Child Advocacy Center Development

Innovative and continuing to improve and include interactions and experiences with families and children within the service.

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.

I follow local, state, and federally mandated policies and procedures in order to ensure a well-run program. Daily I perform health and wellness checks when the students arrive and I remain apprised of who is allowed to pick the child up. I am attentive to possible signs of neglect and physical or sexual abuse. If necessary I will provide support and resources such as 211 First Call for Help or Beechbrook counseling to comply with the family’s needs. Ensuring appropriate adult-child ratio, current student records and maintaining open communication with parents is another way the program is purposeful. I identify the child’s progress

As the criminal justice system needs improvement within our society, the social care system needs a bit of enhancement as well. A policy recommendation that should be considered is the social worker that is in the child’s case should focus more on visiting the child. Children placed in the foster care system should be checked on frequently and evaluated as they are placed in such homes. A survey can be provided to children to see where they are mentally and physically during the time of adapting to a new environment. Children can express any concerns or problems they face during the time with their provider. However, in Antwone’s case, the social worker rarely came to check up on how Antwone was holding up in the household he was placed in during his childhood. His foster care provider abused him physically and

Families’ needs involve treating families with dignity and respect, no matter what the allegations against them are, and including them in decisions that affect them and their children. Also by using a strengths perspective with families as foster care workers work with them to determining intervention plans for their child(ren), and giving them the same access to resources and services s those available to foster parents. The operative goal of communities is to work with communities to protect children and support families and taking into consideration community safety issues when determining the intervention plan for a child and family.

REPORTER: The reporter (Bridget) called with concerns for the victims, Joseph and Mary. The reporter said the children are currently in the care of Penny and Jim Pannell. It is unknown how long the children have been in their care. The reporter said Jim and Mary came into her office for a Family Therapy Session. The reporter overheard Jim tell Penny that she tricked the biological mother to sign the children over to her (a few weeks ago). Penny told the biological mother that she would eventually give the children back, but she never had intentions on giving them back (according to Jim). Penny disclosed some allegations to the reporter, and she asked the reporter if Joseph had told her about it. The reporter told Penny "no", and the reporter

Chapter 13’s reality check was about helping vulnerable children become more resilient. I found this article to be very interesting because I have observed vulnerable children working at the child care facility and have wondered what may be causing them to act this way. Their environment with me is s safe and positive and I work my best for them to feel comfortable with me. These children always seem to be more alert of the area and have a harder time getting along with the other children in the facility. I find that a few of these children do not get the required attention from their parents that they should be getting and this is seen through them all day when they are away and as well when they return to pick up their child.

Children are being uprooted form their lives and placed in a home they are not accustomed too. This experience can become even more traumatic when they are placed in homes and shelters with limited or inadequate living conditions. Of the five-billion dollars federally allocated to annually fund the child foster care, 75% of that is spent in the child welfare systems. This exhibits even more atrocities of neglect and abuse from the system designed to protect children. (Hagopian 6) This money is being wasted on frivolous things such as pay-raises for social workers instead of providing a suitable living environment for the children’s prosperity. This money will be better spent on providing food, clothing, or even in scholarships for children who want to go to college. Also, while a child is in the system their emotional, medical, dental, and educational need are required to be taken care of (AdoptUSKids 2).

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My first assignment of this week in about theme that continuously need more and more support from communities, and community leader to advocate for those that have less control of their lives which are the children who experience and live a life of maltreatment and abuse by their parents. Has being research nationally 542,000 are in foster care because of negative experience. A lot of this children request foster care because of maltreatment and abuse by parents. By placing children in foster care and removal from the abusive scenario. Being in a foster care children to experience

The Magnolia community initiative is a program used to help strengthen individuals and families in order to create a community support system. The family foster care and adoption is a training system for foster parents. The purpose of the training is to help foster parents prepare if ever they decide to adopt a child in the future. The training offers them a parenting designed helpful for raising children who have been separated from their parents. The prevention services were created to bring awareness. By educating families and community members about the dangers of abuse and neglect abuse, is less likely to occur. The mental health service helps families receive the therapy they need. They start off by assessing the individual and then offer therapy they think would be most beneficial for the client. The family assessment is a progress plan designed specifically for each families needs. The training program is utilized to help other organizations find effective ways for helping the welfare of families. The research and evaluation help professionals improve their services by conducting annual evaluations on what’s working and what requires

After carefully reviewing the media presentation, I chose to focus on Maurice Williams who is the program director for the human life center. Mr. Williams stated that his main concern as a director is making sure that foster parents are not calling the hotline stating that they will like the foster child to be removed out of their home immediately. An issue that Mr. Williams stated that he having now in as a director is the demand of more children. He believes that the lack of children in the program is a very big issue and he would like to created programs that can help bring more children. In order for his program to grow he will need to have more clients, which mean that his program is ran and operated.

There are many intervention programs and practices related to child welfare. One of these intervention models is Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention or CFTSI. This intervention program addresses the challenge of children who have suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder caused by a variety of things such as physical and sexual abuse (The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare). This intervention practice came to be because of the multitude of children who are suffering from this challenge. Just in 2011 alone, child protective services reported that 6.2 million children had been reported due to traumatic events. This does not include all of the children that experienced traumatic events that were not reported (Hamblen, J., & Barnett, E.). Children who have experienced traumatic events are more likely to have posttraumatic stress disorder. Since there are so many children in the United States that are at risk or do have PTSD, this intervention practice became a vital tool in prevention and treatment.

Though these men undoubtedly changed the way we view child abuse and respond to it, perhaps child advocacy groups were the first organizations to bridge the gap between social services and the justice system. Child advocacy organizations like National Children’s Advocacy Center, which “revolutionized our nation’s response to child sexual abuse” (“History,” 2015) and Justice For Children are organizations that were started in the late 1980s to address issues of child abuse and respond to such abuse in ways that the justice system and social services failed to do. Child advocacy organizations started during this time retain a vast amount of similarities. For example, former district attorney prosecutors started both Justice For Children and

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