Social Services and Child elfare in New Jersey
The history of social services has its successes of children who as a result of child welfare intervention are removed from the grip of their abusers and find loving and nurturing homes. These are cases few and far between when one weighs them against those children who are moved from one foster care situation or group home to another. Then there are those who are moved into situations of greater detriment, the likes of which we know from Lisa Steinberg and Faheem illiams, most notably. The severity of these situations frustrates anyone who has taken an oath to protect or to serve a specific population.
For police officers and firefighters this oath is inclusive of the general population; for social workers, however, this oath narrows to children under the age of 18, those who are considered minors in the eyes of the law. Child…...
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Works Cited
Gado, M. (2004). A child not breathing: the killing of Lisa Steinberg. Court TV's Crime Library. Retrieved 26 November, 2004, from library.com/notorious_murders/family/lisa_steinberg/1.htmlhttp://www.crime
N.J. STAT. ANN. [sections] 9:6-1 (West 1993 & Supp. 1998).
O'hagan, K. (1993). Emotional and psychological abuse of children.
Olsen, A.O. (17 June, 1996). Verdict in Abuse Case Threatens Safety of Children. Lancaster New Era: A14.
Applying Theories to egional Level Challenges
ural New Mexico
Challenge: Social services delivery and access in rural regions
Nearly 20% of welfare recipients live outside of large metropolitan areas and are a critically underserved population (WKKF, 2004). The regional level challenges of working in rural and remote areas like those in New Mexico are both similar and different to the challenges of meeting social services needs in urban areas. The most important difference between rural versus urban service delivery is geographic and transportation constraints. Surveys of rural regions in New Mexico show that there are insufficient service access points for almost every aspect of social welfare including child care and public assistance (WKKF, 2004). Therefore, addressing these needs using a combination of public policy, planning, and technology implementation is important.
Moreover, the costs for rural social services are in most cases greater than they are in urban centers because of the additional costs associated…...
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References
Jenkins, R., et al. (2011). Social, economic, human rights, and political challenges to global mental health. Mental Health in Family Medicine 8(2): 87-96.
Communications Project Portfolio for a Veterans Day Stand Down
During the Vietnam war, a stand down command meant that troops were allowed a period of rest following offensive hostilities. More recently, the stand down command has been applied to annual events in many American cities that are designed to help homeless veterans and other veterans in need of social services. Although tens of thousands of veterans remain homeless across the country today, their numbers have declined in recent years due in large part to these community-level stand-down events. To further these laudable objectives, this paper provides a situational analysis of five new communications that can be used to promote an operation stand-down event in a typical American city, followed by a discussion concerning lessons learned in this module and their applicability to real-world situations. Finally, a summary of the research and important findings concerning the foregoing issues are provided in the…...
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Works Cited
Costello, Margaret A. (2012, Winter). "Heroes or Hopeless? Homeless Veterans Caught in a Dysfunctional System," The Journal of Law in Society 13(2): 417-421. Print.
McMurray, Marsha. (2001). Homeless Veterans and Healthcare: A Resource Guide for Providers. Washington, DC: National Health Care for the Homeless Council. Print.
"Press releases." (2016). Gebbie Press. Web.
Stand Down. (2016). National Coalition for Homeless Veterans. Web.
Social Services Entity
Social work is a demanding field that warrants a closer examination as to the effectiveness of the social workers in the Child Protective Services Agency. With increased caseloads, social workers may not meet the needs of its constituents. Furthermore, decision-making and judgment may be impaired due to the associated level of stress experienced.
In the field of social work, the goal is to make a difference in the lives of others. Over the last several years, the advocacy role of social workers has increased, thus creating additional stress and conflicting priorities. In part, society has placed a great deal of demands on this role. Hence, one must wonder as to the effectiveness of such a demanding roles. From helping others to manage their daily lives, understanding and adapting to illness, disability, and death, and obtaining social services, such as health care, government assistance, and legal aid, such a…...
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References
Bleakley, A. (2005). Stories as data. Medical Education, 39, 534 -- 540.
Children's Institute International (CII) is a private non-profit organization that improves the lives of Los Angeles' most vulnerable children by helping them directly and by strengthening the families and the communities in which they live. The organization is an equal opportunity employer and, therefore, race is not a factor that has any role to play in either recruitment or career planning. ace is also not an eligibility criterion for the organization's service programs that include the key areas of child and family assessment, sexual abuse treatment, domestic violence intervention, family treatment services, therapeutic day care, and long-term foster family care. Thus, it is evident that race has no role to play in CII.
In fact, since CII's objective is to serve families and children all over Los Angeles country, its programs and services do not even specifically target a particular racial or ethnic population.…...
