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  • satansbedsatansbed Posts: 2,139
    so your idea to solve these problems is to just give up??

    Good Going
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  • __ Posts: 6,651
    Huh. I don't get the title of this thread. :? Regardless...
    pickupyourwill wrote:
    Society hasn't found a way yet to shrink the amount of people per case-worker so that the professional can make a thoroughly, positive difference and still have enough money to live on themselves.

    I don't think this is exactly accurate. Society knows damn well how to do this. They just need to change their priorities and fund social programs. We could do it if we wanted to.

    I heard once, by the way, that social workers have the lowest salary of all "professional" careers. (I put quotes not to suggest that social work isn't professional, but just in case anyone might think I'm saying whatever other lower-paying career is not professional, which isn't the case.)

    So what field did you end up dedicating your life to after all?
  • GTFLYGIRLGTFLYGIRL NewYork Posts: 760
    pickupyourwill wrote:
    The one thing in common with all 3 was that their case-loads were always too big. One person in charge of the welfare of atleast 100 people per day or week or month.


    I would love to comment on the OP at length... but i don't have time right now. However, I MUST say that I have been a Social Worker, working in Child Welfare (i.e. foster care and services for children and families) for twenty years and the highest caseload I have ever had was 27 families. That was when I was an adoption worker, when I first started in the field, before my MSW, in the early 90's. In my last two positions, one had a revolving caseload of 12 children max and the other had a somewhat permanent caseload of 8.

    I have a lot more to say... but no time... got a kid of my own who is itching to ride his bike. :)
  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    scb wrote:
    Huh. I don't get the title of this thread. :? Regardless...
    pickupyourwill wrote:
    Society hasn't found a way yet to shrink the amount of people per case-worker so that the professional can make a thoroughly, positive difference and still have enough money to live on themselves.

    I don't think this is exactly accurate. Society knows damn well how to do this. They just need to change their priorities and fund social programs. We could do it if we wanted to.

    I agree. If society agreed this was an important service it would understand the need for more funding. More $$ to pay more social workers= lower caseloads per worker. Its all connected.
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  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    im confused about the thread title too.
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    haffajappa wrote:
    im confused about the thread title too.
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    Me too.
    Who are the guilty prisoner scum?
    A. Prisoners who turn their lives around by tending a garden or caring for a dog
    B. Social workers who talk to classes
    C. Social Workers
    D. People who need social workers
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  • pickupyourwillpickupyourwill Posts: 3,135
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    pickupyourwill wrote:
    Cosmo wrote:
    haffajappa wrote:
    im confused about the thread title too.
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    Me too.
    Who are the guilty prisoner scum?
    A. Prisoners who turn their lives around by tending a garden or caring for a dog
    B. Social workers who talk to classes
    C. Social Workers
    D. People who need social workers

    lol. yeah, I don't know either. sorry. I went off topic on a tangent I think. I was just trying to express my frustration towards prisons and the justice system and how prisoners never seem to ever get rehabilitated. and then there's that notion that they all come out better criminals after talking with all the other inmates. I'm sure many of them turn their lives around, but the social deviation and stigma of being a jail-bird often interferes with their future, jobs, etc.--unless they know the right kind-hearted people that can help them out. so ultimately, many of these freed criminals may often go right back to their old ways because they conform to what society tends to see them as. just one theory. I'm sure there are many good citizens today that were once in jail and learned from their mistakes.
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    I had a neighbor that served 3 years of a 7 on a State drug posession/trafficking conviction. Great guy... married one of the other neighbors, they bought another house... moved and now have a kid.
    Technically, he's an Ex-con... but, I'll put his integrity up against anyone's, including myself, and he'd pull through just fine.
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  • fuckfuck Posts: 4,069
    pickupyourwill wrote:
    murders, incest, rape, etc.--that's psychological and can be involved in a person's upbringing or brought on by abuse and violence and all that. their rehabilitation involves ALOT of TRUST from society. and frankly, society is already busy with their own dramas, trying to trust their own partners, co-workers, friends, etc. They aren't going to spend much of their hard-earned time and energy with some sick-ass fool who is out of touch with reality and has very little respect for human life.
    sounds to me like you--and by extension society, is part of the problem.
  • TriumphantAngelTriumphantAngel Posts: 1,760
    pickupyourwill wrote:
    so at one point I was going to school to be a social worker.
    thank you for deciding not to be. judging by some of your comments here, i think you made a wise decision. you gave up before you even started, you already made decisions and judged people without even trying, and that's not the right attitude to go into that field of work with.

    i wish you all the best for whatever you do decide to do though.
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