[Vision2020] What Do Social Workers Make?

[Tom Hansen]

What do Social Workers Make?
based on "What Teachers Make" by Taylor Mali

by Regina Brett

Social workers, like most teachers, don't make much. Or do they?

What do they make?
They make an infertile couple celebrate a lifetime of Mother's Days and
Father's Days by helping them adopt a crack baby no one else wanted.
They make a child fall asleep every night with out fear of this father's
fist.
They make a homeless veteran feel at home in the world.
They make a teenager decide to stop cutting herself.
They make a beaten woman find the courage to leave her abuser for good.
They make a boy with Down's syndrome feel like the smartest kid on the bus.

What do they make?
They make a 10-year-old believe that he is loved and wanted,
regardless of how long he lasts in the next foster home.
They make a teen father count to 10 and leave the room
so he won't shake his newborn son.
They make a man with schizophrenia see past his demons.
They make a rape victim talk about it for the first time in years.
Than make an ex-convict put down the bottle and hold down a job.

What do they make?
They make a couple communicate so well they decide not to get divorced.
They make a dying cancer patient make peace with her past,
with her brief future, with her God.
They make the old man whose wife has Alzheimer's
cherish the good times, when she still remembered him.
They make forgotten people feel cherished, ugly people feel beautiful,
confused people feel understood, broken people feel whole.

What do they make?
They make more than most people will ever make.
THEY MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
and the Realist adjusts his sails."

- Unknown