What can we DU now to help TTW and Yoshi ?

[daredtowork]

418. Thank you for your reply

I checked above and see you were replying to darkangel. A lot of people were confusing me with darkangel, which was upsetting me a great deal, but I'm not sure why I ended up replying to your post since it sticks out of the whole chain. Anyway, thank you for replying and clarifying that you weren't addressing me.

I don't blame msanthrope or her ex for anything they've done. According to another thread, TTW has put Yoshi back into the Doggie Daycare that was supposedly torturing him to death. If she has to pay them, this will fritter away all the money in the paypal account. As her claims about Craigslist show, she desperately needs some sort of Case Manager on that side of things. Another post in that thread shows how she tried to reach out to various resources to get bills paid but got frustrated with phone trees and being routed toward higher level of mental health services than she probably needs. (She probably doesn't need institutionalization).

If there was just someone in Philadelphia seriously willing to look at the benefits/resources situation there and make the phone calls for TTW that might be a start. Of course, legally TTW would have to make any approach to services herself. But her problem (and the problem for most in her situation) is there is a great wall of hassle involved in finding the right resource, and she's already in mental state where she can't deal with that.

Thank you for the effort you put in to looking for home for Yoshi. I want to kick both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton in the nuts, too! This case is an epic example of the contradictions that block people from getting into the system, and that's why I think it's worth discussing on DU, beyond helping with TTW's particular situation.