Administration for Children and Families

CDEC 1303: Families, School and Community • Identify the positive relationships and supportive interactions for children, families, and the community • Understand the importance and empowerment of families and their involvement • Understand how national, state, and local policies must be guided of principles of Excellence, access, equity, diversity, and accountability CDEC 1311: Educating Young Children • Understand the importance of academics to promote positive learning and development of…

Congresswoman Gwen Graham didn't talk as an administration official in the midst of her keynote address at Florida Online Schools' New Student Convocation at the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center Sunday, Aug. 23. Maybe she offered knowledge from her experience as a mother and gave Florida State's Class of 2019 the same direction she granted to her three children when they went off to class. "In your first year, you're not just transitioning from auxiliary school to class — you're transitioning…

School psychologist focus on providing a healthy, safe, and equal opportunity environment for all children in her or her school(s). In order to guarantee that this is done in a practical manner, NASP and APA have established ethical standards. The reading suggests that having ethical guidelines assures that students receiving services from a school psychologist are valuable; thus, the community develops a confidence in these services. School psychologist must ensure that client information…

impoverished Americans of North Carolina in 1934. In her report she states, “The children have no shoes and that woman is terrified of the coming cold as if it were a definite physical entity.” Throughout the Great Depression many families were incapable of affording the basic necessities such as food, clothes, and a home. Even as the harshest winters approached many children went to school without shoes. Not only did families face hard times, but also the unemployed and elderly struggled to…

Could you imagine the United States with people dying of starvation, no job opportunities with millions unemployed, houses being sold, and no way to receive money from the banks? That’s how the United States was during the Great Depression. The Great Depression started in 1929 when the U.S. stock market crashed. Chaos broke out and everyone was freaking out as to why the banks were closed. People were quickly depositing money out of the banks, and items, like cars and homes, were being sold for…

According to the Children’s Bureau (Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Administration for Children and Families) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “For 2014, a nationally estimated 1,580 children died of abuse and neglect at a rate of 2.13 per 100,000 children in the national population” (Greenberg & Lopez, 2014). In my opinion, this statistic is outrageous for a nation that prides itself in being the land of the free. The fatalities that have occurred from…

without food, shelter, and medical care. In 2014, sixteen million children are living in child poverty. There were many causes for food insecurity during the Great Depression. One of the causes was when the stock market crashed and stocks became worthless. When the stock market crashed, people could not pay back their loans to the banks and multiple banks closed. Therefore, families lost their life savings because the banks closed. Families became homeless and left the city looking for jobs.…

jobs to help their family. One of the programs that was affected was Civil Works Administration ( CWA) which help millions of people to get paid 15 dollars a week in 1934 which made people…

Since 2001, military personnel and their families have experienced extraordinary separations (Goff, Crow, et al, 2007). Families can experience a range of emotions when preparing for deployment of a loved one. The soldiers also can also have mixed feelings with stress, anxiety, and a host of emotions as well. Two major effects of war on military personnel One effect that military men and women who are on deployment must face, is the realization that they may not return home. These thoughts can…

more extreme ways trying to try to win the war they adopted Kamikaze. Also, the war was taking a toll on people's families, men were at war. Kids in Japan would attack American soldiers. The atomic bombs need to be dropped to end the suffering on both sides and cause Japan to finally surrender. These reasons are why I believe President Truman and several members of his administration should have not…