HSC 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hull House, Tenement, Juvenile Court
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Child welfare services: care and protec7on of children who cannot appropriately care for themselves . Family preserva7on: keeping the family together, provide support services to the family. Kinship: a family member takes care of someone else"s child. Child welfare sefngs: child abuse inves7ga7ons, child abuse assessments, case management and counseling, crisis interven7on, child protec7ve services (cps, court-appointed special advocates (casa) Volunteers who advocate on behalf of the children: hkps://www. youtube/com/watch?v=tlmkq0886no. Hasn"t yet goken to family preserva7on (it"s a process) Stress: there is a lot of burnout working in child welfare, inves7ga7ons have to be done. Common were: spanking and whipping: 8 year old mary ellen wilson lived with francis and mary connelly but was the daughter of mat connelly"s. Neighbors saw the child in a new york neighborhood poorly dressed in cold weather and oaen locked out of her house in the middle of winter.