Anchored to: the argument that structural interventions, not education alone, address root causes of housing instability I want to say […]
Trained Like a Trauma Clinician
Anchored to: the proposed certification requirement, modeled on trauma-informed care training Clinical social workers don’t get to claim trauma-informed practice […]
Policy implications: We All Use the Same Vague Terminology
Source: Definitional Crisis Article A homeless services director said something during fieldwork that captures a whole policy failure in one […]
$125 to Save a Life
Anchored to: the outcome, Rachel’s weight loss and improving prediabetes. Rachel didn’t just change her spending. She lost weight. Her […]
The Flat Tire That Could Cost You Your Job
Anchored to: the conversation about the domino effect of Rachel’s last-minute mornings. Once Rachel and I understood her 6 a.m., […]
Chips, Candy, and a Soda: Rachel’s Story
“The Pattern at 6, Noon, and 3:30”Source: fieldwork case example (pseudonym)Anchored to: the moment sorting receipts by time revealed Rachel’s […]
Tell Me What You’d Say
I’ve spent a month unpacking what I mean by crisis-informed financial literacy. Now I want to hear from you. If […]
Where Andragogy Assumes Too Much” (Hybrid, Friction)
Knowles’ theory of andragogy, one of the foundational frameworks in adult education, assumes the adult learner is self-directed, ready to […]
The Bandwidth Tax
Mullainathan and Shafir (2013), in their research on scarcity, found something that reframed how I think about crisis-time decision-making: scarcity […]
Measuring the Right Thing
The clearest proof I have that crisis-informed financial literacy is a genuinely different subject, not just a softer version of […]