“We witnessed the state write a check for some families for furniture for the house at the tune of $10,000 before knowing that taxpayers are fitting the bill. Society today glorifies teen pregnancies, thug life in music videos and rap music glorifies criminal behavior and domestic violence while touting youth today can be a success without hard work or education just like the thug rappers they idolized.”
When I decided to write this article for Politichicks, I didn’t want it to be from the prospective of what the media or statistics suggest but rather from an insider’s view. For twelve years prior to Obamacare closing our private practice, our office and staff worked with Georgia and South Carolina Human Resource agencies. DFCS (Department of Family and Children Services- GA) and DSS (Department of Social Services-SC) were government agencies that would contract services out for families who were at risk or their children were in foster care. I served as the CFO of both our for-profit and our non-profit agency under the umbrella of our regional agency.
For those twelve years I would wonder if anything could top what I witnessed on a daily basis in terms of tragic decay of family values, but as soon as I would wonder a case would be handed to us by a caseworker or court system and the circumstances were worse than the others we worked. Our agency hired 1,099 contractors who had Master’s degrees in either social work or counseling. Several of our team members including my husband had extra credentials in substance abuse counseling as well. On top of my fiscal responsibilities I also garnered a degree in criminal justice and took certification training to handle domestic violence. My degree concentration was in family violence. For over 3 years every Saturday I handled a group of domestic violence offenders. That’s right offenders not the victims. I had to handle to attitudes, the twisted outlook of acceptable behaviors and the common threads of such violent behaviors every person in the group shared. There were women as well as men charged with violent behavior so for 26 weeks not only did they have to show up they also had to participate in order to get a satisfactory completion from me on top of paying their fees.
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