{"id":57071,"date":"2025-05-29T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-state-keys-in-on-next-gen-social-service-workers\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:30:13","slug":"san-jose-state-keys-in-on-next-gen-social-service-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-jose-state-keys-in-on-next-gen-social-service-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose State keys in on next gen social service workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story is a collaboration between San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight and Open Campus.\u00a0 Genesis Smith is spread thin. There aren\u2019t enough social workers in Silicon Valley, leaving her to juggle tense encounters with parents whose children have been placed in protective custody with hour-long drives as far as Merced to check on foster placements. \u201cIf you love your job, you will never work a day in your life. I love my job. I look forward to work. But I\u2019m not going to pretend it\u2019s not emotionally draining,\u201d Smith, a 25-year-old child welfare worker for Santa Clara County\u2019s Department of Child and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-jose-state-keys-in-on-next-gen-social-service-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story is a collaboration between San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight and Open Campus.\u00a0 Genesis Smith is spread thin. There aren\u2019t enough social workers in Silicon Valley, leaving her to juggle tense encounters with parents whose children have been placed in protective custody with hour-long drives as far as Merced to check on foster placements. \u201cIf you &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}