Mental Health Call Center 2018

This is us at a recent party.

Co Workers: Mental Health Call Center

I work with some very special people.  They are all so hard working, and very professional in what we do.  Bobbi insisted on pictures for her birthday and for Stephanie leaving us going to Kaiser.

Mental Health Callcenter: Unity Based Team Recognition

This is the certificate we received at Board of Supervisor.  Look here for the visit.  This is signed by Rene Santiago, Director of Valley Medical and Health Systems, and Toni Tullys the director of Behavioral Health Services.

Secret Santa at Work

An email came by suggesting we do a Secret Santa.  As there are two meanings for this, pick a family and be their secret Santa, or do secret Santa gift exchange for each other, I made the suggestion we sponsor a family.  The response was to do secret Santa for a family, if we could come up with an appropriate family.  I suggested a family that is the birth family, and back together family, for children we had in foster care.  They had been living in less than optimum conditions, the room of a friend's house.

After an email from another exfoster parent of the kids, we decided the easiest thing would be a gift card from Target for the family.  Every one at work donated, and in the name of secret, I won't reveal the amount of the card, but it was way more than I had ever dreamed.  We delivered the card, along with gifts some had donated to the mother of the family a few days before Christmas.  At the same time we saw the kids.  The mother was extremely grateful and appreciative.

It felt good to do just a little bit more than usual for Christmas.

The family is moving to their own residence in January, so things are looking up for them.