social works
Watch Chance the Rapper Lead Thousands of People To Polls in Chicago
He is literally too good for all of us.
What I Learned As a Children's Birthday Party Edutainer
Every week, I'd dress up as a Mad Scientist and entertain children with lab experiments like melting a Styrofoam cup with nail polish remover. As embarrassing as it was, it made me feel important.
A Day in the Life of an Inner-City Social Worker
Looking after the protection of children can be a rewarding job—when you're not receiving insults and death threats, that is.
How to Survive Being Rescued from Sex Trafficking
It's now illegal in Alaska to induce a minor to work as a sex worker, but in the 1990s, Alaska's foster-care system repeatedly took away my money, forcing me to work as a sex worker—and my situation wasn't uncommon.
Social Work in the Tenderloin Will Kill Something Inside of You
My friend Jenny is a social worker in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, a neighborhood containing seven of the ten most violent crime plots in the city. Homelessness, public drug use, and prostitution are said to be as common there as the liquor stores and...