Day in the Life of DCFS caseworkers
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- We follow the lives of Division of Children and Family Services investigator Teresa Bunche and caseworker Melissa Lowe as they juggle their heavy caseloads.
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Video by Stephen B. Thornton and Marci Manley, DHS Office of Communications and Community Engagement
Both Music tracks by Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com
Rip Gabriel Fernandez
I love helping people especially children. I don’t have a college degree but it’s my passion and I have always had an infinity for helping others.
You don't need a degree
Hey for all you guys who are calling these people legal kidnappers I would ask you to look at it from a different perspective. I only share this story to show a prospective I dont want any pitty. I grew up in a very abusive home. My mom was a stripper and a heroin addict. My dad was a coke dealer. My parents freinds would come over and beat us and abuse us also. Me and my siblings had no trust in adults at all. 2 of my siblings ended up in the hospital because of lack of food and at that point child protective services entered our lives. I remember my case worker being the first grownup I could ever trust. She talked to us and She brought us food some all the time on weekends because she new that we didnt eat when we didnt have school lunches. It took 2 months of hell for us to finally be removed from that hell of a household. I loved my CPS case worker. I am now a marine corps infantryman and when I get out I would like to work in child protective services to help all the kids who's lost hope in grownups. I want them to know that even though they cant defended themselves but I can defend them
Im so sorry you had such a childhood, and I'm glad you had such a good worker because that really does make all the difference when it comes to children who really do need help. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case much these days. There are actual statistics that support DCFS/CAS doing more harm than good, especially when it comes to POC, and native women & children. The system was developed back in the day with the best of intentions, but has turned into (basically) nothing but the bleak reality of putting a number (as well as a price) on a child and then stuffing them into an overloaded, overworked & inherently broken 'system'.
@@taryn9850 Thank you. To be honest, You may be right. I will admit that i am very biased based on my personal experience. I havent took the time to look at the statistics like i should have.
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Josh Webb ok then, government ran child abductors. I don't give a fuck what you say. Ever heard of Carlos Morales? There are to many ex DCFS/CPS agents out there who quit for good reason and now they are telling the truth about what is really going on. Different perspective. hahahahaha... Here is a perspective for ya door knob. Pedophilia! Ever heard if that? How about $60,000 per child snatched from a good home? How about murder of innocent children by DCFS/CPS? One child is to many by YOUR agency! How about medical induced silence by your agency? That's being reported on also. The more meds can be forced upon a kid by your loving agency, the more money you can make. How disturbing is that! Every one of you so called agents need to run and hide, FAST!!!!
I’m wondering why it took them 2 months to remove y’all from the home? Why did they leave you and your siblings in life threatening situations for 2 more months?
A thankless job for sure, as evident by the comments. You all work so hard in a very tough position.
Well there has to be something to thank first sooooo🤷🏽😂
@Michael Park what😂 you need to realize the DCFS doesn't get involved because they go looking for cases. People around you make reports about it. So you should be blaming them and not DCFS
@Michael Park nope :) your lack of understanding about the child welfare system and the abuse that kids go through baffles me
@Michael Park you don't know if I have.... The fact that you are assuming I haven't experienced anything like that just keeps showing me how unaware you are of the abuse these kids go through
I lost respect with social workers ages ago. My mother worked for them they would pay her to go to the bad neighborhoods to take reports because they were too afraid to go in the hood. My mom would ask me to go with her. I would take the day off work and go. I saw some crazy stuff...I don't know what the heck the social workers did with the reports my mom wrote but it's obvious the children's department are not doing their jobs. The higher ups are living comfortably in their homes and big paychecks while children like Gabriel Fernandez are being tortured to death, the system is blood guilty. They have to answer to God!!!! And that they will!!
Just so you know your mom she violated department policy by bringing you along. I am a 26 year caseworker. Agree with your point about the higher ups, I called them the email pushers, just sitting around acting important, while the families and kids fend for themselves.
You could help or talk n type
I’m getting my MSW in social work and I’m interviewing as a case manager for dfcs in my state. I genuinely want to help people and I don’t think the average person in this field or at this job has hate in their heart. They are doing what they feel is right for the child. You have to honestly want to help and improve the lives of others to go into this field of work.
What you feel is right isn't up to you.
Please stay humble and don't get on a power Trip. And use your gut. If you think a kids really being abused, argue with your boss about removing them if necessary. No more child deaths while under dfcs jurisdiction. Good luck
I got my kids back after 2 years,it was the worst day of my life ever when they took em ..
DCS does way more harm than good
So true
I don't understand how people can be so against DCFS. There are definitely major flaws that need to be addressed, but think of how many kids wouldn't be dead today if the job had been done right.
You should talk to the good families who don't have Thier children because they didn't know Thier rights . Signed papers with nothing to hide and lost their child. Oh that's me. You should talk to me
There are probably more children that end up dead in foster care because they were taken away from loving families and put in foster care which are child molesting, unloving, money seeking people for the most part.
