Promoting Job Competency as A Social Worker
From the case scenario, a foster home is not the solution to the sixteen-year-old boy. He is already addicted, and stopping the drugs in a foster home will be difficult, mainly because no one in the home can have authority over him. The first recommendation would be to take the boy to a rehabilitation center to ensure that he has stopped the intake of the drugs. There is nothing that can be solved in the family when one of the family members if under the influence of drugs and maybe making poor decisions.
For the family as a whole, I would not advise them to get another foster home. It would be better if everything will be done to make the family independent, and maybe the parent will be able to give the son some care after getting out of the rehabilitation center. I would first evaluate the skills that the parent could be having that can help them in sustaining themselves if they find a job. Helping the parent to find a job will be a long term solution that will help them onwards in their lives.
My work would be to innovatively help the family in understanding the situation that they are in and make them change their behavior in the environment that they are in. There may be some connection that I could be having in the charities, government agencies that can be of use in giving the family some amount of money for a startup. If the family were to get a place to settle and a place to get some income, then their life would change from to be better. Making the family know the situation they are in and helping it to get to know what they need to do is essential.