Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Sally Goes to Church
2 Am I a Christian?
3 The Pensioners’ Club
4 The East Enders Society
5 St. James’ Social Service
6 Floyd Goes to the Hospital
7 215 East Cordova Street
8 The First Paid Employees
9 St. James Social Service Moves
10 A Philosophy of Respect
11 Hard to Handle Families
12 Hard to Handle Clients and Mental Illness
13 Hard to Handle Teenage Single Parents
14 Unwanted Babies
15 An Angry Social Worker and Reclusive Driver
16 Mother of Five Rushed to Hospital
17 Something Went Wrong at the Hospital
18 An Unusual Client Referral
19 More Client Challenges
20 Fighting Back
21 Mother of Five Dies
22 The Substance of Legends
23 Saying Goodbye
24 New Faces in the Family
25 Powell Place
26 Victory
27 Triage
28 Wagner Hills Farm
29 Cooper Place
30 1984
31 Family Agape
32 May’s 25th Anniversary Celebration
33 Robert
34 May’s Place
35 Retirement
36 Highlights
37 Epilogue
38 Appendix
Bibliography
Congratulations, Doug, and kudos to you for writing this tribute to a wonderful and compassionate woman, British Columbian and Canadian. Her story is one that needed to be told!!
Thank you for doing this.
Carol Matusicky,PhD
Former Executive Director
BC Council for Families