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Show Division of Welfare Offers Unusual I Opportunity of Service to Humanity , are recipient. I In a single day a public welfare caseworker may asst a family to enter an aged parent par-ent into nursing home, consult with a mother and father a-round a-round the special needs of a retarded child, provide marriage mar-riage counseling to troubled pai?nts about to seperato, and help an unemployed womer find a job or enter a vocation, al training program. He keeps accurate records of the problems pro-blems his clients have, and the progress they make in solving them. A career profession offering unlimited opportunity of ser- vice to humanity is sadly in need of recruits. This comment was recently made by Mr. Kimball Weaver, Director of the Iron County Division of Welfare Office, in reference to Social Workers. He reports that the nation's available pool of professional social work manpower is less than 48,000 persons. At least 12, established social work positions are unfilled today. A government task force on social work manpower estimates esti-mates that by 1970, an additional ad-ditional 100,000 trained social workers will be needed in mental health, family counseling, coun-seling, public welfare, children child-ren services, church welfare, and other pulic and private a-gencies. a-gencies. In 1967, the accredited accredit-ed graduate schools of social produced less than 4000 graduates. Also during the day the caseworker may personally contact school officials, church leaders, medical doctors, attorneys, at-torneys, civic leaders, and other community agencies and directors in an effort to gain their cooperation in helping help-ing his clients to help themselves. them-selves. "The real satisfaction in social work", states Mr. Weaver, Weav-er, "is being able to actually see some change or growth in the persons with whom you work." Social workers perform ..leir services in all kinds of ettings for all kinds of people. peo-ple. Mr. Weaver finds that every public welfare case is different differ-ent and must be given individual indiv-idual attention to meet the particular needs of the wel- |
