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Intervention In Child Care

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Family engagement in child protective services is a difficult task that takes care, understanding and patience. It takes a crafty worker to be able to discuss issues with parents related to the safety of their children. According to Fuller, Paceley, and Schreiber (2013), parents experience greater fear when they encounter the child welfare system. Once a family has been reported the child protectives services worker has to make contact with the family and due to the involuntary nature of the visit the fear of a child being removed from the home poses a barrier to the engagement process (Fuller, Paceley, & Schreiber, 2013). Advanced CPS training techniques that seeks to strengthen family engagement through motivational interviewing …show more content…

Coaching in child welfare can be accomplished either by use of supervisory staff working closely with new workers or through experienced workers working closely with new staff. “The purpose of coaching is to help ensure that newly learned skills are translated into practice” (Lawrence, Nagy, Snyder, & Weatherbolt, 2012). Coaching is not a new or innovating technique, it is currently used by other states in their child welfare training curriculum, absent South Carolina (Improvement, National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational, n.d.). Collaborative learning agreements between colleges and universities that offer child welfare related courses offer some a form of coaching as part of their internship field instruction but the requirements are less strenuous and occasionally the interns are not paid and are not employed by the child welfare agency. Professional coaching in child welfare provides opportunities for employee and supervisor collaboration. It provides an additional knowledge base for the employees that allows them the opportunity to discuss areas that they are not familiar with in an open and empowering forum (Lawrence, Nagy, Snyder, & Weatherbolt, …show more content…

I found it difficult to locate evidence-based documentation related to foster care, case practice and kinship care/relative placement (Strand & Busco-Ruggiero). Evaluation of a program is necessary in determining the future direction of the individual the agency. The Adoptions and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) collects case information from state and tribal agencies that received title IV-E funding. Title IV-E is a financial assistance subsidy that provides money to families to supplement the cost of adoption. Its purpose is to remove barriers that are in place that would otherwise not allow families to adopt. Title IV-E funds also provides financial assistance to assist with medical care and other services (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2011).The AFCARS reports is a collection of data detailing the accuracy and reliability of foster care and adoption case practice. This assessment tool should be used as an agency self-assessment guide to continuously develop their programs (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2011). The Child and Family Services Reviews enable the Children’s Bureau to ensure that child welfare agencies are conforming to federal requirements of title IV-E. The review also looks at documentation of engagement with families and assist in enhancing their capacity to help children and families achieve positive case outcomes. The

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The RC vs. Alabama case changed the development of child welfare programs in Alabama, and perhaps everywhere, forever. RC vs. Alabama is a case in “was filed in United States District Court against the Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources in 1988 on behalf of a child who was then in the custody of DHR. The child, identified only by his initials, R.C., had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The suit alleged that DHR had not maintained systems to ensure that emotionally disturbed or behaviorally disordered foster children were adequately provided for when placed in the foster care system.” (http://www.dhr.alabama.gov) This change in the child welfare laws and programs was extremely important, as stated

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Laura Finley states, “Indeed, restoration of the family is achieved in over half the cases of foster care, according to federal statistics. Where this is not possible, permanent adoption is the goal with about twenty percent of foster children. Other children are simply waiting until emancipation…” (Jacobs and Finley). The issue with this view on the foster care system is that its completely sugar coated.

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Within this article, there are guidelines for caseworkers that work with child protective services (CPS). There are seven stages in the CPS process. The stages consist of intake, initial assessment or investigation, comprehensive family assessment, planning, service provision, evaluation of family progress, and case closure. There are several core values that CPS workers follow. One of the stages that I focused on while reading is that CPS workers work hard to guarantee the safety of children within their family and home.

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Consistent with the value of personalismo, parents stress the importance of a good relationship with their worker and the implications to their case. Child welfare policy is another factor that can impact workers’ abilities to provide culturally congruent services. Conflicts with child welfare workers may arise as policies that guide the public child welfare system practices are child centered and reflect main-stream values influenced by individualistic world views. The findings from this qualitative study indicate that substantial change is required if we truly aim to provide culturally congruent and relevant services to the families served by the public child welfare system. Towards this aim, child welfare practice and policies need (1) to be informed by the families’ perspectives, and (2) to address child welfare workers’ need for training and support.

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