Case Study: A Career As A Child Welfare Social Worker

A child welfare social worker ensures the well being of children and families. To be a child welfare social worker you have to be dedicated to your job. There are many aspects and roles of the child welfare system that social workers must provide. A company that a child welfare social worker works for can provide many services such as adoption, foster care, prevention of abuse, family preservation services and much more. As a child welfare social worker you will encounter many unbelievable situations. Sometimes you will have to choose between two horrible situations. For example,
Sending the child back with their drug addicted parents or throwing them into the child welfare system where they will move around from place to place until they are
I do strongly believe that it will continue to be an ongoing problem and will expand. In general there is a high rate of teenage pregnancies however; in the foster care system the rate of early parenthood is also extremely high. These children born to young adults that are already in the foster care system are at a higher risk of child maltreatment because these young parents have been neglected or abused therefore in some cases may lead to a cycle of abuse. A study was done in Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to examine the occurrence of child abuse and neglect investigations, indicated reports and out of home care placements among the children of youth in foster (Dworsky, 2015). Thirty-nine percent of the children were the subject of at least one CPS investigation, 17 percent had at least one indicated report and 11 percent were placed in out of home care at least once before their 5th birthday (Dworsky,
Allona supervises her coworkers, deals with placement of children in foster and adoptive homes, placement of children in daycare, background check of child providers and homes, monthly visits to placement homes (30-35 cases), reports and investigation for court records, provides families with information on programs and assistance. A typical day for Allona is very busy. She spends a lot of time behind her desk but she also spends just as much time out doing her monthly visits. She says that her job as a social worker isn’t a nine to five kind of job but more like 24/7. Sometimes parents/guardians call her during her off hours. She says most calls are emergency