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#i think he'd be better suited to that work than to advocacy because of the longer-term relationships that social workers build with clients
red-talisman · 2 years
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I'm getting through my work day by imagining how CQL characters might manage it, especially given some past popular posts positing Jiang Cheng as a social worker.
(Advocacy is different than social work: long story short, our focus is crisis intervention and supporting folks in getting to a place of safety, emotionally and/or physically. We're kinda like the street medics/paramedics to the longer term care of mental health, case management, and healthcare workers. In the context of social services in my region, the main areas of advocacy are domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking, although of course advocacy also exists as a more general noun.)
#i don't do direct service anymore so it's not that#it's just the tedium of administration and behind-the-scenes of being an educator/trainer#the more i ponder on this though the more ways i find of self-projecting onto JC ahahaha well fuck#i think he'd make a very effective legal advocate#not so much an advocate working on a hotline or running support groups lol#ngl i miss being a legal advocate#our system is absolute bullshit and a mockery of justice and so it was a pleasure to turn it against itself#for the sake of someone's immediate well-being#i think wwx would quickly get so frustrated with limitations of navigating the system that he'd do something stupid#'what do you mean i can't kill judge jin guangshan for being a motherfucker'#but he'd be excellent on a response team or as a youth advocate#if wwx took on the survivor-facing aspect of direct service and jc took over the systems-related advocacy?#their complementary strengths and weaknesses would make them an excellent team#lan xichen would be an incredible social worker#i think he'd be better suited to that work than to advocacy because of the longer-term relationships that social workers build with clients#i haven't been able to place lwj yet#i'm leaning towards another systems-related position e.g. a victim's witness with law enforcement or the DA#there's still an element of 'going where the chaos is' but - like jc - less emphasis on the peer counseling aspect#and being able to Shame authority figures just by staring them down
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