Javon currently lives with his therapeutic foster parents Mr. and Mrs. Kyle and Lori Patterson in the city of Norfolk, Virginia. Javon follows rules and has adjusted well to the Patterson’s supervision. Javon receives case management through the Blair Foundation. He is also receiving medication management through Churchland Psychiatric Associates, Inc. In the Patterson home, Javon is consistently subject to appropriate consequences for bad behavior and consistently receives appropriate rewards for good behavior. His guardian always practices good supervision. Javon volunteers in the home to complete chores and assist the other foster children. Javon's cousin maintains regular contact with him and is involved with his treatment to implement appropriate services for Javon. Javon’s current environment provides opportunities for growth and consistent love, caring, and support. He now has a male figure in the home who is seeking to provide Javon with additional …show more content…
support, direction and guidance. Javon has a strong family support network.
Up until October 2, 2015, Javon was in the care of his maternal cousin, Diana Terrell. Ms. Terrell was awarded legal custody of Javon in 2007. Also in the home are Ms. Terrell’s 22 year old daughter and the daughter’s six year old son. Javon’s biological mother, Shanterri Banks, is reported to be somewhere in Texas. Javon maintains contact with her through occasional telephone calls. He last spoke with her in March 2014. Ms. Banks mental health issues are unknown. Reportedly, she was incarcerated in Texas. Ms. Terrell suspects it was for drug activity. Javon’s biological father, Eddie Melton, is reportedly local but it is not known in which city Mr. Melton resides. Javon sees his father occasionally. He last saw him in July 2012. Mr. Melton’s mental health and substance use issues are also unknown. Javon has two maternal sisters, ages eight and thirteen that reside in Chesapeake with extended family members. Javon is able to see his sisters at church
services. While in Ms. Terrell’s custody, Javon sometimes obeyed her. With the exception of stealing, Ms. Terrell reported that Javon was respectful in the home and completed his assigned chores of washing dishes and keeping his room clean. Javon was consistently subject to appropriate consequences for bad behavior and consistently receives appropriate rewards for good behavior. Javon's home featured some conflict, but it is well managed. The family engages in limited recreational activities because of Ms. Terrell’s work schedule and limited recreational funds.
The court will likely hold that Andrew Keegan’s (“Mr. Keegan”) actions were a product of a law enforcement officer in influencing his conduct therefore establishing an entrapment defense.
Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier of 1987-1988 Background: At Hazel East High School, the school has a sponsored newspaper called “The Spectrum” that is written and edited by the students. In May of 1983, the high school principal, Robert E. Reynolds, received the edited version of the May 13th edition. Upon inspecting the paper, he found two articles that he found “inappropriate.” The two articles contained stories about divorce and teen pregnancy. An article on divorce featured a student who blamed her father’s actions for her parents’ divorce.
In 1971 in Mobile County Alabama the School Board created a state statute that set aside time at the beginning of each day for silent ’meditation’ (statute 6-1-20), and in 1981 they added another statute 16-1-20.1 which set aside a minute for ‘silent prayer’ as well. In addition to these, in 1982 the Mobile County School Board enacted statute 16-1-20.2, which specified a prayer that teachers could lead ‘willing’ students in “From henceforth, any teacher or professor in any public educational institution within the State of Alabama, recognizing that the Lord God is one, at the beginning of any homeroom or any class, may pray, may lead willing students in prayer, or may lead the willing students in the following prayer to God… “ (Jaffree By and Through Jaffree v. James). Ishmael Jaffree was the father of three students, Jamael Aakki Jaffree, Makeba Green, and Chioke Saleem Jaffree, who attended a school in Mobile County Alabama. Jaffree complained that his children had been pressured into participating in religious activities by their teachers and their peers, and that he had requested that these activities stopped. When the school did nothing about Jaffree’s complaints he filed an official complaint with the Mobile County School Board through the United States District Courts. The original complaint never mentioned the three state statutes that involved school prayer. However, on June 4, 1982 Jaffree changed his complaint. He now wanted to challenge the constitutionality of statutes 16-1-20, 16-1-20.1 and 16-1-20.2, and motioned for a preliminary injunction. The argument against these state laws was that they were an infringement of the Establishment Clause within the First Amendment of the Constitution, which states that Congr...
High Sky Children’s Ranch first opened their doors in 1963, when a woman named Joan Nobles was concerned about girls who had no absolutely no place to go. She was the president of the PTA when she heard a young juvenile probation officer speak about the need for a home for those girls that had no where to go. She, along with many others, worked for three years to open the first home. In 1963 the first home was opened and housed five girls (High Sky Children’s Ranch, 2011). In 1985 High Sky changed their license to accept both boys and girls, which enabled them to keep sibling groups together. In 1987 High Sky was relicensed as a treatment facility to work with kids who were more traumatized or needed a higher level of care and was later licensed as a Therapeutic Foster Care. These programs help i...
While in Cleveland, Antwone experienced many negative community influences. As a foster child, he was placed in a low income/high street crime area (Washington, 2002), which is typical of the majority of foster placements (Shook et al., 2009). While growing up in his second foster placement, Antwone’s friends often bullied him. Also, foster care social workers were not attentive to their charge.
