Stories – Mothers On The Front Line

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  • The Mothers on the Frontline Podcast openly discusses the joys and struggles of loving, raising, and caregiving for children with mental health conditions. We discuss the unique challenges faced by those who advocate for and navigate service systems on their behalf.
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  • MOTFL 034 JAM 023: Diane, a Social Worker by Profession and Stay-at-Home Mom by Choice

    MOTFL 034 JAM 023: Diane, a Social Worker by Profession and Stay-at-Home Mom by Choice
    Sep 9 2023
    Note: This interview was recorded in 2018. Transcription: [music] Welcome to the Mothers on the Frontline Podcast. Mothers on the Frontline is a nonprofit organization, founded and run by mothers of children with mental illness to promote caregiver healing and children’s mental health justice through storytelling. Our vision is a world in which mental health is destigmatized, respected, and prioritized as an integral part of the overall health of individuals, families, and communities. In this episode we hear from Dianne Thacker, a social worker by profession, a stay-at-home mom by choice, and someone who is dedicated to helping other families find the resources they need to help their children. Interviewer: So, hello. Thank you for being with us today. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself. Before or outside of mothering, who are you? What do you love to do? What are your passions? Diane Thacker: Okay. I’m Diane Thacker. I’m a social worker by profession. A stay-at-home mom by choice. I dubbed myself as a resource specialist. Later in the game I’m 50 years old and I am ageless. Interviewer: I love that. Diane: Yeah. I don’t get in to, “Oh my gosh. I’m gonna be old now.” I celebrate birthdays because you can. No matter the glow on the cake. Interviewer: That’s right. Diane: Okay. I love to read books. But I have a kind of a weird quirk about it. I start reading some of the end pages first. Interviewer: Oh, do you? You like to know what’s coming? Diane: Yeah. Or to kind of see what the outcome’s going to be. Because then if I get hooked in, then I could go back to and start reading it. Otherwise it’s boring and I’m not going to read it. And then it takes like maybe two or three days just to get it done. Interviewer: Right. Diane: Okay. I like to do genealogy. Although that wasn’t a bug issue when I begin with. For those genealogist who’d go, “I know. I know the bug.” It became a- let’s see and if I call that, an assignment. When I was fourteen and I was in my great aunt’s house in a small town called Zearing, Iowa. She asked me one day, and I’m just like, well maybe I was like eleven years old, if I knew who my family was. And of course I knew my mom’s side because that was all we knew. And I didn’t understand the question as to why she was asking me that. So I’m like,”Why?” And she’s, “Well because, you know I’m working on my family tree here.” And I’m like, “Oh, wow.” She has got a big table with all of her books and the papers. And I’m looking at her bay- this big wave bay window and I’m like, “I wish I could be outside now.” But I couldn’t. So we were you know hanging out and she says, “Well, come here Diane. Come here.” So we started looking at her stuff and I was kind of like, “Wow.” And she started connecting the dots. And for me now, connecting the dots is very important. It doesn’t always happen but when you look back at your life and you see things happening, “Oh wow that’s why that happened” and will get to that later. So then just about that time, I was doing a homework assignment. So that kind of fell into place. There is your dot. One of your dots. And so I said well- both side of your family. So in this case, we didn’t know that much about my dad’s side. My dad had died when I was six and a half. Interviewer: You were young. Diane: Yes, I was. But I did know him and I have memories of him. He was very determined. He dealt with- he had some health issues of his own. But he was very determined, very passionate. He knew-he wrote poetry, which is what I do now. It was just me and my brother and my mom. I don’t know. And he liked putting things together with his hands- fences and stuff. And he also cared for small animals. Interviewer: Oh, nice. Diane: Yeah. I do remember one day he was around, but I remember sitting outside of my house and there was what appeared to be a woman who was homeless. And I really felt the need that I needed to go and give her something but my mom was like, “We don’t know that person.” But there was that social worker helping persona in myself that was coming out early. I lived in the neighborhood where it was deemed unsafe. But to me it was like, no there was nothing unsafe here. My friends are here. I still have- I have a friend who, I’ve known her for, is that fifty years old now? Seven. What is that? That say seven? Forty three years old? For forty three years, yeah. Interviewer: That’s great. Diane: Yeah. I don’t know. We did- we went everywhere together. Got lost together. Got in trouble together. [laughter] For a month together. Yeah. Interviewer: Beautiful. Diane: Yeah. So then, one day an event happens when you have to move out of your neighborhood. So you move from your one location to another. At the time, we’re like, I don’t understand why. But going back, you look at the little- okay. So that put me into a parochial school versus ...
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    50 mins
  • MOTFL 033 CBF 005: Punitive Frameworks Part II

    MOTFL 033 CBF 005: Punitive Frameworks Part II
    Jul 7 2023

    This episode of the Conversations Between Friends series was recorded June 29, 2020.
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    53 mins
  • MOTFL 032 CBF 004: Punitive Frameworks Part I

    MOTFL 032 CBF 004: Punitive Frameworks Part I
    Jun 24 2020
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    In this episode of the Conversations Between Friends Series, we discuss punitive systems, including policing and schools, and the frameworks and assumptions underlying their policies.

    Terminology:

    IEP – Individualized Education Plan – the document that determines the accommodations and supports for a particular student in special education.

    Ontology – theory of being, framework of what entities exist or how to categorize what exists.
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    38 mins

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