Staff went to Mentoring Youth Children's Home 2700 1st Avenue, Columbus, Georgia 31904 on above noted date and time to pick up Cynnyia Tucker (13) for behavioral aide. Staff transported Cynnyia to Columbus Public Library to help her with her homework. After Cynnyia completed her homework, staff transported Cynnyia to Lake Bottom Park, 13th Street Columbus, Ga, where we remained for the rest of the behavioral aide visit. Staff encouraged Cynnyia to play basketball to promote a positive way to manage her anger by doing something she is interested in to relieve stress and negative emotions. After the behavioral aide visit was over, staff safely transported Cynnyia with no incidents to Mentoring Youth Children's Home to drop her off. Staff released…
CM spoke to Manny Adujar, DCP&P Case Worker for Justin this afternoon. Manny asks CM if CMO was trying to get Justin into placement. CM informs Manny that according to Justin treatment summary and psychiatric evaluation from High Focus Centers it was not recommended for youth to attend OOH treatment. CM informs Manny that Justin is currently still receiving therapeutic and clinical services at High Focus Centers. CM also mention to Manny that Justin is actively participating in treatment. Manny states that Justin is good at the shelter until Monday. He states that he is going to place Justin in a resource home but he needs to find a resource parent that is going to accept him for who he is (i.e. accepting youth sexuality). Manny states that…
This system should offer these youth support in the form of social, emotional and educational help but instead it manages and incarcerates them. The third concept is the “school to prison pipeline” by Kupchik. It states that students are more…
The Village operates in different cities in the state of Florida. The resource delivery area in Miami, Florida, provides services for different areas. Different treatments were developed for adolescents and adults to allow flexibility to build services around the clients’ needs. The Village provides multidimensional treatments for children’s, males, and females’ adults who suffer from mental illness, delinquency, and other disorders related behavioral problems. The resource delivery area includes a therapeutic rehabilitation services for outpatient and residential settings, behavioral, mental, and physical health counseling. In addition, the Village provided and developed a behavioral and substance abuse program for clients. The State of Florida department of Children and families, Day treatment, and out-patient treatment fund the village program.…
According to The National Conference of State Legislatures (2007), “nearly two million adolescents are arrested in the United States each year” (p.4). Of this overwhelming rate, roughly 70% of these youth experience a mental health disorder (Hammond, 2007). Even more shocking, “one in four experiences a mental health disorder so severe that it impairs their ability to function as a young person and grow into a responsible adult” (Hammond, p.4, 2007). Not only are these youth experiencing high mental health rates, the National Mental Health Association reported that between 30 and 50 percent also experience behavioral health disorders (Hammond, 2007). Without adequate treatment, these youth will continue down a dark path that leads them straight to the adult criminal justice system. Therefore, the following addresses significant challenges in relation to police and juveniles with mental and behavioral health disorders, particularly while in school, as a means to provide appropriate responses that deter the number of youth that fall victim to the juvenile justice system upon intercept one of the Sequential Intercept Model (SIM).…
There are several changes that could take place at Pathways, but the most noticeable is lack of discipline towards students in the YouthBuild program. The decision making process that took place was noting out what has to change within the program, what could be beneficial for the youth as a whole at the organization, and what could be done to improve their community After identifying what needed to be changed, the goal was to get the students active and engaged. In order to proceed with the goal, coming up with a plan that will be effective for this population. The program includes a small group of at risk individuals, decreasing the exposure to risk factors, increasing exposure to protective factors, and reducing problem behavior and support positive action on youth. Assisting the youth, and others in the community to plan, implement, and evaluate projects that enhance the physical and social environment. Improving their family and friend’s communication and relationships, building peer networks, working to deal with problem…
In order to learn more about the helping profession, I chose a school counselor, Alvin Turner, who deals with a different variety of cases on a daily basis. He deals with a lot of mental health issues, dealing with parents, children, and adolescents. He sees them on a one on one basis as well as in a group and family environment. Y-Capp stands for Youth Challenged, Advised and Positively Promoted. We don’t strive for excellence this is where we being.…
In order to aid a young adult on the spectrum with employment, housing, and relationship issues, a transition plan should begin at age 14 (Holtz, Owings, & Ziegert, 2006). “The goal of the transition plan is to facilitate an individual’s movement from school to the world of adult work, living, and community participation” (Holtz, Owings, & Ziegert, 2006, p. 9). The treatment team, which includes teachers, parents, and the transitioning students, should all offer input on what goals will be important as the student moves from school to adulthood (Dunlap & Fox, 1999). “It becomes essential that professionals carefully plan for the transition to adulthood to ensure success” (Hendricks & Wehman, 2009, p. 77). Effective transition planning not only allows students to become more self aware, it also “dictate[s] what students need to learn to function as an adult” (Hendricks & Wehman, 2009, p. 79).…
