The Fraudulent Practices of Social Workers in Western New York

Introduction:  Forgotten Values

Social workers are supposed to generate beneficial results to their clients, society, and the organizations that they work for.  The social workers in Western New York have forgotten this, and the therapeutic tendencies in the area have turned into an all-out business scheme so that professional worth and profit is retained.  Two issues are pertinent to discuss when presenting the capitalistic scams that are commencing in the Western New York area by the social workers.  That is, 1.)  The actions that are being performed by social workers entail keeping individuals involved in a bureaucracy in order to maintain necessity, and 2.)  These actions contradict the purposes of social services in contemporary society.  Starting with the contradictory activities of social workers and their encroachment toward their clients, the social workers in the area are using the individuals in lower social classes to their advantage.  More specifically, individuals of lower social stratifications are being used because of their reliance on social services and the cultural norms that are abundant in our society (Black, 2010; Lipsky, 2010; Walker, 2011).  This is noticed with the incomes, lifestyle choices, and the lack of rising in social rank or individual prosperity that the social workers’ clients hardly attain (Fisher, 2016; Rey, 2016). 

All types of social services are intertwined with the previously mentioned statement.  For example, the homeless, drug addicts, mentally ill persons, and people with severe physical ailments and their families are hardly relieved from the burdens that they deal with.  Homeless people are forced to stay in shelters or halfway houses and receive little assistance that would allow them to not be without housing, retain employment, or receive other services that deal with personal issues, drug addicts are given similar discourses via lousy group and one-on-one therapy sessions and condoned prescription drug use, mentally ill persons are seldom given a day-to-day caretaker that would help with basic care and hygiene, and individuals with severe physical ailments and their families rarely get any financial assistance or support that would make their lives less stressful (Alleyne, 2017; Fisher, 2016; Homeless Alliance of Western New York, 2017; Rey, 2016).  Even worse, if assistance that does remedy any of the above-mentioned issues is performed it is usually done through a wealthy donor or an array of community members that collaborated to make a solution manifest, and not through a social worker or social service agency (Drury, 2018; Saini & Brownlee, 2017; The Guardian, 2016). 

These poor advances by the social workers in the area has become routine and the slapdash efforts by the social workers in Western New York cause many of the aforementioned individuals to not only rely on the poor assistance to get by, but also are never able to move past the reliance, be independent, and, most importantly, be happy (Black, 2010; Drury, 2018; The Guardian, 2016; Lipsky, 2010; Saini & Brownlee, 2017).  Thus, the social workers are causing individuals and their families to maintain an agenda that keeps the social workers and their employers thriving without many satisfactory results on their part (Black, 2010; Drury, 2018; The Guardian, 2016; Lipsky, 2010; Saini & Brownlee, 2017).  Excuses by social workers are used to justify their actions and typically are similar to other claims found in public sectors.  Such as, not having a proper amount of resources or sufficient budget to properly eradicate problems for the four categories of people (homeless, drug addicts, mentally ill persons, and individuals with severe physical ailments and their families).  Of this, this essay will describe the issues that the four categories of people (homeless, drug addicts, mentally ill, and persons dealing with severe physical ailments) are dealing with and how the social workers in Western New York have failed to deliver plausible services that allow for proper care and personal prosperity.

The Big Four

Facts can be used to verify the malfeasance and deliberate harms that are manufactured by social workers in the Western New York area.  For instance, homelessness and drug addiction has been increasing steadily in the area for several years now (Alleyne, 2017; Drury, 2018; Fisher, 2016; Homeless Alliance of Western New York, 2017; Rey, 2017; WGRZ, 2017).  Not many efforts have been developed to bring the problems to a halt, rather than composing systems and services that would greatly decrease the societal problems in the jurisdiction, the social workers have attempted to deploy media-based endeavors to call attention away from their lack of beneficial results and, again, made claims that more money and other resources are required to help them alleviate the problems that they are responsible for (Baum, 2017; Greber, 2017; Metz Doyle, 2016).  In 2016, drug use killed approximately 500 people in Erie County alone (New York State Department of Health, 2018).  As the remaining counties in the jurisdiction were examined, more than 1,000 people were expected to die from drug use in this year (New York State Department of Health, 2018).  The lousy solution that social workers in the area came up with for this problem was to advertise their drug courts and organizations, conduct town hall-style meetings with law enforcers, which included ideas that arresting people was a plausible method for addressing the drug problem in the area which, in turn, eventually faded out because of the low attendance at the meetings, giving emergency service personnel naloxone, and the prevalent use of opiate withdrawal prescription drugs (Greber, 2017; Metz Doyle, 2016; WGRZ, 2016).

