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Describe the agency
According to the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Service (2016) “MDCPS was created as a state lead child welfare agency by the 2016 Mississippi legislature, and was separated from the Mississippi Department of human Service. It was established as an independent agency by Governor Phil Bryant to begin enhancing the infrastructure and increasing the number of social workers that would meet the need of the community, children and families across the state”. The MSCPS is run by the state and is responsible for the welfare and protection of the children, and to help support the families of Mississippi. Their mission is to guide Mississippi's endeavors in keeping the children and youth safe and flourishing by fortifying families, averting child abuse, abandonment, neglect, and supporting the children and families’ accomplishment, well-being and connections.
Services provided by the agency is the placement of abuse children into foster homes, helping provide adoption services for families that are unable to have children on their own or want more children, and help to support foster care children who decides to go to college through independent living funding (providing book, laptop, and apartments). There is also a service department called frontline, which is an investigation and foster care team that is dispatch by a judge to investigate home that are subject to poor living condition, drugs, child abandonment, child abuse, and after the investigate is when it is then turned into foster care. The MDCPS service children ranging from birth to the age of 18 and something 21 depending on the judge.
Professional roles and Job Activates
Bridgett McClure works for the MDCPS as a Resources and licensing and foster home. Her job activities are to inspect the home once a month for the proper safety feature such as the proper fire extinguisher, smoke detector, carbon dioxide, railing, electricity, gas, and monitor the frontline investigation team home visit also which is twice a month. Her professional roles is to conduct home and office visits to the families that she is assigned to for professional counseling to make sure that the families continue to do right be the child and themselves.
Field of choice and work history
Advancement and professional development
There are many opportunities for advancement and reoccurring training that social worker must do to keep them ahead of their profession. Some of the opportunity that are available would be to further your college experience a higher degree (LSW, BSW, MSW, LCSW) if needed, completing your licensure exam, ecomaps for advancement to a supervisor position. Although Ms. McClure as her MSW, she still believes that there is always room for development. She is now studying for her licensure exam and for her professional development she is requires 40 hours of training every year for progression. Some of the training are CPR, car seat, keeping it safe, 40 hours in service training between the department on certain topic dealing with the foster children and families, cultural work which assist with licensure.
Overall job satisfaction and strategies for self-care
Ms. McClure overall job satisfaction is make sure that her client needs are met, and she have done everything within her power to prevent and children from being abuse, abandon, and neglected. Ms. McClure stated that “If I leave a client home or a client have left me office knowing that I am doing everything for them or a child trust me enough to know that I am only trying to help them and their families then that is all the satisfaction that I need”. Her strategies for self-care is never to take anything personal. Staying professional and living up to the social worker values and ethic is what will keep you from falling apart. She also uses an approve checklist so that she never forgets what’s needed to be done when conducting a home inspection.
Thoughts and feelings related to the agency, clientele, and type of work.
As I talk to some of the social worker at the agency I can tell that there is a general certain within each department on the children that they manage. Making sure that children have a place to lay their heads and that families are counseled on what to do and not to do when it comes to their children it the agency number priority. Most of the family that are brought into the agency are not all bad people, I believe that they were not tough what right looks like and what they are doing is the correct way. The tried to encourage families that are have issue to call in and the agency would help find the proper resources that will by help that families before things get out of hand. The agency is open to everyone in the communities and across the state, everyone is treated with dignity and respect and self-worth. No client falls in a category when dealing with the agency, everyone is given a fair treatment when they enter the door of the agency. Different department have their own piece of the pie that they must support but all comes together for one common goal and that is protection of the children and the families.
Talking to Ms. McClure I felt her deep concern for her clients and that she and the other social worker have seen their share of abuse, neglect, and abandonment that can turn even a person with the most harden heart would being to weep. The way that each social worker addresses their client in their office or over the phone was very professional. Before I began venturing down this profession I use to hear about social worker as people who just come and take your children from the home, but now I have to say I had it all wrong and I must also say I have a deep respect for everything that their do each day for the children and their families.
Values and ethics were evident during the interview
During my interview with Ms. McClure and watching her interaction with her clients I can tell that there is mutual respect between both her and the clients. Although I was not allowed in the office with Ms. McClure and her client, I was there for the initial greeting in the waiting room, and I could have sense the trust and comfort that the client displayed when shaking Ms. McClure hand. Ms. McClure stated “It is very important for me to establish a good relationship with my clients. I want the children to feel comfortable around me, because it is important for me to get through to some of these children that have been through certain trauma. I treat my clients as I would want them to treat me with dignity and respect”.
Explain how social and economic justice relates to the services provided or population served by this agency.
Explain how cultural competence was demonstrated (or not demonstrated) within the agency or by the social worker
