My Service Learning With Child Protective Services ( Cps )

There are many efforts that are made each day to ensure safety of children living in the state of Mississippi. The MS Department of Child Protection Services (MDCPS) is at the center of every community’s child protection efforts. MDCPS conducts initial assessments of reports of child abuse and/or neglect. The agency also provides other prevention services to children and families where maltreatment has occurred or is likely to occur. The adaptation of these services examines underlying conditions. These underlying conditions consist of drug and alcohol abuse, sexual molestation, poverty and cultural beliefs. MDCPS utilizes tools such as Comprehensive Family Assessments (CFA) and Family Service

I believe that taking a child away from this parent can be challenging because children are so precious and a gift to a parent . I also understand the reason for a child to be removed from a parent or guardian is to protect the child .I have a passion for kids and people in general but ,children are special because they can't fully protect themselves. CPS is a child voice and protection when they don't have anyone to turn to.This position appeals to me because I want to make a difference in someone life, it may be challenging at time but I am willing to accept the challenge.I enjoy working in fast pace environments and knowing that everyday may not be the same as yesterday.

I am a qualified Childcare Practitioner with 12 years’ experience, who would love the opportunity to embark on a career as a Primary Teacher. I am currently employed in a local authority pre-five nursery class within a Primary School. I aspire to become a teacher as I feel it will offer me new challenges and a chance to further develop my love of teaching. I am a dedicated worker and continually strive to provide high standards. I also promote confidence, respect and compassion to ensure all members of the nursery and school are respected.

The controversial issue of whether or not Child Protective Services are doing their jobs properly, has grabbed nationwide attention. Child Protective Services is the name of a government agency in many states of the United States whose mission is to respond to reports of child abuse and neglect. Some of these cases may include physical abuse, sexual abuse, and mental abuse (Wikipedia). The child welfare system is corrupted. The parents and guardians who are accused of abuse are automatically labeled as guilty and will have to prove their innocence; instead of being innocent until proven guilty.

Before going into further details, I first asked Ms. Katie to tell me about herself. She started sharing her experience with working in the child welfare for almost 16 years and how she she has enjoyed the experience. The field helped her gain more knowledge than what she had expected. In the past, she has done a little bit of In-home and foster care, which were not her preferences, but benefited her gain experiences. Ms. Katie’s job interest is working with high conflict cases, such as substance abuse, neglect, and child fatality, which she is currently doing at her job. What she does is when all cases, such as abuse, of children under the age of 18 are reported to her unit, she treats them as a 24 hour or immediately case, where the next step is to meet or be in contact with the families and different people for data collection. After this stage, she closes the case or send them to the in-home unit, which addresses any concern that the families may have as well as help them with available resources. Ms. Katie has had a positive

Child Protective Services (CPS) is a complex system of assessments, investigations, and conclusions. CPS is the central agency in each communities child abuse and neglect service system. It is responsible for ensuring that preventative, investigative, and treatment services are available to children and families endangered by child abuse and neglect. As a result, CPS workers must perform a variety of functions when responding to situations of child maltreatment and play a variety of roles throughout their involvement with child protective clients. Reporting a suspective case of child maltreatment to the local CPS agency (or a family member’s own request for help with the problem) initiates

Did you know in 2012 that 1,640 kids have died because Child Protective Services did not act upon their situations? CPS stands for Child Protective services; that reports of child abuse or neglect. The government thought that CPS would have helped more than harmed, but because of their statistics CPS has been cancelled and now there is a new program which is called DCS (department of child safety). CPS has failed in their position by not focusing on all child cases; CPS only puts effort towards cases they picked. If we were to continue with CPS the way it is , so many more kids would die. CPS was put down because of the ratio of kids that have passed away under their care.

What interested you in this career? I wanted to work with families to improve and better their situations. Child Abuse is a horrible thing with endless survivors. By working in with Child Protective Services, I hoped to have a positive impact to prevent children from being abused.

