What can we DU now to help TTW and Yoshi ?

[daredtowork]

134. I'm not sure where you are getting that

A lot of wrap around services offer something like a life coach/peer counseling that is not a therapist but is more like someone that can help with life organizational issues and getting the services you need - exactly what would help TTW. They are not there to agree with TTW but to try to help her avoid homelessness. Such are common for organizations that work with homeless people and disabled people. Why would you be hostile to the notion?

Regarding Yoshi: TTW regards Yoshi as her family. She has been living alone. A lot of people have been opining about the needs of the dog. I will agree that TTW does not have the resources to take care of the dog at this point, but taking away Yoshi will be the same as taking away a family member.

The people who are snarking at TTW's reaction when she found out that Yoshi had been taken to the rescue organization after she had been expressly trying to avoid that outcome should imagine if they were homeless and trying to avoid trying to give up their child: they left their child in the care of a friend who promised to feed it while they went to a job interview, and when they came back, they found their child had been taken to an orphanage.

I'm told that the "good of the dog" needs to be prioritized over TTW's "emotional" reaction.

I agree with everyone that TTW can't take care of Yoshi right now: but I think TTW would be able to stabilize a lot faster if she knew there was hope of getting Yoshi back.

People seem to have forgotten most if not all of TTW's personal items were lost when she was evicted as well. How hard it must be to hold together her personal sense of identity and worth under those conditions.