Running Head: Field Agency Macro Paper
Field Agency Macro Paper
FIELD AGENCY MACRO PAPER
Table of Content
Introduction: 3
1. Agency Values & Policy and Organizational Structure: 3
A. Values and Policy 3
B. Organizational Structure 4
2. Population Served: 6
A. Description of the Clients 6
B. Identification of Predominant Referral Sources 8
3. Evaluation of the Agency: 8
Conclusion: 9
Reference list: 10
Introduction:
Play is included in the human right of all children irrespective of their housing status. Safe and fun play helps in the mental and physical development of a child. Homelessness creates negative impact on children?s physical and emotional status.
This essay will highlight the services of Homeless Children?s
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Social Worker provides care to the homeless children and their families
? Communication Coordinator maintains the communication between the employees of different care centers and the officials of the agency
? Development Officer guides and motivates the employees to perform their job
? Pre-Teen and Teen Program Manager observes the program for the pre-teens and teens. Pre-teen programs are held on Mondays and Wednesdays whereas the teen programs are arranged on Tuesday and Thursday
? Site Manager keeps eye on the shelters and play centers. The duty of Site Manager is to ensure the safety of the play centers
? Operations and Special Projects Coordinator manages the special programs organized by the agency and ensures the communication between employees and higher authority.
The agency continues its services based on the donations and the volunteers. Thousands of donors are associated with Homeless Children?s Playtime Project. Because of these donors and volunteers the agency is able to expand their services (Araujo, Dormal & Schady, 2018).
2. Population Served:
A. Description of the Clients
Homeless Children?s Playtime Project serves mainly for the children. Starting from the infants they conduct programs for teenagers also. Infant to 3 years old
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Children suffering from homelessness undergo much trauma. This creates problems in their emotional, behavioral and learning capabilities (Robinson, 2016).. Homeless Children?s Playtime Project believes that every child has the right to have safe playroom. The agency helps the children and their families to recover the crisis situation.
I was involved in the teen program of Homeless Children?s Playtime Project as an intern. The program offers physical fitness activities like yoga, martial art for the teenagers. I felt that these activities help in the physical development of the teenagers. Faulkner et al. (2015) commented that along with physical fitness, yoga contributes to the mental peace and stability. The homeless teenagers require emotional and mental balancing for proper growth. These activities help them to become a better person. During the program I have communicated with many homeless
Furthermore, facilities frequently concentrate on “quick-fix” interventions instead of focusing on their qualities that empower them and concentrating on long-term aspirations (Heinze & Jozefowicz-Simbeni, 2009). For the most part, it is extremely hard to access health care for the youth population because they face various restrictions. It is not surprising that many homeless adolescents do not have a way of seeking services even if they are the population that needs it the most. Homeless youth are at a higher risk of adverse outcomes such as not being able to further their education, getting incarcerated, developing a mental health disorder, and engaging in alcohol dependency and unsafe sexual behavior (Heinze & Jozefowicz-Simbeni, 2009). Children without a home are more prone to live in inconsistent and harsh living conditions categorized by family and school issues. Although; many homeless youths do not experience desirable outcomes housing programs and similar services serve a primary support system to help reduce homelessness. Services that promise better living conditions are shown to enhance lifestyles and a positive development into adulthood.
Giffords, E., Alonso, C., & Bell, R. (2007). A Transitional Living Program for Homeless Adolescents: A Case Study. Child & Youth Care Forum, 36(4), 141-151. doi:10.1007/s10566-007-9036-0.
The National Coalition for the Homeless (2006) is the most effective strategy as it seeks to address the problem of homelessness through various means, including volunteer work, advocacy efforts, and contributions. Firstly, the strategy requires people to volunteer their time to work directly with the victims of homelessness in the city to help them meet their immediate needs. People can volunteer their time to work with children in various programs, share hobbies, and help build houses and shelters among others (Miller, Hess, & Orthmann, 2011). This is extremely important and can help victims of homelessness to acquire some of the basic needs they lack.
