Geater Center Case Study

Central Wisconsin Center (CWC) is an organization established in 1953 by the State of Wisconsin to provide residential and short-term treatment to people with intellectual disabilities. It is one of the three facilities used by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to take care of disabled people in the state. The organization was recognized by the state’s legislature in 1953 and then opened to the public in 1959. Today CWC have over eight hundred employees with a yearly budget over fifty million dollars and occupied 100-acre campus located at 317 Knutson Drive, Madison, Wisconsin.

There’s not much to offer for the young generation. Before there was a huge emphasis on youth and bringing positive things to the community. That aspect has largely taken a back seat. There are no longer things geared towards youth. Instead the focus has been placed on business growth and the economy. The younger generation has turned to drugs and alcohol to fill the void of boredom, and lack of stable family structure. Instead of thinking through the long-term consequences of their decisions, students turn to the immediate “fix”. The dropout rate and the number of young adults in the area being incarcerated has increased. What can be done to minimize this

Being in a community where drugs is dominate and easy, gives the kids a bad idea of role models and things to do, as they get older. A cleaner area could reduce this problem and could even change the kid’s life. Another solution to the problem of drugs could be to make it seam unappealing or not cool to the kid, nobody wants to do something that could lead to life changing experiences, or even land them in jail the rest of their lives. Also kids are obsessed with what is cool, so if the drugs were made to be bad, or nobody liked them wouldn’t want to do them. Kids at a young age like to conform to what others are doing around them and be like everyone else, so if they were made uncool then it they wouldn’t need them to fit

The evidence that is provided expresses that prisons should be a place to “conduct health education, screening for disease and treatment” however, right now prison is just a place where disease is allowed to spread back and forth between the general public (p.123). The fourth topic is educational management which covers how the education system can decrease youth crime by making a small change in the time school starts. This section states that if school started later than youth would have less opportunities to commit crime. At the moment the only thing that is hindering this from occurring is the inconvenience it would bring adults (teachers, parents, etc.). This section also discusses peer on peer (mainly bullying) crime and how it should be treated as regular crime not something that can be overlooked. This sections ends stating that we should hold schools more accountable for the crime rates of their students.

Over ⅔ of the youth that lives in the city has been in trouble with the law at least once. Since 2015 there has been 91 arrests, 45 put on probation, 84 put on house arrest, and 163 who served over 16 hours of community service all of which were between the ages of 11 and 17.(“CDP Monthly Activity Report”) Every city will have delinquents going around looking for trouble but with the population of Coolidge so small and the numbers of the adolescents record so staggering it is easy to infer that Coolidge simply is no place for kids. 3 of 4 of every teenager will have been in trouble with the law by the time he/she gets to their senior year of high school if they don’t drop out first. The high school dropout rates in Coolidge go up and down year after year, but the lowest of high school dropouts in a year was 10% while the highest was at a staggering 36% (County, By) This city is not safe for anyone nonetheless a place that has no interest in doing good for

Government should take action by making plans that involves young kids in activities that keep them away from criminal activities. By sending teenagers to prisons they would be getting a criminal education instead of a real education. In cases crimes have a lot to do with economy. If government instead of making inversions on polices and prisons that do not represents decrease on crime use those funds to invest on working programs that could result on less robberies. This will just not lower the crime-rate, but decrease the prison population.

If we want our children to become more active then we need to find ways to provide areas where they can safely plan and interact with other children. We need to encourage community members to actively participate in opportunities to create a healthier community. A partnership with community members is needed to make the changes necessary to promote and provide access to safe recreational areas for children. In the short term while we are trying to find ways to clean up existing playgrounds and build new ones, we need schools to open gyms and sports fields during non-school hours so children can play safely after school, on the weekend and over summer vacation. Creating affordable after school programs, summer programs and free or low cost summer camps for low-income families is a place to start while working on building more and safer playgrounds. There are challenges regarding cleaning existing playgrounds or creating new ones. Neighborhoods or schools lack the resources to provide playgrounds, parks and after school programs and some neighborhoods are unsafe for children. Parents can become advocates for their children by writing letters to school administrators and board members. Encourage local officials to install park equipment, bike paths and safer

Odenville can be improved by rebuilding the middle school, adding more restaurants, and populating the city by building houses. For example, we are the only middle school in the county that use to be a high school back in 1908. Other schools in the county have more money put into their schools and it looks presentable. If you go to other schools they keep up with their facilities with care unlike Odenville. For Example, In Odenville there is one fast food place and that is Jack's, and most people have to travel to moody for better food selections this is why we need to add more food places in Odenville. If we had more choices people wouldn't have to go out of the city. By them staying in the city it would bring more attraction to Odenville.

Should College Athletes Be Paid? Growing up, sports were always one of the biggest aspects of my life. I was a multi-sport athlete starting at the age of five. I played soccer until 7th grade, basketball through sophomore year, and baseball all the way through high school. Baseball was always my main sport.

Juvenile offenders are increasing day by day regardless of the efforts to control the youth crime. It is important to understand the fact that even though the offenders fall in the young age bracket, they are still a part of human species. Human nature responds to violent actions with violent reactions. Violent reactions cause an increase in the violent actions instead of controlling them. However violent reactions may cause a temporary stop in the violent actions which may lead the authorities to believe that they have contained the crime. However, that doesn't stand true as a temporary stop does not result in a permanent solution.

According to the NASW Code of Ethics for licensed Social Workers, Social Work is clarified as the attention to environmental forces, which creates, contributes, and addresses problems in living, among individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities, with a goal of reducing discrimination, oppression, poverty, and other forms of social injustice (NASW, 2008).

I once read in a textbook, "Human service work must always start from a solid base of appropriate attitudes and values" (Mandell & Schram 2012, p. 111). This particular book lists several attitudes and values a human service worker should render. Qualities such as; Patience, self-awareness, empathy, capacity to deal and take risk, just to name a few. I agree with the list in its entirety; however, I know as a human service worker I will not master the list in its entirety. After reviewing the attitudes and values, I deem that the most important values and attitudes for effective human services professionals are self-awareness, open-mindedness, skepticism, rejection of stereotypes, humor, and a light touch.

When thinking of reforming the juvenile justice system one has to think; what can we do to make this better for everyone involve? There are some programs that can be implemented when trying to make a change in the juvenile system. The main thing is getting parents or the guardian more involved in the child’s whereabouts. Secondly the community where the youth will have a place to go and have something more constructive to do to keep them out of trouble. Law enforcement can get involved in giving ride along and having visits to the local jails or prisons from the youth to talk to some of the inmates. Crime in life isn’t racist at all it has a no age limit, no certain gender and no social status for most of those whom decide to partake in a criminal activity. From the beginning juveniles have been an issue with law enforcement, the question has always arisen of whom will take control without cruel and unusual punishment and assist with the rehabilitation and prevention future crime actions.

The United States leads the world in the incarceration of young people, there are over 100,000 youth placed in jail each year. Locking up youth has shown very little positive impact on reducing crime. Incarcerating youth have posed greater problems such as expenses, limited education, lack of employment, and effect on juveniles’ mental and physical well-being.

A huge problem arising in this though is that there is a huge demand for juvenile justice services, which is increasing the need for resources, but the system only has a limited amount of resources. I believe that the community should get together and come up with ideas on setting up