Sarah Lake's Involvement In Parenting

Summarize the key family events, services, and casework activities since the last Family Assessment and Service Plan. Include legal activities, if any.

Parenting class would be benefiting parents that are new and don’t know how to take care of a child. "Given that the gap is widening between the white, middle-class population of children and children belonging to the growing low-income and Latino populations, examining the relative impact of parenting education programs across these diverse populations is essential," Finders said. "We think parenting education can have the greatest impact by adapting existing curricula to be culturally relevant and sensitive to diverse children and families' needs." ( Gale Contributor, Parenting class benefits all especially low income families). “Researchers examined a sample of more than 2,300 mothers and fathers who participated in parenting education series in the Pacific Northwest between 2010 and 2012. The series, designed to support parents of children up to 6 years old, typically lasted nine to 12 weeks and consisted of one one-hour session per week led by a parent education facilitator. There was no fee for participants.” ( Gale Contributor, Parenting class benefits all especially low income

Several of the programs that are offered for the children, and the parents mainly focus on sustaining communication between the child and the parent. The insufficiency of the connection between the parent and the child, can sometimes involve the distance required for the child to travel. At times the children are found in an underprivileged situation, and are unable to visit their parent, because they can’t afford the voyage to the prison (Simmons). Other programs emphasis career pathways as well as residence reinforcement for the parent after their release. Most incarcerated mothers subsequently are limited in their parenting abilities (Ross). Plenty of educational classes are offered for aiding the parents to get back on track with their parenting duties.These courses educate the mothers about the child growth, and their behavioral control. The parent education classes are not only beneficial for the mothers, but studies show that fathers also

Ms. Cuvellier has been meeting with the Department, engaging in visits, and has provided release to allow the Department to speak with all collaterals including her therapist, parenting program coordinator, treatment program, and to allow the Department to receive information concerning drug screens.

A, B) MSTT met with the caregiver to examine how she plans to increase the supervision and monitoring of the youth while out in public. Caregiver expressed while the youth is at home she is going to speak with her mother and his aunt to help while she's at work. MSTT encouraged caregiver to reach out to the school and ask them if they would be able to supervise and monitor him. Caregiver contacted the school and is waiting to hear a response. MSTT will continue to work with the caregiver in increasing the supervision

Focus: Ms. Smalls (MHP) administered the Casey Life skills assessment, the Circle of support and the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths assessment with the assistance of Ms. Givens (MHS) and Antazia.

The first documentation is Refuge. Refuge offers parenting classes on Monday 10-11:30 and Wednesdays 5:30-7pm.

In the article “A Scary Time to Raise a Daughter,” Steve Lopez discusses the reasons for sexual harassment of children under twenty-four. The author states that sexual harassment can happen to anybody. Young kids are all worrying about sex. Because that is how the world is now, it is either how you appear or having sex. Mr. Lopez gives an example about husband and wife. The wife is pregnant, but the husband seems very worried, and very afraid for his future daughter. He is really terrified about what is happening in the society. This is because he received an email from his friend that talked about a problem of sexual harassment. This changes his opinions about raising a child in today’s society. He is afraid because he worries about his future

Collateral interview with Ms. Jennifer Small-Felix/Child Advocate and therapist was conducted via phone. A follow-up in reference to the Dorthy’s adoption process was conducted. Child’s advocate advised that perspective adoptive parent will not be adopting Dorthy anymore. In reference to her prescribed medication, Ms. Small-Felix reported that she will follow-up with the psychiatrist to provide documentation of continuing or any change in child’s medication as well as foster parents of any change in her behavior. Child’s advocate also noted that treatment plan will be mailed out.

The world has been overpopulated by movies and books that make an attempt at depicting life in high school; however, the majority end up failing. Sarah Dessen has risen above and beyond in Saint Anything; the book triumphantly illustrates life in high school. In the book, Sydney Stanford moves to a new school after her brother is sentenced to prison for causing a drunk driving accident that would leave a boy paralyzed. She ends up meeting a girl named Layla after school at a pizza place.

Barbara Ann proved to her audience that she raised Danielle with an extremely indulgent parenting style. “The indulgent approach to child socialization represents an excessively lax parenting pattern wherein parents do not exercise control over their children. Indulgent parents are highest involvement with their children and lowest in strictness. They have few clear expectations for their children, and seldom set limits for them or provide consequences for their actions (Heath, pg. 34). She was very lax, not strict, inconsistent, and tried to put the role of being Danielle’s friend before the role as her mother. For example, Barbara Ann told Dr. Phil, Danielle was raised without many rules or boundaries for most of her life, because she never needed them. When Danielle began to act out and become disrespectful, Barbara Ann abruptly tried to change her parenting style to Authoritarian by ineffectively giving rules and setting limits. As a result, Danielle went to the extremes and did things like stealing her mom’s credit card, running away, and breaking the law. Barbara Ann used a “my way or the highway” method to try and discipline Danielle when she lashed out. This proved to be very ineffective. If Barbara Ann had raised Danielle with an authoritarian or authoritative style of parenting, this behavior

Conducting the first run of Maritza’s program during the formative evaluation, I would expect for it to reveal that progress has been made in the program. Formative evaluation help enhances interventions, and they serve more to guide and direct new programs. Maritza could expect for the program to need adjustments to help the women better. This would be beneficial to Maritza program since her program is a new pilot program for The Bedford Mountain Parenting Program. “For this reason, formative evaluations are not as threatening and are often better received by agency staff than other forms of evaluation” (Royse, 2009, p. 112). The program provides weekly group and individual sessions that focus on various topics that would identify concerns

Jess’ parents held on strongly to their religion and traditions and never fully integrated with Western ways of life. They lived in Hounslow neighborhood of West London, a community filled with Indians, and did not allow their children to make friends with anyone outside of their culture in order to avoid their children being negatively influenced by Western culture. “A stricter parenting style is believed to be necessary to develop the coping abilities to deal with racism and discrimination.” (Friedman, Bowden & Jones, 2009, p.384). Jess’ mother wanted both of her daughters to learn to cook traditional Indian food at a young age and find an Indian boy to get married to. She said, “I was married at your age. You don’t even want to learn

mber has a very strong bond and connection with her children. The children love spending time with Amber and demonstrate this during visits by laughing, smiling and playing with her. Amber always plans age appropriate activities for the children during visits. Amber prepares hot meals, attends to the children’s needs and is very attentive. Amber’s authoritative style of parenting creates a very healthy balance with the children. Amber set reasonable expectations such as completing homework assignment, following instructions, and being kind to each other and expects the children to abide by them.

After having the interview with Lindsay, parenting is not easy even if you prepare yourself ahead. It is hard especially if the child is your first born. With your first child, you want to give the child the best in everything. As a parent, you have ways that you want to raise your child but you know that sometimes things don’t go your way. It is hard when people around you tell you how to raise your child and this sometimes can discourage parents. For Lindsay, it happens to her but she did not give up what she believes in and how she wants to raise her child. I like how she is a strong-willed person with what she went through. One thing that I learn from this interview is that there are times you do want to take advice from others but if there