A Description of the Organization Every Child Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit human service agency founded in 1997 by Pittsburgh native Susie Davis. Every Child Inc. initial focus was on providing supports for families with medically fragile children. Since its founding, Every Child has grown to include a host of services intended to develop and strengthen the relationships among children, adults and families. Every Child Inc. has grown to a staff of 75 and an annual budget of approximately $4 million. Every Child Inc. is an adoption/foster care organization in Pittsburgh Pa. Besides their base in East Liberty, Pittsburgh; they recently opened a satellite office in Moon Township, West Hills. The upcoming six months will be focused on writing necessary documents; starting a marketing campaign and finding the first families in the Moon Township Area that are interested in becoming foster/adoptive parents. Every Child Inc. serves birth, foster and adoptive families in Allegheny and surrounding counties, and has succeeded in helping over 3,000 children achieve a loving, lasting family. All of the services are provided free of charge and are given based on the individual needs of the child or family. Every Child is primarily supported by the purchase-of service contracts with child welfare agencies, state and federal grants, sponsoring from foundations, individual sponsors through events or partnering business. Individual and community contributions are also critical sources of funding. Every Child strives to remain fiscally sound and accountable to the public. The administrative costs comprise only 14% of the total annual operating budget. Every Child Inc. also embraces the diversity of the communities and individuals served and d... ... middle of paper ... ...tem of career advancement (Anheier, 2005). It is important for each employee to understand the organizations philosophical foundation. Every Child Inc. employees do not all have a degree in social work, only a handful of employees have a social work degree. While examining the organization as a whole I would say that Every Child Inc. follows the National Association of Social Workers, NASW, Guidelines and Principles. Every Child Inc. values service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, and competence. Every Child Inc. values all of their employees and the supervisors are always available for guidance and assistance when needed. Every Child Inc. is committed to their employees, families and children that they serve. Every Child Inc. also sends staff to trainings regarding their line of work at the agency.
Despite attempts in the foster care system agencies under the guidelines of the “Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997” (ASFA) to locate suitable homes and families for foster children, many remain in foster care. “Too often, Child Welfare policy and the agencies responsible for it – offices that respond to child abuse and neglect, oversee foster care placements, and seek to reunite children with their parents to find adoptive families- are out of sight and out of mind except for fleeting moments of tragedy, such as a child’s death”.
In 2002, 51,000 children were adopted through the foster care system. The federal government tracks the number of adoptions from the United States foster care system, and all of its international adoptions. It’s estimated that around 120,000 children are adopted by U.S citizens each year. Half of these children are adopted by individuals not related to t...
Child welfare system was originated with the goals that social workers would try and alleviate poverty and its impact; however as the years have passed, the child welfare system turned into a child protection system directed toward investigating abuse and neglect, and removing children from families and placing them in foster care, and is no longer prepared to assist in resolving the problems of child poverty (Lindsey, 2004). Child welfare system has been developed around the residual approach which demands that aid should be given only after the family is in crisis or other support groups have failed to meet a child’s minimal needs. However, over the years, there have been different focuses for the child welfare system, whether it involved
There’s a high rate of homelessness among the children who was been in the foster care but age out. Many children are going to the foster care because of many tragedies they already had before they even understand what is life all about. Fortunately, for them, there are some people who try to help them out and give them a second shot at life. And having a child of my own gives me a full understanding how much a parent 's guidance and love mean to their lives and I am trying to introduce adoptuskids.org to help raise awareness of homelessness and adoption to all the people and hoping that the children in the foster care system will get a lot of help, support, and love.
As a matter of fact, on the one hand, PHFS emerged from the efforts of a group of Presbyterian churches that came together to address their welfare responsibility by founding an orphanage. However, as the status of orphan was changing, the federal government was fostering children’s’ return to a family or community setting rather than group care. Consequently, demand for group homes declined and, although the organization included adult housing services for individuals with disabilities and later on offered a few community-based services, it faced a declining donor base and was losing its relevance. On the other hand, the Family Alliance resulted from a community outreach tentative by several churches in Lynchburg. FA focused on services targeted at the Lynchburg community, fostering neighborhood leadership, young training, prevention, and intervention. However, the organization was approximately 85% funded, thus relied heavily on federal and local grants. As the state of the economy declined, the statewide support on foster care declined. The organization lost funds and had to stretch the funds it had left while keeping the quality of its services. Ultimately, both companies were facing challenges that drew attention to the need to modify their tactics and respond to ...
