The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) is an organization that provides numerous services and programs to assist Florida families. The services and programs consist of Child Care, Access Florida (assistance program), children legal services, and many more. DCF provides a variety of public services to the people of Florida. Services such as childcare has become very expensive, this may be a valid reason for individuals to turn for assistance. The main purpose of DCF is to assist eligible families with either childcare costs, assistance with food and insurance benefits, or many other assistance through their programs and services. “Major reforms within the Florida child welfare agency were implemented in 1996, and included …show more content…
Governor Rick Scott worked to unanimously towards the improvement towards Florida’s child protection policy. The new law as written in response to a series of issues and deaths under the realm of the child welfare agency. In addition, the law states the welfare of the child is most valued and the rights of child is to be safe and protected. The implementation of the law has codified that the foremost goal of the Florida Department of Children and Families is to protect the best interest of the child. The law also requires DCF to improve their investigations involving the children. The law requires that DCF identifies what child or children has developmental issues and to provide services in order reduce the risk that children face if they are left with troubled parents. Thus, when the agency fails those individuals under its supervision, the law requires that the Florida Department of Children and Families be more accessible to outside …show more content…
S. Constitution, the federal government was assigned to specific things and had limited powers over most of the government functions. In actuality, most of power was left to the states to determine. In order to ensure that individuals understood the limit of federal power, the Constitution’s Tenth Amendment was added: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”. In essence, the Tenth Amendment personified federalism. Subsequently, policymakers and the courts have discarded federalism in past years by undertaken various activities that are traditionally reserved to the states and private sectors. The grants-in aid was a key method that the federal government could extend its power into state and local affairs. For example, the grant program is a subsidies that is a part and package with federal regulations to micromanage the state and local activities. Therefore, the major federally aided programs are in areas such as housing, transportation, education, and health
...l now be given the power to interfere in cases where parents have failed in their duties towards the child. This is extremely important as it allows the State to intervene in cases where there has been a failure, which was difficult to do in the past. This new role of protecting children's rights is favourable as it will, hopefully, prevent any failure by the State to children in unacceptable circumstances/situation.
This law requires states to have a process established for conducting criminal background checks for foster and adoptive parents in order to care for children. It is said that provisions in the law have had an impact on the process of being approved for foster care and adoption. It has slowed down the process for children to be placed with relatives as well. Under the new provisions states are required to conduct ...
Not every service is capable of doing what they supposed to do. The lives of these children and families be can be taken for granted by those who don’t take their jobs seriously. If DYFS had more people who dedicated their time on their job, many situation could have been avoided. You wouldn’t want to be the reason why a child lost their life or placed in a home where the environment is worse than where they were before. DYFS can be capable of helping others, but it could also put others in danger.
The Tenth Amendment was ratified along with the rest of the Bill of Rights on December 17th, 1791, as well, unlike most other amendments, it gave rights not only to the people, but also to the state governments. The Tenth Amendment was passed in order to delegate powers to the state governments and the people that the national government does not have, this amendment states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”
The Federalists claim that the powers of the central government should be interminable. Publius states that the “means ought to be proportioned to the end,” wherein the government should have all the powers necessary to accomplish what it is charged to do (Feds. 1490). The people delegate power to the
The United States government is based around our Constitution. One of the most important pieces to U.S. Constitution is what lies in Article. I. Section. 8. Here is a list of powers granted to congress through the Constitution, known as the Enumerated Powers or Granted Powers, stating what congress can enforce on the nation as a whole. Examples of these powers include, the ability to lay and collect taxes, to pay debts, provide common defense/ declare war, provide for the general welfare, and the power to regulate commerce. Valuable topics to understand when reviewing the Enumerated Powers that are granted to the United States Congress are how federalism and Federalists are tied into congress 's constitutional powers and the meaning and
The child welfare system in United States uses a dominant colonial approach to how the child welfare system is applied. They are based on the foundations of patriarchal ideology. When approaching child welfare the attention is mostly given to the families and individual blame occurs, this may reflect the way the systems are designed, operating from a liberal ideology. Furthermore, in the process of child protection family service systems are exposed to the use of formal coercion and contested court involvements, although this is considered a last resort and avoided, if possible. Typically, after a child maltreatment report, the allegation is investigated and assessed for degree of state interven...
In the Constitution, central and state governments received power that was shared and split in a federalist system, preventing tyranny of one over the other. Madison put forward his idea of federalism in Federalist Paper #51. “...the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments...The different governments will each control each other, at the same time each will be controlled by itself” (Doc. A). A Venn diagram derived from the Constitution shows that the central government controlled national affairs such as war, foreign trade, and foreign relations, and states controlled internal affairs such as establishing public services and regulating in-state businesses. The shared powers included taxes, loans, and laws. Despite Madison’s bias towards the federalist system (rarely does one truly attack one’s own political treatise within it) in his quote, the apportioning of powers shows that neither the central or st...
