Best Practices: Child Protective Services Christine M. Burrows Columbia College of Missouri – Hancock Campus Abstract A Child Protective Service worker is a career that can be mentally and physically exhausting with emotional upheaval and wonderfully rewarding all at the same time. This paper discusses several “best practices’, their descriptions, and how they are put in use to assist the children who need help and the parents who unwillingly become a part of the Child Welfare
Child protective services (CPS) is a particular social service provided by the Department of Human Resources. It has for mission to respond and investigate child maltreatment, to protect children from abuse and neglect, to keep families together as possible and reconciling children with their parents when the issues that led to abuse or neglect are solved, and look for a place of stability for the children who cannot be reunified. Fulfilling this mission has place demand to the agency to
Child protective services play a crucial role in safeguarding the welfare of children, ensuring their protection from abuse, neglect, and maltreatment. CPS conducts thorough investigations into allegations of child abuse or neglect. Trained professionals assess the safety of the child, the risk of harm, and the circumstances surrounding the reported incident. Upon substantiating cases of abuse or neglect, CPS intervenes to protect the child from further harm. This may involve removing the child from
Child Protective Services For 30 years, advocates, program administrators, and politicians have joined to encourage even more reports of suspected child abuse and neglect. Their efforts have been successful, with about three million cases of suspected child abuse having been reported in 1993. Large numbers of endangered children still go unreported, but a serious problem had developed: Upon investigation, as many as 65 percent or the reports now being made are determined to be "unsubstantiated"
A Child Protective Service worker is someone that is responsible for the safety of multiple children that have been abused and neglected. A CPS worker must be able to identify signs of abuse and neglect in order to help the child and place them in a safe environment or help the family stop neglecting that child. There job duties may include: counseling and support services for the children and parents, referring the children and family to additional services, placing children in foster care, and
for them by being a child protection services. As a child protection service I would be able to remove the child or children for the family and help them seek counseling. A child protective service worker is a person described as an investigator that explores claims of child abuse or neglect. They have the challenging assignment of guessing what happened and foretelling what will occur in the future. (Oncu, Kurt, Esenay, & Ozer, 2013) Child Protective Service receives and investigates allegation
child, but it is maintaining the responsibility to love and take care of a human being. Before people decide if they want to adopt, they can become a foster parent. When children are not able to safely live with their biological family, Child Protective Services may become involved and place the child in foster care. Foster care is only a temporary living arrangement for the child, while the children's parents work to remedy the unsafe situation (Security,2014). When it is possible that a child may
million reports of alleged child maltreatment practices in the year of 1995 alone. Many more children are living with abuse rather than dying from it, too. So what steps are being taken to protect our nation's children? All states have a Child Protective Services (or CPS) system. This is the governmental system responsible for investigating reports of child abuse or neglect. In state after state, the CPS agency lacks the resources to respond adequately to the overwhelming number of reports it is legislatively
children are reported as victims of child abuse and maltreatment. Overall, child abuse reporting levels have increased 45% between 1987 and 1996. In 1996, an estimated 1,046 child abuse and neglect related fatalities were confirmed by Child Protective Services, (CPS) agencies. Since 1985, the rate of child abuse fatalities has increased by 20%. Based on these numbers, more than three children die each day as a result of child abuse or neglect. In 1996, some states reported that almost 77% of these
victim of sexual abuse. There are about 2,000 to 3,000 new cases of incest each year in each major city in the United States. It is reported by the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse that in 1993, 2.9 million children were reported to protective services because they were being abused, neglected, or both (Schwartz). 16% of these 2.9 million children had been sexually abused. It is estimated that there are 60 million survivors of childhood sexual abuse in America today http://www.prevent-abuse-now
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act: Child abuse is any action from adult to a child that it could be harmful to the child’s body or mental (Children Welfare Information Gateway 2007). In 2005, among 3.6 million investigations by Child Protective Services agencies in the U.S, an estimated 899,000 children (24.97%) were confirmed to be victims of child abuse (Children’s Bureau 2005). In generally, there are 4 typical kinds of child abuse: neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse and emotional maltreatment
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services According to the Encyclopedia of Education, the program was first started in 1690. It became a way to deal with criminal court cases involving child abuse. Two years later the states and municipalities identified care for abused and neglected children as the responsibility of local government and private institutions. It was not until 1825, that the states enacted laws that gave social workers the right to remove children that had been neglected
Child protective services (CPS) of Baltimore, MD, is housed under the Department of Social Services (DSS), which is one of the four administrations of the Department of Human Resources. The workforces’ recruitment is completed through the Department of Social Services, which is seeking under the principle of merit, well qualified candidates from diverse walks of life to serve its clients. Riccucci wrote that “Organizations that accommodate the needs and interests of all workers, male and female
The controversial issue of whether or not Child Protective Services are doing their jobs properly, has grabbed nationwide attention. Child Protective Services is the name of a government agency in many states of the United States whose mission is to respond to reports of child abuse and neglect. Some of these cases may include physical abuse, sexual abuse, and mental abuse (Wikipedia). The child welfare system is corrupted. The parents and guardians who are accused of abuse are automatically labeled
Child Protective Services (CPS) social workers are tasked with ensuring that children are protected from abuse and neglect. The role of a social worker is not to take children away from their families or create instability in the family life. Instead it is to increase children well-being and family stability. However, if removal of the child(ren) is in the best interest of the family, then these measures must be used to ensure long term family stability and growth. CPS social workers have the authority
Child Protective Services (CPS) is a common name for a government agency that is responsible for ensuring the safety of children. In general, CPS conducts an investigation when there is a report of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and/or emotional abuse. CPS will go to the home and assess the situation. Depending on the situation, CPS can offer voluntary services to maintain family preservation or in cases where the children are at risk of harm, the children are removed from the home while the parents
In the summer of 2010, I was assigned to work with a youth who became known to the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services (The Division) as a substantiated victim of child abuse (physical). Within the Division, the youth was assigned a case manager to handle legal aspects of the case and link him to services. I was specifically assigned to the youth to develop a therapeutic relationship and assist with his new adjustment, after being removed from his biological father and placed in foster
fundamental right to raise their children without state interference. Each state in the US has its own agency responsible for the protection of children. In Los Angeles, California this agency is known as DCFS (Department of Children and Family Services). This agency is responsible for responding to reports of child abuse and neglect, and the handling of adoptions. In the past social workers were responsible for assessing child abuse reports and determining whether or not a child would be detained
Gleenia Ford The following career I have chosen describes who I am, where I want to go, and what I want to accomplish in the near future. Child Protective Service: Investigates and prevent in cases of a child abuse or neglect. They respond to complaints from law enforcement, day care, schools, etc. They work with parents and other social service agencies to keep the child away from harm and hurt.You need to be able to communicate effectivly with the child and their parent to be able to handle hard
and sexual abuse, along with neglect, are the most common variations of maltreatment. Of the 2,806 investigations by the Child Protective Services in 1999, 1,405 were physical abuse (50.1%), 530 were sexual abuse (18.9%), and 871 were neglect (31.0%) (Baltimore County Department of Social Services, 2000). Physical abuse is recognized by the Department of Social Services as, “the physical injury of a child under age 18 by parent, person with permanent or temporary care of custody/ supervision, or