Protection policy

The fire service has many roles in the community and one of those roles is being a fire inspector. In this scenario, one is the fire inspector for a municipal fire department and a newly planned community if being built. It is the fire inspector duties to ensure that the water supply system is being installed correctly. One will discuss the type of hydrants to be installed, explain why one pick that particular hydrant, state how the hydrants will be tested, and provide spacing requirement…

Everyday there are about 120 youth sleeping the night in a residential placement, and between 20,000 and 40,000 youth needing mental health accommodations according to the Center for Mental Health Services (as cited in Kolos, 2009). Youth in a residential placement may be coming from a failed placement with a foster parent and or removed from a biological parent or family member’s home. There appears to be a lack of tolerance for behavioral struggles in foster placements, especially for…

Jake just woke up at 10:00 and just came down for some breakfast. Then he just heard the firefighter bell. "Danger danger!" yelled one of the firefighters. "A building is on fire!" Jake raced to the burning building. One of the firefighters hollered, "Aren't people trapped in the building?" The firetruck sprayed out water on the exit. The water gushed out causing a thick smoke. "Aahhh we can barely recognize where we are with all this smoke," yelled one of the…

Community Resource Agency Assignment Scope Voices for Children is a non-profit organization that helps foster children in San Diego and Riverside Counties. I phoned the agency and spoke with Kristen Balelo, Senior Assistant Program Manager, on November 1, 2016. She described the societal problems affected by foster children when they are removed from their homes. On any given day there are about 3,500 open cases of child abuse in San Diego County. These large numbers of foster children…

day have a place of their own that they could call home. In a study by Child Welfare Initiate, reported that we have over 1,100 youth aging out of the foster system yearly, yet there is a small percentage of foster youth that are able to obtain protection and help they need through supportive services and transitional housing programs. Thus, leaving large amount of other young adults not able to obtain the help needed and…

amount of cash to support helpless children, it must also be recognized that children are defenseless, who can’t protect themselves so if the government or authority don’t look out for them, they will have no one to depend on. They deserve to have protection because they did not ask to be born and they cannot support themselves until a particular age. Additionally, government are also using a lot of money on the things that aren 't really important, such as art. Every year they spend around 150…

The United States is one of the most materialistic countries and that is because consumption has become a normal thing in today’s time. However, a few months of bliss is not a valid excuse for the damage consumption causes. The online article “Consumerism: Causes and Impacts.” written by Siddhant Sadangi, discusses the causes of consumerism and the negative impacts consumption has on society. In Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff, she elaborates on how consumption affects the environment. The…

Child welfare was created with the intention of protecting and strengthening families. It began to take root in the 1870s after cases of child abuse such as the case of Mary Ellen triggered the attention of the public by making them realize there were little to no laws in place to protect children from abuse (McGowen). As child welfare developed the Children’s Aid Society was founded in New York by Charles Loring Brace with the intention of getting children off of the street and into homes. The…

In the mid-eighties, the Toro Company launched a promotion in which snow blower purchasers could refund a portion of their purchase if the next winter brought modest snowfalls. The amount of their refund was tied to snowfall amounts and so, the program was prey to certain risks and uncertainties. The risks of the program will be analyzed from the point of view of the Toro Company, the insurance company, and the consumers. This author will explain why the insurance company decided to raise…

The next significant quest of Joe is in relation to his foster care. Foster care was a much more approved form of alternative “home” for orphans and impoverished children from the mid-nineteenth century. Compared to the “inhuman” institutionalizing of children in orphan asylums, a foster care provided children with more “homelike” surroundings with foster parents. Between 1854 and 1929, orphan trains delivered more than 200,000 children from the East to the Midwest or to the West. Alienated from…