The Neverending Parade of Specialists...

So the agency I work for is contracted by another not-for-profit to provide case management services. This, over all, is a good thing. However, the contracting agency doesn't really have any experience in working with the particular types of disabilities that we here are used to working with. They've decided that the best way to address this and "be helpful" to us is to hire an endless array of "specialists" who are supposed to be here to assist us in our work. Roughly translated, they've hired a bunch of people with some vague information who pretty much just get in the way.

Every time I go to a meeting with this contracting agency, they announce the hiring of yet another new "specialist". This is not an exaggeration. And I've been to many, many meetings. All of this layering on of new people without new policies has made my job very tedious and boring. It's difficult to tell my staff how to maneuver this new system of human services when we can never actually get a straight answer as to what, exactly, it is any of these people want us to do. It's annoying and, at the end of the day, demeaning to all of us who have been working with the disabled for so long. We don't need another expert whoop-di-doo specialist to tell us what's wrong. We need people willing to roll up their sleeves and dig in and get people what they need.