Child Welfare System Case Study

Foster Care System Downfalls: The foster care system is setup to provide needs and protect children who have been neglected or abused. The main goal of the system is to take the children out of dangerous homes, and relocate them to a safe home, and to hopefully reunite the children with their biological families. While they are in foster care, their life should be greatly improved. Help should be given to those who are struggling with mental and emotional disabilities.

My dad worked in a bakery in South Gate for a few years and two years later my mom and my sister came to the U.S. The fact that I come from an immigrant family, I am aware of the struggles that many immigrants face. Someone who is undocumented faces different

These include for example: children should be healthy, be safe in their environments, to make positive contribution to the society or be supported to enjoy life. Childrenâ€TMs Act 2006- this legislation replaced Childrenâ€TMs Act 1989. It reinforce the strategy role of local authorities to outline the duties related to child care which include working with NHS and Job centres; secure childcare for working parents, provide information services to parents and provide information and training for childcare providers.

It was important the findings from this journal be published due to the fact these findings showed the notability of having a focus on studying not only the types of changes

LIFE IN MEAFORD FOR HENRY AND SHEILA Henry met Jerry Dobie one day at McMaster University who invited him to come to teach in his Geography department at the GBSS . Sheila 's father had retired and he and his wife had moved to live in Meaford. So Sheila and Henry moved to Meaford in May, and in September 1969, Henry began to teach in the Geography department and taught there for five years. • after he resigned from his teaching at GBSS, Henry and his wife Sheila sold real estate . • For 7 to 8 years, Henry worked at Kerry 's Place, a home for autistic teenagers.

In relation to the title, it is important that EYPs follow this routine in order to safeguard the well-being of the child and prevent them from infection. The routine on my placement setting is that a child’s nappy should be checked when they arrive to nursery and if it needs to be changed then this should be done immediately; whereas if it doesn’t need changed it should be noted on a chart that they have. When a child needs to be changed they should be; the child should only be changed by their key person and anyone who changes the nappy should have a DBS checked passed. When an EYP changes a nappy it must be recorded on a sheet, the EYPs use a code (W = wet and BM = Bowel movement), the time and who changed the nappy. When an EYP changes a nappy they should wear a disposable apron and gloves, which should be disposed of after they have done a change.

Protection within the wider field of safeguarding includes risk assessments, such as ensuring that children are provided with safe environment both at home and in school. At home it is up to the parents to provide their children with a safe and happy environment. In cases in which they are unable to do this, and the parents cannot protect or look after their child properly, the child may have to be removed from their home and put into care. In schools there are many different policies and procedures that must be followed to achieve a suitable learning environment for children, and it includes procedures such as health and safety and fire safety.

The children Act 1989 states that 'the welfare of the child is paramount' this means the child's health and social life is important no matters what and all the service agencies should cooperate together to give the best to the child as possible. Especially for the child's parents helping them understand their roles and responsibilities within the family. The general idea of how to look after a child

Since his mother and stepfather are his primary caregivers I would need to get them involved and conduct a parent-teacher meeting to which we can devise some coping mechanisms and support systems to help Alex during this difficult time. As a pastoral carer I need to be there to provide guidance and support to Alex and recommend that he sees a school counsellor or an educational psychologist for more assistance. It is important for me to provide a safe and welcoming environment for Alex during this period as he has come to me with this issue. Considering the sensitivity of the matter I need to take extreme caution and care when introducing Alex to new people that will be able to help him such as a counsellor and other support

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The first step in creating family reunification is forming case plan goals, objections, and court orders. Step 2, Progression of visits. As time passes and the child remain in foster care, visits between the child and birth parents will steadily increase in frequency and moderation. It's not uncommon for visits to move from supervised, weekly visits to monitored, weekly visits to unsupervised, weekly visits. Then they will progress from overnights and weekends to several days in a row.

A thought-provoking source that John H.M Laslett used in researching for his book Shameful Victory is George J. Sanchez’s 1993 book Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945. His this book, Sanchez places a platform about Mexican American identity that stretches before World War II. The main argument is that Chicano history does little to explore the development of cultural adaptation. And he seeks to render that. Even through hardship and discrimination, the Mexican American identity evolved.

Treatment One The first treatment plan is to reduce Adam’s fear of sleeping alone in a room at night by himself without his foster parents sleeping next to him. Foster parents state that even though he is scared to sleep alone, he does show great strength in being able to communicate effectively when he is scared at night. Of course he communicates by yelling for help, but at least he doesn’t sit in silence when he becomes scared. Being able to communicate is recognized as strength.

Latino Families in Therapy Second Edition was published in 2014. Celia Jeas Falicov who is a clinical psychologist, author and currently teaching at the University of California in San Diego wrote the book. As the main contributor of the book Celia’s goal is to help others understand the importance of being competent when working with Latino Families and acknowledging that because the families come from a different background than those giving the interventions we must find therapeutic approaches that will benefit the Latino community. Falicov gives great insight to the different Latino communities that we could encounter and successful evidence based practices that can be used such as a meeting place for culture and therapy (MECA).

The Impacts of Foster Care Foster care has become a fast growing corporation, that impacts the lives of many children from the ages of infancy to 18 years old. Around “415,129 children were in foster care on September 30th, 2014, a 4% increase from 2012”( "Statistics on Foster Care." FosterClub. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Nov. 2016.).