New Work, New Adventure!

As of December 2nd, I will no longer be working for the Griffin Centre.

This is sad for me because I really did love the crisis work with all its many facets. In the end, being able to concretely help people who were sometimes in dire and immediate need of help was a great way to keep my enthusiasm and focus strong. I really did love working with the people around me as well.

Unfortunately, for some mysterious combination of reasons: my clinical thinking skills were not quite adequate (roll eyes here), the budget for the coming year could not for some mysterious reason guarantee that my contract would get renewed. Mysteriously, I had been renewed the previous year, but this year Griffin was up against the two year deadline.

This deadline, by Griffin's own policy and procedures, means that if you renew a person's contract for two years then you must hire them for the third. This is where I was.

Nevermind. Change is progress even if it is backwards. Although it must be said that Durham Mental Health Services is no fly-by-night operation and I hope to learn a great deal working there as a case manager in the mental health sector.

Hmm, strange that they, a mental health agency, do not have any over-inflated notions of what clinical thinking really means in day-to-day work with their population.

MORE ON THIS NOTION OF THE "CLINICAL" IN FUTURE POSTS.