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The stress of social work

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The stress of social work

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Daisy Rosario’s reporting on toxic stress was undertaken as a National Health Journalism Fellow at the Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism.

Other stories in the series include:

Do babies need psychologists?

Can stress be toxic?

Fostering relationships for public health

Latino USA
Friday, February 12, 2016

Families in the foster care system are assigned case workers. These are social workers whose job it is to work closely with everyone involved. In Milwaukee, Lilia Figueroa is a mentor at Saint A, a group that oversees half of all of Milwaukee’s foster care cases. Lilia started as a bilingual case worker. She tells us about two of her hardest cases, and about what doing social work means to her.

[This story was originally published by Latino USA.]

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