Models And Perspectives In The Bronx Defender

The mission of the agency is to provide holistic defense centered specifically around criminal defense practice, however, the Bronx Defenders also specializes in Family Defense practice and other areas of expertise. This agency provides social work support, family defense, criminal defense, immigrant defense and advocate for the residents of the Bronx, who are unable to do that for themselves. At the Bronx defenders, we look beyond individual cases and identify the different systems at play that may be impacting our clients. We use the community as a resource to find and help individuals who find themselves engrossed into the justice system. Most of the families that we come in contact with are of low-income and lack the resources necessary

Some of the models and perspectives include the systems model, the crisis-intervention model, and the learning theory. One of the main perspectives that is very relevant in her line work is the strengths perspective because many of the clients she works with need some form of empowerment. Major techniques include identifying individual needs, rewards and attributes. The major technique used in the empowerment model include strengths perspective and social justice theory. Resilience, resourcefulness and the development of skills to remove social barriers. The difficulty in applying these theories to the work is that clients sometimes can’t identify their own strengths. Another difficulty is aiming to understand the complexity of the different systems and how intricate they are and also having to explain that to client. A pro is that you can work with the client in identifying the strengths that is within them. Another pro is having the ability to work with the systems that is affecting the client and finding solutions to get them out of those systems. A con of using the learning model is that some clients don’t realize that some of the behaviors that they were engaged in which landed them in the criminal justice system is behavior that they learned. The crisis-intervention model is difficult because there are times when the social is not readily equipped with the tools or resources to handle

Another difficulty is aiming to understand the complexity of the different systems and how intricate they are and also having to explain that to client. A pro is that you can work with the client in identifying the strengths that is within them. Another pro is having the ability to work with the systems that is affecting the client and finding solutions to get them out of those systems. A con of using the learning model is that some clients don’t realize that some of the behaviors that they were engaged in which landed them in the criminal justice system is behavior that they learned. The crisis-intervention model is difficult because there are times when the social is not readily equipped with the tools or resources to handle that crisis and finding an alternative source or agency can be