 

All of the above-mentioned ideas are bureaucratic tendencies that, again, allow for the social workers and their organizations to thrive (Black, 2010; Lipsky, 2010).  Unfortunately, none of the above-mentioned configurations worked and the Western New York area is still experiencing high levels of drug-based deaths and overdoses (Greber, 2017; Metz Doyle, 2016; New York State Department of Health, 2018).  Given this, the beneficiaries of the drug problem in the area were the social workers and other professionals involved in discussing the matters.  The drug-based deaths and overdoses are essentially at the same rate now as they were two years ago (New York State Department of Health, 2018).  In sum, the solution that social workers came up with caused more people to enter into formal systems without successful results and only made the social workers appear righteous in their performances without any verification that their practices were working (Greber, 2017; New York State Department of Health, 2018).

      

The homeless persons issue is even worse when compared to the efforts to tackle the drug problems in Western New York.  Homelessness in the area only had a slight decrease in 2017 (about 2%) from the year before (Alleyne, 2017; Homeless Alliance of Western New York, 2017; Rey, 2017).  Over 8,000 people are considered to be homeless in the Western New York area, and the social workers have yet to accomplish anything that would significantly reduce the number of people wandering the streets or having no permanent residence to live in (Alleyne, 2017; Homeless Alliance of Western New York, 2017; Rey, 2017).  Again, the remedy to this social problem was to boast about their services, ask for more shelters rather than create long-term plans to get individuals properly housed, develop haphazard agendas that did not address any of the issues that caused homelessness or other burdens in the population’s life, and even initiate law enforcement-based tactics to force vagrants into the legal system so that cooperation was mandated (Alleyne, 2017; Homeless Alliance of Western New York, 2017; Rey, 2017).  To this date, the only formal procedures in the area for homeless people includes staying at a shelter or halfway house that is already overwhelmed or being put into the legal system so that social workers can mandate services and use incarceration as a method to acquire compliance and appreciation for their practices (Alleyne, 2017; Homeless Alliance of Western New York, 2017; Rey, 2017).  Moreover, social workers in the area routinely suggest that most homeless individuals suffer from drug addictions and mental illnesses that can be solved only through their developed systems.  Any methods outside of their profession – according to the social workers – are considered to be impractical and careless, and thus the relevance of external ideas is disregarded (Black, 2010; Lipsky, 2010; Walker, 2011). 

Mentally ill persons have become science projects and professional utilities for the social workers in the Western New York area.  Explaining more, people who have innate characteristics that are abnormal when compared to the average citizen have been dealing with forced drugging, involuntary participation in rehabilitative programs in and outside of the legal system, dealt with discrimination from law enforcement practitioners because of the callous efforts by social workers in Western New York, used for experimental treatments by psychiatrists and psychologists, and been exploited by social workers so that they can look diligent in their professionalism (Robinson, 2018; Scanlon, 2017; Secret, 2010).  Rather than deploying daily commitments that allow for genuine happiness and the acquirement of basic and extensive care for each mentally ill person, the social workers have rallied together and produced off-color tactics that are mostly centered on their personal desire to be viewed as a caring and compassionate human being.  Examples of this are seen with the use of mentally ill persons in advertisements and the faulty descriptions of how treatment for their mentally ill celebrities works for all others who fall within the realm of needing social services for their disorders (Holmes, 2017; University of Rochester Medical Center Newsroom, 2017).

