Social Worker Safety and the Role of Social Workers in the Community

Alan: Social workers are expected to go into situations that can be dangerous and these aren't necessarily black white brown this is not about somebody's skin color. If there if there is no relationship with the police and social work um how do we think about social worker safety, he asks. Charles: I wanted to give a kind of a concrete example of defunding because I've seen that in the chat  and I'll give you just a quick one of Houston's plan to defund the police was to eliminate unfilled positions which would have saved 30 million dollars could have been reinvested into the community for mental health services crisis response or substance abuse programs. We need to start talking more about how