Children's Aid Society

During the mid nineteenth century, there was a major issue in which thousands of vagabond children roamed the streets of New York. They would sell pieces of rags, newspapers, and themselves trying to survive. In an attempt to remedy the problem, The Children’s Aid Society decided to send the “street children” on trains to rural America to be taken in by farmers, accepted into the family, and work on their farms. This situation is very interesting and can be analyzed sociological from many perspectives including from the intent of The Children’s Aid Society, the perspective of the children, and that of change in society over time. To begin looking at it from the objective of The Children’s Aid Society, the intent of the program was to remove the children from the environment that they were socialized in and people they were socialized around with the goal of re-socialization them. Socialization helps to establish norms and appropriate behavior of a person. In the culture of the city, it was accepted for children to be homeless, not attend school, and act in such a way that will lead to criminal behavior. However in the country, this behavior was not accepted as a norm, and children were required to work, attend school and church, and act respectfully toward adults. By removing the children from the toxic…

Orphan Trains Orphan trains is a documentary about children in New York, being sent on trains to other parts of the country, in order to find families and be taken care of. There are stories from, adults that actually rode on these trains when they were children. The Orphan Trains was started by a man named Charles Loring Brace in 1854. Brace, had traveled to New York in the early 1850’s, and was horrified at the conditions of all the children he saw on the street. Brace felt that it was a duty…

Our school had finally started noticing the different behaviours we were displaying, and also started noticing little bruises here and there on my brother and I, the school then decided to follow their policies and procedures and talked to both my brother and I about our home life, they then proceeded to contact Children’s Aid Society. The Social Worker who came into our home was very delusional, she talked to my parents but did not talk to us directly or alone, I knew if I had talked about what…

Back in the mid- 1800’s approximately 150,000 children were placed across the United States in foster homes by Orphan Trains. The program accountable for such as task was a non-profit organization that was determined to help the displaced children due to an increase of immigrants and the Civil War. The overall goal was to redistribute work forces and find homes for displaced children. The Children’s Aid society which is a non-profit organization founded in 1853 by Charles Loring Brace was the…

Registered Practical Reflection: Children’s Aid Society and the Meyer Family These past six weeks of placement have widened my eyes and perspective to many things, including the complexity of foster family’s. While in the midst of my placement at the London-Middlesex Children’s Aid Society (CAS), I was able to choose a family in which my partner and I would attend their home at four various point in time in order to conduct a family assessment and work through any health-related issues they may…

lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome AIDS (MORE ON AIDS) (‘What Is HIV/AIDS?’ 2015). HIV cases in Australia is beginning to increase after a great reduction during the 1990’s and it is most common among men who have sex with men, this means that women affected by HIV/AIDS are not ----. The HIV rates in Somalia are reasonable low compared to neighbouring sub-Saharan countries and most common among the heterosexual couple as a result of sexual activity and due to unsafe healthcare facilities…

HIV/AIDS volunteering in South Africa is an uplifting and rewarding program for both volunteers and patients. Volunteers need to be recognizing that there are various levels of patients need special care, involving babies, children, and those people have lost their parents. As a volunteer, he or she also should take care of ill patients, provide relevant support, and motivate them to be alive. Apart from that, volunteer should also attend community education and offer counselling for those…

Worldwide, in 2014, mother to child transmission (MTCT) accounted for 15% of newly infected Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) diagnoses, with an estimated 220,000 infants acquiring HIV (United Nations Children’s Fund [UNICEF], 2015). In Uganda during 2014, an estimated 9,500 children were infected via MTCT, these figures may be as high as 21,000 children (UNICEF, 2015). Comparatively, Australian rates of MTCT stand at an average of one child per year, notably a percentage of 1% in the…

The HIV/AIDS virus is probably the most destructive and quick spread illness that exists in the United States of America right alongside any type of Cancer. But the distinct difference between the two is that Cancer is not contagious and cannot be passed from one person to another like HIV/AIDS can. This disease has run rapidly across the nation affecting different groups of people everywhere, from middle-class white gay males living in the northeastern hemisphere, to the poverty-stricken Latino…

real world and they live sheltered lives. When Diana Spencer married into the royal household, that stereotype was broken. Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales and she challenged the typical stereotype of a princess by talking about mental illness, making physical contact with AIDS and leprosy patients, and by exposing her children to the horrors of the outside world. Princess Diana believed that royals should utilize their privilege to help the less fortunate.…