Kalin🌅

Wife, Mother, Senior Social Worker, Trainee Practice Educator, Trauma Focused, ARU Alumni🎓

[Kalin🌅 @kalin_olivia]

My husband, my sister and I are going to see Zach Bryan next year at BST Hyde Park!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[Kalin🌅 @kalin_olivia]

@TravelicityUK @coldplay Thanks for the positivity 😊

[Kalin🌅 @kalin_olivia]

SECURED @coldplay TICKETS FOR THE FINAL NIGHT OF THEIR WORLD TOUR🫶🏼

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

A joint statement from the leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom on the Middle East.

[Social Work News @myswnews]

Social worker speasks out on Sky News about Bronson Battersby tragedy - VIDEO

"Would the public stand their door being broken down by police and social workers after one failed visit... two failed visits... three failed visits?"

https://t.co/XqS3bB3Mv1

[Kalin🌅 @kalin_olivia]

@bethany_a95 @space_orbust @ladbible It’s a speed limit not a target

[Howard Beckett @mayamuskl]

Doctors don’t get subsidised food; they don’t get free parking; they don’t get free energy or free travel

Tory MPs get the lot- free parking; free travel; free energy; subsidised food & £2,400 pay rises.

Support doctors please. We need them. They are striking to save the NHS.

[YoungMinds @YoungMindsUK]

Always important to remember.

💡 @colormehappii

[Words @wordstionary]

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[NHS Nurses @SocialistNHS]

We know that the majority of people support the NHS and don't want to see it privatised

Together we can fight to save the NHS from the Tories

Please RT if you agree with the message below #OurNHS

[YoungMinds @YoungMindsUK]

The number of young people undergoing treatment or waiting to start care in CAMHS reached 466,250 in May. The highest number on record. These young people could fill Wembley Stadium, five times over.

@RishiSunak, this is an emergency.

[Essex County Council @Essex_CC]

We're delighted to share and celebrate the fantastic news from Ofsted's recent inspection into our children’s social care services.

Children's Social Services have been awarded an Outstanding rating ⭐

This is a fantastic achievement for everyone working in or supporting children’s social care in Essex 👍

#OutstandingEssex

[Kalin🌅 @kalin_olivia]

Today has made me even more proud to work in CSC for @Essex_CC following our OUTSTANDING @Ofstednews inspection, the first in the country to achieve it in all areas! Our hard work pays off and we really are all about achieving amazing outcomes for our families👏🏼

[YoungMinds @YoungMindsUK]

Early mental health support should be available to every young person who needs it.

[YoungMinds @YoungMindsUK]

For any parent living with a teen and struggling, this is worth a read. It’s a letter written by Gretchen L. Schmelzer, a child psychologist, from a teenager's viewpoint, voicing what they are unable to say to their parent.

Dear Parent,

This is the letter that I wish I could write.

This fight we are in right now. I need it. I need this fight. I can’t tell you this because I don’t have the language for it and it wouldn’t make sense anyway. But I need this fight. Badly. I need to hate you right now and I need you to survive it. I need you to survive my hating you and you hating me. I need this fight even though I hate it too. It doesn’t matter what this fight is even about: curfew, homework, laundry, my messy room, going out, staying in, leaving, not leaving, boyfriend, girlfriend, no friends, bad friends. It doesn’t matter. I need to fight you on it and I need you to fight me back.

I desperately need you to hold the other end of the rope. To hang on tightly while I thrash on the other end—while I find the handholds and footholds in this new world I feel like I am in. I used to know who I was, who you were, who we were. But right now I don’t. Right now I am looking for my edges and I can sometimes only find them when I am pulling on you. When I push everything I used to know to its edge. Then I feel like I exist and for a minute I can breathe. I know you long for the sweeter kid that I was. I know this because I long for that kid too, and some of that longing is what is so painful for me right now.

I need this fight and I need to see that no matter how bad or big my feelings are—they won’t destroy you or me. I need you to love me even at my worst, even when it looks like I don’t love you. I need you to love yourself and me for the both of us right now. I know it sucks to be disliked and labeled the bad guy. I feel the same way on the inside, but I need you to tolerate it and get other grownups to help you. Because I can’t right now. If you want to get all of your grown-up friends together and have a ‘surviving-your-teenager-support-group-rage-fest’ that’s fine with me. Or talk about me behind my back–I don’t care. Just don’t give up on me. Don’t give up on this fight. I need it.

This is the fight that will teach me that my shadow is not bigger than my light. This is the fight that will teach me that bad feelings don’t mean the end of a relationship. This is the fight that will teach me how to listen to myself, even when it might disappoint others.

And this particular fight will end. Like any storm, it will blow over. And I will forget and you will forget. And then it will come back. And I will need you to hang on to the rope again. I will need this over and over for years.

I know there is nothing inherently satisfying in this job for you. I know I will likely never thank you for it or even acknowledge your side of it. In fact I will probably criticize you for all this hard work. It will seem like nothing you do will be enough. And yet, I am relying entirely on your ability to stay in this fight. No matter how much I argue. No matter how much I sulk. No matter how silent I get.

Please hang on to the other end of the rope. And know that you are doing the most important job that anyone could possibly be doing for me right now.

Love, Your Teenager

[Dr Emma Katz @DrEmmaKatz]

Toxic trend in courts:

If an abusive man has past trauma, it is used to make every excuse for his current abuse.

If a female victim-survivor has past trauma, it is used to say she's an unreliable reporter of the more recent crimes an abuser has committed against her.

[Every Child Protected Against Trafficking 🧡 @ECPATUK]

ECPAT UK wins legal challenge on the unlawful accommodation of unaccompanied children in hotels outside of care! #CareForEveryChild

High court finds @Kent_cc and @ukhomeoffice acted unlawfully.

Read more here:
➡️ https://t.co/hYgfa2yS1l

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed the oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious.