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National Child Labor - ANS-1904 promoting the rights, awareness, dignity, well being
and education of children and youth related to work
U.S. Children's Bureau 1912 - ANS-advocated for children
Lanham Act - ANS-1940, Defense Housing and Community Facilities Act of 1940 was
signed by FDR and provided money for childcare
IEP - ANS-Individualized Education Program, disability, unable to progress through
course even with accommodations, must need special instruction to, modifications to
curriculum instructions or assessments
504 Plan - ANS-accommodations within education setting
Screening of adoptive parents - ANS-MAPP & homestudy: term agencies use to
describe the screening, education, and selection of adoptive couples or individuals
Mandated reporting - ANS-state mandated to report outcomes of children in care
through Child and Family Services Reviews
people who have regular contact with vulnerable people and are therefore legally
required to ensure a report is made when abuse is observed or suspected
Stages of counseling process - ANS-
Court system for juveniles - ANS-bring relief to those individuals who have been
traumatized before, is traumatizing in itself
Parents response to having their children removed - ANS-shock
Permanency planning - ANS-effort to achieve child welfare goal of placing children in
the most stable and safe living situation
Difference between different types of foster care placements - ANS-non relative foster
care:
Crisis homes- accept children at any time while other arrangements are made family
boarding- take children for long periods usually paid for this therapeutic work homes
, Specialized homes- emergency foster care set to deal with specific populations or
particular individuals)
Kindship care- relative, close family friend, god parent, or tribe to minimize trauma;
institution; group homes; trial home visit; preadoptive homes; supervised independent
living
Reasons parents feel stigmatized for giving up their children - ANS-society assumes
"everyone should be able to parent" someone who can not is "different" and may feel
stigmatized
Different types of adoptions - ANS-related adopting: pre existing blood tie
kinship adoption: relative
surrogate mothering: lady is artificially inseminated with sperm
unrelated adoption: no blood relation
legal-risk adoption: agency had already petitioned court to terminate biological parents'
rights. agency places child with the family that hopes to legally adopt him or her
special needs adoption: hard to place children
subsidized adoption: subsidy to defer extra expenses
single parent adoption: some children are better suited for this, teenagers do better
international adoptions: children brought from different countries
independent adoptions: placement without the use of agency
Purpose of residential treatment centers - ANS-based on an increased interest in
mental health and the recognition that some families could not meet their children's
needs; specialize in therapeutic services from residential, educational, and
psychological perspectives for youths whose behaviors or issues cannot be managed in
a home setting
Roles of staff in residential treatment centers - ANS-Most residential settings have 3
components (residential, educational, and clinical) Residential: providing input on initial
screening, ensuring safety through everyday control and supervision of children,
managing group issues and conflicts, teaching daily living skills, handling unit
emergencies, planning free time activities, providing behavioral intervention, making
clinical/medical referrals, arranging and supervising outings, arranging group meetings,
assigning and supervising of unit work tasks, providing a listening ear when needed on
unit, participating in team meetings
Educational: making initial educational assessment and placement at learning level,
teaching groups/ classes, providing individual tutoring for remediation, providing
behavioral intervention, acting as a contact with child's home school, tailoring lessons
on specific needs, arranging team meetings.