The intention of this assignment is to explore the roles and responsibilities of professional agencies working with children and their families. In this assignment police, health care, and teaching services will be looked at. In addition to this, this assignment will look at possible dilemmas faced by professional services that work with children and families, and how the Every Child Matters agenda has influenced service provision today. Every Child Matters is defined as; a policy strategy which is a shared programme of change
| College of Nursing NSCI/280 Version 5 Anatomy and Physiology I | Copyright © 2011, 2009, 2008, 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description Anatomy and Physiology I is the first of a two-course sequence examining the terminology, structure, function, and interdependence of the human body systems. This course includes a study of the cells, chemistry, and tissues of the integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous, and endocrine systems. In conjunction with classroom instruction, the anatomy and physiology online lab component for this course requires students to apply knowledge from the classroom to online experiments and critical-thinking application exercises.
As a client’s advocate, a counselor will be able to recognize how factors regarding the client’s “social, political, economic, and cultural background” (Ratts & Santos, 2012, pg. 118) influence the client’s career decision making process. Upon the counselor recognizing the barriers, he or she will be able to reach out to the community and its leaders for help in removing such barriers. Factors Affecting the Diverse Population Many different factors affect the diverse population such as “race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, economic class,
A Mental Health Social Worker is required to understand ideas and information spoken including expression and communication of ideas to others. Mental Health Social Workers work with a variety of population and need to be able to clearly and effectively convey ideas as well as interpret and understand a person’s ideas and information communicated through words. A Mental Health Social Worker also must be able to use deductive and inductive reasoning to apply general rules and combine pieces of information to form conclusions and produce logical answers. Occupation requirements are the work activities, and context of the position within the organization. For example, Mental Health Social Workers work with the public caring and assisting others.
As a member if a community to be socially responsible means to volunteer time and services where it is needed. Being socially responsible means that people and organizations must behave ethically and with sensitivity toward social, culture, economic and environmental issues. Striving for social responsibility helps individuals, organizations and governments have a positive impact on development, business and society with a positive contribution to bottom-line
2. Commitment to community Empowerment- Empowerment means to educate and instill knowledge in identifying, prioritizing, and solving problems as partners with the police. It is a way to incorporate the community so we all understand the processes and have a say in how the neighborhood is being policed. 3. To implement true community policing- Police departments must create and develop an officer who acts as a liaison between police and the people.
The following paper will inform the reader of a prevalent problem facing many social service agencies. While reflecting on my time spent at my current internship, it has become quite clear that cultural competence is an area that is need of fine tuning. The reader will be informed of issues in cultural competency as well as the possibilities of resolutions to this prevalent problem in society. In order to best serve victims of crime and maintain the health of an agency, “A culturally competent system of care acknowledges and incorporates--at all levels--the importance of culture, the assessment of cross-cultural relations ,the expansion of cultural knowledge, and the adaptation of services to meet culturally unique needs.” (Maylor 1988) Because
My article’s full citation is: Krista M. Soria & Sarah Linder (2014). Parental Divorce and First-Year College Students’ Persistence and Academic Achievement, Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 55:2, 103-116. The article’s purpose was to see if having divorced parents would affect a first year college student’s GPA and whether or not it would affect their continuance of education into a second year. The researchers used quantitative studies in order to gain a conclusion to their test. They began by issuing a Cooperative Institutional Research Program survey to all college freshmen at a public university.
When we utilize the support systems in the community, we can build a common vision, create tolerance and respect, and boost economic prospects in rapidly changing underserved neighborhoods. This is accomplished through programs supporting social integration across race and class, upward economic mobility, neighborhood identity, civic engagement and community development. With you support and connections to programs in our community, we can combine our efforts to work toward a better environment for the residents. Ways to enhance the communities, the goal is to create activities that include the people of communities that engage in integrating arts and culture into the lives of the residents. There should be a system to collect information and measure the quality of life at the community level.
A social worker's role is to provide support to societies most vulnerable people as well as helping them deal with some of the issues they may face. As a social worker, I'm accountable to service users, colleagues, local and national authorities and other. My duty includes assessing an individual's needs, offer them support, ensure their safety and many more. A social worker is required to have knowledge and experience about vulnerable people and how to deal with them. When dealing with vulnerable people, it is important for me as a social worker to use the theories of human development and constantly update my skills, training and CPD.