Case Study: CSW Sanchez

The Sanchez family is the typical Latino extended family that you find in most neighborhoods. The mother, Celia Sanchez doesn’t speak much English she’s mainly surrounded by people who speak Spanish. As a Latino mother she’s very religious attends church and participates in church events where she gets food as well. Since Celia’s English is limited this was an impediment during school conferences and other situations that she has faced. Celia wants to apply for food stamps, but her husband Hector doesn’t agree and is completely against it. I kind of understand where Hector is coming from being the man of the house he feels that he needs to provide for his family and thinks he’s responsible for

Foster Care and Adoption are the most multi-faceted areas of child welfare. Foster care consists of placing children outside of the custody of their parents or legal guardians. This out-of-home placement can be temporary or long-term. Adoption on the other hand, consists of the legal and permanent process that establishes a parent/child relationship between individuals not related biologically (Downs, Moore, & McFadden, 2009). These two areas of child welfare are constantly evolving and the decisions made on a child’s behalf can affect many areas of their biological, spiritual, social, and emotional wellbeing.

Randall Thigpen is a case manager professional interviewed for this assignment. The introduction and purpose of the interview was done through the phone, but the questionnaire was sent via email. Randall’s official title is Placement Desk Coordinator. Randall provides services to foster care children in the Arapahoe county DHS in Colorado. Although the Randall does not have a nursing degree, eight years of experience working with foster care children was valuable when providing information about the population of interest. Some of the responsibilities include finding a home for children who are removed from their home and their parents or caretakers are regarded as not fit to take care of their children. Other job responsibilities include the supervision of other case workers and to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the child in foster care through continuous assessment of the current placement and adjustments as necessary. The following questions were developed and sent to the foster care professional.

Dionnie Williams & Jaziaha Lawson are placed in Ms. Holland home. The home is not a pre-adoptive home and Dionnie and Jaziaha have expressed that they do not want to stay at their current placement long term. Dionnie and Jaziaha were in respite care from August 12, 2016 to August 14, 2016 at foster parent, Bashera Grove home. Jaziaha and Dionnie have both expressed to me they would like to be placed in Ms.Grove care long term. Ms. Grove is a pre-adoptive home and is interested in keeping the girls long term. I believe it would be best to place Dionnie and Jaziaha in Ms. Grove home before the start of the new school year. Please let me know what your thoughts

In an impeccable world, all children would be loved and nurtured and live in a cozy home with a stable family. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. In the United States “over 400,000 American children are in foster care, taken away when their families are in crisis and can’t take care of them” (“Statistics on Foster Care”). Out of all those children in the foster care system about “114,556 of these children are available for adoption”, which means the biological parents’ rights have been legally terminated through the court system (“Adoption Statistics: National Adoption Month”). That is an immense number of children who end up not being able to have the same bond and love that a biological child would receive from their own parents. The foster care system in Arizona is in crisis, and “government, agencies, organization, and individuals need to collaborate and work together to help the over 17,000 children in need of a loving permanent home” (“Arizona Foster Care System- Child Crisis Center”). Typically, children are placed in foster care as a result of the abuse (physically, emotionally and/or sexually), neglect (pay no attention or too little attention to) or abandonment; on the other hand, the children also enter the system by reason of the behavioral issues or by cause of the biological parent subsequently being incarcerated or ill. Fostering a child can be over and above difficult than having a biological child; however, it is considerably more rewarding when a

The counseling group that we have chosen for this proposal is a group for teenage girls in foster care that are between the ages of 13 and 17 years old. This group will provide the girls various coping skills and techniques they can use to make the transition from home to foster care as smooth as possible. The group will allow the girls to make connections with each other so that they can build a support network.

