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Kind of the misconception I think is that,
you know, social workers are hard edged and
they're going to come and take your kids and
they're going to put up all these barriers
so you can't have your child.
We are not here to take your children. We
are here to try to keep your family together.
Um, to really listen and learn what is going
on and see there's some programs accessible
that could be beneficial.
Um, a lot of people think we just take kids.
That we don't care. We just go in and take
kids and that's it. Um, what I want people
to know is that's not what we want to do.
Like our goal is to always keep a family together.
When we take a child into foster care, nine
times out of ten we've worked with that family
for several months if not a year or more to
address the issues before we have to remove
them.
Really what our actual goal always is, is
reunification with families so whether that
be with the same family that they've been
with and we're trying to repair things that
have happened or finding other family members
if we're jumping into the foster care system.
Despite what everybody might think, like we
really want to keep families together. Because
despite whatever's going on in that family,
the kids want to be with their parents. They
love their parents. If we can help the parents
be better parents to their kids, that is our
ultimate goal.
I'm just here to help you. To see if we have
any resources out there that you can benefit
from.
We do what to help. We do want to help. We
don't want to break up families. The main
thing is we want to keep you in your community.
We can't win. So either the public thinks
we're not doing enough to help children, to
save children, to keep them safe, or the public
on the other side of the coin thinks we're
doing too much. You're just out there snatching
babies.
Just because they don't see us doing something
doesn't mean we're not doing it. I think often
times families think that if we're not removing
a child we're not doing anything for the family.
We believe that children belong with their
parents and that we work very hard to keep
kids with their families. And that if people
are willing to work with us, then we will
move mountains to do whatever we can to try
and help families.
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