Cps Worker Quotes

Recognizing the power of relationships and relational cues is essential to effective therapeutic work and, indeed, to effective parenting, caregiving, teaching and just about any other human endeavor. This would turn out to be a major challenge as we started working with the Davidian children. Because, as I soon discovered, the CPS workers, law enforcement officers and mental health workers involved in trying to help the children were all overwhelmed, stressed out and in a state of alarm themselves.

Frida expected a woman, doesn’t know if it’s better or worse to be evaluated by a fiftysomething white man. He doesn’t seem like a parent, doesn’t seem like he has a vested interest in child welfare. Then again, neither did the social worker or the men from CPS.

I needed so much tenderness, love, and support. I needed a team of adults who could keep me safe while honoring my agency and autonomy. Instead, I got the state: two white social workers in my living room.