welfare worker
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈwɛlˌfɛr ˈwɜrkər/
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trabajador social
- Capturing a theme common in the First Nations interviews, one child welfare worker noted that, although her work is constrained by mainstream regulations and underfunding, she and her colleagues experiment with traditional ways of providing support to clients on their "healing journeys" (Interview C-12).
- child welfare workers
Examples
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The welfare worker misses an opportunity to offer an affirming response or to do any additional assessment.
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The welfare worker provided support and resources to families in need.
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I am the welfare worker from the county.
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Some welfare worker came yesterday.
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These goals cannot be met, however, without sufficient time for child welfare workers to spend with families.
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This study was designed to establish a caseload standard for child welfare workers.
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This information prompted welfare workers in other cities to institute prenatal care in their programs.
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Welfare workers who treat their clients with fairness and cooperation gain their trust through a collaborative working relationship based on mutual respect.
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Understanding reasonable workload expectations for child welfare workers is a cornerstone of quality service provision and the recruitment and retention of qualified workers.
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Parents are also asked to sign a form forbidding state child welfare workers from interviewing their kids unless they have a court order and unless the church's lawyers are present.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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3.1
A person who helps people in need by giving advice and support
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3.9
A person who helps people or families get help from social services
How Qualified
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person whose job is to provide social services' is directly and compositionally derived from 'welfare' (support/aid) + 'worker' (a person employed to do work). This noun-noun compound follows a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Welfare worker comes from the words welfare, meaning 'well-being', and worker, meaning a person who works. Picture someone bringing food, money, or housing help to people in need, and you get the simple image behind the term. That's why a welfare worker today is a person whose job is to give 'social services' and support to people who need help.