Family and Child Social Worker
helping vulnerable parents and children every day
What is a Family and Child Social Worker?
What a Family and Child social worker does is provides services and tries to give the children the help to improve the quality of their lives. The children and families that live below the poverty line, have a lack of nutritious food, or have faced some type of abuse are the ones that see Social Workers more often. Social Working has a wide range of places to work and expand.
Requirements and Responsibilities
To be a Family and Child Social Worker you must be compassionate, highly empathetic, have a desire to help others, and non judgmental. You must graduate college with a Bachelor's. You have to make the most reasonable and responsible decision in Courts.
Average Salary For a Social Worker
The best paid make an average of 71,000, the lowest getting paid 26,720. Salary ranges depending on exactly who you work and where you work.
Education
To be a Social Worker you can start working with a Bachelor's Degree as a Caseworker or Mental Health Assistant. The best way to go is Casework in psychology or sociology. You only really need your Bachelor's but can pursue with a Master's Degree.