Research Question The Center of Child and Family Services (CCFS) has three treatment options for Domestic Violent Offenders (DVO). These treatments meet Virginia’s requirements for batterer treatment programs, effectively saying they are sanctioned by the state as “best-practice”. These treatments include Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) using a group format with two facilitators, a substance abuse group for offenders who struggle with addiction, and individualized therapy…
Introduction Child protective services (CPS) is a particular social service provided by Department of Human Resources. It is a division within State and local social services and which is at the core of every community’s child protection efforts to support neglected or abused children by parents or other adults having permanent or temporary care or custody, or parental responsibility. The CPS also offers services to family members who need intervention to reduce risk of continuing physical…
conditions? The main focus of Family Focus is to address child abuse and neglect by providing home-based homemaker, casework, and therapy services to at risk families. These services include, but are not limited to parenting education, improving the safety and condition of the home, teaching life skills, administering assessments, assisting the family with building coping skills, and building communication skills in the family. Beyond addressing child abuse and neglect Family Focus addresses an array…
possibly can to make their children successful in life. On the other hand, there are parents that only care about themselves and neglect their children. According to dss.cahwnet.gov in the United States of America there is an organization called Child Protected Services (CPS). The CPS job is to find parents that are neglecting their children and take them away from these unstable parents and put them in foster care, but people fail to realize the negative affects putting children in foster care systems.…
Income of $1357 a month and approximately $960 from her savings plan on Nexium. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bassett report they are in the middle income bracket. Parents info should be here too Foster Care and Child Protective Services: There is currently no history of involvement with the Department of Social Services. Ryan has never been removed from the home and placed in care. He has been allowed, due to his offenses, to stay with his maternal grandparents in the Carrolton section of Virginia. Ryan has never…
The Division of Family and Children Services in America Many recognize Division of Family and Child Services as the organization responsible for pulling crying children from the grasp of the weeping mother who is unfit to provide for the child’s needs. Many scorn DFCS for “tearing apart families,” or for the neglect of foster children. Public opinion seems to establish the Division of Family and Children Services as an enemy, a scapegoat for the mistreatment of children within the system, and the…
The Family Service of Piedmont is an agency devoted to help citizens in the community. This can easily be seen with both their vision as well as their mission statement. Their vision is to “building safe and healthy families” (Family Service). And their mission statement is, “Family Service of the Piedmont empowers individuals and families to restore hope, achieve stability and thrive through quality support services, advocacy and education” (Family Service). Family services make sure that they…
this essay is: Winnipeg Child and Family Services (Northwest Area) v. D.F.G. The topics being addressed in this essay will be provided through a summary and an analysis, explaining the case through legal liberalism and feminist legal theory in relation to the majority decision and the dissenting decision. I personally, agree with the reasoning of the majority decision and will prove why. Summary The nature of the proceeding in the case of Winnipeg Child and Family Services (Northwest Area) v. D…
A present problem that Child Protective Services (CPS) faces with a majority of their caseloads, which is drugs. In one particular case stuck with me. This family had both parents, mom and dad, two brothers, ages 16 and 14, and a sister age 12. Both the mother and father had been abusing drugs for some time now. With the drug abuse present, and not trying to conceal their exposer, the mother and father were also very aggressive as well. For the mother it was a combination of drug abuse and she suffered…
Introduction Having such opportunity to be endowed with a million dollars to develop ideas on how to improve the Child Protective Services place me in a position where I am deliberating very hard on the programs or policies to implement. There are several programs and policies that are implemented in the Child Protective Services for clients and it is important to take into consideration the programs and policies by developing efficient and reliable platform that will be beneficial to the…