The first issue I will be covering is the damage done to the child's learning experience. Unfortunately, the foster system is not a permanent housing solution, the child is moved many times throughout it’s time in the system. A downside to the constant moving is the loss of new knowledge from academic studies like school. Each transfer takes months worth of learning away from the child and gives the child new personal

The ethical dilemma Mathew and I decided to write on was scenario three, where the mother left her daughter with an “unwilling caregiver” right after the father was incarcerated. In this case while the mother was pregnant with the girl, the mother used drugs, causing the baby to go through withdrawals after she was born. The daughter, Tonya, has now been in foster care for 19 months with the same family, and the mother was not able to be located. Now both her biological father and foster family have shown interest in wanting to keep Tonya, our ethical dilemma in this case is finding the best placement for Tonya in this situation. In this case we’re discussing prospective family reunification versus immediate permanency for Tonya. While Tonya is our main concern making this decision, we also have to consider the competency of the biological father and foster family.

I would also conduct an oral presentation of the results. I feel that this will allow the NCRCC to better understand the results and ensure all questions will be answered. Essential elements for an oral presentation of findings are

In the last few weeks we did not have many contact, I guess that it is because everything is working fine.

Ray Marco Aguirre is an 11 year old male diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and mild intellectual disorder. Ray Marco was referred to BRIA due to her significant maladaptive behaviors that affected the overall quality of life for the Aguirre family. Behavior respite services are deemed appropriate for this family since a more advanced staff is needed to support Ray Marco at home. Mrs. Aguirre states that she is using BRIA services effectively and she is now able to rely on these services to attend to her life activities such as attending family functions and spending time with her other children. Family outing have less stress full with the assistance of BRIA staff and has allowed for sibling to not be the targets of unpredictable tantrums

On Thursday 12/08/2016 at approximately 1952 hours, I Security Shift Supervisor Steven Evans was notified by Security Dispatch that a visitor had fallen down in the West tower parking lot, near the main lobby entrance. I responded to the scene and did not find no one in the parking lot. I then went over the front desk in the main lobby and spoke with PFS employee, Libny Campos, who informed me that an older White male visitor who had left the building had fallen in the parking lot. PFS employee Campos further stated that the visitor was assisted by an unidentified Nurse employee who escorted him back into the lobby. Once in the building, he was placed into a wheelchair and transported to the Emergency Department by a Transporter employee. The

Planning is very important for the child and the foster family. The practitioners will need to plan for this transition by carrying out meet up sessions with the child and the foster family this will help the child as they will be able to more comfortable around them when the transition happens, but however with older children you may not know that child will react to different situations. During these meeting many different things could happen for example the potential foster family can come into the child’s school setting and bring things from their home to show the child what their home is like. The foster family could also invite the child to days out and other family activities as this will help to get the child involved and comfortable around all the family. A child may have been out of the family environment for a while so it is important that we slowly introduce the child back into a family environment but it is also important that we consider the child 's needs and rights. If the child do not what to meet the foster family or the transition is happening to fast then we must respect the child 's wishes and listen to what they have to say and then we must work around what the child wants and plan different ways that the child can slowly get back into the family environment around 70, 00 per cent of children have told the NSPCC they were not ready to return back to a family home (NSPCC website, p4). I think that building a bond between mother children is very

The client is an eight-year old Latino female who has been diagnosed with ADHD, present the symptoms that meet a diagnosis of opposition defiant disorder, adjustment disorder with anxiety, and adjustment disorder with disturbance of emotions and conduct. The client suffers from depression, too. The client lives in foster homes with two other foster children, male and female, which are around the same age as the client. For the most part, the client gets along with the foster children, but struggles to get along with children at school. Also the client is known to talk back to her foster parents. At school the client hits, pulls, and trips other children. The client also starts fights while at the park. The foster mother would hopefully like to adopt the client if family reunification is to fail. However, the foster family is now having concerns as to how they would manager her aggression if they were to adopt the client. The client does have a therapist and a wraparound team for supports as well her biological aunt and foster family. The client’s biological mother is a drug addict and substance abuse user. The client’s mother had her at age 13 (the mother is known not show the client any affection or support). The client and her mother have a strange relationship. The biological mother can be inappropriate and rude to the client during visits (talks about how the client is overweight).

Therefore, the review has identified the following key areas of concern and possible areas of improvement: