Hi-risk caseworkers w CPS. Who are they?

Subject: High risk caseworkers- Who are they?
From: (Fern5827)
Date: 8/2/2004 10:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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Richard Gelles identified the characteristics which made for BETTER social
workers. Richard Gelles is the premier researcher in the field of social work
and CPS in the US.

Conversely, here are the traits of those whom the public should look long and
hard at:

1. Not have an earned MSW degree or licensure. IOW, does the caseworker who
may have visited your home, either not have a degree, is she exploring career
alternatives (Casework is mostly an entry level job,). Is she from a temp
agency?
Perhaps a college student? Many second career retreads?

2. Does the caseworker NOT have children himself? Does the cw think that a
bruise is rare in a child? Was the cw an only child or the baby in the family
himself? Recent research confirms the fact that children raised with other
sibs has a better social skill set than the *lonely onlies.*

3. Is the cw a rookie? Is this the cw's FIRST JOB? Would anyone else hire
this cw? What skills does the cw have that would make her valuable in
industry? Answer: probably none, but HEY!, the essence of our economy is JOBS
CREATION. Has the cw ever worked in industry where often times, you must meet
goals everyday.

4. Has the caseworker attained the relative wisdom of an age over 25? Or is
the cw fresh from partying in college, drinking and drugging? How did the cw
arrive at cw as his life's mission? Is this founded on a lifetime of service,
but merely the only game in town as far as hiring?

Consider these attributes in the make-up of the person who is empowered to
deprive you of an essential liberty interest---as phrased in writings of the US
Supreme Court.

Realistically, what's going on? What life experiences does the cw bring to
casework? If you've ever scanned a sw textbook, you have seem some real
dumbing down of content. Content to take reports and ride around in cars,
caseworkers provide little value added to their *interventions.*

Granted, they are JOBS. However, why not have universal Preschool for at risk
child, which middle-class children receive as given. Instead, we are content
to let poor children languish, with only minimal services provided.


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