Poetry from the Field (Social Work)

Other People's Lives  [E]   3.1 KB
Social worker's lament

Changed?  [E]   1.9 KB
Caught b/w a boss and a hard luck story. Can we change? Can they? Read more here.

Not Too Late  [E]   1.5 KB
Working with teens in Juvenile Justice System. Significant Revision on October 18, 2007.

What you have missed   [18+]   0.8 KB
Letter to an alcoholic parent or relative (during rehab process)

Of Chalkdust, Race, and Rockets  [E]   3.0 KB
An intergenerational comparison of race and segregation and the hope for the future.

Alone in a Crowd  [E]   2.1 KB
What makes them experts? Could it be that thinking it so of others... makes it so?

I Stand Here Holding  [E]   1.6 KB
Infant w/ childless social worker on way to adoptive parents, in a moment of bonding.

Pins and Needles  [E]   4.1 KB
Breaking the cycle of abuse. The story of a child.

Oblivious  [E]   2.1 KB
Finding a needle in the haystack, a gift in a sea of lost causes.

Safe at Dock  [E]   1.0 KB
A glimpse of Autism and/or Sensory Integration disorder

One Friendly Smile  [E]   1.7 KB
Bullying and what that sets into motion for the children being bullied.

When I see your son: Two Letters  [13+]   11.3 KB
Sons of Alcoholics through the eyes of a social worker and a wife.

At Risk  [13+]   2.8 KB
Children at risk

Giggles from the Visitation Room  [E]   2.8 KB
A mother attempts to regain custody of her child.

Resources and links  [13+]   4.9 KB
Links to resources for various social issues mentioned in the folder

Missing  [13+]   2.8 KB
Abt. a teenage boy who was missing and found dead a week later.

Not Like Me (4 Points of View)  [13+]   6.3 KB
4 women seek their ID thru comparison, denial (written from their soc wkr's perspective.)

Light Survives Trilogy  [13+]   3.3 KB
Three poems in order:Choosing Light Pt 1, Mixed Blessings Pt2, Second Chances pt 3.

Just sayin what's on my mind  [E]   0.6 KB
My son, then 5, told me what to type. This is entirely his work.(Prev.W...'s Song).

Choosing Light  [13+]   1.0 KB
Pt 1/3 -A mother chooses recovery for her baby-(Mix'd Blessings pt2/Recovery Pt3)

Second Chances  [E]   1.4 KB
Glimpse of the path from disfunction to foster care to recovery Pt. 3 of 3

Mixed Blessings  [E]   0.7 KB
Social worker writing viewpoint of foster parent wanting to adopt. Pt 2 of 3