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National Adoption Month: V is for…

National Adoption Month: V is for…

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#NationalAdoptionAwareness Month. V is for #Vulnerable “The primary mission of the social work profession is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic human needs of all people, with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty…” – National Association of Social Workers: Code of Ethics Preamble Before getting into the social work field, I knew that I had a duty to give back to the adoption community by educating…

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National Adoption Month: K is for…

National Adoption Month: K is for…

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#NationalAdoptionAwareness Month. K is for #Kaylee While I was pregnant, the name of the baby was something that her parents and I spoke about. My only request was that either my first name or middle name was part of her name. We had talked about having Lil Miss and I share middle names, Rae. First names that were talked about were Katelynn, Karlee, and Hailee. When she was born, I looked at her mom and said, “Well mom, what is…

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National Adoption Month: I is for…

National Adoption Month: I is for…

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#NationalAdoptionAwareness Month. I is for #Internship. While going to school for my two social work degrees (BSW & MSW), I was expected to complete a total of three years of Field Education (aka an internship). My final year of my undergrad education, I was adamant that I would intern in some type of adoption agency setting. I was lucky enough to experience a year-long internship my final year at Cleveland State University at Adoption Network Cleveland (ANC). ANC is a…

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National Adoption Month: C is for…

National Adoption Month: C is for…

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November is #NationalAdoptionAwareness Month. I am choosing to participate in a month long event where I will do one photo a day on how adoption relates to me with each day with a letter of the alphabet. C is for: #Career When I first began my journey down the adoption world, I never thought that I would want to go into the career field of social work. After working through my own adoption pre & post placement counseling, my social…

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Movies with LGBTQ Themes

Movies with LGBTQ Themes

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After completing a character analysis on a movie that had an LGBTQ theme…I started to wonder how many mainstream  movies have been released within this topic. I figured there would be quite a few considering my instructor for my class had listed around 15 movies that we could choose from for our paper. After looking at a list of movies that Advocate.com had provided, I noticed that I have seen several of these movies and/or some that I never even…

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What is PrEP and PEP?

What is PrEP and PEP?

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I recently sat through a workshop on PREP and PEP. Before this workshop I had no idea what these two acronyms even meant. PrEP is short for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and PEP is short for Post Exposure Prophylaxis. So what are these medications about and why use it? Well the easiest way to think about these two medications is to think about PrEP as “birth control for women” and PEP as Plan-B (aka “the morning after” pill). Why should someone use…

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National Coming Out Day

National Coming Out Day

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Everyday there is some type of celebration day. Every year on October 11th, the LGBT Community celebrates National Coming Out Day (NCOD). The community celebrates with local discussions, parties, parades, and even with a simple table that offers information about the local LGBT Community. So how did this day even become a day to be recognized? National Coming Out day was created by Rob Eichberg and Jean O’Leary in 1988 (Human Rights Campaign, 2016) just one year after the Second…

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Same-Sex Parenting

Same-Sex Parenting

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**Disclaimer: Names in this posting have been changed to protect the family’s privacy The other day while catching up with a social work friend, she was asking me how my classes were going. I told her that I was enjoying my classes, especially my LGBT class. I explained the macro project that I was working on and asked her about various topics I may address on this particular macro blog project. I mentioned that one of the topics I was…

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“Here is Your Pink Slip, Sir”

“Here is Your Pink Slip, Sir”

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Have you seen the movie, Philadelphia which stars Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, that came out in 1993? Philadelphia, was one of the first movies to address the AIDS epidemic, and won two Academy Awards. The story is set roughly in the year 1987, and is about Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) getting fired from his job after his employer found out that he was gay and had AIDS.  Mr. Beckett decides to sue for wrongful termination. As he calls different…

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LGBTQ: Sexual & Gender Diversities Class – Macro Project

LGBTQ: Sexual & Gender Diversities Class – Macro Project

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Intro to Macro Project: September 12th, 9pm eastern standard time… I created this blog as part of a macro project for The LGBTQ Experience: Sexual & Gender Diversities Class that I am taking at University of Connecticut – School of Social Work. Students had several options on what one could do for their project. One could write a research paper exploring the histories of various important times in the LGBT world, others could keep a journal, etc. The option that…

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