For chapter 9, I am going to describe a research question that I had when working for DCFS. I was given the opportunity to work in four homes that were considered “Dirty Homes.” I would be required to take these families to court and order them to clean their home. However, when there was no progress, I would be told by the attorney that removals could not occur from a dirty home because “No child has ever died from a dirty home.” However, with talking to the school teachers, counselors and other family members, they complained of the child smelling poorly due to hygiene and wearing dirty clothes. The schools complained that these children were often sick and missed several days of school. The children often mentioned that they had …show more content…
To truly understand how dirty homes affect children’s mental and physical well being a community based participatory research would be most effective. This is research that involves active participants and equal partners. These agencies bring different skills, knowledge and expertise and could get information that I would not be able to. As a DCFS worker, I would be working with families that are always on guard and fear me. It would not matter how nice I was or how much I helped, they would have an underlining fear that I could take their children away. If I introduced other agencies to these families, to help clean their home, educate and mediate their concerns with DCFS, I would get a better overall data collection because families would trust these agencies. However, families do have to sign a release of information so that DCFS can talk to the agencies about their progress so the responses and attitudes could be biased but the agencies would be able to get into the home more, see the parents involvement with the children and observe how the children are doing physically and mentally. After a plan is created and permission given developing and maintaining relationships, which means to be honest, sensitive, laid back and nonaggressive,
2. Discuss how family systems are influential in child development processes and include challenges to meeting a child’s needs, such as conflicts and poor parenting practices.
Agree deadlines. Agree when to job must be finished and how it’s going to be checked and controlled.
I decided to do my field study at the Boys Ranch Town (BRT), which is a residential private facility that houses boys that have low level behavior issues or simply don’t have a home to go to. BRT is apart of Oklahoma Baptist Homes for Children (OBHC) they get all of their funding from donors who appreciate that things that OBHC and BRT are doing for the community. BRT is on a working ranch in which the boys live on and help maintain. The Boys Ranch accepts boys from ages 9-15, but residents can live on the campus until they graduate high school. The average length of stay is about 18 months.
Over the past three centuries, educating adults about child welfare has benefited human services a lot: people have now realized that a child is the individual who is responsible for the world in years to come. Before children who in needs were put into juvenile facilities. There were often crowded and poor conditions. Productivity has now been increased in each child, preparing him/her to face the world. Childhood is a very sensitive time for each child, as well as each parent. More children are now being educated in our society, which is very, very beneficial.
My first assignment of this week in about theme that continuously need more and more support from communities, and community leader to advocate for those that have less control of their lives which are the children who experience and live a life of maltreatment and abuse by their parents. Has being research nationally 542,000 are in foster care because of negative experience. A lot of this children request foster care because of maltreatment and abuse by parents. By placing children in foster care and removal from the abusive scenario. Being in a foster care children to experience
Working with children can be difficult and time consuming because you never know what is going on unless they allow you into their world. Children will only allow a stranger in if they are scared of someone, have trust, or they know you well. This can serve as a difficult situation when a child is the victim of abuse or neglect and the outcome can lead to a negative outcome for the future of the child’s lifespan. The areas will involve mental and physical issues, poor academic development, social behavior issues, and health problems. As a human service worker and a leader in the community rather it be
A failure to share sources of information that could have contributed to a better understanding of children and their families
Based on the facts of the case, the observations and interviews conducted during the home study assessment, as well as contacts made with collateral references, this interviewer recommend the home as a potential placement and have identified the following strengths and areas of concern regarding the potential placement:
4. Describe how the life chances and outcomes of children and young people in residential care compare with those who are not.
6. Discuss your role as Benjamin’s foster parent. You have spent many hours of time and energy being an advocate for Benjamin. It has been difficult acclimating Benjamin not only to his new home, but to a new school and peer group. Benjamin is one of 5 foster children in your care and you are feeling very frustrated, both with the agency and the school system. You like your advocate; however, can she really keep Benjamin in public school?
Through research, I have determined that this audience would enjoy the issue at hand and consider the piece’s content. As my audience contains educated individuals, they will do any research possible to prevent any harm being done to their child.
In Knapp’s Stages of Relational Development, he explains how relationships grow and last and not only that, but how they end as well. There are ten different stages involved in this particular relationship development; in the first stage, also known as the coming together stage, there are five different key parts which are initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating and bonding. In the other stage, also known as the coming apart stage, there are also five different key parts such as differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding and terminating. There is also a central unit in the middle known as the relational maintenance stage which involves key components from both the coming together stage and the coming apart stage which are integrating, boding, differentiating and circumscribing.
At the residential school, many children faced harsh conditions of being physically, sexually, emotionally, and spiritually abused; thus their experience at the residential school had long-term negative impacts on the individuals, families, and
While being at the residential school’s students endured, physical, mental, and even in some cases sexual abuse. The children were anywhere from 4-16 years old. For the most part students were taken from their families to be put into the schools, but there were also a couple cases where parents took their kids there because the schools advertised in a way that made them look good, so parents thought they were doing something good for their kids. Little did they know it quite possibly could have been the last time they saw their child alive. During the time spent at the residential school, students were not allowed to see their family. It was
In the evaluation of the case study, the environmental situation in which Christina C. is raised do advocate for her removal due to an unsafe home that is reinforced by insufficient care, inadequate resources, lack of monitoring and minor peer support.