Another Day, Another 50 cents in My life....I can't make this shit up!

Another WTF day…but then again, when don’t I have a WTF day? It’s expected when you’re working in Mental Health. The day before yesterday a woman’s body was found on the side of the highway in my county. It was a huge story on the news. Yesterday the Sheriff released a photo of her. I said immediately that I know her. I don’t know how I know her, but I know her. During the evening news I said that again to Brian. I said I have had conversations with her. In my mind’s eye I can see her body movements as she’s talking. I thought she was a client, maybe one I had interviewed once and never came back. I looked her up in the system, and nope, I never had any documented contact with her. It had been driving me crazy all evening. This morning my boss called saying the same thing and together we pieced it together. She was the girlfriend of one of our more difficult clients. Not to talk bad about the dead, but she wasn’t very supportive of him, we suspect they had been using substances together, and we can clearly remember the last conversation we had with her. We had offered our client (and her as well) assistance in going to a treatment program. They both stormed out of the office.
The Sheriff’s office has been hounding the public for tips. Do I call? Do I not call? I don’t know if they’ve had any other contact in the past year since he was discharged. But then again, he’s schizophrenic and probably not taking medications. I figured what could it hurt? Maybe it’s a dead end lead, but I decided I had to call Crime Stoppers. Worst Case scenario is the detective looks at the tip and says it’s worthless. At least I can put my head on my pillow tonight knowing I provided what little information I have - good, bad, or indifferent.
My boss has been hounding me to get my state Certified Behavioral Health Case Management Supervision Certificate. I’ve been dragging my feet. She even was able to get me a slight increase in pay telling HR and Administration that I’ll be certified in three months. That was a month ago. For the past few weeks I’ve been going back and forth with the certification board regarding training’s I’ve submitted. It turns out, most of my training’s are null and void because I took them prior to the certification process being implemented and they don’t have enough content for the certification. I’ve been trying to tell my boss this, who flips a shit every time I suggest retaking these training’s. I’m literally asking to go to a training and she’s saying no. It’s so fucking frustrating! Today I finally got my certification specialist on the phone. I explained my frustration and my predicament which I could not do well in an e-mail. She reviewed my transcripts and asked for the course descriptions for six courses from my degree. She said if they are worded correctly they could use those and I would only need to complete a couple more hours of training online. I got my fingers crossed because if that’s the case I can move on to the next step in the process, which is hounding my boss to gather 50 hours of supervision. Once we get that completed I can sit to take my exam. Once I pass the exam I’ll officially be able to supervise all of the staff. I’m supervising them all now, but I can’t sign off on any of their training’s until I get the “S” at the end of my CBHCM.