Some of the offenders exhibit terrible behavior that challenges probation and parole departments. Offender population management is another critical social issue that criminal justice practitioners face. It is essential that joint efforts venture beyond the traditional, cooperative relationships associated with case management in order to manage offenders. This requires probation and parole departments to work hand and hand with law enforcement officers, courts, victim advocacy, social services, etc. Everyone that is apart of the joint operations to help offender population management needs to share information and evaluate continually about the offender’s progress to establish whether or not other supervision is…
Saphay is currently responsible for 35 cases which consist of children between age 5 to 17 years old. School staff, parents, or mandated by court order are example of how children are referred to Long Beach API MHC. Mental Health issues that Saphay has been helping children with are Adjustment Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Mood Disorder, Anxiety, Depression, Anger, and ADHD. The treatment plans that Saphay employed to help the children in her case load are talk-therapy, play-therapy, along with cognitive behavior therapy. Ms. Nan took time to highlight the important of informing her clients about…
The Human Service Worker’s role does not actually change just because the young is now in the system but in its place provides those tools and information to use as they create their case revision and action strategy. If the young is in a juvenile care facility the Human Service Worker can discourse to the workforce participants of the facility and can get extra awareness into the ways and general attitude or character personalities of the young. Furthermore they recognize what the young has done and can use the agendas and or resources obtainable inside the facility to help in the reintegration labors and safeguarding the young is in the finest conceivable circumstances once unconfined from the care of the organization or facility. Though they still have the similar list of accountabilities that they need do for every young that is added to their case load irrespective of them being inside the juvenile justice system or out of it. Their general occupation does not change it just aids them to be capable to have extra resources and one exact place to turn to when at work with the young instead of trying to track down and save an open sequence of communiqué among them. It aids them to not only get the necessary teamwork from the young but it also removes the maternities from prying with the Human Service Worker carrying out the job to aid the young develop a healthier individual that may not be otherwise be possible. We frequently see circumstances where maternities will impede and discover a way to save their offspring from working together with the Human Service Workers. In some states, the court of law may become involved, mainly if the youngster is detached from the household. A juvenile or family court typically is accountable for circumstances concerning youngster mistreatment. In circumstances of sexual abuse, life-threatening bodily abuse, or passing away, though, grievances…
They don’t have the money to hire properly trained staff with the right tools to help juveniles, nor do they have the right tools when it comes to reporting and investigating possible abuse cases. Even when possible abuse cases are reported correctly, probation officers, judges, and the juvenile’s attorney who handle it often aren't made aware of them. My son, like most children in these institutions, is represented by a public defense attorney due to my inability to afford my own lawyer. Public defenders have large caseloads with children in institutions being on the bottom of their to-do list. On top of this, when children are placed into a juvenile institution, they often lack access to contacting their family. This can prevent my son from letting me know how he is doing and what is going on. Due to the lack of communication going on, information about facilities can be hard for me to get, and can lead to the unknown abuse of my fourteen year old…
Studies have found that case management is beneficial in the health care setting. According to the textbook, case management has drastically improved the outcomes for HIV- infected clients, enhanced the retention of substance abuse users in treatment, and served as a prevention and intervention plan for homeless youth, adults, and families (Chinman, Rosenheck and Lam, 2000). Case management play a critical role in the client’s treatment because each care plan is design based on the individual need of the client. Depending on the setting and situation, a case manager does not only interact with clients, but they will also work with other professionals. The case manager is skilled in all problem-solving skills as well interacting with people.…
NeON centers have a friendlier and more welcoming design, shorter waiting room times, staff refers to probationers “clients”, and most locations share facilities with other social service agencies (Urban Omnibus, 2012). These changes are all intended to create a more welcoming and environment, reduce stress levels, prevent probationers from missing entire days of work or school to see their probation officer, and provide needed services such as housing and job services. By putting these centers physically closer to people who most regularly use them, both officers managing cases and those on probation can benefit. When probation…
Therefore, it is important for human service specialist to determine what is “normal” or “abnormal” behavioral to determine what treatment is needed. If adolescent consistently and repeatedly act out severe aggression, defiance, conduct disorders which indicates a problem would require in home, school or counseling from a private…