The main legislations affecting schools include The education (school promises) regulations 1999 The workplace (health safety and welfare) regulations 1992 The manual handling operations regulations 1992 The reporting of injuries, diseases, and dangerous occurrences regulations 1995 The control of substances hazardous to health regulations 2002 The provision and use of work equipment regulations 1998 The health and safety (first aid) regulations 1981 Sometimes there are codes of practice issued by health and safety executives to supplement these regulations. These codes of practice give guidance on compliance for regulations. Although failure to comply with the code of practice is not and offence they do have legal status so if an employee or employer was to face prosecution under the health and safety legislation and it was proven that code of practice was not followed then a court could use this as evidence of guilt unless there was proof that the employee had complied with the law in some other way. This is why it is best practice to follow codes of practice. The education and inspections act 2006 gives staff legal rights to discipline children in school.
Amoli Sheth Program Evaluation Across the nation agencies come together to work for the promotion of student mental health and wellness. One of the aims for California’s Prevention and Early Intervention for grades K-12 is to increase the effectiveness of Student Mental Health (SMH) programs across the state. It was established to develop statewide policies that would impact K-12 programs. They want to provide schools through foster care system, special education programs, and community-based organizations. As part of its evaluation, SRI international and RAND researches are evaluating the development, quality, and effectiveness through program partners.
Children must know that it is important for them to help when their peers are being bullied (Swearer, Turner, Givens, & Pollack, 2008). When students stick together and alert adults about the problem or help the victimized child take appropriate action it can bring about global change within a school system. What is the government doing about relational aggression? In 1998, the United Stated Department of Education set fort an initiative to take action on school violence. Legislation was passed to provide funding through the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative.
SCHOOL NURSE OBJECTIVES 2 Schools provide services to students throughout the childhood and adolescent years, school nurses must be cognizant of pediatric developmental stages and able to provide age appropriate services and information. A baseline understanding of pediatric developmental characteristics and a general knowledge of appropriate approaches in the assessment and management of the varied age groups will be beneficial. The assessment and treatment approach when dealing with an injured or ill kindergartner is quite different from that of a highs chool student, particularly when considering student participation in the decision making process, provision of educational information, and level of parental involvement. In addition, children with special needs or chronic conditions may require more frequent emergency care interventions due to their physical or mental disability and/or chronic illness. The school nurse has a key role not only in providing emergency care to students, but also in developing prevention strategies.
Appropriate eye contact should be made, which will reinforce your interest to the individual. Getting down to the child or young person’s level will make them feel more comfortable, as if you are towering above them it could be quite intimidating and make them feel uneasy. It is important to always use age appropriate language, so that the CYPA understands the words and phrases you are using. Slang words or phrases should be avoided, as you are a role model for them and should use English appropriately. Obviously no bad language should ever be use used around children and young people.
Human Services Contemporary Practice Models Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) is designed to prevent, reduce, and or treat adolescent behavior problems such as drug use, conduct problems, delinquency, sexually risky behavior, aggressive violent behavior, and association with antisocial peers. It also improves prosocial behaviors such as school attendance and performance. Improve family functioning, including effective parental leadership and management, positive parenting, and parental involvement with the child and his or her peers and school. It is different from other treatment models (BSFT) is an evidence-based treatment intervention for indicated populations. BSFT successfully reduces problems in adolescents and strengthens their
We gained an understanding of peer pressure in adolescents and discussed prevention programs created to teach adolescents the skills needed to make good decisions. We looked at program options and society’s role in implementing prevention programs. We were given an opportunity to create our own peer pressure prevention lesson. We talked about
Today’s public education teaches preventative measures with a positive message, “take care of yourself, you are worth it” (Healthy People 2000 Midcourse Review & 1995 Revisions, 2000). “The elimination of disparities will require implementation of new models of care that comprehensively address the needs of low income minority populations” (Fiscella, 2002, p.365). To achieve the goals set by Healthy Virginia 2010, Hampton needs to be willing to spend more time on patient education. One of the Healthy Virginia 2010 objectives is to “increase school health education to prevent health problems in the following areas: unintentional injury; violence; suicide; tobacco use and addiction; alcohol or other drug use; unintended pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and STD infection; unhealthy dietary patterns; inadequate physical activity; and environmental
This information would provide counselors with knowledge on how to better work with this population and how to solve some of the ethical dilemmas encountered by counselors while engaged in such endeavor. This writer’s intention is to combine different resources found along with the information found on the ACA’s Code of Ethics, APA’s Code of Conduct and the HIPAA law in order to have a better understanding on how to better serve this population. TABLE OF CONTENTS Title page ………………………………………………..………………………….1 Abstract …………………………………………………………….……………….2 Introduction ……………………………………………………….……………….. 4 Literature Review………………….………………………………………………. 6 How society perceives the substance abuse in the adolescent population .……….. 9 How adolescents perceive the substance abuse in their population …….…………10 Other ramifications of substance abuse in the adolescent population ………….….11 Substance abuse treatment with adolescents and ethical dilemmas ….…...……….13 Conclusion ……..…………………………………………………………………..17 Bibliography ……………………………………………………………………….18
To successfully implement and keep a Safe School Act I encourage to have a strong sense of your philosophy education, such as your beliefs and the curriculum you will be teaching. My bully prevention plan will consist of implementing EEDA character traits in the classroom and school, focusing on the development of the child, and providing a sense of a community within the classroom and school. I