Caseworkers and You

There are different types of case management services, for example human service workers, client advocates and elderly or disabled case managers. Have you ever wondered about case management or thought your particular situation was in need of a professional to guide you in the right direction?

Well you have come to the right place.

Let’s think here: Why would I need a case manager? What is a caseworker for anyway? How can they help me get out of the shit I am in?

In my opinion, Case managers are VERY helpful and actually needed if you have problems in your daily life. Most of us are use to rude, outspoken, talk-to-you-like-a- child caseworkers. So it is understandable to not want to deal with caseworkers with this type of attitude. But, let’s face it- Sometimes case managers are needed. So let’s suck it up and deal with them and curse about them once you leave.

Caseworkers can help you achieve a better quality of life, such as: helping you identify your needs, goals, and MOST important Resources. Now, do not just think you can walk into a place and ask for a case manager and everything is going to be O.K. and you’re going to receive so many FREE services and will not know what to do with them. It does not work like that! You will need to go through an approval process, which can take a couple of weeks to a couple of months depending upon what your caseworker has determined your needs are. Typically case managers are assigned to complex cases, such as: Medical, Mental Health, and Child Welfare caseworkers. There are also caseworkers that are called –Community Workers or Social Service Workers. Which are located at the family support division office (Welfare Office) and local non-profit agencies.

Let’s get down to the Nitty Gitty!

Point blank, almost everyone has used a caseworker sometime their life. It might have been because of food stamps, TANF/ Welfare benefits, or your Utility needed to be paid. I have spoken too many people looking for assistance or public aid. Some people being a shame for needing assistance from the government or a church. Some people knowing it like the back of their hand. Which in my opinion, they’re the ones that need to be a shame. But anyway….. When you are trying to get assistance, you should first start with the most commonplace. The welfare office (family support division) which would have access to grant some necessities like, food (Food Stamps), medical (Medicaid), or for my low-income mothers child care (child care subsidy).

Remember! Do not think you’re walking in and “gettin’ food, healthcare, someone to babysit your kid’s cause people it ain’t happenin’.” To receive these wonderful benefits you will have to be under a certain income guideline, which is determined by the current year poverty level. And people do not think your caseworker is determining if you are approved for assistance. It is determined by the government or state. Another thing, no one wants to hear about how you pay into the system all these years and then once you need help there is not anything for you. Please people stop the whining and get your head together and move on. Move on to getting down to business and finding a way to make it happen without the government/state to assist you. Pull it together and make it happen.

“We all have problems, but how are we going to do to fix them and move forward…pass it on.”

                                                                                                                        CeCe Carroll



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