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I am writing to apply for your two scholarships, Christian College Scholarship and the Child Care Scholarship. The field that I am looking into is pre-med and child development. I found out these scholarships through my school guidance counselor.

There where many support groups that were very interesting, but I chose Coalition for Kids. Coalition for Kids is where children are able to come together and fellowship. However, this support group would be considered under the small group category. According to Hutchison (2015), "A small group is two or more individuals interacting with one another based on similar interests, goals, experiences, and need" (p.385). These types of groups are very beneficial because of how they provide socialization to children, self-worth, conversation, group support, and similarity. Also, there are older children who come to Coalition for Kids after school, while in the group circle they share how their day is going, provide prayer request or special thoughts,

For many teenagers, their 18th birthday is long awaited for and an exciting milestone in their life. This is where becoming a legal adult and the ability to make their own decisions without the permission of their parents. But not all teens feel this same sense of joy about turning 18, instead it is dreaded. For the hundreds of thousands of children living in foster care in the United States, this new found freedom brings anxiety and fear. Teenagers who turn 18 and have been living in foster care are now released and expected to live on their own and are no longer cared for by the government, this is known as aging out of foster care. Most people are aware of foster care programs but most are not aware of the difficulties and challenges that these teens face when trying to support themselves. Numerous studies have already been conducted on this specific topic but this research is being conducted on the assumption that it will provide a better understanding of aging out of foster care and the difficulties that a teen come face to face with when trying to become successful after the transition into adulthood without guidance and resources as well as possible ideas to help these teens get on their feet.

Trena became involve with child welfare after she relapsed into her addictions (approximately eight months ago) and is now working toward her sobriety with the primary goal of maintaining her relationship with Keith and resuming her relationship with her older son, with whom she is currently estranged.

The Lincoln Child Center’s main facility is located in West Oakland, California. It is a non-public organization formed of services and programs that provide care for children, youth, and families. Lincoln offers direct community, home, and school based services for over eighteen-hundred children, youth and families (Senior Director of Research and Evaluation, personal communication, August 3, 2015). Additionally through the Kinship, Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation, and Family Resource Center programs, Lincoln implements services directly to over six-hundred caregivers, with nearly twenty-five hundred direct service clients. For the fiscal year of 2015-2016, the agency’s overall budget is twenty-million dollars (Finance Director,

To assure the best outcomes for sad children, all of the agencies in the system must work together. Each must rely on the others to provide the necessary information and resources. Child welfare agencies, though ultimately charged with the responsibility of caring for maltreated sad children, cannot provide optimal care without the collaboration and support of other agencies. But currently no fundamental structure for governing the system or managing resources exists. Instead, most agencies have established either formal or informal cooperative agreements.

Partnership between families and childhood professionals plays a fundamental role in enhancing children’s learning and well-being. This partnership requires both parties to assume responsibility for exchanging information, sharing enquiries regarding the child and engage in effective communication where they recognise and take into account each other’s perspectives and ideas. Through this trusting relationship, the knowledge gained will allow the childhood professionals to better comprehend each child’s background, relationships and interactions in order to give confidence, support and provide experiences in purposeful manners to the child.

By capitalizing on employee networks, Children’s Home + Aid can start addressing the need for increased hiring for all currently open positions by using and promoting the referral program. The following report presents the length of stay between refereed employees versus, non- refereed employees. All short-term positions, recent hires, and layoffs were removed. From the year 2013-2017, 88% of referred employees stayed for at least six months, versus 78% of non-refereed that stayed at least six months (see Fig.1). Out of 86 total referrals, 74% of them stayed for at least one year, versus the 61% of non-refereed who stayed for at least a year (see fig.2).

Denholm and Watkins (1993) offer several models describing school-based child and youth care (CYC) practice, outlining the various methods by which CYC work operates and is integrated within schools. As is indicated in the description, the position offered is consistent with that of the “alternate program” model, which mostly “occurs in one specific location. The “…building and program are attached to an existing…school”, and the “staff are directly responsible to the school principal. Students in the “program (primarily adolescents) come from within this school population”, and the “child and youth care staff may or may not be direct employees of the school district” (Denholm, Chrest, & Pylypa, as cited in Denholm & Watkins, 1993, p. 85). Hence, within this position I would be a hired member of the school staff of the Foundations for the Future Charter Academy (FFCA) in Calgary Alberta, working alongside other professionals within an interdisciplinary team, answering directly to the school administration within a specific school location.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than 200 people attended an event Monday to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the West Virginia Child Advocacy Network.

Seattle Children’s still has a winter volume and they are very busy at ED. The census is high.

The study by Estefan, Coulter, Vandeweerd, Armstrong, and Gordki had two main purposes. The first was to determine the different stressors and attitudes given by the parents in a child welfare-parenting program. Program files and interviews were used to conclude the statistics of the different stressors that could cause ineffective parenting to children. The second main purpose was to get a better understanding of the different issues, so there can be better involvements growth in the parenting.

In 2014, 15.5 million children—or 21.1% of children under age 18—lived in families with in- comes below the federal poverty line, making children the largest group of poor people in the United States (DeNavas-Walt and Proctor 2015). These extremely low income families typically become homeless because of finite education and jobs, extreme unavailability of affordable housing, below average childcare, and exiguous access to

The US department of health and human services has indicated a commitment to “reduce the dependency of needy families through the promotion of job preparation, work and marriage” and to “provide assistance to needy families so that children can be cared for in their own homes” (Office of Family Assistance, 2017). With changes in family dynamics and the shifting economy it is increasingly less plausible for single-earner households to achieve economic stability (Stevens, 2017). Parents who are working and participating in job preparation programs cannot be present at home to care for their children. This may be the cause of people receiving cash benefits for prolonged periods of time and not working (Adams, Spaulding, & Heller,

Advocates for Children is a non-profit organization committed to the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. More than 70 percent of the children who died as a result of child abuse or neglect were two years old or younger. (childhelp.org). Congressman Robert E. “Bud” Cramer (AL), was a District Attorney, he organized an effort to create a better system to help abused children in 1985. He became frustrated being a prosecutor, having trouble prosecuting child abuse cases and getting guilty verdicts. The criminal justice systems were not working together effectively, which created frightening experience for children. “Bud” collaborated with the law enforcement, criminal justice, child protective service, medical and mental health worker