Yeah the chances of child abuse increases drastically if that child is under their care. Why would anyone not want that ? Mind boggling....
Because it's scary that the government has that much power
@@xmw0714 Yes true
If these people come knocking don't even talk to them! Instantly call a attorney.
These people destroy more families than they restore!
Projecting.
@@Lagomization fact
they are literally doing the best they can to help. being hateful isn't helpful.
Never been more truth spoken than this statement
true don't open the door to them but eventually they'll come with the cops
I have worked with so many different types of kids, with different types of disabilities and I can still have an open mind about how I treat a kid with problems.
Thank you for what you do!
Fuck dcf
makin it sound thier doin a good job
You guys don’t get enough credit!!!!
Fuck dcf
Gabriel's social workers are blood guilty.
Too many cases per investigators. Sad.
Didnt get home untill 10pm and she has kids. I think ill make a cps report on her. Im afraid her children are being neglected with the long hours she works
Haha love this I said the same thing.
There was a commercial playing in my area about a year ago trying to recruit people to become “foster care parents” and they said “you don’t have to be perfect to become a foster care parent”. Now, just think about that one. These people are crazy and sick.
@@xmw0714 you dont have to be perfect to be a parent. No parent is perfect that is why they are trying to educate the public on being foster parents which is needed!
@@1hanagima no it isn't. That is false. Real families are needed
@@bradleylomas7525 real parents? Too bad there are THOUSANDS of children without real parents or else we wouldn't need foster parents.
Wow they need DCF to intervene.
I am currently studying protective services to have this job and help children know they have a voice but not just from parent abuse but from school bully abuse
Is your statement a joke? Come on really. A Nazi or communist must have gotten the Welfare & Institutions Code Section passed back in the 1940’s-1950’s in California man. I researched this law in 1987-1988 and couldn’t even find the “author” of this sick and satanic law man! The person, man or woman, must have been real slick to get this law passed through the CA State Assembly back in time. Huh? You do your homework! Go try to find out what person instituted this satanic law and corrupt law into existence. That’s what you and your education can do woman. But when you become that CPS social worker, that you want to become, don’t lie now. Because for every child you take out of a families home, ya all get millions and millions of State and Federal monies. And money is the “ROOT” of all evil. Huh? Thank you!
Sorry but I would choose another line of work.Tidays cps worker is despised and very few Americans respect them.It is known of the corruption and child trafficking cps is involved in.It is a matter of time become this agency crashes.
I want to become a social worker, go ahead and add me to your "hate list." They are very well needed in the world we live in today. To bad all the haters can't do anything to stop human services, it will always be around. Have a dam good night, oh and sweet dreams knuckleheads. 😝
These commentors are ignorant trolls lol. Yes there are some foster homes and foster care workers who are scum but that isnt the majority. These workers have their hands tied a lot of times when it comes to whether or not a child can be removed. These mouth breathers all think a child is automatically removed for NO REASON 🤣 if your child was removed YOUR the reason. The state doesn't want your child for money lol that means they have to PAY for the child until they age out. these people make me laught.
They are hated for good reason. ALL of tgem lie on reports and alter paperwork to set up innocent people and kidnap children. I know from experience. They remove a child with proven unfounded neglect ALLEGATIONS. Cps is corrupt as fk.
Maybe your gonna be one of those CPS social workers that hate on parent’s. Are you? If so don’t be a jackass social worker who lies for a living! Thank you.
Actually they get stopped all the time lmfao. Don't worry though I'm sure somebody will be around to keep your wife nice and cozy while your out doing what you think is "God's work." 😂😭😂😭 off yourself bud
Simon B. Williams. - I like how you think. We social workers gotta stick together!! We do it for justice!
cps needs to stop making continued investigations on false accusations because of people calling cps over their own personal vendettas against people because they do not like the other person!
How would they know it’s a false accusation?
@@shump16personal experience
Yeah my baby was born with subutex in her system BC I was taking it dr prescribed. She did not withdraw. My kids are fed and clothes and we been living at our address for over 3 years. Well they scheduled the 1st visit came drug tested me and husband we passed. Second visit they didn't show up. And today 2 weeks after the 1st missed visit again a show. All they needed was dr records the 1st worker said oh things came up so she had to "take leave" plan is to stay with parents. So idk why they keep scheduling and not showing up.
So dcf caseworkers arent that bad will they actually help you if you do temporary custody? Im curently homeless with my 2yo and cant hardly get any help and cant find a daycare at the moment 😢
Def is definitely not here to help. Only corrupt.
you mean like the rest of the world? k.
These people are responsible for 123 child deaths last year. Most killed by their foster parents the rest committed suicide. The 30 that committed suicide dcfs said that those kids must have had issues. Those kids lost all hope and wanted to be home and dcfs imprisoned them into horrible lives. All of those children would still be alive today if it were not for DCFS.
And what are you doing to help
@@kaylawilliams5135 Not trafficking children and attacking families like dcfs does. They have some good stories but they have way too many corrupt trash working for them.
