Chapter 2A: Child Welfare Services: Formal and Informal Questions with complete solutions 2023

Chapter 2A: Child Welfare Services: Formal and Informal Questions with complete solutions 2023 Current Service Continuum services that have been commonly categorized as supportive, supplementary, and substitute on a continuum of least restrictive to most restrictive. These services are not usually based on what the child and family needs but are based upon availability. Child Welfare Service Continuum A continuum of least restrictive to most restrictive with supplementary services as least restrictive, supportive in the middle, and substitute as the most restrictive service. Supportive services the best environment for the development of children is within their own families if the family can be supported in providing a safe and loving home. I.e. Big Brother, Big Sister, Social services Supplementary services are programs provided to the child and family in order to assist the family in the raising of the child. These include but are not limited to respite care, daycare, homemaker services, parenting skill classes, TANF, and other financial and in-kind aid. Some agencies such as Big Brother can overlap as both supplementary and supportive services. Substitute services emergency care, foster care, adoption, community care, and institutional care... out of home placement. Informal services services from extended family, friends, neighbors, communities and non-social service organizations such as schools, hospitals, and work settings. These services are not easy to integrate in public child welfare. Homemaker services a type of supportive service that is utilized to supplement the needs of a family with children when the primary parent is unable to provide the homemaking needs in the family or when a child has special needs and the parents are not able to provide all the services the child requires. These services recently has been replaced by volunteers who work with at-risk parents to teach them how to handle basic household skills and raise children. TANF Changes were made in this program to push families to provide for themselves rather than remaining on public welfare. There is no guarantee that families will receive aid through this service and the aid provided can be either financial or in-kind. Financial/In Kind Religious and spiritual denominations are the biggest providers for this type of service. These services are usually residual in nature and seek to supplement the family with food, clothing, and money. Social Services a formal service that refers to counseling services for families with child protection, juvenile delinquency, special needs, and adolescent pregnancy cases. The types of services provided varies by state. Parenting skills supportive service that are provided through child welfare services, schools, hospitals, and maternity homes to educate young and at-risk parents. These services can be more informal as mutual aid or self-help groups. Examples of these are Parents Anonymous, Families ith Mental Ill Members, Families with Children in Foster Care, Alcoholic Anonymous, and Foster Care Families. Respite Care a supplementary service that relieves parents of their responsibilities for limited periods when their stress level is overwhelming from dealing with children with special needs or chaotic family issues. These services can be both formal and informal, with formal being from child welfare agencies and informal being church services. Daycare service created in response to working parents. Regulation of this service is regulated through state offices of child welfare. Programs that can help with the accessibility of this service are the Dependent Care Tax Credit, provisions under the PRWORA, child-care subsidies for low income families. These services can also be informal which includes family care, in-home daycare, unregulated family daycare, cooperative programs, and neighborhood outreach care services. Foster care a substitute care that emerged in the 1960s as the concept of childhood began to become acknowledged. There's an estimate of 500,000 children placed in this service each year although many there are many attempts to lower the amount of children who are placed within this type of service. The purpose of this cooperative relationship is to aid the child and biological family in maintaining contact and fostering success. Reunification Begins the moment the child is removed from the family and placed into foster care. First, this process encourages the biological family in a continuing involvement in the life of the child while in foster care and secondly, from an ecological perspective, all family members must be involved in the reunification process with an emphasis on the empowerment of all family members. Third, there needs to be an interaction and a planning toward this reunification by all those involved in the situation.