Monique and her family have experienced many incidents in her Liberian homeland that will have a lasting effect on them. The probable psychiatric effects of living through war, bombings, and destruction of your own village as you flee from it, are sure to play into the psyches of folks long after being removed from the immediate danger. Though the initial removal from this scene must surely be a relief, the overall toll it takes on folks would be very disturbing and burdensome. The worry of loved ones and friends left behind, and of losing your home and effects surely must be overwhelming. Even Monique’s family’s escape experience was harrowing with going through the checkpoints, being detained and the car being searched, and lastly, that final …show more content…
If these are accurate, it may be of help to her in processing the services she would need and those that might be the most beneficial to her. As her helper, my first concern after securing the initial basic necessities of safe housing, food and medical care, would be to address Monique’s mental condition. Because of the mental trauma she has endured back in Liberia, I would suggest that she be evaluated by a mental health professional and any underlying issues be addressed for example, depression, anxiety or PTSD. These would be addressed first and after that was stabilized; I would assist Monique in making a plan for how she would like to live her new life here in the United States. I would use the case management strategy to find specific counseling services or group meetings geared to Monique’s situation and I would assist her with any barriers she might have that could stop her from having equal access to all of the services that would be most helpful to her. Monique will have to find employment as soon as possible and as her helper I would first inquire of her interests and any prior experience she may already have. It is possible that a work training program might be
Social Services: On 12/08/2016, client Lissy Figueroa met with assigned Case Manager Ms. Gilgen for Intake Assessment and Initial Independent Living Plan (ILP). Client is 21 years Hispanic female. Client has a 3 year old son named Maxwell. Case Manager asked client how and why she became homeless. Client stated that she was
At 0824 this clinician met with the patient who reports her weekend was not unpleasant. She reports she is continuing to have problems locating housing. She reports her family members continue to refuse to allow her to live with them specifically her father and her uncle. She reports she has one friend who is considering allotting her the capability to reside with her under the condition that she speak with her Child Protective Services (CPS) caseworker first. She reports she does not want to reside in a homeless shelter with her son as she has done this before and the experience was not up to her standards.
Client reported she does have family members here NYC. She has an uncle residing in the shelter systems. She doesn’t have any community resources. CM advises the client to enroll in ACE Job readiness program.
Karly Segrave was a fifteen year old girl when Hurricane Katrina Hit. Her mother worked at St. Tammany Parish Hospital, so when it was time to evacuate she stuffed everything she could into a backpack and went on her way. Most of the employees at the hospital brought their familys with them, so space was limited. Karly slept under her mothers cubical for three weeks. “At first it was fun,” she watched movies, played games, and had tons of people to talk to. Then days turned into weeks and the hospital begun to run low on food. She began to realize that it wasn’t all fun and games.
In chapter two of Leymah Gbowee’s memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War, turmoil is happening all around her. The chapter starts with Gbowee graduating from High School and enrolling into the University of Liberia. Shortly after she enrolls it is announced that rebel forces have invaded Liberia. Gbowee’s parents move to a newer house in Monrovia. Then Gbowee experienced her first encounter with guns when there was shooting near her house, along with her grandmother, Ma Korto, pushing one of the children outside. After that, she and her family were taken to St. Peter’s church to stay in the residential compound. Shortly after she arrived at St. Peter’s, Gbowee saw a young man shot in the street. The streets seemed like battlegrounds and people prayed their houses would become fortresses. When Gbowee describes the way the beginning of the war affects her personally, she overlooks the deeper problem of how fear and courage alter the ways in which the people around her fight the daily battle of surviving. In neglecting to see the suffering of others, she shows that she has not yet, “come of age” and still has a lot of maturing to do.
I assisted through discussing concerns, for instance, providing medical insure for her and her children, Anat Ramirez Mendoza and Alexa Ramirez Mendoza; I contact or link her with institutions that can provide for her counseling and English classes , also , we discussing to send their children to head start , so she could begging looking for job and improve their life style . I do also recommend that Florencia follow through with parenting classes. Everything has to waiting Florencia getting out of jail.
If she returns home, what considerations need to be taken into account as part of her discharge plan? Using your local area, research and present the needed or preferred community resources (macro) that would be available to them. Critique the ability of these community resources to adequately meet the needs of this diverse family’s circumstances.
