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Originally Posted by DvlshAngel985 
No, they have their site supervisor. (the #1 person that talks about me) They're in education and I'm in social services. We should be working together to help provide services to our families. I feel like I am on my own and every time I get slapped down by one of them for something somewhere. I'm not perfect, I have made mistakes but I own up to those mistakes. Ive only bee here 5 or 6 months, and the rules are constantly changing. We work with the county and my job is to keep up with those changes, since they as education are out teaching the children. We're each to do our part.
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So have you tried a one-on-one with the site supervisor? Sounds like she's the ringleader and the others wouldn't follow along if she wasn't egging them on.
If you haven't, why not get her to go to lunch with you somewhere away from the office. Then, in a collegial way, put it all on the table. Tell her you know your business relationship got off to a bad start, and that if you have done anything to cause it, you apologize for your part in it. (I've found that vague apologies like this work wonders for breaking the ice without admitting any guilt, and frequently catch people off-guard.)
It sounds like part of your job is to support their teaching effort by keeping the county off their backs - is that right? So tell her how you see what you do supporting their efforts and making them look like the superstars they surely are. And ask what you can do to mend the broken relationship and help in their efforts. Be prepared with a calm response in case her answer is hostile -- such as "I'm sorry you feel that way, but I hope I can someday prove to you that I'm not the enemy." If she says "quit" - then you've probably got a recalcitrant bi*ch on your hands and all you can do is watch your back while you continue to do your best work.
You might be surprised to find that they have some preconceived fears that you can lay to rest or you might even have unconsciously done something to add to the animosity that you can correct. Or it could just be a toxic environment that management has allowed to happen and there's nothing you can do to fix it - you just have to hang in there until the economy improves and you can leave them in the dust while you find a better position.
I used to get so frustrated when I saw incompetent or just plain nasty people allowed to get away with their behavior and sometimes even get promotions and raises. Having been in the working world for ages, I can tell you that it eventually does catch up with most of them. I can't tell you how many I have seen pressured to resign or just plain fired when times got tough or there was a senior management change. The responsible and productive workers who don't get involved in drama are usually the last ones to go if for no other reason than that no one else wants to do that amount of work.