Child welfare

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…

Introduction: The child welfare system is a corrupt system. Many suspected cases of neglect (GRTEP defines this as “parents should have done something for the child but failed to do so,” such as denying medical care or not feeding them) or abuse (GRTEP defines this as “Abuse means that you did something to hurt your child,” such as molesting them or hitting them hard enough to break bones) are going unreported or uninvestigated, children are living in miserable conditions (even after DCS…

Ministry staff, contractors and panel members toured the province in what was described as the largest public consultation exercise to date on child welfare issues, and comprehensive new child welfare legislation was introduced in the Legislature in 1994, and came into force in 1996” (p. 8). The child welfare legislation which came into effect is the Child, Family and Community Service Act (CFCSA). Policy and Ideology In order to understand policy, it is helpful to be aware of the political…

An Explanation of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 This paper was written to address The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, which was established “to reduce the number of children in foster care for extended lengths of time through written permanency plans that emphasized family preservation, reunification, or adoption.” (Chapin, 2017, p. 450). The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act provides government support for adoptions to reduce monetary…

Brandford, C., English, D. and Coghlan, L. (2000), states that data in child welfare agencies can be difficult and beneficial. Frontline social workers find information that will help them with job performance and identify resources for the families they serve more useful. While supervisors and administrators look at the development of program and policy (Brandford, C., English, D., and Coghlan, L., 2000). They state that no matter how data is collected it should provide beneficial and…

The video Child Welfare Choice a caseworker realist job preview seemed to be more appealing for those who may take an interest in this position. It was amazing that those people who spoke in the video mainly spoke about the importance of the job. This video illustrated major points that seemed to mainly focus on serving children. It was also amazing that they were able to point out the significance of giving a family the materials they needed to succeed. It was important that they did include…

has a child welfare system that is comprised of children’s aid society’s put in place by provincial and territorial governments to provide services that supplement parental care and supervision. Every child should grow up under the care of a loving family, but that is not always possible. Failure of family support and care leaves children vulnerable to abuse, neglect, and juvenile delinquency. Poverty is the fundamental issue which creates the need for well-funded and properly structured child…

even substance abuse. In order to protect our children from such 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…

From the beginning of child welfare policies in the 1800s in the United States started with the forethought of the advocates such as Charles Loring Brace, they sought out to correct the injustices and better the circumstances that children in poverty had to endure. And in doing so they inadvertently or intentionally created the child protective services and even till today the agency still exists with distinct tasks and purpose to protect children. For example, Karger & Stoesz (2014) writes,…

Child Welfare: A Necessary System Imagine this. A young girl named Claire walks into a house. A man in a suit tells her that this is her new home. She has no idea where she is, she does not know this family, she does not know where her brother and sister are, and she does not understand why she was taken from her mother. Claire has been taken into foster care, because her mother is an alcoholic who has an abusive boyfriend. This is a story told from the perspective of those who are against the…