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References
Children's Institute International Web site. (2004). An Overview of CII; Employment;
Audit of Organizational Effectiveness
Department of Social Services
Effectiveness audit: The Department of Health and Human Services
Organization to be analyzed
The Department of Health and Human Services is the umbrella organization within the U.S. government devoted to improving the welfare of citizens through various wellness promotional efforts. Its website proclaims that "the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves" (About, 2013, HHS). The HHS focus is on the 'human' dimension of healthcare. This means that it has made a commitment to partnering with state and local offices to promote various health initiatives, such as disease containment and preventative medicine. This ensures that health needs can be met in an individualized manner, given that different groups and people have different health needs over their respective…...
FDA and USDA scientists say U.S. food system needs strengthening; hundreds say corporations wield undue influence. (2010). Union of Concerned Scientists. Retrieved from:
New Program Service Description
Organization: New Service Description
New service description:
Partners for a Healthy Baby thru the Success in School Program
The new program entitled Partners for a Healthy Baby will be administered through the Department of Social Services of Wilson, NC's Success in School Program. Success in Schools is designed to help at-risk pregnant teen mothers navigate their responsibilities to their new babies and to school to ensure that they graduate. Partners for a Healthy Baby is specifically designed to address the physical and medical challenges teens often face as well as the fact that babies born to pregnant teens often face more significant medical risks than those born to women in their twenties partially (although not exclusively) due to a lack of prenatal care.
For example, one reason teenage mothers are at higher risk during their pregnancy is their greater likelihood of developing high blood pressure "called pregnancy-induced hypertension" ("Teenage pregnancy," 2015).…...
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References
Department of Social Services of Wilson, NC. (2015). Retrieved from:
Coffee-Town is an area with great social service professionals that do a great job of service delivery to help the people of the community. However, even with the great performance there are some shortfalls and shortcomings that are under way whereby people are unable to get the full depth and breadth of the services that they need. In addition, the bureaucracy of all of the different social services and how they do (or do not) fit together is creating a headache and a substantial amount of time spent to get each of the individual services. To ameliorate this condition, there will be suggestions made to absolve the problem in addition to some other suggestions and pointers that will aid the overall progress. While there are challenges that can inhibit changing the status quo for the people that need services and the people that deliver them, these conditions…...
Divorce is often a messy emotional as well as legal matter, and divorced women were often uncertain about the amount of time and energy they wanted to devote to securing child support payments. Women who had separated from abusive spouses were also uncertain as to how much time and energy they wished to devote to a relationship they wanted to forget, regardless of the possibilities of financial remuneration. Recent immigrants brought different cultural assumptions to the correct roles of different parents. Some women felt that they had failed as parents, because they were no longer living with their child's father. In the Hispanic community that made up much of the supervisor's work, very often women blamed themselves for their children's and their problems making ends 'meet.' They felt that their main role in life was to be a good mother, and if their lives did not live up to…...
She was not afraid to share personal experiences, within levels of appropriate professional conduct. For example, when one Hispanic family with a son with a visual impairment expressed their frustration with dealing with their son's doctors, she took a special interest in their case. She referred them to appropriate agencies that could provide them with resources to deal with their son's condition and she also stressed the need to be an advocate within the school and medical systems. Ask questions, don't be afraid to repeat something if it isn't clear -- don't be ashamed if your English is not perfect, she counseled. She was sensitive enough to suggest when Hispanic families might need a translator, when dealing with legal or school administrators, if she knew that she or another Spanish-speaker would not be present during a meeting.
Competencies
Even for the supervisor I shadowed cultural barriers, such as cultural beliefs that…...
Progress Memo
TO:
FROM:
DATE: August 10, 2017
SUBJECT: PROGRESS ON THE CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES
Goals Delivered
We are glad to inform you that in line with the agreed contract, we have made efforts towards making sure vulnerable children living within the county are fully protected. We have had talks with legal experts towards ensuring that the concerned children are able to access basic services and also that their rights as humans are protected. We are also employing legal methods and several others in searching for and reuniting these destitute children with their families. We have almost completed the searches for the families of the children available to us. This is quite important as the county can be free from the associated problems of hosting these kids. Reuniting these destitute children with their families will make sure that they get proper care, their educational pursuit is backed and their health is preserved. We are glad…...
Social Work
Under the California Child Abuse and Neglect eporting Law, counselors, teachers, and other professionals are legally obliged to report suspected abuse or neglect. The legal obligation to report instances of child abuse or neglect to a local, state or federal social services agency is generally a good idea because it ensures reporting by teachers, counselors, and others who are in contact with the child. It is assumed that mandatory reporting means immediate and beneficial intervention. The reality is more complicated than this. Alerting child protective services can have unwanted detrimental effects on the child. As Lough (n.d.) points out, "nagging doubts about how the person suspected of abusing a child will react, what the outcome will be, and whether or not the report will put the child at greater risk" are what make the mandatory reporting laws controversial.
Theoretically, with a legal obligation, the individual is more motivated to report.…...
