To a degree, you want to try and get along with your worker. DCF may very well hold it against you, if you cannot get along or seem to cooperate. What I tell people is that you want treat it as though the person is your boss or a supervisor; even if you have a job and you hate your boss; or you think your boss is unfair; or the company is unfair, in order to get paid or to get a promotion and things of that nature, you have to at least be polite and not be antagonistic with your boss. It is the same thing with the DCF worker. It does not mean you must agree with what they are asking you to do, but at a minimum, you want to be as polite and cooperative as possible.

You do not want to necessarily consider that DCF is going to be your friend just as though your boss is not going to be your friend. You want to speak nicely to the person; even if you are upset with them; you may need them for help, either in hearings or if you were going to file anything in another court.

You do have the option of letting your attorney know that you have a problem with the worker. There can be ones where the attorney talks to the DCF Supervisor and you can theoretically request another worker, but that is in an extreme situation and you can file an “Aggrievance”, but those are generally ones that I would recommend to do much less often. It can also set you up depending on what the issue is with the worker of having either DCF deny the request to change workers; which happens fairly frequently unless there is a reason more than you don’t like the worker; or even if you get a different worker, that worker is aware of you requesting another worker.