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Should you take a FSC social worker job?

Save the Social Worker

You’re thinking of doing social work in the family service centre (FSC). Just as your GP doctor would see any ailment you had before deciding where best to direct you, or to help you, the FSC social worker is also similar. But I will give it anyway, especially as someone who did badly at a Family Service Centre.

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Here’s the lowdown on the social work salary in Singapore

Save the Social Worker

After 2 years being a social worker in a Family Service Centre (FSC) in Singapore, earning all of $3600 per month, before having a pay bump to $3690 in my second year (which I asked for), I realised that we were so sheepish about talking about money, that social workers were actually struggling. Well, well.

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Members in the News – September 12, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Melissa Deasy, licensed clinical social worker at the Institute of Living , spoke with Ken Houston on News 8 at Noon to discuss the importance of everyone taking the time to understand the signs and helping others in crisis. Marylanders said the opportunity means everything. “When you want more, you think about having more.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. Oh honey, that’s not how it works,” the social worker told Janell. Tearing apart families because of foster-care panic is common; admitting that’s why you’re doing it is not. But she did not see her mother. Why had this happened?