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Originally Posted by try n to make it
As a childcare provider here in Ok the stories are endless. I was never raised in foster care but I do have children at my daycare who has. The things they tell me are heartbreaking. DHS does not care. There are WAY TO MANY case loads, and not enough caseworkers. Some workers are good at what they do. Others have truly been burned out. Oklahoma is not helping families but hurting them. I called DHS to report child abuse with some children I had in care. I witnessed the abuse myself. DHS went to the house..took one child and left the other still in the hands of the abuser. I called DHS on a different situation. The same thing happened. I told myself that was the last time I would call them for anything. It seems they take children from parents for the wrong reasons. But when something is truly wrong they do nothing. OKLAHOMA CHILDREN ARE SUFFERING GREATLY!
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It would be nice to think that OK is the only state that has these kinds of problems, but it's not. You can find the same ones in every state in this country. I've known quite a lot of people who grew up in foster systems, as well as some who didn't but should have. Some were lucky enough to get caring foster parents and keep them, others were shuffled around like a mixed up deck of cards. Still others relied on friends in their communities, because their problems with their families came back in the days when everyone ignored what happened behind closed doors.
It's also hard to blame the case workers, they aren't the ones who set either the standards, the quantities of cases they are responsible for, or much of anything else. When the agency itstelf doesn't have much of a clue as to what's right, wrong, possible, or impossible, how can a case worker fight it? One of the first cases I ever heard of was when I was still in junior high - the state's DHS took a baby girl away from the mother, because her BF got drunk and raped the baby - a 3 month old baby. But because she finally decided not to press charges, because 'after all, he only did it because he didn't know what he was doing because he was drunk,' the state had to give the baby back according to the laws then. I decided then and there I'd never go into social work. As it happened, I did apply for a case worker's job a whole lot of years later, and the woman who would have been my supervisor broke down and cried - she told me I was exactly the kind of person they needed and wanted, an experienced counselor who had good judgment regarding people, but I was 3 credits short of having enough classes in sociology, and she couldn't hire me. But they could hire all the fresh-out-of-college graduates who didn't have the first idea how to organize a file, let alone interview the clients.
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