July 2011 to Present--Contract Manager for Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), California Children’s Services (CCS) responsible for developing contracts for Medi-Cal programs serving Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN). Duties include overseeing prevention education programming for Med-Cal Waivers conducted by county health plans, including reviewing required prevention education materials related to: risk reduction and healthy lifestyles; unintended pregnancies; tobacco use cessation; alcohol and drug use cessation; injury prevention; promotion of nutrition; weight control; medical foods; physical activity; and management of chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Additionally oversaw
IRTC spoke with the assigned CPS, Nancy Rios, who reported that she made a visit to the case address on 6/22/17 and spoke with the family regarding the alleged choking incident. CPS expressed that the subject child’s younger sister indicated that she observed the incident and the alleged subject did grab the subject child by the neck and choked him during the altercation. CPS conveyed that she spoke with the subject child who reported that he was not choked during the incident and he was maneuvering like the “Matrix” when the alleged subject tried to grab him. CPS uttered that the subject child said that both he and the alleged subject eventually grabbed each other by the clothes and they were tussling. CPS articulated that she spoke with the
According to the 2010 Plan for the Future of the New York City Family Court, the main goal of family court relies on ensuring “the highest standard of justice for each and every litigant who enters the courthouse” (2010). This is done by executing a sequence of processes and by providing different resources to individuals involved in the case. There are three major organizations that serve an important role in Family Court. These organizations ensure justice for individuals entering the family court system by providing a variety of different services. These organizations include the Administration for Children’s Services, the Legal Aid Society and the Panel of 18b Attorneys. Each of the three organizations mentioned, work to ensure the welfare of children and service to families by providing a variety of different services.
California Children Services is a state program that helps children with certain diseases, physical limitations or chronic health problems and you must be under 21. They have offices in different counties throughout the state. The office in Redding is the main office for Shasta County.
Juvenile courts were established by each state. However, there was a need for federal action to go beyond the responsibilities of the fledgling juvenile courts in order to better the lot of children across the country. The early part of the 20th century was a time when children of all races still worked under inhumane conditions in mines, mills and factories (U.S. Department of Labor, 2016). The mills and factories were often little better than sweatshops and children were paid mere pennies a day for their labor (Foote, 1976). Recognizing this, Congress passed a law, and President William Howard Taft signed it, establishing the Children’s Bureau as a new federal organization in 1912.
Did you know in 2012 that 1,640 kids have died because Child Protective Services did not act upon their situations? CPS stands for Child Protective services; that reports of child abuse or neglect. The government thought that CPS would have helped more than harmed, but because of their statistics CPS has been cancelled and now there is a new program which is called DCS (department of child safety). CPS has failed in their position by not focusing on all child cases; CPS only puts effort towards cases they picked. If we were to continue with CPS the way it is , so many more kids would die. CPS was put down because of the ratio of kids that have passed away under their care.
The Social Security Act of 1935 played a major role in the delivery of child welfare services. It enabled states to develop their own agencies and programs like Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services (DCS) to carry out child welfare services. According to DCS’s website, the mission of the agency is to “ensure forever families for children and youth by delivering high-quality, evidence-based services in partnership with the community.”
“For over 60 years, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been dedicated to protecting health and promoting quality of life through the prevention and control of disease, injury, and disability,” (CDC, 2012, p. 1). The organization has a focus of decreasing the health and economic disadvantages of the principal reasons of demise and incapacity through diverse programs, thus safeguarding an extended, prolific, vigorous life for people, (CDC, 2012). This paper will expound on The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and it is enhancement to the fundamental operations
In the United States, there are programs designed to protect children. There are foster care, group homes, and other services for children safety. The Child Protective Services in Alabama has the sole purpose of helping children in cases of neglect and abuse (Child Protective Services). These services include foster care programs where children who are at risk of harm from birth family, or who suffers from mental, emotional, or physical issues. These services provide care to all children who meet the state qualifications and removed from their current home (Introduction of Foster Care). The foster care system is where children who can no
With this scenario it is honestly boarder line due to it is but then again it is not enforceable. Gerard’s promise to donate the receipts to Kids Care is enforceable due to he made a contractual promise which means that Gerard has to fulfill it by law. Also, the promise Gerard made created not only a legal but as well as a moral responsibility in which made his promise an enforceable in spite of the lack of consideration. Kids Care had relied on the promise that Gerard made in order to build a residence for homeless teens and with such dependence, it formed a basis for contract rights and duties. On the other hand the promissory estoppel is defined as “individuals rely on promises, and such reliance may form a basis for a contract rights and duties. Under the doctrine of promissory estoppel (also called detrimental reliance), a person who has reasonably relied on the promise of another can often obtain some measure of recovery” (Miller & Hollowell, 2011).
The health care policy for many years has posed significant challenges for administrators within the federal system, which also span in the public, nonprofit and business arena. One of the administrative agency’s primary area of focus is to educate individual through preventive
Child protective services (CPS) is a government agency located in many states across the United States that helps children stay away from harm and abuse. Child protective services and its agencies plays a big role in society. Children of all ages are assaulted and most of the times by a dearest loved one. Child abuse is defined as any type of neglect upon a child including mentally, physically, and sexually.
The healthcare team will observe the legal statutes of the state of California when administering care to minor patients. Minor patients are any patients under the age of 18 at the time that services are rendered. In the state of California, minors of any age may consent to medical care related to pregnancy, contraception, abortion, emergency medical service, sexual assault and rape services (this office maintains that minors under 12 can not be expected to give consent to any sexual act* and the attending physician should notify the medical office manager immediately before the minor patient leaves) and skeletal X-ray to diagnose child for abuse or neglect (the physician doesn't need either the minor's or the parent's permission in this instance) without parental permission and the physician can not inform the parents without the minor's consent. Further, minors age 12 years and older may obtain outpatient mental health services, diagnosis and/or treatment for infectious, contagious communicable disease and sexually transmitted disease, HIV/AIDS testing and treatment, rape and alcohol and drug abuse treatment without parental/guardian consent. When
Child Protective Services (CPS) is a complex system of assessments, investigations, and conclusions. CPS is the central agency in each communities child abuse and neglect service system. It is responsible for ensuring that preventative, investigative, and treatment services are available to children and families endangered by child abuse and neglect. As a result, CPS workers must perform a variety of functions when responding to situations of child maltreatment and play a variety of roles throughout their involvement with child protective clients. Reporting a suspective case of child maltreatment to the local CPS agency (or a family member’s own request for help with the problem) initiates
The New York State of Children and Family Services is an organization that was developed by the state government. It is found in the Department of Family Assistance. It has its headquarters at Capital View Office Park in Rensselaer. The New York State of Children and Family Services as an organization was instituted on January 8, 1998, through a program that involved the integration of different programs such as the state Division for Youth and family programs. At its foundation, the agency was being administered by the Department of Social Services. It was also under the administration of the Commission for the Blind and visually handicapped. Its Executive Office is comprised of 6 other offices. These offices are the Office of the
This paper reveals the facts about Department for Children and Families. It deciphers the role of investigator in saving the children from abuse and the constraints and external pressures catered by him during the entire process. It also reveals the facts about the powerful role of law in impelementing the measures to prevent child abuse of any form.