Capstone Integrative Project Final Solution Assessment
Assignment
Student's Name
Department, Institutional Affiliation
Course Title
Tutor's Name
Date
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Child Abuse and Neglect
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Child Protective Service Bureau define child neglect and abuse as the inability to have access to basic needs
The basic needs in this case includes meal, housing, and proper parental care or supervision
The basic needs also entails education or the medical care
Some children find themselves in this situation due to the actions or habits of the parents or caregiver.
Child abuse and neglect is a common issue in society
The failure to receive the required sources of support elevates the incidences of the child neglect
It affects the well-being of children.
Child abuse and neglect leads to the rise in social and human cost.
National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS): child mistreatment in 2018 was 24.1 percent in every 1000 persons (Palusci & Vandervort, 2014).
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According to the Child Protective Service Bureau, child neglect is considered to be the inability to have access to meal, housing, proper parental care or supervision, education, or the medical care for children due to actions or habits of the parents or caregiver. Child abuse and neglect is a common issue that is common in society and affecting the well-being of children. When children are abused and neglected and the family or the adults fail to receive services and interventions, human and social costs become huge. The reported data have shown that the issue of child abuse continues to rise. According to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS), child mistreatment in 2018 was 24.1 percent in every 1000 persons.
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Stakeholders
Children, youth and the families assess the effectiveness of the child welfare agencies.
They assess the phase of the Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) process and development, implementation
They are also involved in the assessment of the State Program Improvement Plans.
There is also department of the social services
The stakeholders in the department of social services include caregivers, social workers, psychologists, and the advocates.
They help in preventing and reducing the incidences of the child abuses and neglects.
The caseworkers promotes human services, social justice, integrity, and respecting the clients
The caseworkers helps in the collection of information
The caseworkers intervene using adequate evidence on the case related to abuse and neglect
This promotes the safety of children
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Children, youth and the families form the key stakeholders in the assessment of the effectiveness of the child welfare agencies. They are actively involved in the assessment phase of the Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) process and development, implementation, and the assessment of the State Program Improvement Plans. The department of the social services consists of the caregivers, social workers, psychologists, and the advocates. These are professionals who help in preventing the future problem under discussion. The caseworkers must act ethically in accord with the service, social justice, integrity, and showing respects to the person being assisted. The caseworkers must be continuously involved in the performance of the assessment to help in the collection of information an intervening with sufficient evidence to make sure that there is safety for children
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Legal agencies: Judges and the police officers
They collect relevant information linked to child abuse and neglect.
They promote the adherence to the laws
This is important in preservation of the rights of children
Nurses: assess children who are abused and neglected
The assessment is important in the diagnosis of the potential illness for example pneumonia
Nurses initiate the treatment process.
Civil society and advocates: ensure that child is protected against abuses and neglected.
The help in ensuring that human services is available to care and promote the well-being of children (Arrogate & Aparicio-Zaldivar, 2017).
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There are also legal agencies that consists of the Judges and the police official. These individuals are involved in the collection of the relevant information that can be used to link the suspects to the child abuse and neglect. They also ensure that the rights of children are preserved and observed as per the law. The nurses perform help assessment of the abused and neglected children for any potential illness for example pneumonia and initiate the treatment process. The civil society and the advocates helps in ensuring that every child is protected against abuses and neglected. They ensure that human services is made available to help in caring and promoting the well-being of children.
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The selected organization
Prince George’s County collaborate with its partners in
Some of its partners include All Children All Families of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation
The partnership is helping in the successful implementation and evaluation of the innovative strategies
The innovative strategies are used to train staff and to support the coordination of services for children and youths.
The set strategies also helps in the improvement of the understanding of the needs of child care.
There is also response and promoting the needs of children
The services offered at Prince George’s County include Family services and health
Other services include social services, police and CCOP, Sheriff and corrections
The organization is also offering the legal support through providing services such as circuit court and orphan’s court, and the state attorney (Palusci & Vandervort, 2014).
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This is an organization that partners with All Children All Families of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation to ensure that there is successful implementation and evaluation of the innovative strategies to train staff and promote coordination of services for children and youths. It aims at improving the understanding, response, and needs of children in care. The organization offers services such as Family services, health, social services,. Police and CCOP, Sheriff, corrections, circuit court and orphan’s court, and the state attorney.
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Cont’d
Prince George’s County, Maryland is facing a continuous challenge in promoting health of its residents.
The challenge is due to fiscal constraints.
This challenge has become more complex
The complexity of the challenge is linked to the increase in the diversity in terms of the demographic and socio-demographic (Palusci & Vandervort, 2014).
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Prince George’s County, Maryland is facing a continuous challenge of making sure that health of the residents is promoted. This challenge is associated with the fiscal constraints. This challenge has become more complex due to the increase in the diversity in terms of the demographic and socio-demographic.
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Theoretical Framework or model that informs research project
Theoretical framework guide in the development of the effective interventions of care.
It guides on actions to be taken in addressing the issue
It helps in making actions more rational and well informed
This leads to effective and successful human services.