Social agency and the court authorizing the placement, and caregivers are responsible for the continuing monitoring to ensure that the child in placement receives adequate care and supervision (Downs, Moore and McFadden, 2009, p.275). Services for children in foster care are a teamwork effort of the different parties involved (Downs, Moore and McFadden, 2009). Unfortunately in Antowne’s situation the agency and the court system failed him because although he was removed from his mother, the abuse and neglect continued. The systems involved did not provide the safety net Antwone needed.
When Deborah was only sixteen she became pregnant with her first child by Cheetah and boy she liked when she was younger. Cheetah and Deborah got married and then had their second child. Deborah became very unhappy in the marriage because Cheetah started drinking and doing drugs. He started abusing Deborah. Cheetah pushed Deborah so much she almost killed him if it wasn’t for Bobbette. Deborah’s brothers Sonny and Lawrence were doing well except for Joe. Joe was another case. Joe went to the military, and the family was hoping that would do him good; but he came out worse than when he went in. Joe was threatened and beaten up by a boy named Ivy. Joe was in so much rage he went and stabbed him and killed him. Joe eventually turned himself in to the law, was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced fifteen years in prison.
Charles Martin reviews a controversial court case of the 1930s in regards to the legal system of the South. Originally, Martin wrote the Angelo Herndon Case and Southern Justice as a doctoral dissertation; however, he continued his writings and research to publish his writings into a book. Published by Louisiana State University Press in 1976, The Angelo Herndon Case and Southern Justice depicts the dynamics of the South as the Communists influence increased creating a basis for biracial coalition, which opposes the racial interaction in the South. With use of primary sources and great detail, Martin accurately portrays the inequality within the justice system of Southern state for African Americans and the fear of Communism by reviewing the
One of the cases found in the novel by Cynthia Crosson-Tower dealt with a little girl by the name of Jessica Barton. Although still a small child, her foster family had an issue trying to raise her in which she gave them behavioral issues and she would not react to them and was hard to ...
Ron Haugen is a Vice President Loan Officer at AgCountry Farm Credit Services, a farmer owned cooperative, in Wahpeton, ND. He has worked for AgCountry a total of 24 years. I met with Ron in Fargo over the weekend; we ended up having a discussion for roughly one hour. I was able to previously arrange the meeting through emails.
The individual selected in this report, goes by the name of Jacob Ind. Jacob was a juvenile who had a hard life within the family home. He had a terrible relationship with his mother and his step father who are identified as Pamela and Kermode Jordan. Jacob also had a brother named Charles, who also had a similar life with Jacob.
Imagine you have just turned 9 years old and in a whirlwind of uncertainty you have just been removed by Child Protective Services from the only home you have ever known. You have been subjected to trauma; physically abused, verbally abused, and to some extent neglected as well. You now live in a temporary shelter where you are housed with 8 other children your age being taken care of by various staff; you are scared and lost, unsure about your future. You are forced to leave the only school you have ever attended in order to attend a school closer to your new “placement.” You have been torn from your family and friends making you feel all the more alone and frightened. This process of movement in school and placement will occur several times over the next few years placing you in a continual state of chaos. Each school transition moves you further behind in a perpetual state of academic catch up. Although this story was hypothetical, this is the long-standing reality for many foster youth. The actual implications of real life experiences for foster youth encompass personal, emotional, and educational problems. This
Henrico Court Appointed Special Advocates (“CASA”) was organized in 1994, as a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) corporation committed to advocating for the best interests of abused and neglected children in Henrico County, Virginia. The program has grown from 10 volunteers serving 26 children in its first year and now serves well over 300 children every year. CASA recruits, screens, trains, and supervises volunteers dedicated to championing the needs of children involved in Henrico County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court proceedings involving abuse or neglect, juvenile dependency, and CHINS (child in need of services or supervision). CASA promotes safe, permanent homes for all children, educates the community concerning the needs of abused and neglected children, and collaborates with other child-serving agencies on behalf of abused, at-risk, and truant children in the local area. Children with a CASA volunteer are more likely to be adopted, half as likely to reenter foster care, and substantially less likely to spend time in long-term foster care. They are more likely to pass their courses in school and less likely to be expelled.
The problem of abuse, drug use, and neglect in the foster care system should be addressed immediately and effectively. Community agencies, government agencies, private agencies, schools, Child Protective Services (CPS) and law enforcement need to come together as a team and work collaboratively to help prevent, track and monitor children being placed in any type of foster care or transitional care program. In order to address these issues of abuse, exposure to drugs, neglect, early pregnancy and other mental health issues like anxiety and depression; a plan needs to be in place to fully track all children or child being placed in a different home other than their primary home. This needs to be the primary responsibility of everyone involved
Although foster parenting is one of the most rewarding experiences, it can also be an exhausting journey. The parent must have compassion, understanding, and tolerance for the children. It involves nurturing and providing a safe environment to previously traumatized or neglected children. And the children must grow and learn from their experiences. Both the parents and the children must overcome the frustration and exhaustion in the system. Inadequate service and training can lead to poor family bonding. Therefore, a child needs nurturing to be a functional citizen of society. The foster care system is supposed to offer a family, not perpetrators. However, there are some foster parents who contribute to the child’s behavior, in which affects