SOCW 6520: Social Work Field Education III

Please note that this is a master level course so master level work. Please check the grammar and you have to use the reading that I have provided to you. You must answer all the questions that I post. Thank you.

Georgia MENTOR

Metro Atlanta Childrens Services

2302 Parklake Drive NE, Suite 200

Atlanta, GA 30345

Brief Description of Agency-GA Mentor is a therapeutic foster care agency that provides therapeutic foster care services to youth between the ages of 0-18. We offer evidence-informed training to foster parents to provide quality homes for foster children. Services offered to children include 24 hours of home-based monitoring, therapeutic intervention, and access to community-based services, life skill development, and medication management oversight. GA Mentor ensures that the educational, mental health, physical health, and overall well-being needs of all children in our program are met.

2. I will be completing the following tasks:

-Completion of Risk Assessments and Crisis Assessment to determine the level of the clients needs and services

-Demonstrate her ability to apply Family-Centered Practice, Systems Theory, and Strengths Perspective when assessing the challenges of the family

-Develop and implement Treatment Plans for client

-Train and develop foster parents in providing therapeutic foster care to foster care children

-Evaluate state and Federal Policies in Child Welfare

-Demonstrate her ability to link the family to resources with consideration to the family’s culture, social-economic status, etc.

Week 7

Diversity and Cultural Competence

Readings

Min, J. W. (2005). Cultural competency: A key to effective future social work with racially and ethnically diverse elders. Families in Society, 86(3), 347358.

Media

Laureate Education (Producer). (2013b). Diversity/cultural competence [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

Assignment 2

Intervention Treatment Plan

To Prepare: Review the agencys intervention/treatment plan used to engage clients. After reviewing the agencys intervention/treatment plan, consult the literature and conduct extensive research, with the goal of finding best practices that support or adds to the agencys current intervention/treatment plan. The purpose of this assignment is to find research that supports or adds to the agencys current intervention/treatment approach.

a 1-2 page paper in which you:

Briefly describe the agencys intervention/treatment plan

Briefly discuss best practices about interventions identified in the literature

Briefly discuss how the agency can incorporate those best practices into the current intervention/treatment plan

Provide a brief summary of the similarities and differences between the intervention/treatment plan used at the agency and the suggested practices in the literature