Social Work Program Plan

This enables them to become equipped with the skills, knowledge and understanding to live safe, healthy, positive lives as they grow up.

A young boy named Christopher Boone has experienced this firsthand. Although he wasn’t able to attend school; his situation was much worse than that. Christopher had been looked after his father for most of his life, as his mother ran away at a young age. As tension over the years grew between mother and father, sparks flew and Chris was the only person affected. In amongst the tension Christopher’s enraged father (Edard Boone) struck his son. Leaving Chris on the floor in pain and scared for his life. He fled for his life under the light of the moon. Domestic violence is the single largest cause of homelessness. Studies from Homelessness Australia show that 44,083 children and young adults (0-24y) are currently homeless in Australia. Homeless Australia reports that out of all of Australia’s states QLD has the second most homeless young adults in Australia. Close to that of the ACT which has 50 for every 10,000 and QLD’s astonishing 48.5 per 10,000. Although these are nothing

In short, the organization provides quality legal representation to homeschooled families, and to protect the freedom of homeschooled students

Tim saw this and became inspired to become a mentor with the Helping Services For Northeast Iowa. In order to be a mentor “The ability and willingness to value the mentee as a person; Develop mutual trust and respect; Maintain confidentiality; Listen both to what is being said and how it is being said; Help the mentee solve his or her problems, rather than give directions; Focus on the mentee’s development and resist the urge to produce a clone.” (University of Washington). Since the start of the Youth Mentoring Services in Northeast Iowa, 1,137 youth have been connected to a role model (“Youth Mentoring Services”). Kids who are mentored have ”significantly more confident in their academic abilities and considerably less likely to display behavioral problems.”(Centre for Addiction and Mental Health). Through the mentoring experience, Tim has learned that the best part is guiding some fun into a child's life while educating them (Egemo). Tim has helped a few children become better human beings through this mentoring

It is also known that young people who experience homelessness whether it be “couch surfing” or sleeping rough on the streets become marginalised and there is a perception by the community that the problem is too complex. The cost to the Australian community is actually quite large in terms of health and community

The organization focuses mainly on the child by having programs that engage the child by teaching them how to stray away from committing crime and abusing drugs/alcohol.

The organization encourages teens to discover interests and develop their talents regardless of the barriers to success for youth coming of age in impoverished or high crime neighborhood. Connecting youths to positive role models, cultivating their skills and interest and creating opportunities for them to shine positions them for success as healthy adults, strong leaders and active citizens. The components through which this is achieved is through the Juvenile Justice Reform and Preparing youth for Adulthood. The Juvenile Justice program utilizes non-traditional solutions to meet the city’s need for comprehensive and effective rehabilitation. Preparing Youth for Adulthood through partnership with skilled mentors, inspiring role models and Colleges closed the gaps left by past abuse and neglect. This helps to restore self- esteem that that fuels hard work, personal development and success.

The purpose of the program is to provide children facing affiliation with ardent and enduring professional support through a one-to-one mentoring relationship. This relationship creates a strong bond between both Bigs

The program works with children by visiting teachers and home visitors to help them acquire skills for academic success at school and social networking success. The program provides comprehensive health and nutrition services. In addition,

One of the largest contribution that the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services today is Family Empowerment and its Grant Program Incentives to help the familys of at- risk or troubled youth work to combat possibilities of negative behavior. They also work to bring families in as a primary support system of a child who has already made mistakes so that they can turn their lives

It provided a number of one to one mentoring services for young people at risk of youth offending, gang involvement and failing or leaving education. One of the programmes supported by JUMP is the big brothers and big sisters of America (BBBS) as a result of this programme the young people mentored were 46% less likely to initiate drug or alcohol use, they were a third less likely to perform in acts of violence and half as likely to truant. The BBBS made matches such as a daughter living in her father’s care would be matched to a female mentor. According to the parents and teachers of the young people involved in this project 30% of young people showed academic improvement, 33% improved on their school attendance and 48% showed improvement on appropriate behaviour amongst their friends and family. It also displayed

Examining Hattie’s research pertaining to self-regulation was a positive experience because it provided an opportunity to concentrate the groups thinking on research that has been utilized to formulate positive change. Hattie stated, “ Self-regulation is the ability to take specific, purposeful and effective action in service of a goal.” My colleagues and I responded to his research because it is delivered in a clear and concise manner, which can be applied in a practical way. Specifically, Hattie indicated, “Self-regulation hinges on being able to ask and answer three very simple questions, but they are fundamental questions: What is my goal? Where am I now? What do I need to do to get from here to there?” Such, questions remain fundamental

These programs allow us to provide families with the reinforcement and the tools needed to engage their children in literacy-rich

The ultimate goal of the MODEL Program is to reduce the health-risk behavior and achievement gap of youth to develop positive future leaders (Collins, 2002). MODEL does this by incorporating a comprehensive mentoring program, which serves selective youth participants chosen from at-risk middle and high schools that want to be a greater influence in their communities. Some participants will be from a juvenile or other intervention program. The participants’ age varies between twelve to twenty-five years old. The age of eighteen to twenty-five is considered emerging adulthood, the time in between adolescence and adulthood, which in most cases today, is considered as “prolonged adolescence” (Arnett, 2000). For attending students, there will be ongoing advisement and courses, along with summer and winter sessions of real life venture projects. These projects include local community services at family resource centers, recreation centers, churches, clinics/hospitals, and participation in juvenile program focus groups that discuss consequences

The program cuts the time needed to finish high school, hence, significantly cuts the expenses as well. Aside from giving hope to the less fortunate, it also provides opportunities to Out-of-School Youths (OSY) and adults elementary and secondary school drop-outs; industry-based workers; housewives; maids; factory workers; drivers; members of cultural minorities; indigenous people and the disabled/physically challenged.