{"id":20215,"date":"2016-06-27T07:06:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=20215"},"modified":"2020-06-26T17:29:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T00:29:19","slug":"one-social-worker-per-50000-high-school-students-is-not-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=20215","title":{"rendered":"One social worker per 50,000 high school students is not okay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saferspaces.org.za\/cache\/ce_img_cache\/local\/520d1943832aab5c\/GIZ_CT-9177_750_500_80.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, one of the youth I work with calls me, and tells me that it&#8217;s her birthday. I start singing to her, but then hear she is crying, so I ask her what is wrong. She tells me her 25-year old big brother hung himself today, and she had found him.<\/p>\n<p>We are living in a painful painful world. And while some of us encounter emotional turmoil in our privileged lives, others&#8217; turmoil stems from economic poverty and inequality. In South African high schools, there is on average one social worker per 50 schools &#8211; that&#8217;s one social worker per 50,000 students, when problems such as rape, alcoholism, violence, gangs, depression, family turmoil, absentee fathers and family deaths abound.<\/p>\n<p>This is not okay. We must do better.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saferspaces.org.za\/understand\/entry\/school-violence-in-south-africa\">SaferSpaces<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, one of the youth I work with calls me, and tells me that it&#8217;s her birthday. I start singing to her, but then hear she is crying, so I ask her what is wrong. She tells me her 25-year old big brother hung himself today, and she had found him. We are living in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5617,1891,5618,83],"class_list":["post-20215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-czerina-patel","tag-high-school","tag-social-workers","tag-south-africa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24122,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20215\/revisions\/24122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}