While Stallworth worked the phones, a white, Jewish colleague from the narcotics division handled face-to-face meetings when they came up.
"Assuming you want to remain friends with this person, this conversation should be handled face-to-face--not over the phone or via text," says Glick, who recommends starting the conversation with statements that focus on how you feel instead of words that accuse her of bad behavior.
The Brooklyn district office handles face-to-face audits.
If you want to give money but handling it face to face is not palatable for whatever reason, anonymous grants are another option.
"They don't know how to handle conflict face to face because so many things happen through some sort of technology," said Melissa Ortega, a child psychologist at New York's Child Mind Institute.
But whatever the motivation, state child welfare officials handling adoptions are increasingly finding themselves face to face with a thorny reality: lots of new children ready for adoption and the same old, very limited pool of foster parents willing to take them in.
Frida Kahlo: face to face.
"She came face to face with him.
