CFS Social Worker Update - March 15, 2022
Dear OCEA member,
Please plan to attend the CFS Caseload Management Forum at 9 a.m. Wednesday, March 16, 2022. Please use the Zoom link below to join the meeting.
For Zoom Meeting credentials, check your home email or contact OCEA Laboar Representative Saliem Aregaye at saregaye@ocea.org.
As you may recall, OCEA has hosted the most recent Caseload Management Forums for one very important reason—to ensure your feedback and input would remain strictly confidential. Once again, only OCEA labor representatives will have access to the chat feedback during Wednesday's Zoom meeting. Tomorrow we will ask management to provide a robust update on the worker demands OCEA submitted to SSA and CFS management in late 2021. The demands concerned several longstanding workplace issues that were aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of these items include updates on: workflow redesign, staffing, and the recently initiated market study for Social Workers in the County.
If you have additional items for the Caseload Management Forum, please email saregaye@ocea.org.
To follow-up on our campaign to win improvements for CFS workers, we will meet with SSA Human Resources following the Caseload Management Forum. The meeting with Human Resources will focus on additional changes to the Caseload Management Forum to ensure more worker input and to create additional spaces for worker empowerment.
Your input has been, and will continue to be, very helpful while working toward solutions. However, we are still missing a contact person for the following programs: VSS, FMCS/VFS, RFA, and ICS. Having someone that can serve as a subject matter expert in these programs is essential to solving workplace issues. If you are in one of these programs and can volunteer to be a point of contact, please reach out to Alisha Greene at agreene@ocea.org. This person’s name will not be given to management and will serve purely as an internal contact for OCEA Labor Representatives.
Publication Date: March 15, 2022
