Best Practices: Child Protective Services Christine M. Burrows Columbia College of Missouri – Hancock Campus Abstract A Child Protective Service worker is a career that can be mentally and physically exhausting with emotional upheaval and wonderfully rewarding all at the same time. This paper discusses several “best practices’, their descriptions, and how they are put in use to assist the children who need help and the parents who unwillingly become a part of the Child Welfare system;
Child protective services (CPS) is a particular social service provided by the Department of Human Resources. It has for mission to respond and investigate child maltreatment, to protect children from abuse and neglect, to keep families together as possible and reconciling children with their parents when the issues that led to abuse or neglect are solved, and look for a place of stability for the children who cannot be reunified. Fulfilling this mission has place demand to the agency to
successful adults. Child development severs as family ties are weakened by child maltreatment (Coley, 2016). In the US alone, about 600,000 children are abused each year (Children’s Bureau, 2022). To remedy this, the U.S. created the Child Welfare program in 1912 to provide needed services to help children find safety and stability. Today, Child Welfare services safeguard over 7 million children (Children’s Bureau, 2022). Child Protective Services (CPS), a service under Child
Child protective services play a crucial role in safeguarding the welfare of children, ensuring their protection from abuse, neglect, and maltreatment. CPS conducts thorough investigations into allegations of child abuse or neglect. Trained professionals assess the safety of the child, the risk of harm, and the circumstances surrounding the reported incident. Upon substantiating cases of abuse or neglect, CPS intervenes to protect the child from further harm. This may involve removing the child from
Child Protective Services For 30 years, advocates, program administrators, and politicians have joined to encourage even more reports of suspected child abuse and neglect. Their efforts have been successful, with about three million cases of suspected child abuse having been reported in 1993. Large numbers of endangered children still go unreported, but a serious problem had developed: Upon investigation, as many as 65 percent or the reports now being made are determined to be "unsubstantiated"
As a child I lived a happy joyful life until the day I had to suffer my own nightmare. I was four when I was first molested by a family member. The fear of sleeping at night not knowing when he will come and touch me again was traumatizing. I never spoke about it to any adult because of the fear of no one believing me. As I became older I taught myself how to deal with the past. I came across friends who too were molested by a family member and taught themselves how to get past it. As I got older
A Child Protective Service worker is someone that is responsible for the safety of multiple children that have been abused and neglected. A CPS worker must be able to identify signs of abuse and neglect in order to help the child and place them in a safe environment or help the family stop neglecting that child. There job duties may include: counseling and support services for the children and parents, referring the children and family to additional services, placing children in foster care, and
years go on. What is adoption? “Adoption establishes a legally recognized, lifelong relationship between a parent and child. The adoptive parent becomes legally and morally responsible for the child's safety, education, health care, value development, development of life skills, as well as the day-to-day care of that child.(Society, 2014)” Adoption is not only maintaining a child, but it is maintaining the responsibility to love and take care of a human being. Before people decide if they want to
Child protective services (CPS) of Baltimore, MD, is housed under the Department of Social Services (DSS), which is one of the four administrations of the Department of Human Resources. The workforces’ recruitment is completed through the Department of Social Services, which is seeking under the principle of merit, well qualified candidates from diverse walks of life to serve its clients. Riccucci wrote that “Organizations that accommodate the needs and interests of all workers, male and female
The controversial issue of whether or not Child Protective Services are doing their jobs properly, has grabbed nationwide attention. Child Protective Services is the name of a government agency in many states of the United States whose mission is to respond to reports of child abuse and neglect. Some of these cases may include physical abuse, sexual abuse, and mental abuse (Wikipedia). The child welfare system is corrupted. The parents and guardians who are accused of abuse are automatically labeled
Child Protective Services (CPS) social workers are tasked with ensuring that children are protected from abuse and neglect. The role of a social worker is not to take children away from their families or create instability in the family life. Instead it is to increase children well-being and family stability. However, if removal of the child(ren) is in the best interest of the family, then these measures must be used to ensure long term family stability and growth. CPS social workers have the authority
Child Protective Services (CPS) is a common name for a government agency that is responsible for ensuring the safety of children. In general, CPS conducts an investigation when there is a report of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and/or emotional abuse. CPS will go to the home and assess the situation. Depending on the situation, CPS can offer voluntary services to maintain family preservation or in cases where the children are at risk of harm, the children are removed from the home while the parents
In the summer of 2010, I was assigned to work with a youth who became known to the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services (The Division) as a substantiated victim of child abuse (physical). Within the Division, the youth was assigned a case manager to handle legal aspects of the case and link him to services. I was specifically assigned to the youth to develop a therapeutic relationship and assist with his new adjustment, after being removed from his biological father and placed in foster
and Family Services). This agency is responsible for responding to reports of child abuse and neglect, and the handling of adoptions. In the past social workers were responsible for assessing child abuse reports and determining whether or not a child would be detained. However, these days a computer will be handling these tasks. Computers and a system call an SDM (Structured Decision Making) will now be responsible for running a risk assessment and determining whether to remove a child. This process
describes who I am, where I want to go, and what I want to accomplish in the near future. Child Protective Service: Investigates and prevent in cases of a child abuse or neglect. They respond to complaints from law enforcement, day care, schools, etc. They work with parents and other social service agencies to keep the child away from harm and hurt.You need to be able to communicate effectivly with the child and their parent to be able to handle hard situations, and take the time out to investigate
toilet bowls, are scalded by hot water or they are forced to stand in freezing showers until they pass out. A child could be stuffed into running washing machines or sexually molested, suffer from neglect in the forms of starvation and lack of medical attention, and still go unnoticed by outsiders. In fact, it is estimated that about five children die every day in the U.S. from some form of child abuse. It is a sickening practice that has no set standard of rules to finish off the persisting problem.
Child abuse is the intentional omission of care by a parent or guardian that can cause a child to be hurt, maimed, or even killed. Child abuse can be either physical, mental, emotional or sexual. Because of child abuse, Caprice Ried will never do the things that a normal four-year old does. She will never play on a playground, or go to a sleepover, and never go to school. All of this was taken away from her at such a young age, when she died of child abuse. The foster parents, Patricia Coker
Child abuse is a growing problem that affects children of all genders, ages, races, religions, and classes. It generally can be defined as “the non-accidental physical, sexual or mental injury or neglect caused by basic omissions of the child’s parents or caretakers”(Colorado State Department of Education, 1998). Narrowing the causes of child abuse to one in particular would be impossible, due to the wide range of factors that contribute. Today, teachers hold an important and unique position,
experiences before they became truly mature. A child can face lot of dangerous things from the environment surrounding them which might seriously affect their whole life. As definition in the Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act: Child abuse is any action from adult to a child that it could be harmful to the child’s body or mental (Children Welfare Information Gateway 2007). In 2005, among 3.6 million investigations by Child Protective Services agencies in the U.S, an estimated 899,000 children
and 1 in 7 boys have been the victim of sexual abuse. There are about 2,000 to 3,000 new cases of incest each year in each major city in the United States. It is reported by the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse that in 1993, 2.9 million children were reported to protective services because they were being abused, neglected, or both (Schwartz). 16% of these 2.9 million children had been sexually abused. It is estimated that there are 60 million survivors of childhood sexual abuse in America