Social Workers - do we need them?

FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS- WHY SOCIAL WORK Is IMPORTANT IHE RANGE OF AILMENTS AND BAD SITUATIONS N WHICH SOCIAL WORKERS HELP IS ASTOUNDING- WITH OVER 6O0,000 IN THE US TODAY, THERE'S A BREATER NEED FOR MORE SOCIAL WORKERS THAN EVER WHAT DO THEY DO? SUPPORT COMMUNITIES IN NEED, INCLUDING- THOSE DEALING WITH... POVERTY DISCRIMINATION ADDICTION S UNEMPLOYMENT ABUSE DIVORCE LOSS DISABILITYREENZAYAL MENTAL ILLNESS EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS PHYSICAL ILLNESS HOMELESSNESS V.HAT IS IT? WHEN A PERSON LACKS A FIXED, REGULAR AND ADEQUATE NIGHTTIME RESIDENCE WHEN A PRIMARY RESIDENCE IS A TEMPORARY PLACE FOR PEOPLE ABOUT TO BE INSTITUTIONALIZED WHEN A PERSON IS LIVING IN ANY PLACE NOT MEANT FOR REBULAR SLEEPING AND ACCOMMODATION BY HUMANS WHEN A PERSON ABIDES IN A SUPERVISED, TEMPORARY SHELTER 65% MORE THAN LO0,000 AMERICANS ARE HOMELES5 ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT. LIVING- IN EMERGENCY SHELTERS OR TRANSITIONÀL HOUSING LAVING IN UNSHELTERED LOCATIONS AGE ALL HOMELESS UNSHELTERED PEOPLE PEOPLE 67.3% 80% 10. 10.5 2266 9.5% <18 18-24>25 <18 18-24 >25 LARGEST SUBPOPULATIONS 20-25% 23-40% 25% 43 7 of the homeless population suffers from a severe of former foster children experience homelessness within 2-4 years of exiting foster care. of homeless children are under the age of 6 of homeless adults are veterans mental illness. ABUSE A NEW CHILD ABUSE REPORT IS MADE EVERY 10 SECONDS ... WITH H.5 AMERICAN CHILDREN DYING PER DAY BECAUSE OF MALTREATHENT. TYPES OF CHILD ABUSE 78.3% 8.5% PSYCHOLOGICAL MALTREATHENT NEGLECT 18.3% 2.3% PHYSICAL ABUSE MEDICAL NEGLECT 9.3% 10.8% OTHER/ UNKNOWN SEXUAL ABUSE 10K MEDICAL NEGLECT BY THE 500K NUMBERS 60x SEXUAL ABUSE NEGLECT 120K 50K PSYCHOLOGYCAL MALTREATMENT 70x PHYSICAL ABUSE ÖTHER/ UNKNOWN AND IT PAYSOFF BECAUSE WITH HELP, BAD OUTCOMES CAN BE AVOIDED. ABUSED AND NEBLECTED CHILDREN WOMEN IN PRISON MEN IN PRISON ARE 7X MORE LIKELY. TO BECOME INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. 14% were abused 36% were abused ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN ARE 257 MORE LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE TEEN PRE&NANCY AND ENGAGE IN SEXUAL RISK-TAKING, LEADING TO STDS. vw2/3 OF PEOPLE IN DRUG ABUSE TREATHENT FACILITIES REPORT BEING ABUSED OR NEGLECTED AS CHILDREN, 01/3 OF ADOLESCENTS WHO WERE ABUSED, AND NEBLECTED HAVE A SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER BY AGE 18. POVERTY184 or AmERICANS LIVE AT OR BELOW THE POVERTY LINE THAT S AT LEAST ONE PERSON IN ANY ROOM. OF TEN OR 465 MILLION AMERICANS OR 51/2 NEW YORKS OF PEOPLE LIVING IN POVERTY, INCLUDING 16 MILLION CHILDREN FEDERAL POVERTY LINE = 22% OF ALL CHILDREN LIVE IN POVERTY $23,500 FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR. RESEARCH SHOWS THAT FAMILIES NEED ABOUT TWICE THAT TO COVER BASIC NEEDS, o OF CHILDREN LIVING IN POVERTY BY STATE ONLYI/10 OF CHILDREN IN N. DAKOTA ARE UNDER THE POVERTY LINE. 20 411 25 23 4 29 25 13 17 29 20 13 36 11 23 32 17 32 25 28 13 17 36 4 2. 32 20 42 39 39 42 48 32 48 42 50 42 47 42 39 13 36 OVER I/3 OF CHILDREN IN MISSISSIPPI LIVE IN POVERTY. CHILDREN CHILDREN RANK STATE RANK STATE IN POVERTY IN POVERTY 25 Idaho 25 Maine 28 Indiana 29 Oregon 29 New York 29 Missouri 32 Oklahoma 32 California 32 Nevada North Dakota Maryland Alaska 4 13% 14% 14% 15% 15% 15% 15% 15% 15% 21% 21% 22% Connecticut 4 23% 23% 23% 24% 24% 24% Vermont 4 Utah 4. Massachusetts New Jersey 4 Minnesota Virginia 11 Ohio 36 Michigan 36 Florida 36 West Virginia 39 Tennessee 39 North Carolina 39 Texas 4 15% 16% 16% 17% 17% 17% 17% 18% 18% 18% 19% 19% 19% 20% 20% 21% 32 24% 25% 25% 25% 26% 26% 26% 27% 27% 27% 27% 27% lowa 11 New Hampshire 13 Hawaii 13 South Dakota 13 Delaware 13 Wyoming 17 Wisconsin 17 Nebraska 17 Colorado 20 Washington 20 Rhode Island 42 Arizona 42 Georgia 42 South Carolina 42 Alabama 42 Kentucky 20 Kansas 47 23 Pennsylvania 23 Montana 25 linois Louisiana 48 New Mexico 48 Arkansas 50 Mississippi 28% 29% 29% 35% ADDICTION 22.6 MILLION AMERICANS USED ILLICIT DRUGS LAST MONTH, * LEADING TO OVER 6 MILLION CHILDREN LIVING WITH AT LEAST ONE PARENT WITH A DRUG ADDICTION. MoST COMMON ILLICIT DRUGS ALCOMARITUANA COCAINE HALLUCINOGENS Rx PAINKILLERS RX DRUG ABUSE IS ON A TWO-DECADE RISE, THE US IS 5oo OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION, YET WE CONSUME ISo OF THE WORLD'S PRESCRIPTION PILLS. NON-MEDICAL PRESCRIPTION DRUG USE HAS RISEN 50O SINCE 1990 THE NUMBERS ARE MASSIVE SOCIAL WORK IS NOT FOR EVERYONE. REQUIREDUCATION FOR SOCIAL WORK BACHELORS, AVERABE PAY MASTERS OR $53,000 DocTORATE, DEPENDING ON POSITION. BUT WITHOUT G0OD SOCIAL WORKERS, WHOLE SECTIONS OF OUR NATION ARE BONERS VAELL KNOVAN SOCIAL WORKERS Two U.S. SENATORS AND SEVEN US. REPRESENTATIVES, INCLUDINo- SEN. BARBARA MIKULSKI (MD) REP. CAROL SHEA PORTER (NHI) REP. LUis GUTIERREZ. (IL-H) REP. NIKI T5ONSA5 (MA-3) SEN. DEBBIE STABENOW (MI) REP. BARBARA LEE (CA13) REP. KYRSTEN SINEMA (AZ-9). REP. SUSAN DAVIS (CA53) REP. ALLYSON SCHWARTZ (PA13) ARE YOU UP TO THE CHALLENGE? 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