The federal government response to the fiscal crisis based on political decision making, similar to how they responded to the September 11th attacks. The link between the federal government and the city has progressed, but peaked in the late 1970’s. This affected the city’s ability to distribute the utilities for individuals. However, the New Deal sparked local cities to advance their relationship with the federal government separate from the state legislature. The federal government’s goal was to issue financial assistance in major cities. Statistics reveal that between 1970’s and the 1980’s there was approximately a seven hundred percent increase in the amount of grants that the federal government provided for the cities. These categorical grants were the predominant type of funding. In this period federal earnings encompassed twelve percent of the city’s budget. Thus, local governments became dependent on federal funds. Initially, the categorical grants were intended for people who were residents of low income areas. But there were no mandates established to ensure that the money was being targeted to individuals who were poor. They enabled the company giving the money to a particular party to determine how the money will be used. Often this led to conflicts because the local government began to have concerns about provisions being attached to the
The Founding Fathers had multiple reasons on why they created a federalist government, the main reasons were avoiding a tyranny, more people participating in politics, and “experimenting” the states in order to find new government ideas and programs James Madison stated the Federalist Papers, The Federalist, No. 10, If "factious leaders kindle a flame within their particular states," the national, or federal government, can "conflagration through the other states." Federalism and the 10th amendment prevents one to take control of a state or the federal government, avoiding tyranny. The idea of having more people evolved in government came from the ideals of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson believed having both local (state) and national (federal) officials would increase participation in government.The last concept with using states as “experiments” comes from this concept: let us say that a state disastrous new policy, it would not be a disaster for everyone. In contrast, if one state 's new programs or policies work well, other states can adopt them to their own
The goal of Juvenile Courts and the Child Welfare Agencies is to protect and make decision in the best interest of children. The ASFA law was signed by President Bill Clinton. On November 19, 1997 after it was approved by the United States Congress earlier in the month. The law was the most significant piece of legislation dealing with child welfare in twenty years. States decided to interpret the law as requiring biological families to be kept together no matter what, but the law shifted emphasis towards children health and safety concerns and away from a policy of reuniting children with their birth parents without regards to their prior abuse. ASFA lead sponsor, Republican Senator John H. Chafee of Rhode Island said, “We will not continue the current system of always putting the needs and rights of biological parents first … It’s time we recognize that some families simply cannot and should not be kept together.” This phil...
The Tenth Amendment was added to the Constitution of 1787 by James Madison due to the problem with its predecessor, the Articles of Confederation. In Article 2 in the Articles of Confederation it states, “Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.” With states having too much sovereignty this caused an issue. Madison was a Federalist and believed that the federal government should have some control over states, therefore, he proposed the 10th Amendment. By the constitution getting rid of state sovereignty it meant Anti-Federalists fearing the possibility of a federal government with unlimited power. However, the states were able to compromise and ratify the Constitution under the agreement that powers not stated on it are reserved to the states or to the people. The 10th Amendment overall gives clarification that federal power is limited and that states or the have control on the issues not stated on the constitution. However, not everyone agreed to the 10th amendment. It was seen as
For years, state and local governments have lobbied Congress to end the practice of federal mandates without funds for implementation. In 1995, Congress passed the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, which attempts to lighten the economic burden imposed by federal mandates on individual states.
Downs, S., Moore, E., McFadden, E., & Costin, L. (2004). Child welfare and family services: Policies and practice. (7th. Ed., pp. 319-363) Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
All the benefits provided by CAPTA are important, but one highly important benefit CAPTA provides for infants and children is that all allegations of child abuse and neglect must be investigated to ensure the well-being and safety of every infant and child. After allegations of child abuse and neglect are reported an investigation is the next step in protecting every child. Another benefit of CAPTA for infants and children is that if the heart wrenching experience of child abuse or neglect occur the state CPS systems and private organizations are trained and prepared to provide treatment for the child. In a like manner, CAPTA provides benefits for women and families by providing support and services that address domestic violence. CAPTA also promotes family involvement in all aspects of a CPS case involving child abuse and neglect. The states benefit by the foundation that CAPTA sets regarding the functioning of CPS systems and in a financial aspect. CAPTA provides funding to “Support child abuse and prevention activities by funding discretionary grants to states and/or public or private agencies or organizations” (California Department of Child Services, 2011). Everyone benefits when CPS systems according to CAPTA policies, “The act’s sponsors meant to feature three important themes of CPS reform in these amendments, including encouraging the involvement of family members in a child welfare agency’s decisions process; promoting and enhancing COS collaboration with domestic violence services and substance abuse treatment programs, and increasing the use of differential response by states through the use of noninvestigative/nonaccusatory approach to responding to reports of child maltreatment” (American Bar Association,