Family Advocacy Project Analysis

The organization I chose is called Dee Norton child advocacy center. The mission statement is To prevent abuse, protect children and heal families. The vision statement is To be THE leading child abuse and trauma center-changing the world, one child at a time. The core values are compassion, collaboration and commitment to excellence.

The city of Merced has several issues such as having a high unemployment rate of 12.6%, compared to California’s unemployment rate of 5.7%. Merced’s children living in food insecure households is 33.3% while California has a 26.3% and Merced’s child poverty rate is 38.1% while California’s rate is 22.7%. Clearly, Merced has issues but there are more. Furthermore, these issues could lead to one another. For instance, if a student goes to school hungry because they don’t have enough food to eat, the student’s main focus will be food and when will they have the opportunity to eat again, if they will. The

The non-profit organization that I chose for the semester project is Feeding America, a non-profit organization that consists of a network of food banks assisting food insecure people throughout the nation. What does a food insecure family look like in the United States? It is parents going without food in order to feed their children, it is families rationing food and skipping meals.

The implementation of the ASFA certainly carries many strengths with its amendments to the AACWA, including a title using “the term ‘safe families’ that few people would want to oppose legislation with this goal” (Jansson, 2008). One of the strengths of the new law was its movement away from bias favoring reunification that the AACWA once carried, and the placing of emphasis on child safety. Another strength was the change from selective provision of services to universal provision of services, where all special needs children would receive health coverage, regardless of whether or not they were a Title IV-E adoption. The switch to annual judicial permanency planning hearings was also an

Child Advocacy Center development has been closely related to the approaches we have been introduced to in this course. Creating protocols for community impact, sustainability and growth have all occurred as this Child Advocacy has developed in my community. In my work it is very important to keep the families and victims we serve at the forefront of our decision making. Each policy, program and renovation is made with how it will impact the families we serve over how it will benefit us. Our program has followed the Principles of Good Practice at times and failed to follow them also. Each program/project has a little of this I believe. In this paper, I will go through each principle and identify how the CAC program has met the standard or identify

Simple things such as a haircut, backpack or new toothbrush mean much more than it seems to someone who goes home to a single bed motel. Learning would have been a much easier experience without the snickers of my classmates behind me as they whispered about my taped together backpack. I would like there to be a greater public understanding regarding the issue of child poverty and help those already in poverty to be aware of the resources available to

They are on a regular diet with few restrictions on fried foods and fat intake. The children eat school lunch and the parents from outside restaurant choices. Mom tries to cook a meal a day after work or they seldom eat Subway or Pizza Hut. No variation in weight gain or weight loss reported. They try to eat dinner as a family at home on a regular basis. However, this was not feasible all of the time due to dad’s late night work hours and CH basketball practices after school. They generally get 6-7 hours of sleep per night and denied any sleep deprivation. No exercise program has been implemented by this family. CH is the only physically, athletic member. DH stated that he likes to ride his bike. The children are active in Sunday school and participate in summer camp.

For instance, housing plans, housing plans that offer food, shelter, and clothes, and even nonprofit, and social, organizations to help fund housing developments. There are even organizations that offer help with financial issues as well. “Coal for the Homeless.” Coalitionforthehomeless.org, n.d. Mon. 16 Nov. 2015. : Long-term housing solutions, “Financial housing programs are one of the most successful housing-based solutions to reduce homelessness. The two largest federal housing programs are public housing and federal housing vouchers…” Jim Romeo. “Gale Group.” Poverty and Homeless, 2009. Mon. 16 Nov. 2015. : There’s a new strategy, “...the newly homeless get shelter, food, clothing, and access to government and nonprofit services.””Here’s How We Can Fight Homelessness.” Center For American Progress Action Fund, 2005-2015. Mon. 16 Nov. 2015. : Mainstream sources need to be looked into by individual communities to help aid their own homeless people, such as, “Medicaid or Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF).” How many people are homeless in

