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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
Do you think that some form of supported housing---where you and your mom lived in a 4 unit building where 3 units were families and the 4th was a social worker---would have been better?

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Terrible idea. 
How would they (the government?) get social workers to agree to live in that apartment. Social workers have families to, that might want to own their own home/live in a specific neighborhood. And who wants to live where they work? It would essentially make the social worker (and to some extent, their spouse and children) "on call" 24/7.[/quote]

Because I don't think the social worker would live in that apartment as their permanent residence.  Rather, it would be 3 to 4 social workers doing it in shifts, like firemen sleeping in the firehouse.  As the former foster child above described---her life would have been more stable had her mom had some degree of supervision regarding staying sober, taking her meds, etc.  It is just a fact that people who are low-functioning caregivers have children.  Those children are ill-served by a system that shuffles them in and out between foster home and bio-family.  [/quote]

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