Mrs. Holly Stuart, LCSW is currently the Director of the housing program at Bridging Access to Care. Bridging Access to Care (BAC) is a nonprofit, multi-service community-based organization. BAC provides comprehensive clinical treatment, evidence-based prevention education, harm reduction, care coordination, and mental health services in a trauma informed/sensitive environment for individuals in at-risk communities in New York City. Mrs. Stuart and I are currently employed at BAC where she has worked for the past three years. In her current role, she supervises a staff of twenty and oversees six different housing programs which are geared towards the homeless and marginally-housed people living with HIV/AIDS and individuals with …show more content…
She believes enhancing the quality of life for the less fortunate will not only impact the dynamics within their immediate families but can positively impact the lives of others. With respect to working with survivors of domestic/family violence, Mrs. Stuart stated there weren't any specific reasons for working with this population. However, because domestic violence is so prevalent in our society, a social worker is destined to encounter said group, which was how she began working with the population. Mrs. Stuart stated during her work with the population she noticed the victims are usually not forthcoming with information. They tend to harbor a lot of secrets to protect their partners because they do not want to betray their trust. Also, this is a coping mechanism used to enable them to survive. However, at times a small amount of information may be revealed, and this is the opportunity for clinicians to pose questions in ways that offer the greatest chance of being given open and honest responses while listening creatively to what is being said, or not said. Another theme that is common among this group is the victims don’t understand the cycle of violence and the thinking of the abuser thus there is a lot of self-blame for the violence they have suffered which erode at their sense of self-worth. Hence, the victims start to
“Abuse is still seriously under reported. I was told by leading British social worker that when they hold training courses for employees, they find that a third of the females and slightly less of the males come forward to talk about their childhood experiences of being abused. Over ninety percent of parents as some time hit their children – and some people hit them several times a week – so there is a great deal of emotional hurt, fear and physical pain in the world today” (Davis 251). For this reason alone it makes perfect sense why violent crime rates are so frighteningly high.
Q2-Evaluate Vegemite’s brand image based on the social media research undertaken by Talbot and his team .In light of these historic factors, Why did Talbot want to revitalize the brand?
Ensuring that the hoist is in full working order before each use, and that the battery is properly charged,
Working with victims of domestic violence can be an extremely rewarding and fulfilling endeavor. One of the most crucial aspects for a paralegal working with victim of domestic violence is adequately engaging in the task of educating oneself to understand the commonalities of such victims and the ordeals that they have been through. Such clients are drastically different from other individuals who have suffered other physical and violent crimes. Understanding the background of someone who has lived through domestic violence is absolutely central to being able to provide adequate and sensitive legal care. Most victims of domestic violence are women (95%) though domestic violence can have an impact on ever age, class, race, ethnic, cultural or religious group (purplerainfoundation, 2012). "In the United States, nearly one in three adult women experience at least one physical assault by a partner during adulthood (American Psychological Association, Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family 1996 Report)" (purplerainfoundation, 2012). These women are often terrified of their partner's temper, apologize when they are abused and often in the most extremely controlling and isolated environment where the abusive partner will control who the partner sees and where the partner goes outside of the home, jealous of outside relationships (purplerainfoundation, 2012). In these abusive relationships the women are hit,
Despite the countless advanced in technology and the abundance of health care organization popping up all over the place, whether they are free standing clinics, hospitals, urgent cares or etc, many people still lack the ability to receive quality health care. This has become a concern throughout the world, but especially a more vocal concern for residents of the United States in the past few years. In this paper we will discuss the reasons preventing access to quality health care and how we can overcome the many obstacles that stand in our way to provide quality health care to many who lack it today.
Procedures also outline how to deal with disciplinary issues, allegations of abuse, managing risk, deal with grievance or death, respond to emergencies that we have in which supports us on how we work effectively and correctly which allows us to give the best level of care we can give to individuals.
Identify a range of interventions that can reduce the risk of skin breakdown and pressure sores.
2. Think of an example of a time you have received feedback from others than has improved your knowledge, skills and understanding. This may have been from your assessor, tutor, a supervisor or line manager, or individuals using the service. Description of experience How did this experience improve your knowledge, skills and understanding?
The effects of intimate partner violence are attenuating and extend far beyond physical scarring. The abuse of woman and children has been researched extensively by Rachel Pain (2014, p. 536) as acts of “terrorism within the home”. If we are to compare the experience of women and children living in violent homes and the act of ‘terrorism’ itself we get a corresponding experience (Pain, 2014, p. 546). The construction of fear, the loss of identity, the ongoing distress of constantly feeling unsafe, isolated from all support networks are the surreal and ongoing daily struggles for domestic violence victims. Living in such horrific conditions has immense physical and psychological effects on those directly exposed or indirectly exposed to such violence. Through this research the links between domestic violence and ill health has been well-established. In an attempt to combat this prevalence element two of It Stops Here (NSW): a “streamlined referral pathways to support victims’ safety and support their recovery” was introduced (NSW Government, 2014, p. 18). Through this second element, there has been a strong focus on being able to better identify risk and supporting victims. From the inquest inquiry into Luke’s death, Coroner Ian Grey stated that "I find that there is no validated risk-assessment tool that can accurately predict whether a parent is likely to commit filicide." (ABC News, 2015). In an attempt to close the gap on such issues in July 2015 It Stops Here (NSW)
America is known for democracy, freedom, and the American Dream. American citizens have the right to free speech, free press, the right to bear arms, and the right to religious freedom to name a few. The Declaration of Independence states that American citizens have the rights including “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” America promises equality and freedom and the protection of their rights as outlined in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. But with all the rights and freedoms that American citizens enjoy, there is one particular area where the United States seems to be lacking. That area is health care. The United States is the only industrialized nation that doesn’t have some form of legal
Though California has many large urban centers with many hospitals in the state, it still suffers a shortage of doctors. As touched upon in the previous section, the state government has begun to offer incentives for doctors to practice in the state and is even in the process of allowing immigrants who are physicians in other countries to make up for the shortage. At this time the Federal role in California’s healthcare system seems only to be to enforce the universal healthcare laws passed by congress. The best course of action then, would be to focus on building a relationship with the state government in regards to incentives in healthcare. Also as stated previously, APHI should not fall into the same trap as Kaiser did in North Carolina by becoming the state’s sole healthcare provider. As lucrative as it sounds, by taking on the state’s burden
I have never really focused on the issues that our economy is facing; therefore, I find reading articles like these rather interesting. They provide me with material and questions I would not have looked up before. My favorite quote from the article was, “Monetary policy has been keeping the patient alive, creating the possibility of a lasting cure through fiscal and structural operations,” as stated by BoE Chief. I thought this line to be very funny and blunt. The comparison of the nation to a patient really put into perspective the how tragic our economic system is doing. Also, I have come to belief that people are okay with the monetary policy because it has been providing some relief to our problems, but people must find an actually solution,
Task 1 requires you to submit a written piece of work covering all learning outcomes (LO1s, LO2s & LO3s) with a reflective account embedded in the context of work.
Access of care can be defined as the capability to obtain affordable, convenient, acceptable, effective and mostly needed healthcare assistances at the right time. According to healthy people 2020, access to care is the appropriate use of healthcare amenities for a person to attain the best possible health condition. This include entry to a health care system, access to appropriate locations with needed services, and contacting a health care provider who can be trusted ("Access," 2013).
R/602/2954 Understand Employment Responsibilities and Rights in Health, Social Care or Children and Young People’s Settings