SEIU 721 leaders, staff and L.A. County children’s social workers huddled in June to plan the fight against recent efforts to scapegoat CSWs for the child safety crisis at L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services.
Join your fellow Bargaining Unit 711, 723, and 777 members, and the members of our families, for our sixth annual celebration of March as National Social Workers’ Month.
Saturday, March 19
9 AM – 12 noon
SEIU 721 Auditorium
1545 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., CA 90017
Our American values of justice and compassion ought to guide each of us as adults — whether a parent or not – to help kids who are in danger, regardless of economic or immigrant status.
After lots of hard work by our coalition of children’s social workers, Governor Brown signed a bill that will hold our counties accountable for hiring children’s social workers. Remember during the LA County contract we pushed hard for this commitment from the county. Now we have a way to hold our counties accountable.
We have dedicated our professional lives to keeping these most vulnerable children safe. But we are, as the Commission said, “overwhelmed by caseloads significantly above the national average” and forced to deal regularly with the problem of where to place endangered children when there is a “shortage of safe and appropriate foster homes.”