Welfare worker

The welfare worker is a trade. It is found on the first place for to manage, include/understand, interpret and solve the Besoin S for its Public S.

Indeed, it must generally answer a mission which is conferred to him within the framework of the functions of an institution, often with an aim of facilitating the insertion of individuals.

The welfare worker intervenes with the people, of the families, the groups, and the communities. By its councils or the projects which it sets up, it seeks to prevent the inequalities of access to the goods and the services, to facilitate the adaptation of individuals to their environment and to solve or reduce certain difficulties of social order. It helps to clarify the needs for the people, to determine the source of their problems, to find and implement the solutions which their are appropriate, to assert their rights, to carry out social changes and to influence the industrial relations policies.

Its practice is based on principles of self-determination, of reduction of the social inequalities, improvement of quality of life and defense of the rights. This for tending to a company or each one would have its place fully while returning the individuals actors of their own personal development.

Difficulties of the trade

Limits of the action

The feeling of impotence does not miss occasions to be born and to develop when the welfare worker is confronted with people increasingly more and/or with the difficulties increasingly larger. Its interventions seem to him partial and specific, without durable effects for situations of social maladjustment and exclusion; he feels stripped itself and regrets to miss means of the preventive action which appears the only effective one to him.

The collaboration of various competences, as much as the setting in network of the speakers and the Institution S, decrease its insulation and the partial approach which it can have because of its speciality; without dissipating for as much all the doubts about its role or even on the role of the whole of the device in which it takes part.

In a social context criticizes, vis-a-vis situations of major distress, the welfare worker can have the feeling “to arrange” and to even be instrumentalized: “We pose only cataplasms so that people do not explode. ”.

In reaction to this feeling of failure, the assistance seeks to be redefined more like a social accompaniment , that is to say an comprehensive approach and personalized of the person in the duration. However the variable political priorities, institutional competition and fractionation, the load on public finances, etc, can daily call in question this ideal and the possibilities of seeing it concretizing itself validly.

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