Impact on Client: Diversity Interview

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The client I chose for this diversity interview is 13 year old Willie Hazzard. Willie is the youngest son of Diane Hazzard. Willie is clearly effected by the many generations of poverty, his mother’s addiction, the neglect due to his mother’s addiction, and his exposure to the foster care system. Willie appears to lack trust, he is hostile, and he seems to be a little too familiar with living on the streets. His lack of trust can be attributed to his mother’s lack of parenting when he was little which caused him to be removed from the only home he had ever known and thrust into the child welfare system. He bounced around to a few different homes and was returned to his mother 6.5 years later so he was never able to plant any roots. Also his mother told her children constantly that they would be coming home next year while they were in foster care, but next year didn’t come for many years. Willie’s hostility seems to stem from the same issues. It is apparent that he is still upset with his mother for her addiction problem that led to his removal from the home. At one point he even tells her “You don’t do nothing for me…nothing”. The multigenerational poverty is the link to Willie’s mother’s addiction, the children’s removal from the home, and the family dynamics. According to one study, poor African Americans are more likely to drop out of school (Aizer, 2008).

Developmental issues are hard to identify in Willie since we don’t see him often throughout the film. However, we do see HIV in the home with Love. HIV has been found to be related to poverty (Stobbe, 2010). Infant mortality is also high among those who live in poverty (Ortiz & Briggs, 2003). Socially, we see Willie struggling with trust. This is a develo...

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... ability to read body language and other nonverbal cues. This will help me change topics or reword things when I pick up on tension, anger, or confusion in the room.

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Aizer, A. (2008). Neighborhood violence and urban youth. Cambridge, MA: National

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Alexander, R. r. (2010). The Impact of Poverty on African American Children in the Child

Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems. Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010(4).

Dworkin, J. (2002). Love and Diane. United States: Chilmark Productions.

Erikson, E. H. (1964). Childhood and society. New York: Norton.

Ortiz, A.T., & Briggs, L. (2003). The culture of poverty, crack babies, and welfare cheats: The

making of the healthy white baby crisis. Social Text, 21(3), 30-60.

Wagstaff, A. (2004). Child Health: Reaching the Poor. American Journal of Public Health,

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