Social Work Department
The Children’s Receiving Home Social
Work Department provides largely case management, case coordination and assessment
functions for every child placed in our care. Children’s Receiving Home Social Workers
are available to not only help understand how each child is adjusting to our program
and how they are reacting to the abuse and neglect that they have suffered, but
also what they consider to be areas of concerns needing to be addressed in seeking
services. They will work with residential program staff to not only help the child
stabilize but also to gather information about them. Social Workers are involved
with team, staff, program planning and dorm meetings to ensure the sharing of information
as well as discussing successful intervention strategies. This information is discussed,
organized and captured in the Needs and Service Plan developed for each child. This
document will include information that is gathered from the different departments
and based on the assessments contained therein, will offer information about successful
intervention strategies. When assessments are done early they are most effective,
and long-range outcomes for children are greatly improved. Future planning for the
child based on what is learned through these assessments will produce better results.
Throughout their stay our Social Workers work closely with the County Social Worker
to help ensure strong case management intervention. They will be as involved as
necessary to transition children from Children’s Receiving Home to the following
placement. A guiding philosophy to their work has been to work with the child within
our program and gather as much information as possible so they can better understand
them and work toward making the next placement the final placement until reunification
or permanency can be achieved.