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Course Assignments: In-class activities - 95 points Class Participation is tabulated by active participation in the discussion and i activities. These activities are not the same as chapter activities. n-class Community Resource Electronic Notebook (small group project 3-4 students/group)-125 points Working with children requires knowledge of services available in the community to assist families in need. There is a broad range of services available, but many parents are unaware of how to access these services. For this project, students will work together in groups of 3 or 4 and create an electronic Community Resource Notebook. The notebook will be designed using Power Point and should follow this format: Name of Community Agency Community Served by Agency . Services Available to Participants Visual Representation of Services (pictures, clip art, logos, etc) Hyperlinked URL for Agency Home Page Your group must have at least one entry (page) for each of the following: Food Bank Low Cost Child Care/Preschool Education (Head Start, State Preschool, etc.)

Answer 1

Family support services are community-based services that assist and support parents in their role as caregivers. Such services can take many different forms depending on the strengths and needs of the family, but their overarching goal is to help parents enhance skills and resolve problems to promote optimal child development. All families can benefit from support in some way; the principles of family support should be incorporated into casework across the child welfare service continuum.

Family support programs may address the general population or target particular groups such as ethnic and cultural minorities; adolescent parents; kinship caregivers; or families facing health, mental health, or substance abuse issues. They can be comprehensive or focus on a specific goal.

1.UNICEF:

UNICEF has been serving children for almost 70 years. They will work for disadvantaged children and adolescents – and to protect the rights of every child. Ongoing health programs include mass immunizations to prevent disease, the promotion and protection of breastfeeding for improved nourishment in infants, the fight against HIV/AIDS to reduce infection and care for the infected and the procurement of healthy drinking water and nourishment.

https://www.unicef.org/

2. Save the Children
The people of Save the Children help children every day, in times of crisis and for our future. In the United States and around the world, they give children a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. By transforming children's lives now, they change the course of their future and ours. Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. Around the world, they give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.

https://www.savethechildren.net/

3. Plan International
Plan International is a development and humanitarian organization that advances children's rights and equality for girls. They strive for a just world, working together with children, young people, our supporters, and partners. Sponsor a child, take action for girls' rights or support our development and disaster relief work.

https://in.linkedin.com/company/plan-international

4. Child Fund
The people behind ChildFund aim to help children by strengthening relationships among children, parents, community members, local organizations, teachers and schools, governments and others.  It provides assistance to deprived, excluded and vulnerable children

https://childfundindia.org/

5. Say Yes to Education
Say Yes to Education is a non-profit that revitalizes communities by helping them give every public high school graduate access to college or other post-secondary scholarships. Say Yes community partnerships also make available supports and services to develop the gifts and talents of each child. Is a non-profit organization that seeks to improve inner-city education.

https://sayyestoeducation.org/partner-with-us/

6. CARE International
CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice, help women and girls fulfil their potential.

https://www.care-international.org/

* Foodbank

A food bank is a non-profit organization that collects and distributes food to hunger-relief charities. Food banks act as food storage and distribution depots for smaller front line agencies and usually do not themselves give out food directly to people struggling with hunger.

* Low-cost child care:

Head Start is often the first thing that comes to mind when people think of low-cost child care—and for good reason. A program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Head Start provides comprehensive early-childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families.

* The health clinics may include surgical clinics, urgent or emergency care clinics, rehabilitation clinics, specialty clinics, outpatient clinics, health department clinics, medical center clinics.

* Low-Cost Counselling Service provides an accepting and confidential space to discuss any issues currently affecting life and work. They work in a supportive and empathic way to help through life’s challenges. The services may include face-to-face, phone and online counselling.  

*Many professionals and organisations can help your child with the disability or developmental delay.

The people in disability services are generally professionals with qualifications and experience in areas like social work, case management, disability support, community development, psychology, education, speech pathology, audiology, orthoptics, physiotherapy or occupational therapy. They should also be experts in child development.

The organisations that employ these professionals offer a wide range of intervention, therapy and support services and programs. These include respite services, which give you a break from your caring role, and social and recreational programs.

Most of the disability services offer:

• Medical
• Behavioural
• Developmental
• Therapy based
• Educational
• Family-based
• Alternative
• Combined
• Respite etc

*The purpose of parenting classes is to help parents feel more connected, involved and focused on their child. Parenting classes provide advice, strategies, and tools on how to raise children and provide an opportunity for parents to share ideas and concerns with parents going through similar issues. These classes educate parents on how to take care of their babies, toddlers, and teens. Parents come away from classes feeling more confident about and more supported in their parenting decisions.

*Domestic violence shelter is a program for survivors of domestic violence and their children where survivors and their children receive refuge from their abusers in a facility whose location is kept confidential to prevent the abuser from locating the survivor. Shelter services available to survivors and their children may include emergency housing, help with basic living needs, food, childcare, and other support services (i.e., support groups, referrals to community resources).

The domestic violence shelter offers a :

• Unique staff education on interpersonal violence
• A nuanced understanding of safety concerns
• Confidential locationsHolistic services, such as counselling and case management
• A focus on trauma-informed services

*Child Protective Services (CPS) is a branch of state’s social services department that is responsible for the assessment, investigation and intervention regarding cases of child abuse and neglect, including sexual abuse. In all of its procedures, CPS must follow state and federal laws. CPS typically takes cases where a child has been abused or is believed to be at risk of abuse by someone who has caregiving responsibilities for that child.

• Determine if a child has been abused or neglected
• Protect the child from immediate danger
• Assess the risk of continuing danger to the child
• Decide if or what interventions are needed to keep the child safe, and implement these steps, sometimes with the help of other state agencies or programs.
• Decide on the need for ongoing support of the family such as case management, counselling or medical care. Ongoing support can include programs and services from organizations besides CPS.

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