 

Other examples can be noticed with the statistical figures that are not generated in the Western New York area.  More precisely, the social workers hardly present the figures of mentally ill persons who are arrested and incarcerated for petty crimes, nor do they depict any success rates for their activities in a quantitative fashion.  Apparently, the good-natured media endeavors and “in the dark” treatment experiences are what social workers in the area are relying on to present their positive contributions to the field and society at large.  Currently, there have been very few external studies about the social work practices in Western New York and the analyses that have been done have been performed by biased parties who are on board with the positive media attention rather than critiquing the efforts so that better policy implications can be made (Holmes, 2017; University of Rochester Medical Center Newsroom, 2017).  Social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and other researchers in the area are presenting self-induced research projects as valid interpretations of their own professionalism and treatment agendas in other words (Holmes, 2017; University of Rochester Medical Center Newsroom, 2017).

 

People with severe physical ailments and their families are also victims of the fraudulent practices of social workers in the Western New York area.  In particular, individuals who have serious physical ailments, as well as their families, are forced to deal with shabby financial assistance for the constant care that is required for their survival (Klein, McCarthy, & Cohen, 2014; Szczygiel, 2012).  Minor efforts by social workers in the area are done to acquire full assistance or augmentations to policies or laws that cause these disturbances toward adequate healthcare (Lipsky, 2010; The Guardian, 2016).  Social workers who deal with individuals who need extensive and daily assistance have not charged the medical practitioners or government bodies with ideas that would allow for treatment or help that is not based on monetary incentives (Lipsky, 2010; The Guardian, 2016).  Care and compassion about persons with serious physical ailments are currently based on how much money a family or individual has to pay for their needed assistance in Western New York and elsewhere (Lipsky, 2010; The Guardian, 2016).  Case in point, if the financial payments are overdue or not expected to be paid the social workers’ services tend to dwindle (Klein, McCarthy, & Cohen, 2014; Szczygiel, 2012).  For example, medical care stops being fully provided in the methods that it should be because of callous insurance plans and the capitalism that is associated with the healthcare field.  Social workers are part of these endeavors, and if compensation is unable to be rendered then a returned gesture of minimal or no services is undergone (Klein, McCarthy, & Cohen, 2014; Szczygiel, 2012).  These practices transition into additional facets of care because some individuals and their family members deal with mental anguish and other problems that social workers are responsible for dealing with.  Money, and not the authentic concern for one’s well-being, are the primary mechanisms in which social work tendencies are exhibited for these unfortunate individuals.  Concepts of humaneness have been depleted by social workers and other healthcare workers because of the servitude to capitalism in Western New York in other words.

Conclusion

            

              In total, the social workers in Western New York have been deceiving the public about their practices for several years, not performing at a level that brings beneficial results, have used the distress of their clients to their advantage, and not communicated with parties in a reasonable method that would allow them and their clients to be prosperous.  The social workers in the area tend to rely on conjecture and outright fraudulent practices in order to maintain their abysmal status quo.  Drug addiction, homelessness, abuse of mentally ill persons, and monetary-based incentives that cause serious harm to people with severe physical ailments, as well as toward their family members, is a routine schema that incorporates capitalism in an utmost grotesque fashion.

            Furthermore, the social workers in Western New York attempted to be local celebrities for their poor performances by using the media as a channel to boast about their suggested benefits that were allegedly plausible.  Social workers in Western New York have also disrespected the healthcare field by imposing faulty conditions upon their clients.  The more disorders that a person has is a triumph for these practitioners and, in turn, allows them to not only maintain their positions, but also cause specialized services – which brings large sums of money to various organizations in the area.  Not many successful services have been rendered in the Western New York area by its social workers, and the majority of the systems that are presented and implemented are based on good-natured thoughts and not scientific analyses regarding accurate and helpful dispositions.  Tax dollars have also been wasted on these practices, and the public has seen no significant reduction in drug-based deaths and overdoses, decreases in homelessness, or financial assistance toward individuals who have constant medical needs.  Upon reviewing the social workers’ practices in Western New York, it has been concluded that the practitioners and their services are counterproductive and rooted in ideas of capitalism, and not the well-being of their clients.

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