Case Study: Federal Department of Child Welfare Services
Child welfare services have done the most to ensure that children are brought up in the most conducive environment. This is critical in that; an environment determines a child’s growth; there has to be love, shelter, food, clothing. Children tend to change depending on the situation they are in. In this case study, for example, there was Jane who lived in Hawaii, where the gap between the rich and the poor was big. She was a mother of 4, two who were the youngest were twins, and three of the children were below three years of age.
The family’s social-economic status was strained; by the time she had the twins, she was already pregnant with the fifth born, and in ten months, she would be pregnant again. The relationship between Jane and her husband was not the best, multiple times, they were heard shouting at each other, and failing to give the needed attention to their children. In Jane’s family, there was a significant issue on child spacing; it is crucial to ensure that the gap between children is reasonable, to ensure one child gets the advantage of enjoying breastfeeding as much as possible, this ensures proper nutrition is met without overwhelming. Birth control another thing that should have been used in this family. This will allow them only to have children they can take care of with much ease.
For any departmental success, there have to be strategies; they include having laws that govern within the organization, the federal department in this case; has its governing laws one of them is the accountability of the federal funds, this is to ensure that every coin has gone towards aiding a needy child’s well-being. There also need to be a source of this funds, may it be local or from other organization; this will ensure that even in years to come, there will always be funds kept aside to take care of children in need. Maintaining records on funds is also essential for more accessible analysis when need be. Pecara. P. J (2018).
With much regarding funds being the role of the federal department, the community can also intervene to lessen the child welfare burden. One of the ways is community education on children’s nutritional approach to do away with cases of malnutrition, birth control, to ensure families only have children they can be able to raise, teach on the necessary skills like hygiene to prevent childhood mortalities, the importance of regular physician check-up. This ensures that even the slightest health challenges are picked up as early as possible. The federal department offers some of this community education; this makes it easier and accessible to everyone in need of it. Pecara. P. J (2018).
The child welfare and federal laws extensively explain the need for child protection from abuse; it could be physical abuse, sexual, mental, emotional, among others. Jane’s family, in this case, could be a significant beneficiary of these laws. This is because, in the case study, their oldest child might have face emotional and mental abuse by seeing his parents engaging in a verbal fight; it can easily traumatize their child. Hence parents should be very keen. They should have a better and safer way of handling disagreement, without unintentionally engaging their young ones until they are a bit older to comprehend everything. Landsverk. J. (2017).
Families in distress should know or have several numbers or email addresses to contact if they ever need help. One of this services is the children’s bureau; it is a child’s information getaway, gives extensive information on, family-centered practice, child abuse, and neglect, offers details on when the adoption month is, has their library in case one want to read much about child welfare, in case of a new event they will notify. Their mobile number is 1-800-394-3366, info@childwelfare.gov. These are the two easiest ways to reach them. Ahlers, G (2014).
One of the most recommendable ways of dealing with child welfare issues is speaking it out. Let people you trust in your community know that you do not have it all together, speak it out instead of draining in thoughts and depressive episodes, let them know it is overwhelming. Ask for help, reach out, remember there the offices are in your state. If you need a little bit of help with the kids until you put stuff together, it is very okay rather than keeping the children and letting them swim in struggles. Family. R (2018).
In conclusion, children’s matters are sensitive and need lots of wisdom when handling them; for example, in Jane’s case, in as much as she needed her children growing around both parents, it should be noted that if the children’s well-being is at stake, the best decision needs to be made no matter how hard it is. Secondly, birth control is very crucial. Children are blessings but again have children you can be able to raise without straining too much; they need all the basic needs and also education, which is very important in today’s world. Finally, in case raising them and providing their basic needs is overwhelming, it should be clear that the federal department of children’s welfare is there to ensure that children have a more comfortable life.
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