Week 12 RJA

Week 12 RJA

Field Research Report–

            I thought it appropriate to interview a social worker in the field of child welfare for this assignment. Therefore, for this assignment, I interviewed Ann Rosales, M.S.W. Ms. Rosales is a family friend with whom I have been casually acquainted in the past. As noted by the aforementioned suffix to Ms. Rosales' name, she holds a masters degree in social work. Ms. Rosales has served many roles and has successfully "climbed the corporate ladder." Ms. Rosales' roles have included: case aid, case worker, transitional living services as well as supervision and case management. Ms. Rosales is currently the adolescent and foster care case manager supervisor. 

            I didn't write down all of my questions and answers; we talked about many things including the history of the department, allocation of funds, scope of her work, personal experiences, politics within the agency, what types of clients she sees, income and race related disparities, budget cuts and changes being made within the system.

Application Project Plan–

            For my application project I haven't totally decided what I'd like to do yet but I think that the article could be really neat. I would treat it is as a breaking news article for a new plan to reform the juvenile justice program. I think that this way you could introduce a lot of helpful statistics and it would still make some sense. I also think that it would be neat to do it as a take on an issue for an election. You could make it out to be the "hot topic" for this election. I haven't totally decided what I'd like to do but I really do like the idea of an article and will most likely end up doing one of the options I listed above.