Social trends in Education / the next 5 years
With societal establishments and school structures, we can carry the most important task of providing youths with the necessary education which will provide them opportunities to thrive in our community. A simple casual glance at the comparative mode of lifestyle in our country would make it obvious that these establishments performed in an excellent manner for the greater part of this century. But the universe is transforming in manners that radically remodels the suppositions, customs and guiding principles, which catered the American people earlier. Besides, the pace of transformation is gearing up at an amazing speed, requiring in many customs and establishments the need to progress in certain spheres. To look forward to modifications, to a certain extent than acting in response to it, schools are spotting developments and scrutinizing their probable connotations.
ather than guessing what the coming years has in store…...
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References
Anglin, John. S. Educational Trends for the Future. Handbook of Theory and Research in Higher Education: Volume: 8; pp. 115-121. New York: Agathon, 2002
Carter, Holly. Implementation of International Competence Strategies: Faculty. In Bridges to the Future: Strategies for Internationalizing Higher Education, pp.191-203. Ed. Charles Klasek, Carbondale, Illinois: Association of International Education Administrators, 1992.
Corson, David. Language Diversity and Education. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
Morrison, J.L. Higher-Education Trends and Indicators. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Volume: 46, No: 3; September 10, 1999; p. A54
Cradock's 2004 study of a correlation between population categories and child abuse lead to the development of an assessment tool that allowed social workers to determine when children were at risk for child abuse and when to intervene and what actions would be seen as an over-intervention. By using this assessment, social workers will not only know how to identify the serious danger of child abuse and what children are at-risk for being abused, but also the assessment makes it possible for social workers to determine when intervening in the situation may be dangerous or unnecessary for the children involved. Of similar importance are the tools developed to assess and evaluate those convicted of both child physical and sexual abuse. In Milner and Murphy's 1995 study, the methods of assessment and evaluation are discussed and critiqued. These methods, including interview, observation, personality tests, and offender-specific assessments, are all studied…...
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Works Cited
Arad-Davidzon, Bilhah, and Benbenishty, Rami. "The role of workers' attitudes and parent and child wishes in child protection workers' assessments and recommendation regarding removal and reunification. Children and Youth Services Review. 30.1 (2008): 107-121.
Bray, James H. "Family Assessment: Current Issues in Evaluating Families." National
Council on Family Relations. 44.4 (1995): 469-477.
Buckner, Lynn P. And Salts, Connie J. "A Premarital Assessment Program." Family
While he supported me in my endeavors, he raised many questions, >Why do you want to enter social work? How do you think you are going to provide for your family and the lifestyle you are accustomed to?" Deferring to socialization pressures that still impel them to fulfill the "breadwinner" role and avoid feminine characteristics, they may segregate themselves from women in the profession, selecting specialties or positions that society deems as more appropriate for men (Williams, 1995). They too may emphasize the masculine aspects of their jobs to "reduce the dissonance between their professional and gender identities" and to justify their career choices (Christie, 1998, p. 506). Thereby, male social workers adhere more closely to the social definition of masculinity" (ritton, J. & Stoller M., 1998).
The young people who are trying to enter into a social work profession "hope to advance research and social work services for men…...
Chattopadhay, T. (2004), Role of men and boys in promoting gender equality: advocacy brief / Asia-Pacific Programme of Education for All (APPEAL), United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok, Retrieved December 6, 2006, at http://www.ungei.org/resources/files/unesco_role_of_men.pdf
Most of our example essays dealing on immigration and the economy focus on the United States, so we cannot point you towards a handy on-point example essay that will outline the format and give you a good idea of the type of content you should have. However, we can still give you a great starting point for an essay about the interaction of immigration and the economy in the UK. In your essay, you could look at several different factors that impact the economy. These factors include the number of available workers,....
The most important thing about writing a persuasive essay is that you are not simply presenting information; you are trying to convince the reader to agree with your position. It is also not an argumentative essay. In a persuasive essay, it is not only permissible to use opinions and emotion, but in an argumentative essay the writer needs to rely solely on logic. The idea that secondary or high school students should be required to do community service as a condition for graduation is one that many people have discussed. People give many different reasons....
Trauma refers to any deeply distressing or disturbing event. Trauma takes many shapes, from intentional abuse to unavoidable traumas like the death of a loved one. Trauma can have long-lasting effects including impacts on both physical health and mental health. Because of the differences in personality acquisition and perceived and real differences in helplessness and power, one might anticipate that trauma would impact children differently than it impacts young people.
For example, children who experience trauma are more likely to experience learning problems. Kids experiencing trauma may have lower grades and behavior problems in....
Examine the complex interplay of factors contributing to the opioid epidemic, including the role of prescription practices, socioeconomic inequality, and the influence of pharmaceutical companies.
Topic 2: The Socioeconomic Impact of the Opioid Epidemic
Analyze the devastating consequences of the opioid epidemic on communities, including increased crime rates, poverty, and the strain on social services.
Topic 3: The Role of Prescription Practices in Fueling the Epidemic
Investigate the role of doctors, pharmacists, and the healthcare system in the overprescription of opioids and its impact on the epidemic.
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