- There was a young native client who called Detox late one night saying she needed to get some help because she was pregnant and smoking crack. The client was eventually given a bed in residential.
- One evening, she said she was thinking about leaving treatment.
- She had an interest in college, so it seemed okay to let her fill out the first step of a FAFSA (financial aid form). It was something to keep her mind off leaving. Clients had been given college information before, and nobody had complained.
- As she was filling out the FAFSA, there was a phone call from a staff member in the conference room. The staff member was screaming that it was forbidden to give college information to clients. The client could hear the screaming and was wide-eyed. The staff member said that talking about college might interfere with a client's treatment.
- The staff member wrote a lengthy complaint in the residential log about my letting a client get college information and fill out a "FAFSHA".
- Shortly after the staff member complained about getting college info for a client, the Director of her unit arranged for that staff member's son to be hired as an assistant counselor.
- That staff member was later caught taking a cake from the kitchen, at night. The director asked that the staff member's name not be used when the cake incident was discussed. (It would be rude to embarrass staff).
- The Director of that unit left Clitheroe and is now Director of the Alaska Women's Resource Center.
You
have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
-- Abraham Lincoln
-- Abraham Lincoln