Family services and Child Welfare are a government or/and a non-profit organization designed to better the well-being of an unfortunate/troubled community. The utmost children come from abused, neglected, poor homes. Most families go into these services in the search for a better life. The job as a social worker working in this department is to advocate and educate your clients in every situation possible. When a person is looking into a child's case of maltreatment it is the person job to report it such as sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect and psychological maltreatment. “Although there was no child welfare system as such in those early days, two groups of children were presumed to require attention from the public authorities: orphans
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Later on, with the twentieth century, the U.S. Children's Bureau was established in 1912. “ The movement to create a federal agency representing children's interests was led by Jane Addams and Lillian Wald and included a coalition of leaders from the state boards of charities…and the National Child Labor Committee.” (McGowan, p.20) From 1912- 2001 the federal role in the child, youth, family services was evolving. Countless of acts, services, and programs were founded such as Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, Indian Child Welfare, Family Preservation and Support Services Program, Adoption and Safe Families Act, etc… In the twenty-first century, each and every act and services from the twentieth century were being improved for the better. Children and families services would always receive complications. A child could live with its rapist and a mother could live with its abuser. Sometimes the programs and services given to them can’t help them because of lack of evidence or lack of
Later on, with the twentieth century, the U.S. Children's Bureau was established in 1912. “ The movement to create a federal agency representing children's interests was led by Jane Addams and Lillian Wald and included a coalition of leaders from the state boards of charities…and the National Child Labor Committee.” (McGowan, p.20) From 1912- 2001 the federal role in the child, youth, family services was evolving. Countless of acts, services, and programs were founded such as Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, Indian Child Welfare, Family Preservation and Support Services Program, Adoption and Safe Families Act, etc… In the twenty-first century, each and every act and services from the twentieth century were being improved for the better. Children and families services would always receive complications. A child could live with its rapist and a mother could live with its abuser. Sometimes the programs and services given to them can’t help them because of lack of evidence or lack of