National Center for Homeless Education. (2013, October). Education for Homeless Children and Youths Program. Greensboro: U.S Department of Education. Retrieved from http://www2.ed.gov/programs/homeless/data-comp-0910-1112.pdf
Homeless Youth: Characteristics, Contributing Factors, and Service Options. Journal Of Human Behavior In The Social Environment, 20(2), 193-217. doi:10.1080/10911350903269831
The youth homelessness population is increasing because of the many challenges that these children or teens face in everyday life; It also continues getting larger every year because of the many youth who are getting into dangerous situations that force them to be homeless or thru their own choosing. One third of the homeless population is between the ages of 16-24, which is incredibly young and it is the prime years for an adolescent or young adu...
Over half a million people are homeless in the United States. A quarter of these homeless people are under the age of eighteen, or also known as children. 50 percent of the homeless that are over eighteen years, are fifty and older with health and injury prone problems. One in five homeless people suffers from untreated severe mental illness, and half of these people self medicate themselves. Eight percent of the homeless population are veterans, and forty-five percent of that number is blacks or Hispanics. Most people think that being homeless means begging for money on the streets with a sign, or sleeping on the sidewalk with your dog or cat and maybe even a bag to store some things in; but what does “being homeless” actually mean? Homelessness in the United States and is a bigger problem than most people think.
I would also speak to the social workers, coordinators, and/or liaisons within the school districts where Jori, his brother, and Pam’s children have attended. Congress established the McKinney Act’s Education of Homeless Children and Youth, which ensures that homeless children have the same opportunities as other children. Specifically, this gives children the right to remain in the same school district, get immediate enrollment in school, get transportation, and receive all of the school services that he or she would receive. It would be important to see how they implement this law into their
As a result of anti-poverty legislation being placed into effect all over the country to force workers back into the capitalist labour market, which has taken hold in neoliberalism, the number of families finding themselves on the brink of homeless is skyrocketing. Furthermore, with the reduction of social assistance programs these families are barely able to provide for themselves, therefore, numerous children are being physically impacted by homelessness. According to Jenny Hsu (2015) hunger and physical illness are effects children and youth may experience due to homelessness that greatly affect their development which is unacceptable for our government to allow this many young people to be negatively impacted. Thus, the links between these
Homeless children are in fair or poor health twice as often as other children. They
With the worsening state of the economy there has been a steady rise in the rates of homelessness for all ages. The causes amongst youth homelessness include financial instability, abusive guardians, conflict between the youth and their guardians in dealings with sexual activity or pregnancy. This leads to a greater need for government assistance, welfare, charity. It includes those same youths growing up to experience higher rates of divorce and mental illness. They will have a greater chance of ending up in prison, in poverty, or even plagued by addiction.
Kryder-Coe, J., Salamon, L.M. & Molnar, J.M. (1991). Homeless Children and Youth. New Brunswick, NJ: The Transaction Publishers.
With the number of homeless students on the rise, schools encounter new educational challenges that include: establishing and maintaining enrollment procedures that would not discourage school attendance; lack of teacher-training/awareness in the special needs of homeless children; the non-existence of a school transfer system for homeless children that would be least destructive to a child's education, while all the time not overlooking the basic needs of food, clothing, shelter, security and medical care that homeless families with children require immediately.
Based off the attention from modern media, youth homelessness has been on an unfortunate upslope in the United States within the past decade. Various factors tie into why this issue is becoming more prominent such as low income households being unable to afford children, LGBT youth rejection, and domestic abuse leading to children leaving home. Now, vagrancy has a severely negative impact on the development of young people as it inhibits them from developing academically, socially, and mentally and can also expose them to diseases and potentially various types of abuse, such as sexual and substance abuse. This is an issue that should be addressed, for the rising generations are America’s future, and so investing in the overall well-being of the
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