Teach?
Sounds like you're doing much more than teaching (also less) at least in the usual schoolish sense of the word -- more modeling and mentoring, social services intervention, etc. and much less traditional academic knowledge work and skills development than the public supposes schoolteaching still is all about.

I read your bio (welcome to the Kitchen!) and I see you also are a mom of children getting to be "school" age. As a sort of clarifying thought experiment, I wonder what differences if any you would delineate, between their sober, loving, academically certified mom "teaching" them at home, and what she does at work to parent-teach-mentor students of other--sometimes egregiously poor--parents? Do we teach to be a parent substitute or parent as a teacher substitute, or is the whole dichotomy between teaching and parenting just artificial no matter how we slice it?

Not a trick question, I think about stuff like this all the time and I'll bet Liza would weigh in on this one too. . . JJ