Background of The Circle Program This research proposal will revolve around the Circle Program. This program is based on a therapeutic foster care model. It provides foster carers and their children support through a specialist team and trains foster carers to understand how trauma effects foster children (MacKillop Family Services n.d.). This type of foster care model supports youth work practice through having similar principles to the YACVic Code of Ethical Practice. Two principles of the YACVic
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Children in recovery that have been removed from their homes due to unsafe conditions end up in Out of Home Care (OOHC). The two most significant styles of OOHC are Non-related Foster Care and Kinship Foster Care. 1 in 4 foster care children are placed in kinship programs‚ whereas 48% of children go into non-related foster care. A kinship program helps to connect children with a family member whether by blood‚ marriage‚ or adoption. A benefit for a child that goes into a kinship program is that it
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Stephen King is perhaps the most widely known American writer of his generation‚ yet his distinctions include publishing as two authors at once: Beginning in 1966‚ he wrote novels that were published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. When twelve‚ he began submitting stories for sale. At first ignored and then scorned by mainstream critics‚ by the late 1980’s his novels were reviewed regularly in The New York Times Book Review‚ with increasing favor. Beginning in 1987‚ most of his novels were main
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“The Perks of being a Wallflower” is a novel written by Stephen Chbosky who talks about the high school life of a boy with some mental issues caused by the death of his best friend and his aunt. The narrator Charlie is an introverted and sensitive boy who is afraid of talking to others in high school. After meeting Sam‚ Patrick and their friends‚ Charlie made friends with them and enjoyed his high school time. With the help of his friends‚ Charlie gradually overcame his fear and shyness. His best
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a ship sinking and its crew abandoning the vessel in a lifeboat with only the thought of survival‚ unware of what dangers await them in the darkness of the sea. Ironically this is the grim reality of the men in the story The Open Boat written by Stephen Crane. What makes this story interesting is the fact that Crane was actually a passenger on the Commodore when it sank. During this time in American history it seems to be several shipwrecks along the coast of Florida. For the author he witnessed
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The cruel reality of poverty is examined in Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl on the Streets. In it‚ Maggie Johnson‚ born in the rough streets of New York‚ dreams of having a better life‚ one with culture‚ money‚ and meaning- the opposite of the one she was born with. Though she believed that her dreams were becoming tangible‚ with the aid of Pete‚ she ultimately returns to the streets and is destroyed by them. Throughout the novel‚ the birth and demise of Maggie’s search for meaning encompasses Crane’s
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Charlie is the protagonist of Stephen Chbosky’s "The Perks of Being A Wallflower." Charlie is a young teenager. At fifteen‚ he is making the transition from middle school to high school. Charlie has had ongoing psychological issues since he was a young child. The source of his emotional distress is not clear to the reader or to Charlie himself. Charlie tells his story through a series of letters to an anonymous source who he does not know but who he heard was kind and understanding and didn’t "sleep
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Foster Care‚ Adoption‚ and Ecclesiology Anonymous Box #0000 Christian Worldview Development Some class section Some University November 14‚ 2013 In America alone‚ there are 500‚000 children in foster care. There is no excuse for the lack of adoption and foster care involvement‚ as 225 million people profess Christ in the US (Merida & Morton 51). Foster care and adoption‚ particularly of older children‚ should be regarded differently in light
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In the case of the child being taken away from her foster parents‚ it would seem as though there is no way to make a decision without someone getting hurt in the end. On one end‚ the birth parents made the horrible decision to do drugs and were unable to care for their daughter. While they did become rehabilitated‚ it took them a very long time to do so. On the other end‚ the foster parents were only temporarily legal guardians of the girl. So the question I think everyone would ask themselves is
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Stephen King is known as one of the greatest horror and gothic writers of our time. The reason for this is his ability to fuse the gothic elements created by stories such as Dracula or Frankenstein and todays horror. King has written hundreds of short stories but two in-particular “The Night Flier” and “Popsy” show his unique ability to combined gothic elements from the old literature with realistic settings and people of our era. One of his greater talents is being able to use gothic element
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