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Child Welfare Reports The following reports are in Adobe Acrobat Format. If you don't have Acrobat, click here. By Richard Bermack A four part Dragon Series about the crisis facing children's social workers, published in 1999. Includes articles about the caseload crisis, the Child Welfare Services/Case Management System, the unions fight to get a yardstick study of child welfare work, the problems with the dependency court system, and the drama and risks that children's protective services workers must confront. Protecting
Children By Richard Bermack An excellence overview of the child welfare system and what it is like to be a children's social worker. Produced by a collaborative effort between SEIU 535, and the County Welfare Directors Association of California, with help from the SEIU California Sate Council. The report was originally prepared to educate legislators on the need to hire more social workers and the need for a yardstick study analyzing the work load of children's social workers. The report received numerous awards from the International Labor Communications Association of the AFL-CIO, and includes the story "Give Social Workers A chance," which received the 1999 Max Steinboch Award for Humanitarian Spirit in Labor Journalism.
A work in progress of the Social Worker Awareness exhibit in .pdf form. The full exhibit is to scheduled to be launched during social worker month, March 2002. To be kept posted about the exhibit, or to get invovled in the exhibit e-mail swa@rb68.com
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Social Worker Awareness Campaign