SocialWorkerMandi

If your therapist takes insurance: They book you for an hour spot The amount they are paid encompasses ‼️EVERYTHING they do to prepare for your session and documenting the session after you leave. ‼️Fee for service - no session, no pay ‼️Forced to bill one of three times: 18-38, 39-52 min or 53+ minutes? One amount, and no more. We can only bill one of those, not all 3 ‼️Insurance companies can review the records YEARS later and decide they don't like the work and TAKE MONEY BACK. 💜We LOVE our work We are honored to sit with our clients You PAY for your insurance and THIS is the reality of what your providers get from it.

It is truly vital that everyone understand WHAT the insurance they pay for actually does and does not do.

Start early.

Never suppress the warrior spirit. #Anger is natural—a useful reflex. But transforming it into action? That is a skill. And for a #warrior, it is a way of life.

Video Credit: MaiStoryBook youtube.com/@maistoryboo...

#YoungActivists #LittleWarriors #BannedBooks #Books #Activism #Teach

Therapy IS political

I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food.

I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.

Person holding sign that says- You are not alone. we’re got you. Transhealth logo. Transhealth Renains Committed and Open for Care. Response to Fenway Health’s Move to Stop Gender-affirming Care for People Under 19

Transhealth has released a statement in response to Fenway Health’s decision to stop gender-affirming care for people under the age of 19.

Read our statement at transhealth.org/transhealth-remains-committed-and-open-for-care

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Did you know that a typhoon just hit Alaska & displaced over 1,000 people and washed away entire communities?

If your media isn't covering this, it's bc these are Indigenous communities.

♥️♥️FACTS♥️♥️ grief is about time. Time lost with people, experiences and beliefs. Realizing just how much whitewashing happened to our education, realizing our families were taught & believed the same things and now we all have to grieve that belief, so we can grow and change ♥️

YouTube video by The Reclaimed With Whitney Alese The Internet is a WAR ZONE. I Think I Figured Out Why...

The internet is a war zone. I think I figured out just one reason why...
Newest Youtube video now up

youtu.be/9mzIzRVtYu4

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

What radicalized you?
Nothing.
Not wanting people to suffer is not radical, it's normal.
Stop thinking it's radical to be empathetic, to care.
Ask what made people think it is normal to act like sadists.
Call out this behavior, because kindness should be the default.

Bold text over a watercolor earths reads: WE ARE A COLLECTIVE LET'S WORK TOGETHER I do not share mutual aid requests only to ask others to act. Every month I donate to as many mutual aids as I can. Do I believe this solves everything or 'fixes' any of the dire financial issues we are in? Nope But I do believe that each one of us can do SOMETHING to help another human being. To send something that says 'you are a valued member of our community? Can you commit to helping another human this month?

WE ARE A COLLECTIVE
I believe that each one of us can do SOMETHING to help another human being. To send something that says 'you are a valued member of our community?
@lunarflight.bsky.social
@mutualaidboost.bsky.social

#Community #MutualAid

FWIW, Trump focusing on autism is not a distraction from Epstein. He has been obsessed with autism ever since his friendship with Bob Wright, the former head of NBC Universal and the founder of Autism Speaks. Wright was also the person who put him on the Apprentice.

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Therapy does not fix being poor
I work with numerous people busting their ass;
- working long hours
-making DECENT wages
Still on Medicaid, Food Stamps/SNAP
living in their cars or motels (which = fast food since there are no kitchens).

#Homelessness #SocialWorkIsPolitical #TherapyDoesntFixPoor

Three children zip-tied at the San Antonio immigration court, ages 9-12

Thou shalt not tie up children in zip ties and then deport them, for that maketh thou a MONSTER.

A MONSTER!

THE PEOPLE DOING ZIPTYING CHILDREN ARE MONSTERS!

YouTube video by Union of Concerned Scientists You Need Science. Now Science Needs You.

The last 100 days have been an unprecedented assault on American science. Our scientists. Our institutions. And the people around the world who rely on it. We must stand united and speak up. Our collective future depends on it. #ScienceMatters www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPlu... savesciencenow.org

This man is one of the only actual Christians involved in US government.

Christian Nationalists pretend that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, but the Constitution never mentions Jesus or Christianity. Not even once. Instead, it bans government promotion of *any* religion. Don't be fooled by their lying propaganda.

Abortion bans are a violation of the separation of church and state.

So are book bans. So are anti-LGBT laws. So are school vouchers.

Notice a pattern?

Being willing to
-snatch food from the plates of the most vulnerable
-take healthcare from just under half of new mothers
-allow the air, soil, & water to be polluted
-reduce the quality of food
-make economic conditions even worse
-stress already stressed medical facilities
doesn't feel pro "life"

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A LOT of kiddos don’t get free lunches because parents forget or can’t fill out paperwork. Kiddos don’t deserve to go hungry because of it.
SAME GOES FOR THEIR HEALTHCARE!!

For those who say we are overreacting because there will be no cuts to Medicaid, here's a reminder that the only reason we still have health care is because we fought like hell to defend it in 2017.

Hurricane season starts June 1 and if you live in a Gulf state, you need to watch this. It’s worse than you might think.

The few employees still left at FEMA admit: they are not prepared. Not enough staff. Not enough supplies. Not enough leadership. Plan accordingly.

it's really shocking and disgusting. it's genocide denial; it's a repulsive attack on free speech. it's shameful. and the students speaking up are courageously demonstrating what a commitment to education and truth really looks like.

Damn straight!

To The People I Know Who Voted for Him, To the people I know who voted for him,

You chose this.

For likely the third time, you had a chance to reject his vitriol, to condemn his criminality, to prevent his lawlessness, to denounce his bigotry—and you flat-out refused.

That’s not something I can quietly abide.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...

From a source: ADAPT protesters are out demonstrating outside House Speaker Mike Johnson's member office.

A letter to the Portland Press Herald from Anelise Feldman calling out Rep Libby's dangerous anti-trans rhetoric.

The kids are alright.

Junior Rangers, I bet Yarmouth HS would be encouraged to know that they're doing a great job raising students like Anelise to be the kind, brave, articulate future that Maine can be proud of. Perhaps a postcard?

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