The current law creates a system of statewide child welfare services that are administered by the State Department of Social Services along with individual county child welfare agencies. Both are committed to provide all children a safe environment that is free from abuse and neglect. Senate Bill 794 would add various changes to the current law such as requiring county child welfare agencies to “implement policies and procedures to identify, document, and determine appropriate services for children and youth who are receiving child welfare services pursuant to federal law and are, or are at risk of becoming, victims of commercial sexual exploitation” (Legiscan) by September 29, 2016. This law would also require the county probation or department of…
It is the role of the state court to provide child welfare system and in ensuring safety, stability, and permanency for abused and neglected children under the supervision of that system. Parents involved with the child welfare system are not receiving adequately quality legal representation, therefore the children are remaining in foster care longer when not necessary costing the state more money in legal representation (Enhancing the Quality of Legal Representation Act of 2013).…
In 1974, the United States was overwhelmed with concern about the alarming number of reported incidents of child abuse and neglect. With that, Congress passed the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) which was the first comprehensive federal legislation dealing with these issues.…
With the combination of the CAPTA and the 1980 legislation there was the thought that foster care was harmful to children which is by no means supported by research. In fact, foster care was much safer than leaving a child with their biological family in which abuse has occurred. Many families were not offered extensive services to help the child and/or the family. This act was responsible for state services and created financial incentives which encouraged legislators to promote stable child welfare services for children. “This resulted in larger prevention efforts, expanded program eligibility standards, support for finding adoptive homes, increased availability of placements for special needs and minority populations, increased kin and family…
I believe that there is no stigmatization or off-targeted benefits at the Child Abuse Prevention Association. CAPA seems like they have everything in order and they will help anyone who needs it. They work hard to make sure people have an understanding and know exactly what child abuse and neglect mean. They help teach everyone the difference and all of the signs of abuse and neglect as well. They have volunteers who also aid children to have a less stressful life. The volunteers also help children feel safe in their own home. CAPA makes no judgment to who they help.…
The delivery of Health Care is undergoing a change that is formalizing through “Industrialization” which mirror those that began in other industries a century ago (Rastegar, 2004). The 20th century was an era of immense political shifts and technological developments. It was the revolution that paved the way for the development and flow of new technologies that shape our everyday life. The three elements that could pose problems with Industrializing Structures for delivery of healthcare policies are: Standardization of roles and tasks, Increasing division of labor and the degradation or deskilling of work (McLaughlin & McLaughlin, 2008).…
In 1962, Child Protective Services was identified as part of public child welfare (Myers, 2009). Cases over 60,000 were reported in 1974. As times goes by child abuse reports get increased. Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) was funded by federal to improve the response to child abuse, such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect. When children were abuse at home, sometime they were taken to foster care.…
Bibliography: 1) Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2008) Retrieved April 27th, 2012, from https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/preventingcan.cfm…
The USCB helps provide support to programs that focus on; helping families and preventing child abuse and neglect and making sure that children live in permanent families and family connections. Some things the organization does to help the cause though is providing guidance on federal law, policies, and regulations. Another thing is, funding services that help the state and tribal agencies observe the aspects of the children’s welfare systems. The bureau also shares research with child welfare professionals to improve their services. Improving child welfare is a cause that we can all contribute to.…
Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act. The State…
What really surprised me was the continued neglect of these children. It just seems like such a foreign concept to me to continually neglect children. Now it appears to be an easy concept, if a child is neglected, he/she needs more attention and care. I do realize that this is often hard in situations such as children in the foster care system, so how do we give these children the right amount of attention with limited resources?…
My practicum site was at the Department of Children and Family Services within the Legally Free Unit with Tommy Williams. He has been a social worker for DCFS for approximately seven years. The purpose of DCFS is to protect abused and neglected children. The program is The program is responsible for the investigation of child abuse and neglect complaints, child protection, family preservation, family reconciliation, foster care, group care, in-home services, independent living and adoption services for children ages 0 to 18 years. I specifically worked in the Legally Free Unit of DCFS which is for children ages approximately 7-17 whose parents have has their parental rights terminated and the children are not able to be adopted for various reasons.…
Child Protective Services does try to contribute to a better quality of life for children, though growing statistics may say otherwise. This is not due to CPS’s own fault though, it is because people have to inform CPS about suspected abuse since they follow a residual perspective. Sometimes it happens and other times, it doesn’t. According to americanhuman.org, “According to the federally funded Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (1996), almost three times as many children are maltreated as are reported to CPS agencies.” CPS can’t stop abuse, if it is ignorant to the fact that abuse is happening. With the residual perspective, the social worker, would have to react to the situation, after the fact, instead of already…
Seemingly it would appear that federal law is the foundation on which state law is created and then expanded upon. Though both entities do complement each other in shared responsibility to protect children and prevent abuse, there is still a strong indication that there are separate entities at work. Hirschy & Wilkinson (2009) point out that due to variations in reporting requirements of each state, data is not available every year. As each state expands legislation like Arizona has, there is an obvious change in data that could be used for research in order to evaluate the overall effectiveness of mandatory reporting. Even more surprising is the fact that not all states mandate the same criteria for specified reporters or offer varying exceptions to definitions of abuse or neglect. According to the Child Welfare Information Gateway (2016) 12 states exempt inability to financially provide for a child as neglect and 17 states exempt physical discipline as long as it is reasonable and does not cause bodily harm as abuse. Though it is not a question personally, of right or wrong, but rather an insight to how varying definitions provides a variance in reporting. Relying on a foundational definition of abuse or neglect, can still provide the necessary data to analyze national averages, but as states report differently on suspected events there becomes a grey area in effectiveness as seen state to…
The issues of neglect and abuse in the foster care system is a subject you do not hear about every day. However, this is a real problem that affects millions of children living in foster care or some kind of transitional care system. 75% of children in foster care prior to leaving the system will have experienced sexual abuse (Sexual Abuse: An epidemic in Foster Care Settings). According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, nearly 475,000 U.S. youth reside in foster care, close to 30,000 leaves the system annually (Braciszewski & Stout, 2012). Research shows that 1.5 million children in America live in families that have experience domestic violence and 7 million of them live in families that have experienced some severe form of domestic violence (Ogbonnaya, 2012). Even though research indicates that the identified incidents of child sexual abuse has declined 47% from 1993 to 2005-2006, this is an issue of concern that the public is not fully aware of the magnitude and effects it has on young people. While the public is not aware of the depth of this problem, child sexual abuse is a prevalent health problem children face with an array of consequences to follow (Child Sexual Abuse Statistics).…