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SOCW 6530: Social Work Field Education IV

Please note that this is a master level course so master level work. Please check the grammar and you have to use the reading that I have provided to you. You must answer all the questions that I post. Thank you.

Georgia MENTOR

Metro Atlanta Children’s Services

2302 Parklake Drive NE, Suite 200

Atlanta, GA 30345

Brief Description of Agency-GA Mentor is a therapeutic foster care agency that provides therapeutic foster care services to youth between the ages of 0-18. We offer evidence-informed training to foster parents to provide quality homes for foster children. Services offered to children include 24 hours of home-based monitoring, therapeutic intervention, and access to community-based services, life skill development, and medication management oversight. GA Mentor ensures that the educational, mental health, physical health, and overall well-being needs of all children in our program are met.

I will be completing the following tasks:

-Completion of Risk Assessments and Crisis Assessment to determine the level of the client’s needs and services

-Demonstrate her ability to apply Family-Centered Practice, Systems Theory, and Strengths Perspective when assessing the challenges of the family

-Develop and implement Treatment Plans for client

-Train and develop foster parents in providing therapeutic foster care to foster care children

-Evaluate state and Federal Policies in Child Welfare

-Demonstrate her ability to link the family to resources with consideration to the family's culture, social-economic status, etc.  well-being needs of all children in our program are met.

Engagement—Part 1

Resources

Readings

• Birkenmaier, J., & Berg-Weger, M. (2018). The practicum companion for social work: Integrating class and fieldwork (4th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson.

o Chapter 2, “Socialization into the Social Work Profession” (pp. 34-61)

• Gerdes, K. E., & Segal, E. (2011). Importance of empathy for social work practice: Integrating new science. Social

Work, 56(2), 141–148.

• Murdach, A. D. (2011). What happened to self- determination? Social Work, 56(4), 371–373.

Media

• Laureate Education (Producer). (2013b). Engagement [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

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• A description of your field education experience, including your agency, the types of social services offered, and the population groups or clientele your agency serves

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