Missouri Baptist Children's Home Case Study

The Tennessee Department of Children’s Services was created in July 1996 by joining children’s services programs from six different departments. This merge occurred during a time when the Tennessee child welfare system was undergoing a massive crisis. The amount of children with significantly higher levels of needs were rising, warning the state to find ways to provide services for children in a more effective manner (www.tn.gov). The mission of DCS is to ensure forever families for children and youth by delivering high-quality, evidence-based services in partnership with the community (www.tn.gov). The vision statement of DCS is Tennessee’s children are safe, healthy, and back on track for success (www.tn.gov). The department’s ultimate responsibility is always to protect children from abuse and neglect. In order to uphold this responsibility, DCS case managers investigate allegations of abuse and neglect, and works with families to resolve issues that

Legacy Treatment Services is a nonprofit organization which employs over 700 employees and offers programs to 13 counties throughout New Jersey (Legacy Treatment Services, 2016). It should be noted that there are 21 counties in the state of NJ, which are served by different organizations, like Oaks Integrated Care. This organizations mission is to support and change behavioral health and social service outcomes. Legacy Treatment Services is the product of a mergence between The Drenk Center and The Children’s Home. This paper will focus primarily on the Adolescent Residential Services Division which provides housing, schooling, therapy, psychiatric services, and life skills training to children who reside

Red Rocks Church (RRC) is a non-denominational church located in multiple locations throughout the Denver-Metro area. Red Rocks strives to be one church in many places with campuses in Golden, Lakewood, Littleton, Denver, and Arvada. Red Rocks’ first campus, where it originally started, is located in Golden, Colorado. The church’s mission statement says that their prime objective is, “…to make Heaven more crowded, by welcoming prodigals home.”

Pastor Fred Dyess had retired after serving as pastor for thirty years and Director of Missions for the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans for fourteen years. The Lord called him out of retirement to start a new church. Bro. Fred checked with the Eastern Louisiana Baptist Association Director of Missions, David Brown, to learn what areas the association had targeted for a new church and what was needed. He was told that the Louisiana Baptist Convention required a new church to have a sponsoring church. Dr. Roger Dunlap and Macedonia Baptist Church gladly voted to be our sponsoring church. The Louisiana Baptist Convention and the Eastern Louisiana Baptist Association each gave Victory a budget supplement of $500 per month decreasing

The spectrum human services were found around the 1970’s and started as a 12-bed group home for boys that were mentally impaired in Detroit. The founders main goal is to inspire, support families and communities. They work to assist with human needs through focusing on prevention and improving the overall quality of life. Spectrum support family crisis, foster care and adoption, juvenile treatment short-term and long-term, substance abuse prevention and treatment, and workforce development. In the program, it is designed to address people with mental, physical, behavioral challenges. Today, spectrum has over 40 programs across the state of Michigan.

Presbyterian Children’s Homes and Services of Missouri (PCHAS) plans to continue providing Therapeutic Mentoring services to youth between the ages of four and nineteen in Lincoln County. This program will work with youth identified through school districts (Lincoln County R III) and other social service and healthcare focused agencies (Crider Health Center, Preferred Family Healthcare) in Lincoln County.

The Marion County Children Service Board offers a variety of services to the community. The offer intake assessment, this is where the referral for services begin. A trained staff member will assess the calls received and then make a determination whether services are needed or not. They also provide protective home-based services, once an investigation is complete, and it is determined that services are needed, and the child can remain in their home, without the risk of abuse, the caseworker will then provide counseling and case management to the child or children and their family. The caseworker may also provide additional referrals to other agencies. MCCSB also provides placement and substitute care services, this occurs when the determination

FCS first opened its doors on February 2, 1966 at a small apartment office in Ogden, Utah. The agency was founded in response to community surveys that recognized the need for a counseling agency to keep families together. Its first executive director, and only counselor, saw 170 clients in 1966. Since then our agency has helped thousands of children, individuals, couples and families. In 1993, FCS assisted 350 clients; in 2010, we assisted 2,400

Mental Health services are not established. MHS is working with the referring agency to have services provided in the schools. The referring agency with follow-up with the school. The referring agency will provide information for individual therapy. MHS will schedule and provide follow-up as needed.

Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services was initially awarded funding by the St. Louis County Children's Service Fund for the Family Solutions for Kids (FSK) program in August, 2010, and it has proven to be an effective service for St. Louis County youth and their families. As stated previously, the PCHAS

On Friday, June 5th, Megan Crews and I attended a community support group meeting at New Horizon Church of Christ. This meeting was a for teens and young adults that were experiencing issues of emotional abuse, substance abuse, sexual abuse, depression, co-dependency, and anything else that was causing them struggles. The Landing (what this group is called), is a daughter program of Celebrate Recovery, which has been helping people in different communities for 20 years. This collection of groups is faith based and helps the whole family, not just the individual experiencing the problem. It is set up as a fifty-two week program, based on principles that Jesus shared in the Sermon on the Mount. They use a 12-step program model using Jesus Christ as their focus and not psychological theory. There are over 20,000 programs in churches around the world. The programs have also had great success being used in the prison system. Since the beginning of these programs, many people have found peace and healing from their issues, hurts, and habits.

Ronald Mcdoland House Charities (RMHC) has been running Since 1974 they have created created many programs that strengthen families that are going through difficult times. RMHC provides important resources and compassionate care to children and their families who are being served by leading hospitals worldwide.

The reporting party (RP) stated foster child Faith is running around with her friend Dana who lives with her mother in a hotel (99 Palm Inn & Suites). According to the RP Dana's mother leaves Dana and Faith at the hotel where they are allowed to smoke pot and hang out with boys. Subsequently Faith is posting pictures on the website Musical.ly with the user name @duhitsfaith and Dana's user name is @_white_girrl_. Faith has been causing problems with other girls at her school, threatens and starts fights with other students. Faith was heard bragging about how she gets away with everything in the foster home. She was also heard disclosing her encounter with her mother who beat her for sending nude pictures to her boyfriend who attends La Sierra.

For Patrick Noonan, his 13-year tenure as executive director of The United Methodist Village has been time well spent.

Methodist Family Health Counseling Clinic is an organization that provides healthcare services focused on various emotional and behavioral challenges individuals and families can face. Methodist provides many different services all over Arkansas that range from inpatient to school-base services. They also have eight Therapeutic Group Homes that provide a family-like setting while children are able to receive other needed services for emotional and behavioral needs. “Children are referred to Group Home care by the state Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS), churches, parents and other Methodist Family Health programs. The length of stays are generally 9-12 months or longer.” (Resources, 2016). Only 6-8 youths are in the house at a time. They live in the home and attend public school while living there.