How To Know If Youre a Child Welfare Worker

by Tex Norman⁽⁶⁴⁾

Some of you know that I am a Child Welfare Specialist II working with child abuse and neglect, creating safety plans, and providing services to address problems in homes where children have been removed and placed into foster care. It is an ugly, rewarding job. In a training I heard a couple of these YOU MIGHT BE A CHILD WELFARE WORKER jokes and decided to add some of my own.

If you’ve ever wished the put Prozac in the water supply==YOU MIGHT BE A CHILD WELFARE WORKER.
If you’ve ever driven 35 miles past your nearest Wal-Mart to go to a Wal-Mart in a distant location just so you won’t run into clients==YOU MIGHT BE A CHILD WELFARE WORKER.
If you are way too comfortable asking people to urinate for you==YOU MIGHT BE A CHILD WELFARE WORKER.
If you’ve ever been in a house where there is feces on the floor, roaches everywhere, a working Meth. Lab, and said, “I’ve seen worse,”==YOU MIGHT BE A CHILD WELFARE WORKER.
If you are in favor of court ordered sterilization== YOU MIGHT BE A CHILD WELFARE WORKER.
If there are state budget cuts and you get furloughed but the work load goes up and you are not thinking about quitting== YOU MIGHT BE A CHILD WELFARE WORKER.
If you get three calls, one where a foster kid has gone AWOL, one where a foster kid has threatened to commit suicide, and the third call is about a mother who was reunified and that same night abandoned her young children to get high, and you know how to prioritize those calls== YOU MIGHT BE A CHILD WELFARE WORKER.
If you’ve ever done a safety assessment in your dreams== YOU MIGHT BE A CHILD WELFARE WORKER.
If you drive 700 miles each month and rarely get out of town== YOU MIGHT BE A CHILD WELFARE WORKER.
If you’ve ever said the phrase, “It’s just marijuana”== YOU MIGHT BE A CHILD WELFARE WORKER.

Article submitted Friday, May 15, 2009 & read 176 times.

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