In grad school, I took a course on working with clients with substance abuse diagnoses and did some side research on the impact of the addiction on the family members. My dabbling led me eventually to what was considered THE handbook on ACOA issues, Janet Woititz’s Adult Children of Alcoholics. Intrigued, fascinated even, I went […]
Archive for August, 2013
A Slippery Slope, Indeed
Posted: 31st August 2013 by admin in BlogTags: ACOA, addiction, forgiveness, healing, humor, Urban Tidepool
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Being enough
Posted: 25th August 2013 by admin in BlogTags: #coming out, #LGBT youth, binary, gender identity, stereotypes
Newer national research informs us that the average coming out age for LGBT kids has dropped to 13 years old across the country, down from 19 less than a decade ago. With this change, we are also seeing a shift in how old kids are when they start to wrestle with their own awareness of […]
New Recruits and Ripple Effects
Posted: 6th August 2013 by admin in BlogTags: community, giving back, volunteer
At work, I’m gearing up for our next round of volunteer training. Despite the fact that this process chews up a number of weekends per year, which I guard fiercely on an average day, getting the new volunteers ready to go to work remains one of my favorite things about running an agency. And not […]
Sharing the stage
Posted: 3rd August 2013 by admin in BlogTags: human rights, humor, LGBT issues, My Dwarf Life
My Dwarf Life, the thought provoking blog by my friend Maurice Smith, may be of interest to some of you reading the Urban Tidepool blog. Maurice often posts about human rights issues, LGBT issues, disability issues and living with a fabulous sense of humor and his occasionally neurotic cat. I suspect many of you will […]