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Dec 26, 2024
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SOW 120 - Child Welfare
Credits: 3
3 Lecture Hours
Description
Historical and legal bases for services to children, both institutional and non-institutional are examined. Problems, standards, and practices are considered together with the agencies, resident treatment facilities, juvenile courts and protective agencies which implement services.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:
- Identify how services to children and families are provided along a continuum from the least intrusive to services that substitute for the natural family.
- Relate the history of the provision of services for children and families.
- Describe the roles of the family in the lives of children and how these roles differ according to the influence of diversity.
- Interpret how social issues such as poverty, violence, drug abuse and homelessness impact children and their families.
- Examine the role of the child welfare worker in various types of services for children and families.
- Express a desire to work with vulnerable children.
Listed Topics
- History of Child Welfare
- Role of the Family in the Lives of Children
- Effects of Social Issues Impacting Children Today
- Day Care Services
- Counseling for Families and Children
- Role of the Courts in the Lives of Children
- Services for Children in Schools
- Teen Parents and Their Children
- Foster Family Care
- Adoption of Children
- Residential Services
Reference Materials
Contemporary text in the field.
Approved By: Sutin, Stewart Date Approved: 2/18/2005
Last Reviewed: 5/9/2019
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