@@kaylawilliams5135 Who said it was his responsibility to do something? And furthermore, do you work for dcfs?
Yep. What can we do???? We usually don’t do anything because it’s a losing game, right???
@@yflores90 you expose these people that commit corruption. In the end the truth comes out and they can't stop that. As it does you are now armed.
I do not trust these people never have and never will
What do you do when you have a case worker WHO LIES ALL THE TIME? I think it's dangerous and a disgrace to have a compulsive liar having handling kids
CPS hire people that don't have kids of their own they shouldn't be a CPS worker if they don't have kids and never been in the in system they are all about meeting there quota and getting a paycheck for each kid that gets taken from a loving and their family
How about the fact that the DCF social worker is working so much… She should be investigated for neglect of her children 😂
omg while driving
when you're the law, you can break the law. also she's female. every tom, dick, and hentry wants to fuck her and protect her. sick america isnt it?
First thing I noticed!!!!! She would accuse a parent of abuse and neglect for the same thing! She's calling her supervisor aka the brain who sits on there ass getting a paycheck from kidnapping, dead children and destroying families its sick
@@danamist6178 I would love to see you spend a month doing what this woman does. You’re a disgusting human being for thinking you can criticize her. She went into this profession with the hopes to help children and families. Obviously the system isn’t perfect but that is nowhere near her fault. Social work is number 1 on the list of the 7 most demanding career paths with the highest burnout rates. These social workers are working their asses off to give these children a better opportunity at life. If you hear about specific cases where social workers made mistakes which lead to the death or harm of a child you have every right to be mad, but to generalize and say that every social work is like that is something you should be ashamed of.
Child Trafficking
Well said
I grew up in the hood in pahokee fl very poor town I don't care what none of yall say I grew up in extreme poverty lights cut off every other month food in the house fri sat sun mon but tue we'd thu we had to go to school to eat and all the other kids in the neighborhood use to pick at me and my brothers but listen I'm glad I never was taken from my parents they did the best they can my father and mother can't read they are very uneducated but let me tell you that poverty made me and all my brothers stronger then all those kids that use to pick at us now all my brothers are more successful then our who town everybody looks up to use for what they know we been through that poverty made us stronger then you can every believe thank God I will not change anything about my pass because I know how to legally hustle witout the excuses I use to cut grass clean up yards anything as a little 10 year old I swear I'm kind of proud because I know many of yall can't survive but me and my brothers have and we are all successful today none of use are criminals
Let’s see...how could a DCFS worker lower their caseload???
So many kids get killed lost and take people kids these people are Horrible
So true!!!
How do I become a caseworker? I'm 16 I graduate 2021 and I know I have to go to college and everything but is there anything else I should know??
Bachelor's degree in social work or related areas like psychology, sociology, etc.
You have to get comfortable to handing children over to child molesters while you go home to your cushy life to work for them
Duane Nichols your comment is so ignorant like u don’t understand how hard caseworker jobs are. Ok yes I understand not every situation is that bad to the point where they have to take someones kids away but most kids in the system just need someone to be there for them which is why I wanna be a caseworker! So instead of your thinking about that comment you made and think about how children of all ages have no one but themselves especially teenagers!
@@Account12326 if you ignore the constitution then you are ignorant
Duane Nichols your comment was irrelevant....... you could’ve said something better but you waste your time to write something irrelevant.
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Mmmm.. for like 40k a year ? I think not .
Try 80k a year. That's how much they make out here in California
@@timechangeseverybody3608 nice
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Fuck that job, such a example of driving and manipulating your cellphone, while driving, when you calm down, assuming a lot
sounds sooo stressfullll
I imagine it would be stressful to rip babies from their families and sell them.
@@headrickwifeyou sound like a sick conspiracy theorist...these people do not get paid or appreciated nearly enough for their willingness to try to protect kids and families
Why don't you want to talk about Erin. She looked at the kids and seen they were taken care where karen wants to be noisy about the adult bussiness and cause problems where there is none and don't care about how her words and behavior might effect kids that were traumatized IN YOUR CARE.
Eat, take kids away from actually good parents, then leave children in awful homes and say job well done.
They help protect children from their own loving mother and father
Cps is bad
No. Bad parents are bad.
@@CynLG ok Karen
No you are bad, you’re a cps worker or a cps follower, you devil.
@@CynLG No, I was taken away from my parents for no good reason. When I was removed is when actual abuse happened by foster parents.
Is it just me or should all case quakers know child development. Like ages they should be able to climb and appreciate ages kids put thing in there mouth like 0 to 3 not 5 or 6. And when you talk about abuse in foster care system I'd say traditional not family
A day in the life of a baby stealer
Every person who has ever worked for CPS/DHR WILL face the same judgement they pass on families. My prayer is every last one of them rot in Hell. Even that is to good for them. Legalized kidnapping for money is shameful and that is exactly what they do. Ruining innocent families.
Vicki Chaney :):):)!!!!
This video is rediculouse cps doesn't do this
Learn to spell.
I’ll bet you understood what the spelling meant.