Adoption Caseworker help please?!? easy 10 points! Please read!?

Question

I am about to start college in the fall. I would really like to do something like becoming an adoption caseworker or something like that. Can someone please help me with what classes that I need to take. And can someone also help me with what their job is and how much they normally make?

(I was adopted so I would like to help children become adoptee's so they can have a better life!)

Thanks!

Answer 1

I believe that a Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW) is considered the most desirable degree for an adoption caseworker to have.  At the very least, a bachelor's degree.  

Best of luck to you in your education and career choices.

Answer 2

Adoption caseworkers don't have time to come to YA to look for questions they can answer.

Contact an adoption agency and ask to talk to the director.  Ask the director all those questions.  I'm sure they'd be pleased to help guide you so you can direct your college classes right in order to go into the profession.  And - talking personally to another human is always better than asking online at Yahoo.

cw

Answer 3

I have a degree in social work.  When I worked with families in crisis, including children in foster care, our goal was to keep the families together.   Many of these families simply needed some support so they could raise their children.  Termination of parental rights by the court (which could lead to adoption) was a last resort, for cases in which the parents were abusive/neglectful, and this wasn't changing.  

There is absolutely NO guarantee of a better life outside of one's home.  Some people had better adoptive parents while some people had perfectly good first parents who may have simply been young or needed more money at the time of the child's birth.  There are also more and more news stories about adopted children who are abused, even killed, by their adoptive parents.  This is not indicative of a better life.

Please realize that all adoption begins with loss.  A child cannot be adopted unless he or she has lost his or her first parents.  Loss doesn't come without grief.  No matter how good my adoptive family is, they could not take away the loss factor.

If you feel you want to place children in adoptive placements because they are lingering in foster care because there were no other options, that is one thing.  However, the idea that taking children and helping them to become adoptees so that they can "have a better life" comes with unfounded assumption.

As for the pay, it's pretty low.

Answer 4

Your local government offices that deal with children should be able to tell you.  Something like the department of social services, within the adoption department.  The government should have the same standards as private agencies, however, in private, you might want more business administration and accounting classes to figure books and payroll.

Answer 5

I have heard, from my own caseworker, that you need to take sociology classes, and probably major as a social worker.  I can understand what you are trying to say. I don't know why, when people have simple questions about the subject of adoption, everyone is always accused of being selfish, and there are rude remarks thrown in. I believe that the majority of people that adopt are trying to help a child in need. I'm sorry if alot of you have had bad experiences, but good grief....try not to take it out on everyone interested in adoption!!!!!!!

Answer 6

sociology, pychology.  for starters.. i think around 40-50 grand i believe..  BTW i am also adopted, but my exsperiance was bad... however what i think you are doing is great and we need caring people for that line of work..

try looking under gov. listings..

Answer 7

I'm not sure on all of that, so I really can't help. I just wanted to tell you that what you are going out to be is awesome. I was adopted as well. Very very good thing you are doing. Good luck and maybe you could call an adoption agency and see what advise they have for you.

Answer 8

is your adoptive parents still around because you could talk to them or go for childcare

Answer 9

My life would have been better had I not been adopted.

Why would you want to spend your career separating mothers from their children?

Unless there is abuse, addiction, or neglect, children are better off with their FAMILIES.

Do some reading about adoption, you seem to have a rainbow & puppies view on deconstructing natural families.

http://www.nancyverrier.com/pos.php

http://www.adoptioncrossroads.org

http://www.origins-usa.org

http://www.motherhelp.info/index.htm

http://www.babyscoopera.com

http://www.b******s.org/bq/babb2.html

Adoption studies:

http://crimemagazine.com/07/adoptionfore...

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~adoption/to...

http://www.angelfire.com/or/originsnsw/w...

Books:

The Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier

Lost and Found: the Adoption Experience AND

Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness both by Betty Jean Lifton

The Adopted break Silence by Jean Paton

The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler

Adoption: Uncharted Waters,by David Kirschner

Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self by David Brodzinsky

Answer 10

You would want a degree in social work, so you need to take the classes that lead to that degree

Answer 11

yes i agree with momma go to all government listing also health issues good luck