In 2013, I had the opportunity to assist local public school administrators on the issue of illiteracy and the allocation of resources in inner-city schools. Additionally, I collaborated on a small team to implement plans to provide public housing for the homeless in Orange County, CA. During this time, I also had the opportunity to be a nanny for five kids who were formerly homeless. I was able to be a part of their transition from street life to home life and witness the effects of poverty

The Bowen family systems theory can utilize to understand the Gillison’s family dynamics. According to the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family (2016) the Bowen family system theory views family as an emotional unit that utilizes systems thinking to comprehend the complexity of the interactions within the unit. The theory describes families as having a major influence on their member’s thoughts, feelings and actions, which leads them to feel as if they are composed of the same “emotional skin”. The members of families, according to this theory, are driven by each other’s attention, approval, and support. The members therefore, react to each other’s expectations and wants and needs. The family is therefore interdependent. One change in one member’s function leads to a change in the functioning of the others. This is evidence in the case of the Gillison family.

I work with families that are involved in child protective services and I am always amazed at the lack of social policies that are in place to assist these families. These families often times are faced with poverty, addiction, and homelessness. Although there are many social policies that improve the quality of life for individuals that live in poverty there continues to be needs that go unmet for families living in poverty. There are several treatment facilities that treat addiction, but many of the clients that I work with do not have insurance that the treatment facilities accept. A typical client that suffers from addiction does not have the financial ability to pay cash for treatment. I recently inquired about the cost of treatment for a client without insurance and was informed that the cost of inpatient care was approximately $1,000 a day. There is no client on my caseload that can afford to pay the cost of inpatient treatment. The lack of affordable housing for families living in poverty is another very frustrating social policy. One town that I work in has one low income housing complex that has a current waiting list of three years. The waiting list for housing assistance in this particular community is currently closed and will not accept applications at this time. The closets homeless shelter is forty-nine miles away from the town. I currently have five clients on my caseload in this area that are

After a thorough review of the textbook and the course material, the specific family system approach that I choose to explore is the Bowenian Approach for this literature review. This specific family system approach is also known as the Bowen Family System Theory as well (D.V. Papero, 2006). The Bowen Family System Theory was established by Murray Bowen, a theorist and psychiatrist who specialized in treating children who were deranged and had schizophrenia (Rockwell, 2010). In the 1950s, Bowen wanted to explore a new venture so he decided that he wanted all of the family members of each child to be involved in an therapeutic process at the same time (Rockwell, 2010).

“Family-centered care” is a term heard often in healthcare settings and in nursing practice. Family-centered care has been recognized as being an integral part to patient health, satisfaction and health care quality (Kuo, et al, 2012). Family-centered care is implemented with the goal to increase partnerships between, families, patients and providers; and has been prioritized as a core-concept of quality healthcare (Gallo, Hill, Hoagwood & Olin, 2016) Many professionals, however, would be hard-pressed to state what the term “family-centered care” actually means and how it applies to nursing practice. They would be at a loss for how to implement family-centered care and what is absolutely necessary to have in order for family-centered care to be successful. Advanced practice nurses are faced with the challenge of adhering to family-centered care in their practice. Illness, both chronic and acute, and health does not just affect the patient involved in care. Illness and health affect the patient, their children, their spouses, their parents, their brothers, their sisters, their grandparents and anyone else involved in their life. Research by Davidson (2009) supports the idea that the perceived effectiveness of communication between healthcare providers and the patient’s family is related to the overall satisfaction of care. Advance

Find two journal articles on the topic of advocacy in health and social care. Use these articles in conjunction with the module materials to discuss the ways in which advocacy can help increase service users’ sense of empowerment when engaging with health and social care services.

In the last four decades, the concept of the American family has undergone a radical transformation, reflecting society¡¯s growing openness. Among all segments of society, there is a greater acceptance of a variety of family structures ¨C from single parenting to blended families to same sex parenting of children. The introduction of openness into the process of adoption offers new opportunities for children in need of a parent or parents and prospective parents wishing to create or expand their families. Meeting the requirements to become eligible to adopt no longer means being constrained by the conventions of an earlier generation.