It helps in the generation of effective solutions to deal child abuse and neglect.
Resilience theoretical frameworks helps in the identification of the trauma among the workers
It offers effective approaches to help in the process of coping with traumatic events.
It strengthens the mental status of the employees in human services.
Human social workers must always remain emotionally and physical fit (van Breda, 2016).
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The theoretical framework is used in the scientific as a guide for the development of the effective interventions of care. In this organization, the use of the theoretical framework in the research helps in guiding actions thus making such actions more rational and well informed and resulting in efficient and successful services. This helps in ensuring that there are effective solutions to dealing with the challenges being encountered concerning child abuse and neglect. One of the theoretical frameworks is the resilience framework that helps in the process of identifying the trauma among the workers and offering strategies that assists in coping with traumatic events. The resilience framework is helping in strengthening the mental status of the employees in human services.
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Cont’d
The function of human service workers requires their well-being.
They resilience promotes the psychological well-being of the staff
The trauma faced by the humanitarian workers involve long working hours
Other traumas are caused by the process of handling emergencies, security constraints, and occasional transitions.
In the Prince George’s County organization, the individuals take part in the 45- or 60-minutes pre-deployment resilience consultation.
There is existence of the confidential consultations
This help the in assessing the employers’ possible vulnerability to the traumatic stress
It also involves the assessment of the hardiness and resilience
It is then used to develop self-care plan.
The need for reinforcement affects the physical and mental well-being of the workers
There is a need for continuous reinforcement resilience to ensure promote the psychosocial strength (van Breda, 2016).
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The successful function of human service workers requires their well-being. This is important in ensuring that there is the psychological well-being of the staff as humanitarian workers who are involved in the long working hours, management of the emergencies, security constraints, and occasional transitions. In this organization, the individuals take part in the 45- or 60-minutes pre-deployment resilience consultation. The confidential consultations are designed to assists in reviewing the workers' potential vulnerability to the traumatic stress, individual hardiness and resilience, and helping the employees in the development of a self-care plan. The physical and mental well-being of the workers might be affected and this needs some form of reinforcement to ensure that the activities are successfully carried out. These workers, therefore, requires ongoing reinforcement resilience to ensure that they receive psychosocial support. The resilience framework is therefore important in ensuring that there is stability in the workforce thus resulting in a stronger organization.
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Solutions to the challenges identified in the organization
Description of the demographic and healthcare features of the residents
Assessing healthcare system access and the ability within the county.
It reveals about the discrepancy when it comes to the healthcare access
Assessment of the patterns of hospital
It is also important to assess the utilization of the emergency department.
It helps in determining how emergency issues are dealt in the healthcare facilities.
It act as a guideline to the policymakers in designing the best solutions
The solutions helps in overcoming severe fiscal constraints (Palusci & Vandervort, 2014).
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One of the solution to the challenges faced in this organization is the description of the demographic and healthcare features of the residents, it is also important to assess the healthcare system access and the ability within the county. This helps in revealing the discrepancy when it comes to the healthcare access by the population. It is also important to assess the patterns of hospital and the use of the emergency department. This is important in determining how the emergency issues are dealt with in the healthcare facilities. It also guides the policymakers on the process of designing the best solutions that can be used to overcome severe fiscal constraints being encountered by the organization.
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Recommendations
Assessment of the child's and family needs
Promotion of activities that supports family's efforts
Support to the family is targeted at providing safer and nurturing environment for children.
The law enforcement agencies must promote protection of children.
Children are made to remain in their own homes or provided with temporal shelter while assessment and investigation is done.
The temporal stay at home awaits the outcome of the investigation
The investigation can be done with the help of the Department of Social Services and Child Protective Services Bureau.
The stay at home offers opportunity for behavioural changes
It also ensure that children receive social support and safe environment (Palusci & Vandervort, 2014).
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Addressing the issue of the child abuse and neglect requires the assessment of the child's and family needs or engaging in other interventions to help in supporting the family's efforts to provide a safer, nurturing environment for their children. There are law enforcement officers and courts to ensure that children are protected. It is also important to ensure that children remain in their own homes or provided with temporal shelter and this is then followed by assessment and investigation. The stay at home is temporary pending the outcome of the investigation that is being performed by the Department of Social Services and Child Protective Services Bureau. The stay-at-home intervention is used as an opportunity of allowing the parents or caregiver to show some changes in their behaviors, social support, and enabling children to live in an environment where there is safety and giving children an opportunity of re-uniting with the parents.
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References
Arrogate, O., & Aparicio-Zaldivar, E. (2017). Burnout and health among critical care professionals: the medicational role of resilience. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 42, 110-115.
Palusci, V. J., & Vandervort, F. E. (2014). Universal reporting laws and child maltreatment report rates in large U.S. counties. Children and Youth Services Review, 38, 20-28.United States Department of Health and Human Services. (2016). Administration on Children Youth and Families. Child Maltreatment 2014.
van Breda, A. D. (2016). Building resilient human service organizations. Human Service Organizations. Management, Leadership, and Governance, 40(1), 62-73. https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2015.1093571
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