The Organizational Context Of Practice

Department of Human Services (DHS) is a human service organization meant to help individuals and families with temporary services in their time of need. The mission statement is: “Improving the quality of life in Michigan by providing services to vulnerable children and adults that will strengthen the community and enable families and individuals to move toward independence.” (Michigan.gov) DHS provides an array of services to individuals and families, these include: food assistance, cash assistance, health care assistance, children services, adult services, and many more.

The research topic Foster Care is the topic that has been proclaimed. The research question begins with, “What are some of the challenges facing the placement, and adjustment of Foster Care in the Valley?” This study is important because there are several challenges that are difficult for a Foster child facing being in Foster care. It is important in Social work that the Government with a Social worker must be responsible for taking away the child who is either being physical or sexual abused, neglected, or not being taken care of by their primary caregivers. In this type of situation, the child will be put into Foster care. It is key to understand the big challenges each child entering Foster care might have already experienced in the past

Exceptional Child Center alleged that by failing to alter the reimbursement rates for the in home care, the Idaho’s department of health violated the state Equal access provision. The district court decided that in order to satisfy the requirement of the equal access provision, the state must take into account the costs of care when setting reimbursement rates. After the plaintiff filed a complaint, the Idaho district court granted summary judgement in favor of the plaintiff, stating that the department of Health and

The other state initiative that Social Workers should bear in mind as impacting placement of children in out-of-home care is Continuum of Care Reform (also known as CCR or AB 403)

Since the 1970’s, many debates and arguments have formed over the problems in the Florida foster care system. Some of the arguments were made as to whether different races should become foster families or whether or not is was suitable for gay couples to foster children. Another issue that arose was the children with special needs or older children that people didn’t want. As the foster system grew, it began to experience setbacks. There were now more children needing homes than available homes. The foster care system became full of problems. Foster parents started to complain about not having an adequate support system. The children were not receiving the medical treatments they needed. And foster children were staying in the system so long that some were aging out. Those that age out a were not receiving any support or training to cope with adult life. There was also a shortage in funding. In addition, there had become an alarming number of child abuse and neglect cases within the foster families. Although some aspects of foster care have improved, some changes still need to be made.

Children suffer significantly until someone decides to protect them. The government allocates funds to establish the foster care system and that system advances to enforce rights for children. When the right to remove children from an abusive situation first originated, the foster care system established a separation procedure for children from their abusive homes. This act of removing children from their families brought about psychological issues and trauma. Throughout earlier years, the foster care system adjusted their program according to the rules and regulations established to provide for the needs of children. However, problems keep appearing elsewhere. These children endure the brunt of every new philosophy in behavioral health management. Often, the biological parents will be left out of the solution. The foster care system develops services to train foster families in caring for foster children and behavioral issues. For some reason, the foster care system believes improvement simpler to reform the children and makes a trivial attempt of the reformation with family. The foster care system needs to try to achieve bonds within the biological family instead of the sole reliability on removal of children to be an adequate answer. The foster care system’s obligation should be to develop a training system for the rehabilitation of families and offer support to achieve the greatest outcome in child rearing. Foster care needs to adapt to supporting families emotionally,

When children come into the custody of DCFS and are placed into Foster Care they are scared, confused, lonely, and usually conditioned not to tell when they are being mistreated. Most of the children that come into “the system” have learned to accept abuse as normal or natural and are unaware that they are even being mistreated. Therefore, when they are placed in homes where this is occurring it is not in their nature to speak up. Once they are removed from their parents, they are solely reliant on the department for their protection and it is the department’s responsibility to provide that protection which has not always been fulfilled by the department or the foster care agencies. The department should be making reasonable efforts to provide proper services

There will be numerous policies and procedures within a setting and Staff need to be aware of them. There will be a number of other policies written to safeguard the children, young people, staff, and visitors from danger and to ensure safe practice throughout the setting. The purpose of this policy is to maintain an environment where children feel secure, are encouraged to talk, and are listened to. Also children know that there are adults in the day care centre who they can approach if they have any issues for example if a child is suffering from neglect at home the staff at the day care centre and other multi agencies will work together to improve the child’s situation, so that he will stop suffering from neglect at home.

