Looking back‚ the biggest resource lacking in my environment‚ that was so desperately needed‚ was Child Protective Services. I believe the agency existed‚ but they never became involved with our family. The community awareness surrounding child abuse that exists now was not so in the 1960’s and 70’s. When my mother would tell the family doctor that I had had another accident‚ he did not question what she said‚ and if he did‚ he did nothing about it. Teachers were not as educated concerning the
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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
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The Child Protective services are responsible for providing either quality child protection or child welfare services. Within the child protective services‚ many of their regulations should be in consideration and developed to benefit the social workers and the children within the system. As social workers continue their work even as to doing overtime to close cases‚ but it seems as the work is never ending because of the fact that work keeps piling up on a single social worker. Social workers at
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CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES REFORM 1 INTRODUCTION Child Protective Services (CPS) is a complex system of assessments‚ investigations‚ and conclusions. CPS is the central agency in each communities child abuse and neglect service system. It is responsible for ensuring that preventative‚ investigative‚ and treatment services are available to children and families endangered by child abuse and neglect. As a result‚ CPS workers must perform a variety of functions when responding to situations of child
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Failure to Protect and Serve Americans place their lives in the hands of their government. We trust that in doing so‚ things will inevitably work out in the correct way. However‚ this is not the case for many children who become lost in the Child Protective Services; or CPS organization. Texas has a separate system of courts that directly handles the cases in which a family’s structure‚ practices‚ and techniques come into question called the family courts. However‚ these courts often become overburdened
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an organization such as Child Protective Services (CPS) wanted to share client information with another Protective Services agency regarding a client both organizations should be able to exchange and translate information amongst coordinating organizations. Child Protective Services Child Protective Services (CPS) is known as major department with the Department of Human Services. CPS supports and maintains the social and economic welfare of children by offering services to children to help protect
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Risk Assessment in Child Services Introduction The topic to be discussed‚ is the use of risk assessments in cases when children are involved (child welfare). Assuring the wellbeing of these children falls within the job description of their Case Manager/Social Worker. This task can be helped or impeded by the strategies and assessments that are implemented as ways meant to effectively address the issues. The following reviews are of articles that have similar and unique perspectives of this topic
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relates to differences of not only gender‚ age‚ religion‚ race‚ culture‚ but all socio economic social aspects‚ all of which you experience and see in employees as well as clients at my work site on a daily bases. At my internship site‚ the Child Protective Human service “Chat” building there is a Cultural dynamics of differences which come from our traditional cultures and norms. I couldn’t help but experience and become affected by culture thru interning with such a diverse group of personalities‚ culture
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Child Protective Services Each year‚ more than 3 million referrals for child abuse and neglect are received that involve around 6 million individual children (Committee on Child). Does that concern you? What do you think we should do about it? Do you think Child Protective Services (CPS) are vital in lowering these numbers? Well‚ Child Protective Services’ (CPS) job is to ensure that children are safe and healthy through monitoring families‚ working with school and counselors‚ making phone calls
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parents paying child support (Miguel) • “States gain because the federal government pays 66 percent of state and local administrative costs for services to those on Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). In addition to federal reimbursement for administrative costs‚ states also receive federal incentive payments. Simply put‚ the more child support a state collects‚ the greater its federal return.” (Rachel‚ 2011) 2. Less strain on custodial parents by receiving child support (Jen)
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