Social Workers Turnover Case Study

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The "turnover" of social workers is becoming a big issue in many parts of the United States. Some areas are at their breaking point, losing nearly one third of their social workers. When clients bounce between caseworkers there likely hood of successfully being helped reduces significantly and their confidence falls lower. Different approaches are being made to obtain more long term social workers but for the most part, states are reducing the difficulty of being hired as a social worker. In Texas they are replacing the 3-month training process outside of the workplace with one month of shadowing a mentor followed by a less extensive training process in a classroom environment. In Kansas they are not longer requiring applicants to have a bachelors degree, those with associates degrees are being hired. They are doing this in hope that more people will be more motivated to apply to these positions if the application and training process is easier. Lastly …show more content…
I didn’t realize this was such a growing problem across the country. It makes sense that a client forced to bounce between social workers, having to start over time after time due to the lack of commitment of so many workers hurts the clients more than it helps them. People will begin to think that they cant be helped if workers continue to drop their case, this can put clients in an even worse place mentally and physically which isnt fair when their paying for adequate help. It makes sense not to require such a high education for a job that’s starting salary can be only $33,000. As long as the applicant has some education and experience in the field, I think that they can still qualify for the job without 4 years of education behind them. This gives more people the opportunity to work in human services, and it can give these states and county's that are struggling, easier access to

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