Like a Child to Home tells the story of social worker, Wally Rose, and the youth, families and co-workers he is involved with in November, 2001.
November on the Canadian West Coast; it’s often wet, miserable and dark.Lives get messy; streets are unsafe.
Wally Rose is a brooding, sporadically up-beat, old-time social worker. Carla Prentice is an overwhelmed, single mother of two teenagers, one who has lost his way, another who may be losing hers. The Prentice family, paralyzed by fear and silence, can barely keep a lid on their out-of-control lives.
Wally is juggling a convoluted caseload of youth, each coping with more than their fair share of adolescent struggles, the taxing muddle of leftover family distress, and a baffling child welfare system they are submerged in. An old file comes back to bedevil Wally. A habitual line-crosser, he may have pushed his luck one too many times.
Wally has been “nurturing” kids and fellow workers for decades.He has little patience for red tape and is a thorn in the side of his employer.He is also running out of gas. He hopes he can fill his tank one more time, not only to save himself, and those he cares for,from a capricious system, but also to draw his career to a close on his own terms.
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Like a Child to Home by Bill Engleson
Like a Child to Home
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read in July, 2014
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This book pries open the world of the child protective services worker and gives the reader a significant glimpse of what's inside. It is a brave fictional foray told in 1st person narrative by protagonist Wally Rose, a senior child protection social worker in the Vancouver area of British Columbia, Canada.
Free of psycho-babble, the writing is disciplined, engaging and humanistic. The author is a retired youth protection social worker who spent 25 years delivering front-line services, and 'knows whereof he speaks.'
Bravo, Bill Engleson, on your beautifully crafted tribute to the resilient families, the youth, and the hard-working people with whom you worked in the fascinating and indescribably complex field of child welfare.
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