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The social workers should have known what was happening by monitoring on a regular basis. Providing job training and daycare for LaJoe, coming to the house every month to talk to her about changing her circumstances and mandating that she attend counseling are all monitoring methods that should have been in place and were not.
If only one change could be made to the social welfare system for the benefit of the families that are on it I would change the case loads of the social workers. Currently social workers have so many cases that there is no way for them to get involved with the families and help them help themselves out of the system. They are barely able to file the reports and deal with the problems that arise. If I could change one thing I would provide enough funding that each social worker only had 30 cases to handle so they would be able to get involved, meet with the family on a regular basis and have the time to locate programs and things that the family could take part in to better their lives.
Had the Rivers family received benefits under the new reformed system of welfare I believe their lives would have been...
The system mandates that the adults in the family make an effort to gain education and then seek and secure employment. The system assists with things like daycare costs as the family adults get on their feet and become financially independent.
With the Rivers family it is obvious that LaJoe loved her family very much and wanted to do better by her children but had no idea how to take the first step.
Had she been on the reformed system she would have been guided by mandate to take classes and learn how to job seek and secure work or risk the loss of her benefits.
Had she been on the reformed system she would have gotten completely off of welfare in a year or two and would have broken the family cycle of dependence on the system.
REFERENCE
Kotlowitz, Alex. There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Paperback) Anchor; Reissue edition (January 5, 1992)
Had she been on the reformed system she would have gotten completely off of welfare in a year or two and would have broken the family cycle of dependence on the system.
REFERENCE
Kotlowitz, Alex. There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Paperback) Anchor; Reissue edition (January 5, 1992)
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