The life of a DSS worker in the pandemic

Few will likely mourn the passing of 2020.  We’ve all been impacted by the scourge of COVID-19.  Imagine, if you will, what it’s like to enter a home where there is discord and there may be an active case of the virus.  It’s the duty of social service workers to help bring about peace in a setting where there’s a suspected case of child or adult abuse. And this week the director of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, Michael Leach, enlightened 101.7/WGOG NEWS about the tasks facing DSS workers statewide, including those who work for the Oconee DSS on Walhalla’s Kenneth Street.  This has been a trying time for local DSS workers, especially those whose lives and homes were impacted by the tornado that raged through the Seneca area in April.  Leach describes DSS                      cases in Oconee as “very complex.”  He says often families “do not have just one or two needs, but four, five, or six needs.”  You can learn more about the work of DSS on this Sunday’s ‘Community Sound Off” which airs during the noon hour.