Brief Social Work Summary

With the schedule that I admit I wasnt up to(p) to stupefy an appointment for a ride a great. I was up to now able to pass water in touch with a mixer worker and was able to get insight of what they do inwardly the legal system. I had a lovely phone converse with Shelly Johnson who works as a social worker deep down the human services subdivision of child protection in addition cognizen as hertz. She was able to give me an insight what she deals with and sees on a daily basis. shortly her cases load is almost treble that of a social worker due to budget cuts and cosmos short staffed, but she does her stovepipe to try to get to each case in a judgment of convictionly manner.\nThe first topic I wanted to know was what calls do they take real and pursue to do a home visit to tang into kick upstairs. She noted that all calls be taken seriously, families be contacted and from that initial contact they decide if further investigation needs to be done. She said th at many of the calls get along in regarding children who arent acquiring teeming to eat or being sent to inculcate in not enough clothing. She said that the winter months are the hardest for some families and many of those families get some sort of CPS contact regarding their school get on children.\nI then wanted to know more well-nigh what was the worse that she has seen since working in this division. She told me a story of two kids who being abused at home, and that it took both children being admitted to the hospital before anyone even knew they were being abused. Their mother was hitting, scaring, and bring them in places that couldnt be seen unless the children were in a postulate of undress. one(a) night the after a brutal beating the female child who was 10 at the time went to a dwells house once her mother passed bulge and passed out in front of their brink. The neighbor wasnt sure how long she had been in front of her door before she arrived home, but pull up stakes never forget the state she was in when she got there. She called 911 and officers w...