Dear Social Worker (revisited)

I decided to do a little research, and here are a few things I've discovered.

"A social worker is a helping professional who is distinguished from other human service professionals by a focus on both the individual and his or her environment."

This implies a working understanding of the actual environment of the people intended to be helped. In this case, you're supposed to be focused on my children, and their environment.

"Social workers comprise a profession that had its beginnings in 1889 when Jane Addams founded Hull House and the American settlement house movement in Chicago's West Side. The ethics and values that informed her work became the basis for the social work profession. They include respect for the dignity of human beings, especially those who are vulnerable, an understanding that people are influenced by their environment, and a desire to work for social change that rectifies gross or unjust differences.
The social work profession is broader than most disciplines with regard to the range and types of problems addressed, the settings in which the work takes place, the levels of practice, interventions used, and populations served. It has been observed that social work is defined in its own place in the larger social environment, continuously evolving to respond to and address a changing world. Although several definitions of social work have been provided throughout its history, common to all definitions is the focus on both the individual and the environment, distinguishing it from other helping professions."

I have seen little evidence of evolution among you, and hate to paint with a broad brush, but the lack of knowledge about the children you serve, the lack of knowledge of the larger social environment you serve, and the lack of response of any kind makes you well, lazy and useless. Are you aware of your complete ineptness? Should I mention the lying on oh, virtually every "update", every piece of paperwork sent to us?

"practice of social work requires knowledge of human development and behavior, of social, economic and cultural institutions, and of the interaction of all these factors."

Again, I fall to see where you have ever attempted to display knowledge of human development or behavior. The eveidence of this I have seen has concentrated on the norms, however you are not dealing with the norms, you are dealing with abnormal behaviors and this requires knowledge and interventions on behalf of those. You just dumped this last radish on us and walked away. Name one thing, just one thing you did to help. Every single thing that was done for him was initiated by us.

"The social work profession promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being. Utilising theories of human behaviour and social systems, social work intervenes at the points where people interact with their environments. Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work.

A professional skilled in talking with patients and their family members about emotional and/or physical needs; an excellent resource for support."

At this point, all I can do is laugh. You've failed on all of these accounts. Who do you think you've provided emotional support to? The children? Us? Nope, miserable failiures. Those few times you showed up to my home and asked what I needed and I gave you specifics? Yeah, that's the part where you're supposed to help. Even the smallest evidence of therapeutic communication would have helped. Nope, we got nothing. You didn't even need to use skills, we specifically told you what we needed you to do--we couldn't access those services without you. And you ignored us.

So screw you, piss off.

Dang, that felt good to get off my chest.