Child and Adult Care Food Program

negative behaviors within the home, the child welfare services program was put into place. Child welfare programs are state regulated programs for those who are living in conditions that are not acceptable by the government (Welfareinfo.org website, 2015, para. 1). In most communities, the child welfare program investigates child maltreatment, foster care, protective living arrangements for children, counseling, financial assistance, and adoption programs (Welfareinfo.org website, 2015, para. 1)…

purpose of child development education to is raise, to support and to protect them. Taking the Human Development class allows me to study more about children and how to support them better as they grow and develop. In my final project assignment, I will be focusing on neglect impact in a child development and what we can do to prevent this type of abuse. According to Manual for Mandated Reporter, May 2015 (revised edition) by Illinois Department of Children and Family Service, "Neglected child"…

and future adult weight-related disease/illnesses and costs of healthcare. Trends show diagnosis of weight related disease occurring at younger ages which will more than likely lead to an increase in healthcare and other costs over larger portions of the individual’s lifecycle. So by designing and implementing a program that targets this potential issue at the root, we could help potentially remove this idea out of the equation earlier in the individuals life by teaching them how take care of…

The departments’ vision is safe and thriving families and individuals. The values are; quality, efficiency, and respectfulness. DCFS programs include: Child Support Enforcement which locates the alleged parent and provides…

by taking a on measure of their body mass index (BMI) based on age and gender (Mahmood, 2015). The condition has become much more prevalent in children in recent decades and has been acknowledged as a global epidemic that may affect them into their adult life (Clus et al, 2014). The causes of obesity in children involve many factors, which include environmental and genetic factors, as well as developmental influences (Kar, 2014). Nevertheless, some of the leading causes are considered to be…

parents that only care about themselves and neglect their children. According to dss.cahwnet.gov in the United States of America there is an organization called Child Protected Services (CPS). The CPS job is to find parents that are neglecting their children and take them away from these unstable parents and put them in foster care, but people fail to realize the negative affects putting children…

working age adults have a chance of enrolling in health insurance when the open period is open under the affordable care act. The research also ruled out that the people who are uninsured the rate has dropped from 20 percent which makes less people uninsured. For some states that keep the…

numbers in the U.S. should incorporate improvements in nutritional content of the American diet. Through broad health care reform will the U.S. population’s diet and health successfully be altered (Diller, 2012). Increasing evidence is mounting that the U.S.’ method of regulating food is deeply defective (Mortazavi, 2011). The U.S. is continuing to suffer from an obesity epidemic, with child obesity rates increasing quickly at overwhelming amounts (Mortazavi, 2011). In recent years, our federal…

AFDC was the nation’s most visible cash assistance program for 60 years. The program was created to aid children whose parents could not support them. About two-thirds of AFDC recipients were children. In order to receive assistance, a family had to include a dependent child who was under the age of 18, had to be a citizen or legal resident of the United States, and show proof that they were deprived of parental…

Motherly Love Teenage pregnancy and teenage parents do not have to be any different from adults. It all depends on how one views and treats them. According to a study done by the CDC in 2014, of every 1,000 babies 24.2 babies are born to a teenage mother. As a society people must be more understanding of teenagers being parents, and know that it does not automatically make them a bad or poor parent. Pregnancy and parenting is a tough job alone, while the teenage brain is still developing think…