Hello to all my friends and family,  I was blessed to be offered from the State of Nevada, Division of Welfare and Supportive Services a position titled, Family Supportive Services I, or as they call it FSSI.

I began September 8th, along with 20 others became the 34th Academy to graduate on December 10th with ceremony. We can invite our families so I hope Wayne will be in town.  Our first week was full of the normal paperwork and passwords to access the different systems we will be working on.  After fingerprinting on Thursday morning we went to our different field offices and met and observed all the different functions in the Welfare Office.  We watched the clerks in the front office handle lines of people waiting for hours.  The Social Workers counselled  women that were theredue to domestic violence issues.  Our function will be processing requests for different welfare programs and taking appointments to discuss and educate those needing to use the system. 

Case Workers will be our title to those that come in to apply.  Then that is broken down into the intake case worker which has the client complete the proper forms needed to process the claim.  Then once it has been processed and they are eligible then it is moved to another unit called on-going case workers. Amoung other functions we will be studying the Food Stamp program when we return to class on Monday.  Our next scheduled time in the field will be in 1 month and we will stay for 1-2 weeks conducting interviews for new claims.  I am still working on my Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services/Management and should be graduating in June ‘09.