ipl-logo

Case Study Of Arise In The Runaway And Homeless Program

241 Words1 Pages
At approximately 6:30 p.m., on 02/25/16, Adrionna was brought to the Arise Youth Center by her mother, Donna Quinn, and her step-father, Michael Quinn. They reported they were not able to manage her behavior and wanted her to stay at Arise in the Runaway/Homeless Program. Donna reported Adrionna skips school often, is failing her classes, will not do her chores, fights with them, makes sexual remarks on Facebook, and leaves the home without letting anybody know. Donna and Adrionna were arguing last week and Donna put a bar of soap in Adrionna’s mouth. Donna also reported if Arise does not change Adrionna’s behavior she wants to release custody of her to DSS. After her parents left Adrionna was also spoken with. Skye Bartholomew met with her.
Show More
Related
1127 Words | 5 Pages

The service user I chose to assess is a 17-year-old Hispanic female whose modified name is Tiana Santos. I provided therapeutic casework services to Tiana for a year in my previous role as a Therapeutic Caseworker at the Children’s Village, a foster care agency. Tiana was placed in foster care after been removed from her mother’s care due to emotional and physical abuse. Tiana’s father abandoned her mother and her youngest sibling when she was 5 years old. Tiana’s memories about her father were very limited due to her young age.

Read More
309 Words | 2 Pages

R/s Nicole is in not school and is planning to get into a GED program. R/s there was a court order investigation due to lack of supervision. R/s during the investigation the case was filed against the mom Eliosa for lack of supervision and inadequate guardianship. R/s the mom would bring Nicole and her sister Damon to SC without the father’s permission. R/s mom would pick Damon up from school and wouldn’t return the child back to father until days later.

Read More
1325 Words | 6 Pages

Richard J. Gelles was the director of the Family Violence Research Program at the University of Rhode Island. In his research, Gelles found that in many cases Social Workers as well as other professionals fail to look at the entire picture in terms of family intervention. According to Gelles, in the case of David, preexisting family issues were overlooked which should have played a major role in determining the suitability of David’s home. In his book, Gelles addresses several issues that state families should be maintained and that children are better off with their parents than in a custody system. “The Book of David,” is a nonfiction story about the short life of David Edward.

Read More
2275 Words | 10 Pages

Introduction On 22nd August, 2002, a young woman Michelle Knight is in a hurry to attend a social services meeting to discuss her son’s custody. Unfortunately she does not know the directions to that place. She walks into a convenience store to get the directions. Unknown to her, someone was listening.

Read More
231 Words | 1 Pages

Lutherbrook Child and Adolescent Center was founded in 1873 located in Addison, IL. It is a highly specialized residential treatment center for youth ages 6-18 who have experience multiple and complex traumas. Their mission is to help a child return to a living situation. If appropriate they might be able to return to their biological family or maybe to a foster care family. The programs they offer are designed to meet each child’s individual needs by helping them acknowledge his/her strengths, skills and see what the child needs in order to successfully resume to family or community living.

Read More
382 Words | 2 Pages

In a perfect world, the simple answer or recommendation on improving homelessness chemical dependency would be to end poverty finally once and for all yet that is easier said than done. With the development of new diseases, these individuals are being exposed and spreading diseases to other individuals. Substance abuse cannot improve without more emphasizes being placed on creating stability for this population. Just like any mental disorder, addiction should be treated with the same urgency. Treating someone for a day does not improve their situation tomorrow because they will still be homeless.

Read More
262 Words | 2 Pages

Runaway Juvenile Dispatched to 900 N. Travis for report of a runaway juvenile 's possible location, Upon arrival, I made contact with the Juvenile 's mother Leticia Ramos (DOB-00-00-0000). Ramos stated, "I heard Leon was staying with my daughter, and she was moving from Nixon to San Marcos, and he was going with her. I 'm upset because she did not contact me nor did Leon about whereabouts, and I want him home now before I press charges. " Ramos made contact with her daughter identified as Sunshine Fonseca (DOB-09-02-1991), and advised Fonseca to return home with Carrera, and moments later Fonseca arrived, and Carrera exited the SUV.

Read More
1434 Words | 6 Pages

At the age of 24, Darlene adopted a drug and prostitute addiction. Darlene’s 16 year old second child Rebecca, has lived with Darlene for the past two

Read More
1263 Words | 6 Pages

The case assessment of Brianna Lopez begins with her birth on February 14, 2002 in a New Mexico hospital. After leaving the hospital, Brianna resided in Las Cruces, New Mexico with her unwed parents, Andrew “Andy” Walters, 21, and Stephanie Lopez, 19. There were also four other adults and one child, Andy and Stephanie’s 18 month old son, living in the home (State v. Walters, 2007). Among these adults was Brianna’s uncle, Steven Lopez. Shortly after her arrival home, Baby Brianna experienced extreme physical, verbal, and sexual abuse from her parents and uncle.

Read More
242 Words | 1 Pages

One homeless man was faced with a decision that even the most honest man might have issues making. While resting on a park bench the man, who doesn't want his name released, found a wallet containing several hundred dollars and a woman's personal belongings including her EBT card which helps her family receive food assistance. Thankfully for the program Hearts for Homeless Shelter the man who found the wallet was about to text the assistant director for help. The text explained how he had found the wallet containing nearly 400 dollars and the money was to tempting. He asked the director to come pick up the wallet before he was tempted to do something with the money.

Read More
230 Words | 1 Pages

Although homelessness is caused by many things, homeless people are usually labeled as homeless. But there are types of homelessness. One type of homelessness is Situational or Transitional homelessness. This is when someone is forced into homelessness because of uncontrollable circumstances such as losing a job, important material lost, lost of a main breadwinner (Father, husband, wife) etc. The second type of homelessness is Episodic or cyclical homelessness.

Read More
1078 Words | 5 Pages

Area of Conflict Homelessness can be understood in the perspective of conflict theory, which holds that capitalism is one the main reason for homelessness. “Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned” (Ayn Rand). There are many reasons why a person becomes homeless, an increasing number become homeless each year, with up to 5,000 people becoming homeless every year. Generally the experiences that lead to homelessness are determined by poverty and structural inequality.

Read More
682 Words | 3 Pages

Balancing out individuals through shelters, moving them into permanent lodging, and actualizing help projects to keep them in their housing, can lessen, as well as dispose of, homelessness. System theories compresses ideas that apply to all frameworks. System theory is helpful when drawing close to complex issues. The greater part of us utilize a frameworks approach for critical thinking. This paper discusses how the developmental theory works for the human administration professional when dealing homeless mentally ill.

Read More
1401 Words | 6 Pages

Youth Homelessness in America Every year, millions of people are experiencing some form of homelessness in the United States alone. Of those people who are experiencing homelessness, a large proportion of them is under the age of 24. Data has found that there are over 550,000 youth have experienced homelessness for more than a week over the course of a year (“Youth and Young Adults,” 2018). In many cases, youth homelessness can be prevented, but the lack of resources and services available to youth is limited. As a result, the issue continues to grow and affect more and more youth have to experience homelessness.

Read More
343 Words | 2 Pages

Theoretical Framework The second section within the paper will discuss the psychological effects of homelessness on women. The psychological effect of homelessness is very harsh trauma to an individual; when a person loses their income through job loss, low/cut in pay, and unemployment/underemployment it hurts the emotional being of the person. If the person had a decent paying job and now the income is gone, a tremendous burden is placed on the individual. The emotional state of the mind is at a low point and this can cause depression to set in and a loss of hope.

Read More

More about Case Study Of Arise In The Runaway And Homeless Program

Related Topics

Open Document