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Bill Could Bring Much-Needed Mental-Health Support to Child-Welfare Caseworkers [WestWord.com]

 

A bill makings its way through the Colorado Legislature would create a task force to support child-welfare caseworkers in Colorado — especially in the area of mental health.

Caseworkers face numerous challenges in their work, and child-welfare departments see high rates of burnout and turnover. Nationwide, most caseworkers don’t stay on the job more than two years. In January last year, Westword explored the child-welfare workforce in Colorado in a feature story, finding that workers often face overwhelming workloads and secondary trauma from home visits and difficult cases.



[For more of this story, written by Chris Walker, go to http://www.westword.com/news/s...-caseworkers-8917375]

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