Day one was orientation. The safe part. Setting expectations, syllabus, someone explaining where the bathrooms are. Day two, they threw

Nothing prepared me for a cup of tea in my 94-year-old client's kitchen. Here's

Two visits to the old lady now (let's call her S). Four to the woman with Asperger'

A friend of mine read a previous post and asked if I stumbled into disability support work due to lack

The daughter confirmed. Fortnightly Mondays. Two hours. I showed up for my first session with brand new gardening gloves and

Last time, I over-scrubbed. Blew the clock. Left the kitchen and the living room untouched and walked out with

Three hours. That's all it took to get hired. I wrote about it here... the e-meet I

There's a particular kind of humbling that comes not from failure, but from doing something too well in

So you want to get into Support Work. But before you can sit across from a single client, before you

Let's talk about who actually does the work. Support work is immigrant work. In most parts of the