June
2008
Episode 7 - Fallon
Episode 7 of 24. A reading from the book Policies of Exclusion, Poverty & Health: Stories from the front. Compiled, with Introduction and Reports by Chrystal Ocean. Copyright 2005.
Fallon, who comes from an upper middle-class background, found herself applying for BC social assistance after the breakup of her second marriage. Not only did she struggle with her own preconceptions about people on welfare - lazy, unwilling to work, shiftless -, she found her condition, including her health, worsening as one intervention after another were denied her by the system.
Fallon eventually became a passionate and effective client advocate, having learned about BC social assistance from both sides of the desk.
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