Family Resource Center Internship Analysis

On wednesday at my internship was a very important day, because I got to go into the field and instead of go to the agency with went out into the field. That day I went to a place with some body of the agency and I saw the process of how they recruit the young participant to join the program. Which I think it's a good way to reach out to this participants, because as young participant they most of the time won't be interested until somebody reach them to help the participants.is a speciall internship becaouse is very important this is a good story to tell.It was really interesting to see the agancy from another perspective. Chapter 11 on the book the human services internship, it explained how as a professional and as a person that is learning,

Child abuse has an impact on the many crimes America faces. Child abuse is not always easy to distinguish at a quick glance and can go on for years without someone knowing. Many criminal justice practitioners are involved in these cases. Between psychologist that help the children recover ,and find out their stories to the police officers who arrests the offenders, Child abuse is a delicate situation and takes the upmost care.

Child abuse has been a big issue in the world for a long time. There has not always been child protective services like there is now. Children would be abused and neglected and nothing was being done because it was not being reported. The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was the world’s first organization in the late 1800s which was dedicated totally to child protection (Myers, 2008).

The job of a child welfare worker appears to be a demanding profession that promotes the child’s safety, but also strengthens the family organization around them in order to successfully raise the children. This child welfare workers work in the system known as the Child Protective Services whose initiative is to protect the overall welfare of the child. The short novel From the Eye of the Storm: the Experiences of a Child Welfare Worker by Cynthia Crosson-Tower demonstrates the skills necessary to deal with the practice of social work along with both its challenges and its happy moments. The novel consists of some of the cases involving Tower’s actual career in social work. In reading the book, I was able to experience some of the actual

within this assignment I will be talking about the factors which could lead to suspicion of child maltreatment or abuse, different strategies and methods that are used in order to minimise the harm to children, young people and their families where and when the abuse is confirmed. I will also be talking about the responses where child maltreatment or abuse is suspected or confirmed relating to current legislations and policies.

For 30 years, advocates, program administrators, and politicians have joined to encourage even more reports of suspected child abuse and neglect. Their efforts have been successful, with about three million cases of suspected child abuse having been reported in 1993. Large numbers of endangered children still go unreported, but a serious problem had developed: Upon investigation, as many as 65 percent or the reports now being made are determined to be "unsubstantiated", raising serious civil liberties concerns and placing a huge burden on investigative staffs.

If a Child Advocacy Center had been used, certain aspects of Precious’ maltreatment experience and outcomes could have been completely different. Regardless of whether a call had been made to the local Child Advocacy Center, the complex challenges would most likely remain. But more importantly, Precious having access to mental health professionals, legal experts and physicians would no doubt have eased the trauma of the overall experience. With the use of an advocacy center, if someone had called into the hotline when Precious became pregnant at 12, the information would have been forwarded to the county where Precious resided. CPS would fast tract the

I am completing my internship at Adult Protective Services, which a type of services offered through the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. DFPS offers a wide range of services to the community. The Texas Adult Protective Services programs began in the 70s, and it was originally develop to enforce state involvement to protect children, elder adults, and adults with disabilities from abuse, neglect, and exploitation. In 2003 the House Bill was passed reorganize and consolidated Health and Human services. This new bill established the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. The new DFPS now includes Child Protective Services (CPS), Adult Protective Services (APS), Child Care Licensing (CCL), and Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI). In 2005 the Texas legislature body transferred the guardianship program from DFPS to the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS).

Testimonies from children who have experienced sexual assault can mean the difference between guilty and not guilty verdicts for the defendant. Often times child victims are psychologically and even physically harmed jeopardizing their statements during the trial. There are a number of reasons for children to be unable to give full accounts of what has occurred to them. For the purpose of protecting child victims and making sure they are heard the courts have implemented innovations that make testifying less traumatic for children and allow for a more accurate description of the assault. Hearsay testimonies are one of the innovations that have been shown to give child victims of sexual assault the chance to be fully heard. Victims directly

The purpose of this agreement is to delineate the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) response to ensure that professionals involved in the assessment, investigation, prosecution and therapeutic interventions of child maltreatment cases are doing so in a coordinated, cohesive manner, maximizing the positive outcomes for the victim’s physical, mental, emotional and safety needs, and for the pursuit of justice. Multidisciplinary team professionals through the instituting of the CAC have established the following goals: (1) to maintain a safe, child-focused, culturally-sensitive location for child forensic interviews, medical examinations, and advocacy services; (2) to minimize trauma to the child; (3) to enhance communication

In this paper, the intern will disclose information from a case that they experienced during their internship at the Mobile County Department of Human Resources. The paper will demonstrate the intern’s knowledge of the presenting problem and the fundaments of their field placement. It will explain the client’s problem in context and display the intern’s ability to understand diverse groups. Next the paper will explain the how a plan was established for the clients and how the intervention process was utilized in their case. Then the intern will describe how the plan and intervention was evaluated and, if successfully, how the termination process was applied. Lastly, the intern will identify any issues related to social work values and

When a child comes forward about an occurrence of child maltreatment they may fear having to retell their sordid tale innumerably. With the advent of Child Advocacy Centers this is no longer the truth. The first Child Advocacy Center (CAC) was established in 1985 and served as a model for future CACs. The first center established was the National Children’s Advocacy Center and it was located in Huntsville, Alabama. The primary goal of these centers is to limit the number of times a child has to recount the events of maltreatment. Utilizing a multidisciplinary team in a child-friendly environment helps to create a safe, secure and comfortable environment for children to disclose details about maltreatment they have been exposed to.

Internship is finally coming to an end, it has taught me many things, and opened my eyes to see things in a new perspective. From the very start of my internship until now I feel like that I have grown as a person and as a student social worker. I have had a great experience, field instruction, and co-workers. I am very fortunate and thankful to be able to carry out my social work career with the Third Circuit District Attorney’s Office. However, there has been struggles and I do not think nothing could have prepared me for them, other than having to experience those struggles and learning from them.

It is not uncommon for children to be victims or witnesses of a crime. Especially in cases of (sexually) abuse they are often the only witnesses. In case of a lack of technical evidence, it is very important that children are interrogated well about what has occurred to them (Otgaar, Jelic & Merkckelback, 2014).

It breaks my heart to know that child abuse has a history and throughout history children have been subjected to extensive physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, and neglect. However, doing most of the history of child abuse was accepted and in some cases it was encouraged. As time progressed child abuse has grown to receive more attention and is being recognized as a severe epidemic that has to be stopped. I believe that the views of child abuse has changed over the years for it has left the home from being a private issue to a public issue where different agencies are involved in order to resolve the child abuse and neglect issue. Agencies that take part in investigating and preventing child abuse in today’s time are the Family and Protective Services, SCAN, and several more agencies that are committed to stopping child abuse and