Child Protection Act 1974

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In 1900's, the administration under President Richard Nixon passed the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974 (CAPTA). This law allowed advocates to publicize the abuse of children nationwide. This law was created to obtain justice for young children from their parents and caregivers. This act is a part of the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Programs. This program offers funding to states to implement programs and starts developing systems that will better help children dealing with parental abuse and neglect. This act also offers ways for better reporting, investigating, treating, and preventing child abuse and neglect. This act also helped establish the National Center on child abuse and Neglect as an information clearinghouse …show more content…

This act was created to inform others about the abuse that is occurring between children and parents also to implement programs and amend the act to better serve the children that are dealing with abuse and neglect. CAPTA established "minimum definitions that serve as a baseline for intervention" (NASW,2012b). The law provides each state with funds to implement programs, the services that are provided with this law are programs set in place to report, investigate, prevent and treat abuse and neglect. The policy goal is to conduct research and inform others about child abuse as well as strengthen the practice of child maltreatment for children under the age of eighteen. It is important to inform and publish new findings on practices or new information on the neglect and abuse and how to prevent it from happening. The act also created two types of federal grant programs: basic grants to states that support new activities to better serve and prevent abuse and …show more content…

They also are finding better ways to provide support for the child and the parent to help them both. There are two main theories that I believe help support this act and the first one is the strengthens perspective. When you look at each case and each client you have to try and find their strength. As a social worker, I believe that it is important to start where the client feels most comfortable and then work from there. This also gives the client empowerment by choosing where they want to start. When you use the strengths perspective it also helps the social worker or the advocate find the clients strengths and build off of them. Another theory is the systems theory, this theory is the interdisciplinary study of many systems like their socioeconomic status, race, morals and values, gender identification, friends, and family. This strengthens perspective relates to this act because sometimes when a child has been abused and taking advantage of it might be hard for them to know what their strengths are and as an advocate it would help the clients if you show them strengthens. The systems theory supports this act by applying the many systems that relate to the client and understanding how these systems plays a role

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