➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: To Improve Child Welfare, Let Social Workers do Social Work (Opinion)
Chronicle of Social Change – March 02, 2016
In Texas, one-sixth of new caseworkers quits within six months. In Florida, case worker turnover averaged 37 percent in 2014. I know first-hand the reasons for high social worker turnover in child welfare. I abandoned an easier and better-paying career to become a child welfare social worker in the District of Columbia. I lasted almost five years before giving up in exhaustion and despair.
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