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by. giving financial assistance. . Some-of this work is with children in their own homes, for their protection because1 of .neglect or because of behavior problems. Other services to children include arranging for commissions on feebleminded children; commitment, upon our petition, by the -Joveiule-jQourt—to -the—State—Be partment and Institutions; work with children who have been placed on probation to the local welfare board by the Juvenile Court; and work with parolees from .the State Department. The’se parolees have previously been committed for - delinquency and have been either in boarding homes or in the industrial trainings schools. Upon their return to the county we try to help them readjust to their homes and the community.
The welfare department cooperates closely with the local court, and provides such services as making prehearing studies on juvenile and domestic' relations cases upon the request of the judge, providing temporary care for children pending hearing and disposition by the judge, and, as mentioned above, supervising children committed to the local welfare department by the court.
The State-Local Hospitalization program is still another ser ice. The superintendent acts as agdnt for the county Board of Supervisors, verifying medical indigency of persons applying for hospitalization under this program. A service record is kept on each person who applies.
Besides arranging for hospitalization the welfare office makes arrangements for commitn)ents\tp. mental hospitals, obtains social histories for medical clipics and mental hospitals. -ft
In connection with providing medical care we do a certain amount of transportation work in getting both our clients and other indigent people to hospitals and' clinics. There are several crippled children whom we take to the clinic in the Arlington Health Department for treatment. But transportation is severely limited by lack of time.
Social workers have been described as “a bunch of women who ^sit in their offices.” I think thf foregoing account of the servieeS we render is proof enough that this is not true. There is danger,' though, that in trying to perform this variety of services we spread ourselves too thin to be of real help to anybody. Social workers in general feel confused and frustrated by the enormity of their job, b t it ie encouraging to note that public welfare work is no ^longer regarded merely as that of almsgiving.
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