“After abandoning everything in our home, everything my parents had worked for, I was met by assault rifles, searchlights and quarters too small for the amount of people it accommodated” my grandfather assured. The property, belongings, jobs and businesses were all left behind in the rash fear
Can you predict if it was the last day of your childhood and freedom? Lucia and her family couldn 't. Lucy Lipiner’s haunting memoir “Long Journey Home” documents when Nazis invade their homeland and forced them to flee away and find shelter. With limited options on where to go, their family stays together throughout the strenuous journey to find safety throughout Europe to America. This memoir tells in detail the mental and physical struggle to get to safety and freedom. Even when tumultuous events occur, you still have a chance to become resilient no matter what circumstances. To illustrate this theme, Lucy Lipiner uses extensive imagery.
During this time, Civilians were forced to leave the only place they knew as home. As Serbian police force Albanians out of their homes, Priština, Kosovo’s capital is being drained of its ethnic identity. One refugee being forced to move to the Macedonia border said, “Then at two o’clock we were in the train. So many people it was difficult to survive. Very difficult. I thought I saw death with my eyes” (BBC news). These series of events depict the issues and struggles Albanians endure during the Kosovo War. Albanians fear is being able to create a safety environment for their own families. A main concern as well was if these Albanian families will ever return to their homes. The war for ethnic cleansing in Kosovo was already in progress. Furthermore, Serbians would also be put in a difficult decision, whether to end the war within Kosovo or to endure inescapable NATO air strikes.
Since the start of the Sierra Leonean war in March of 1991, innocent civilians have been the primary target of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF)’s wrath. The people of Sierra Leone have faced significant problems due to the invasions and attacks by the Rebel Forces and are the main population that is being affected by this group’s disapproval of the government. One person who experienced profound changes in her life due to the start of this war is Mariatu Kamara, a victim of a Rebel attack that cost her both her childhood and her hands. Throughout her memoir, “The Bite of the Mango,” she is faced with numerous traumatic events and meets an abundance of people who were very significant in her life and some of whom helped her survive the war. Kamara also gives the reader a variety of themes to use as a foundation to understanding war life, which also serve to help readers learn more about life, grow as people, and rise above to help others in need. Mariatu Kamara has not only changed the lives of people all throughout Sierra Leone by giving them a voice and an outlet to share their experiences, but has also proved to be an inspiration for countless amputees around the world.
Due to the fact that the client lost her job, it is essential that the first goal in the counseling process is to give her the necessary tools to procure another position. Another goal is to keep the family together while the mother receives the proper help to fulfill these goals. Interventions to do so would be skills training, stress management, and consultation. The counselor can discuss with the client which areas of employment would she like to work in and based on that information, get the necessary training. What this client desperately needs is stress management. She is facing some tough challenges with her husband deployed, loss of job, and a mouth to feed. (Corey, Scheider Corey, Corey, & Callanan, 2015, 2011) I would also have some consultation with the proper services like family preservation services which strives to develop a treatment plan to keep a child safe in their own home. (Family Preservation Services, 2016)
She herself seems to be in good health physically and is able to come to appointments. Her good physical health allows her to go the appointments and services she requires.
When most people of think of war, they generally think of the glorified aspects. Love and violence. Or perhaps their minds are drawn to an image of a soldier’s homecoming: A father embracing his son, crying tears of joy, all while the solider relays his experiences of the war among celebratory decorations. He is now considered a hero. But what difficulties has he faced to get there? This is the side of war that many of us don’t recognize. In the memoir, A Long Way Gone, author and protagonist, Ishmael Beah, experiences civil war and its effects first hand when he is forced into becoming a child soldier in the poor third world country of Sierra Leone. As the novel progresses, Ishmael becomes increasingly addicted to drugs,
Lights shine just a few yards from where you crouched clutching your bag for dear life, a blistering cold sweat trickles down your neck as you realize like an animal you 're being hunted. Murky water seeps deep into the fibers of your torn clothing while you hide among the tall marsh grass just outside your way to a better life. Cutting through the thick night air and illuminating each blade of green the lights inch closer and That 's when you feel it. A cough. The same deep coughs that your wife tried to hide that stemmed from her tuberculosis. Her need for medicine and your family 's survival is what drives you and what has caused you to come this far leaving a nation of oppression and crossing into one of opportunity. You tighten your grip on the bag 's strap then Your eyes wide in terror dart back and forth as you begin to feel your way through inky blackness. thunderous gunshots ring out in the distance a sound you know all too well. You have to make it to shore, there, is the land that holds the medicine you need. What would you be willing to do for your family?