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Care is complex and demanding, and ideally requires a team of clinicians, therapists, a social worker, a care manager and round-the-clock aides—all of it difficult to organize and impossible to fund.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2026

By the time disabled social worker Vikki Walton-Cole arrived at court, she was already "in pain and unable to walk".

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2026

Unified career, she taught high school students working to catch up on missing credits and also worked as a mental health therapist for victims of crime and as a foster care social worker.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Only do so with the advice of a social worker or elder-law attorney.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026

I learned later that the social worker had called our grandfather to tell him we’d been taken into foster care.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

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