1. Tulare County Child
Welfare Services
Maria Rodriguez
SWRK 180

2. Agency’s Organizational Structure
Human & Health
Services Agency
Child Welfare Services
CWS Deputy Director
Licensing Unit Manager
Licensing Supervisor
Licensing SSW III-CWS

3. Licensing
 Main social justice issues the
agency addresses
 Children rights
 The right for them to live in
a safe and healthy
environment
 Adequate food and water
 The right to an education
and health care
 The rights to protection
from abuse, neglect,
exploitation, and
discrimination.

4. Mission and Aims
 Tulare County Child Welfare Services is committed to serve
the residents of their county by providing hope and
encouragement through responsive services to everyone
in need.
 Social workers meet their agency’s mission by providing a
variety of services to their clients.
 Some examples are:
 Family Maintenance
 Family Reunification
 Independent Living Program

5. Mission and Aims
 CWS provide the above
services to their clients in order
to support and strengthen
families this way children live
in a safe and permanent
environment.

6. Community Context of the
Agency
 Licensing is in charge of making sure
foster parent homes are safe and
secure for children to be in.
 They make sure foster parents are
following County’s regulations of their
home criteria. If regulations are not
being followed foster parent license
can be taken away and they are no
longer allowed to take in children.
 Licensing gives the community a
sense of security because we know
that the homes where children are
being placed are safe.

7. Population
 The population-at-risk whose needs the
agency addresses are the Tulare County
children that are in the system.
 Kids that are in foster care, group
homes, or legal guardianship.
 These children end up in the system
because they are taken away from their
parents or legal guardians for different
reasons
Some Example are:
 abuse
 neglect
 Unwanted

8. Agency’s practice
 Trained social workers go out
to potential foster parent’s
homes to inspect the homes to
make it’s a safe place for the
children
 Social workers have a
standardize over all practice
that clients need to meet in
order to get licensed and
eventually get children placed
in their home.

9. Significance of agency in Social
Values terms
 Integrative
 Worldview
 Holistic and
 Community based

10. Significance of agency in social
justice terms
 Fair
 Bias
 Arraigned by judge