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

The first primary systemic challenge affecting the family’s access to appropriate services is a lack of communication between care providers. Though housing, child welfare, school, and foster care social workers are providing advice to each set of parents, there seems to be little collaborative communication. The Child and Family Practice Model (CFPM) created by the California Partners for Permanency identifies primary systemic issues in child welfare and foster care service provisions. The four primary systemic issues identified include 1) ineffective and inadequate family engagement in services, 2) lack of family goals and self-efficacy, 3) lack of well-coordinated services in a timely manner, and 4) lack of focus on family strengths

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Clinician reviewed house rules and DSS rules while at foster care placement. Clinician encouraged the youth to follow all rules until DSS gave clearance for family visits. Clinician suggested communication interventions to MHS and the youth to build an understanding relationship.

Evidenced based practice (EBP) has now become the backbone of all nursing practices and procedures. Using EBP as a means to validate nursing theories and practices is an essential part to providing patients with outstanding care regarding safety. Evidence based practice uses clinical expertise, quality improvement data, best current evidence, and patient values that contributes the high quality care patients will receive. However, practice and procedures in nursing are ever-changing. Currently, new knowledge that is gathered by nursing research may take eight to thirty years to become implemented into practice (Hain and Haras, 2015). It is crucial to be able to establish and enforce new practices as soon as possible for the client’s benefit. In order to advance current practices into EBP supported practices, the establishment needs transformational leadership, collaboration, and strategic guidance (Hauck, Winsett, & Kuric, 2013). When establishing new procedures based on EBP, it is essential to consider improvement of care experienced, enhance the health of populations, and reduce costs of care per individual. Not only is cost of care important to the client but also the hospital. New practices require a thorough risk versus benefit thought process which will incorporate at least two of the considered components. In addition, researchers must incorporate ideas of nursing ethics, which include: autonomy, beneficence, maleficence, justice, veracity, and fidelity.

The area that I am interested in serving in is the Child Advocacy area. I have a heart for children and if I can do more for children in need that is something that I want to devote my time to. Child Advocacy is a career that specializes in the placement of child that have been removed from their homes and placed in the foster care system due to situations that may have involved abuse, neglect, or even the passing away of the parents with no other relatives to care for them. In this paper I will review the duties of the Child Advocate, the population that they serve in this area, and any special needs that they have. I will also elaborate on my personal and professional characteristics that I feel may need to be improved to efficiently help in this area, what social welfare programs I feel could help my clients and how many they have helped. Finally, I will review the Human Service ethical codes that I feel impact this area of service and how I will ensure ethical adherence in this area.

Historically,drawing tests have been the target of extensive criticism based on incisive reviews of the literature (e.g., Lilienfeld et al., 2000; Motta et al., 1993; Smith & Dumont, 1995; Ziskin, 1995).The intent of the current study is to determine whether this collective movement has had a deleterious impact on the popularity of drawing methods in graduate trainingprograms and professionalusage worldwide. To that end, the author identified survey-based research with regard to drawing techniques that reported on assessment training and test usage patterns from 1989-2015. The 60 identified survey-based or records-based studies served as the data pool(USA=47; Overseas nations=13). The analysis showed that 38 of the 60 studies (63%) reported thatdrawing tests were viewed positively in the USA and in some countries outside of Europe. However, a bifurcation trend between academic training and professional practice settings was noted. Drawing techniques were ranked ‘moderately’ high (amongst the top 15 tests) in terms of usage, in 23 of the 49 studies of practice settings. However, only 1 of the 11 studies of academic settings showed a high degree of training emphasis with drawing techniques. In professional settings, drawing methods appear to be somewhat popular in clinical psychology and school psychology practice, less so in forensic and counseling psychology, and largely ignored in neuropsychological assessment. On a cautionary note, this review observed a slight