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it’s been real fred finch ✌️… almost 5 years working with system-involved youth and families at this agency. first with a short-term, intensive, behavioral program and then with a longer term therapy program - all done in the community (homes, schools, parks, etc). it was through the last program i learned how much i loved (in-person) family therapy. so when looking for my next job move, i prioritized it, along with other serious criteria like less exhausting workweek hours & paperwork, more pay, benefits, and in-house training/support/sense of community. if you haven’t heard from me in awhile, it’s bc of this time-consuming transition, closing with families i’ve considered my own and deliberately casting my job search net wide to find the right fit. although i’ll be in a bougie group practice now (with middle-class folks 😬), my nervous system can hopefully get some relieve from long workweeks and crap pay (thx neoliberal and libertarian policies relentlessly gutting our social/economic welfare system supporting the needed services found within community mental heath). i know i may have complained about fred finch especially towards the end, but it has given me so many sweet clinical skills, lifelong compas, a path to licensure, and a secure employment home base soon after returning home from nyc and during the pandemic. will miss those sweet benefits, that gorgeous campus and views and located only a mile from my first home, and ofc my families 💜❤️‍🩹 #communitymentalhealth #fredfinch #nonprofitindustrialcomplex #transitionalobjects #warmhandoffs #oaklandbeauty #socialworkerpride #licensedtogetpaid #theBaybepricey #familytherapy #groupwork #healing #traumainformedcare #attachmentbasedtherapy #efft #hopetolearnifsnow (at Bay Area, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CobswsuOgSDHXaTtKq-6yytwv_Y-2BZYcTB9vI0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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today’s bounty plus a few more garden and Bay beauty pix (at Bay Area, CA) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch_dxk7utH6ZDj2x01nlm75fUlYg-zuJSfDE_s0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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waterfalls, evergreens, and your yearly, seasonal, reminder to sleigh the patriarchy! (at Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CX78q_vrtFsA10jAjXNcWcTzdDhZi3T9PYdRpY0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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at Lake Chalet Seafood Bar & Grill https://www.instagram.com/p/CWXhiMDFTrGx9HpuQZ2G_achp_xKTWLZk5_jvk0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#forty https://www.instagram.com/p/CWXcH8DLV-t-0Ee8BaeDU2IrP0zaWIbwxwco_Y0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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celebrating my bday early before daylight savings arrived! all i wanted to do was hang out with my friends, stuff my face with choc mainly s’mores, and dance… which i did! forgot to get pix until the end so didn’t get to several lovely faces :( but i guess we were having too much fun and forgot. anyway bdays mean a lot to me so grateful y’all showed up to rain in a new damn decade (almost)! (at East Lake, Oakland, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWAYrXnr_oBJZsRQXnMleDgFt7QbprQTBkJiJw0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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my first en vivo concert since before the pandemic… with the legend himself, pablo milanés 😍 #cubannuevatrova #trova #son🎶 #musicacubana #🇨🇺 #❤️🎯 #poesía #humanity #commiesdoingitright #communistsunite #community #heartfelt #afrolatinidad (at Palace of Fine Arts Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVHs0y9rQ5-qdwXHzpVnLYQ8WnCNv1wg4X99580/?utm_medium=tumblr

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last pix of my forever beloved NorCal home https://www.instagram.com/p/CTB4GwkLEXUZInZSdyHr9m9EtFdGgcFkRiJxKc0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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mendocino nature and little 🐶 - part ✌️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CS6Dh2zrikN1dQhWcp_kpLiShw2XPzEHCLIFA80/?utm_medium=tumblr

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celebrating lil gains towards herd immunity plus other things that (mainly) spark joy! https://www.instagram.com/p/CMRIQhDhAP523FaWs8oIHaaW5INcJefbFOIhhU0/?igshid=1tsw15wvz7lni

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can be hard to get motivated to exercise during this pandemic but these skies, scents, breezes, birds, skylines uplifts the heart and gets the ganas going 🎶🌲🐚 (at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMQ7bfIhDpB8i_udTPxVjAmpAmuTeZ_H55hplE0/?igshid=lou0dsnem8sf

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december in pictures https://www.instagram.com/p/CJSxCQTBLO4INKwreJ9DBT4CEVaQ42txPWecr80/?igshid=9bdbgzc606yy

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i couldn’t resist sharing this power clashing do up - a daily do since march 🌈🌞🦄#2020staples #letsgetvaccinated #wearwhatmakesyouhappy #hunkereddownlook oh and social work IS political 💪🫀💚 (at Home) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJSp-14hDacoziV5BSqDpztu0Gf0IKCBVvbnaQ0/?igshid=1uh8595lsdj5t