The Abused Child in Search of Safety
Subtitle: Lessons from Florida
Publisher: Hope Publishing House
Published: January 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781932717006
Subjects: Sociology; Human Services; Child welfare workers; Services for; Abuse - General; Children's Studies; Child welfare; Abused children; Florida
First sentence: I was just settling into my newly assigned desk, looking around and trying to get oriented my first hour on the job as a volunteer at the Department of Children and Families (DCF), in Tallahassee, Florida, when Helen, a caseworker whom I had not met, breezed by the desk, grabbed my arm and said, Come on.