[nagdu] Inclusive discussion

[Vanessa Lowery]

Interesting topic.  I read a few messages on either Friday or Saturday night and spent the rest of the weekend pondering the concept of "inclusiveness".

Here's my take, for what it is worth.  Inclusiveness does imply that you accept "everyone", regardless of the differences that each person may have.  But even within inclusiveness, there are boundaries.  Let me explain.

I am a social worker by professions.  There are social workers *everywhere*, but while I am in the parger group called social workers, I do not possess all of the skills that a social worker can have.  My area of expertise is in Adult Services, and very specifically, Adult Protective Services.  There are things specific to this area of social work that a social worker from another area of practice (child foster care, for example) would be clueless about, from the types of resources available to even the dark humor that runs rampid in our area of social work.  AT the same time, the foster care social worker has access to knowledge, and yes, even the dark humor, that is specific to his/her area of practice that I woudl be equally cleless about.  So while we all slogged through school to become social workers, making us members of tha tlarger community called social workers, we did not all go into identical fields of practice.  So I am included in both the alrger community of social workers, but I am also in that community specifically devoted to Adult Services, while not every other social worker belongs to that very specific and smaller community.

So, there will be diversity and cultural difference, so to speak, within a give community.  You can ahve both exist at the same time.

OK, putting my brain back to sleep.



Vanessa Lowery, LGSW
Adult and Community Services Division
Adult Services Screening Unit
410-853-3550
VLowery at dhr.state.md.us



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