In the United States, there are programs designed to protect children. There are foster care, group homes, and other services for children safety. The Child Protective Services in Alabama has the sole purpose of helping children in cases of neglect and abuse (Child Protective Services). These services include foster care programs where children who are at risk of harm from birth family, or who suffers from mental, emotional, or physical issues. These services provide care to all children who meet the state qualifications and removed from their current home (Introduction of Foster Care). The foster care system is where children who can no

A child living in the 21st century is no stranger to poverty and the desperate lifestyles it promotes. Too often the case, children, living in families with incomes below the nation’s poverty line, are limited to criminal activities, low-level education, and blue-collar employment. Furthermore, years of economic strife in the United States have invited a cycle of poverty to predetermine the lives of children in poverty-stricken families, where they are raised with insufficient care and inadequate resources in unstable environments. Not that it is in any way the fault of the parents, whose financial situation isn’t always an accurate reflection of their parental capability, the government’s assumes the responsibility of removing children

IRTC spoke with the assigned CPS, Nancy Rios, who reported that she made a visit to the case address on 6/22/17 and spoke with the family regarding the alleged choking incident. CPS expressed that the subject child’s younger sister indicated that she observed the incident and the alleged subject did grab the subject child by the neck and choked him during the altercation. CPS conveyed that she spoke with the subject child who reported that he was not choked during the incident and he was maneuvering like the “Matrix” when the alleged subject tried to grab him. CPS uttered that the subject child said that both he and the alleged subject eventually grabbed each other by the clothes and they were tussling. CPS articulated that she spoke with the

This spring semester I had the privilege of completing my service learning hours at Asarese Matters Community Center. I chose to conduct my hours of service at this site because I felt like I could relate to the kids that are experiencing a life of poverty with limited mobility opportunities. Most my time spent there I interacted with a majority of the kids through basketball and competitive activities like billiards, ping pong and talking sports. While observing relationships and interactions between staff and youth that attend the community center I noticed the important role that sport and education played in the life of the children. Using my sociological imagination, I would like to explore the role of sport and the interactions and behaviors that takes place during competitive situations, also the role of education and the kids perception on going to college and using sport and education as a way of succeeding and escaping the concentrated poverty of the Buffalo communities. Using the lived experience that I encountered and knowledge acquired in the past, I will try to piece together a connection and express how the macro level expectations of a community to prosper influences the self esteem,behaviors and attitudes among social groups at the micro level here in the city of Buffalo and at Asarese-Matters community center.

I believe a highly trained, educated and experienced workforce is an essential component in providing social services to the community, families and meeting the needs of children to ensure child safety. My advocacy goal with Children’s Administration (CA) employees in the Bellingham office is to ensure CA staff are treated with respect and dignity during an internal investigation as to an employee’s alleged misconduct and to minimize the impact on office morale and workload during the disciplinary process. I believe this is a social policy given the work conducted within the CA office is to provide all families with dignity and respect . I believe these same beliefs should be demonstrated to CA employees during disciplinary action or personnel investigations. Revised Code of Washington (RCW) 42.52 and RCW 9A.80.010 is the authorizing legislation for Washington Department of Social and Health Services Administrative Policy N. 18.64. . The purpose of this policy is to establish standards and guidelines for ethical conduct which applies to all Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) employees. The policy outlines expectations in terms of interaction with DSHS staff which is to include respect and concern. In addition, this policy addresses the work environment by stating the work place should be free from interference and individual work performance.

There were concerns that the mother was not capable of protecting the child from the father and felt that the CPS team should have acted more urgency based on the child reporting that he is afraid of the father. The CPS team reported that they didn’t think the matter was urgent based on the fact the father was not residing in the home and that the mother supervised the visits with the father at all time and was willing to get an OOP against the father. CPS workers that were viewing the conference mumble that they were in agreement with the CPS team. On a few occasions I observed someone voice being rough when asking a question. At that moment I felt like the team was being scrutinized because of their case work practice. If child stat is a learning activity why does it feel like the team was on trial and was being punish for case work practice that didn’t meet agency standard. Looking at child stat it is discouraging and as a CPS worker makes me feel uncomfortable and doubtful about decision I may make regarding my

I understand what you're going through child protective services always after my auntie. That's why she's always state to state. Yes she slips up but everybody makes mistakes. Seeing your child get taken away hurts the most. After its all said and done child protective services needs to come up with new rules and regulations. They take your kid because of what they hear. It varies either way it depends on the caseworker or the case. Some are more concerned for kids who aren't being abused instead of the kids who are. They are focused on the littlest situation of the big . They do a little investigating and that's that. They need better environments for the kids. Bad things happen in there and it's nothing the kids can help because they're trapped until adulthood. They miss their parents and the parents miss