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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
They're trained to handle those situations in a clinical setting or other safe location. Going out into an alley at 2 am, or an apartment where people are screaming and threatening one another, is a whole different story. Especially when you consider that the overwhelming majority of social workers today are women who never signed up for that sort of danger. Handing off those responsibilities from police to social workers would require a major recruitment and retraining drive.
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I mean they literally do that:
https://www.albertahealthservices.ca...ce.aspx?Id=432
And not in a hypothetical "well this exists on the internet so I assume it happens all the time" kind of thing. Knowing two actual social workers (yes, one is even a woman!), they do in fact respond to crisis at the point of crisis.
This idea that all health care workers and social workers just sit in an office or a clinic is out of touch with reality. They regularly do crisis intervention, apprehensions, etc. They do home visits, safety checks, inspections, etc. They do not all do this, all of the time, of course. But they are trained to do so, and they do so, and it would be unusual for a social worker, for example, to go their entire career without being directly involved in one or many of these situations.
And they are accompanied by a police officer in many more serious instances. But yes, to have a dedicated team that would handle 100 wellness checks a day in conjunction with a police officer would require hiring and a probably more focused training. But acting like they are sitting around safe and sound all the time is pretty silly.