Finally, Children Protective Services has let down many children and families. Children who are in the homes of loving, nurturing parents are take away from their secure environments, and are placed into degrading situations. The children who are in desperate need of help do not receive it. Many of the real cases of abuse go unnoticed and unfounded. The system need to distinguish the difference between real child abuse and parenting because there is a child out there who does need help but the workers are too busy focusing their time on cases that are not necessary. If CPS would create a new sstructure and set new standards, many more lives could be saved.
One center operates seasonally for migrant families. In addition to center-based care, the agency provides clients the option of licensed and exempt family child care (FCCH). Currently GKI contract’s with over 120 providers that are part of the Family Child Care Network. Approximately one half of the children are served in child development centers and the second half receive care in homes. Go Kids also provides community based services in Salinas to bring resources and outreach services to families with young children. Moreover, Go Kids administers an Alternative Payment (AP) Program and operates the San Benito County Resource and Referral (R&R) program.
were trying to prevent child abuse and take care of kids that are being treated like they are not
Social services focus on sending kids away from abusive homes and jumping from one group home or institution to another instead of focusing on building families back up and solving the actual issue. A child can legally become uprooted from their home due to multiple things. The primary guardian has a drug problem, the living quarters obtain eviction, too many children in one group home, physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect of any kid, incarceration, abandonment, truancy, death of primary guardian, voluntarily placed, the child continues to commit juvenile offenses or a runaway. Almost the majority of the latter listed can prevail placement in foster care. Instead of wasting another life in the failing system of foster care, child welfare can create programs to promote children’s rights.
...(as discussed previously), attentiveness for the need of such an intervention is a step in the right direction. Furthermore, Wotherspoon, Laberge, and Pirie (2008) indicate that the “… rapid increase in the number of requests for a consultation from our child welfare partners…” (p. 391) demonstrates the positive benefits of their CMHC program. This program has built a relationship with Child Welfare and included opportunities for those workers to enhance their knowledge (Wotherspoon, Laberge, & Pirie, 2008) on child development, mental health and trauma implications. As highlighted in Bass’s et al. (2004) report, the policies and practices for child welfare agencies are varied between different states, hence their contribution towards alleviating and preventing mental health problems in young foster children is unbalanced and hard to measure in terms of success.
and agencies designed to meet the physical, intellectual, and social-emotional needs of individuals and families.” . As a Child Protective worker, my responsibilities are to assess safety (immediate),risk (future harm), abuse and maltreatment, make a
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.
...or state organizations to provide these additional services for families, they are in need of government funding. “States can use about 10% of federal dedicated child welfare funds flexibly for family services and supports, including prevention or reunification services…”. More funds are needed for the organizations to provide services to all members of the family, both directly and indirectly involved. The Nurse-Family Partnership program found a “48% lower level of abuse and neglect for children served through the program than children in the control group”. So having access to these services has shown a reduction in child abuse. As discussed in class, the goal is always to keep the child in the home. This article is aiming to do that but need funds and additional resources in order to accomplish this. (Pew Charitable Trust, 2008)
Children are a special group population that has experienced enormous challenges. Child abuse has remained a significant problem yet to be conquered in the efforts to promote and protect their welfare. The non-governmental organizations have been at the forefront of safeguarding the children across the globe to offer equal opportunities to enhance their development. Such firms have written numerous reports regarding the abuse, promotion, and the legislation that ensures the wellbeing of the minors. The paper examines a case of Nixmary Brown, a seven-year-girl child that suffered immensely in the hands of her stepmother.
The compliance of both the core set value service and competence is reflected in the XYZ agency. The XYZ agency networks with local companies such as a local pharmaceutical company, DONOR1 for support for the agency. DONOR1 adopted twenty families, donating boots for all the children, and donated gifts for children and their families on holidays. Providing a service to help those who are unable to have their basic needs met by creating community awareness. In the field of social work you must network in order to gain access to resources, to build relationships, and to figure out how to implement services. Reaching out to the community shows the competence of networking to help make an immense impact than solely utilizing agency resources. In addition to compliance demonstrated at the XYZ agency, the requirement of orientation and training to new staff, volunteers, and interns help everyone to be competent in the service being provided to children and their families. The agency allows the interns to create flyers to provide leadership in promoting sustainable changes in service delivery and practice to improve the quality of social services. The flyers provide a service of awareness so everyone can have the same access to resources. In doing so, showed competence of allowing a fair opportunity for the children and their families to have obtained their