Luke’s IHSS social worker had a reputation in the disability community for behaving unprofessionally during IHSS reassessments.  Luke’s most recent reassessment was no different.  The social worker accused Luke’s IHSS provider of fraud and then cut Luke’s hours without actually assessing his needs.  OCRA submitted an advocate inquiry to the IHSS office, which resulted not only in a change of social worker and a reinstatement of Luke’s hours, but Luke and his caregiver received a personal apology from one of the IHSS managers.  OCRA’s intervention helped Luke keep his IHSS hours while also alerting the IHSS office to the unprofessional behavior of one of their social workers.