DCFS does not put children first, the entire culture of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and family services starting from the administration downwards heart, soul, mind and efforts is on covering your

DCFS does not put children first, the entire culture of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and family services starting from the administration downwards  heart, soul, mind and efforts  is on covering your butt.  It is a culture of anxiety, backstabbing and harassment.  Most of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family services workers motto is, “Keep your good county Job.”  Not child safety first.  Their real guiding mantra is cover your Butt first.   Child safety has very little to do with it for most.   The few social workers that do put children first get weeded out quickly, very quickly.   For example if you are empathic and care about children,  it does  not matter.   Such people do not last at DCFS, they seldom get  promoted and very rarely become supervisors. In other words  the workers that really  care about children do not last long and move up.     The workers that are detach, the ones that are good tools, that are good at paper work, such workers are the  ones that our out of touch with their  feelings, they do not turn their feelings off, they are not in touch with them in the first place, so not empathizing  is second nature, such workers tune out their higher level brain  functioning and  focus on the corrupt  status quo and getting the endless blizzard of paper work in on time, with all the paper work, as well as bureaucratic forms to fill out correctly one has to neglect the children, such are the character traits that move up in the ranks at DCFS.   The DCFS administration and culture will cover up for such a worker, for  such of a good and productive DCFS employee.       Now if the child dies on you and you are one of the good and productive DCFS employees and you cover it up because you care about your job and your house payments more than you care about a minority child, or any child, and the facts, then you will get promoted. Most DCFS supervisors have at least covered up one child death before they became promoted. Find me the most paid DCFS employees and I will show you the most child death coverups. Moving up is determined by how well you cover up a child death due to DCFS failure. It is the complete opposite of caring for children, protecting children, putting children first and child safety. They will fire a social worker not because the child dies do to a DCFS failure but because the DCFS worker did not adequately cover up a needles death of a child. Copyright © 2003 Anthony Cavuoti All Rights Reserved