RetroFed Forum

Welcome to Human Services!

This is a space for professionals in all areas of Human Services: Direct Support Professionals, Employment Specialists, Case Managers, Supports Coordinators, and more. Whether you're here to share experiences, seek advice, vent frustrations, or discuss best practices, this is your community.

What We Discuss:

Job insights, challenges, and success stories
Tips for navigating bureaucracy and red tape
Ethical dilemmas and advocacy discussions
Resources, training, and career development
Funny stories
Rants about the field

Rules:

Be respectful, remember we're all people
No personal info, no client-identifying details.
No spam
Political discussions should be relevant to human services issues
Have a sense of humor

Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.

Open Registration with Application questionnaire.

If you have a question or comment you can post in !meta@retrofed.com or message @DosDude@retrofed.com or @Die4Ever@retrofed.com

In case of downtime and/or emergency, we will post updates on @DosDude@mastodon.social

Some rules we try to uphold:

Be civil. Bigotry is not welcome. This includes (but is not limited to): transphobia, queerphobia, racism, ageism and ableism. We do not promote hate.
Communities need to be Retro or Retro-adjacent.
Please don't upload pornographic content. (use an external image host for that)

Welcome to Human Services!

This is a space for professionals in all areas of Human Services: Direct Support Professionals, Employment Specialists, Case Managers, Supports Coordinators, and more. Whether you're here to share experiences, seek advice, vent frustrations, or discuss best practices, this is your community.

What We Discuss:

Job insights, challenges, and success stories
Tips for navigating bureaucracy and red tape
Ethical dilemmas and advocacy discussions
Resources, training, and career development
Funny stories
Rants about the field

Rules:

Be respectful, remember we're all people
No personal info, no client-identifying details.
No spam
Political discussions should be relevant to human services issues
Have a sense of humor

Welcome to Human Services!

This is a space for professionals in all areas of Human Services: Direct Support Professionals, Employment Specialists, Case Managers, Supports Coordinators, and more. Whether you're here to share experiences, seek advice, vent frustrations, or discuss best practices, this is your community.

What We Discuss:

Job insights, challenges, and success stories
Tips for navigating bureaucracy and red tape
Ethical dilemmas and advocacy discussions
Resources, training, and career development
Funny stories
Rants about the field

Rules:

Be respectful, remember we're all people
No personal info, no client-identifying details.
No spam
Political discussions should be relevant to human services issues
Have a sense of humor

Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.

Open Registration with Application questionnaire.

If you have a question or comment you can post in !meta@retrofed.com or message @DosDude@retrofed.com or @Die4Ever@retrofed.com

In case of downtime and/or emergency, we will post updates on @DosDude@mastodon.social

Some rules we try to uphold:

Be civil. Bigotry is not welcome. This includes (but is not limited to): transphobia, queerphobia, racism, ageism and ableism. We do not promote hate.
Communities need to be Retro or Retro-adjacent.
Please don't upload pornographic content. (use an external image host for that)

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I guess I need to seed some posts? So here is a horrible story from when I worked residential.	0	dick_fineman	1	Sun Apr 6, 2025 12:25 am »
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