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Agency Communication & The Supervisory Role - By James Harris, Jr.: One of the main challenges that residential placement agencies may encounter is internal communication. ......... Click Here to Read More The Importance Of Physically Organized And Therapeutically Structured Environments - By James Harris, Jr.: The social worker did not know what to do. The house was definitely filthy and John and Jeremy were stuck living there. . .......... Click Here to Read More Helping Youth in Care Deal With Issues of Grief and Loss - By James Harris, Jr.: Children in residential placement have been removed from their families of origin. In some instances, their families abandoned them. (And, even in cases when a child's parents did not abandon them, it still may very well feel that way.) ........... Click Here to Read More You Can’t Compete with Birth Parents! - Children tend to put their birth parents on a pedestal and you can't compete with that. Click Here Using Birth Parents as an Example - Don’t! - It will only cause conflict with the child. Click Here Weaned on Nachos!! - Children in residential and foster care can have some strange eating habits. Click Here The Very First Time - Doing things for the first time with the children in your care. Click Here It’s Guaranteed to Happen (Being Accused of Abuse) - If you work in residential care long enough you will probably be accused of abuse by a child. Click Here My First Day as a Houseparent - The Beginning of a most interesting week. Click Here My Second Day as a Houseparent - It really got interesting on the second day. Click Here My First Week Continued - As my week continues I learn a great deal about being a houseparent and runaways. Click Here Our First Day Off as Houseparents - After working a double shift our very first time, without training or orientation we finally got a day off to keep my wife from quitting. Click Here Three Kinds of People - In society and in houseparenting there are three kinds of people and laws and rules are needed for two of those types. Click Here. |
Chore Checklists - Can help teach a child to do a chore properly and insure it is done. - Click Here to Read More Video Game System Timer - I have done a way with fighting over the video game systems in my house. I built a Video Game System Timer that controls the amount of time our children use them. - Click Here to Read More Stock Car Racing Behavioral Chart - Here is a Behavioral Chart that I created based on Stock Care Racing the number 2 sport in America. The kids in my cottage have responded well to it, and it has helped us teach discipline to our children. Click Here to Read More Hotrod Whiteboards - How to keep your whiteboards looking sharp - Click Here Contests and Rewards (The Coffee Can Program) A reward program I developed at my first facility - Click Here The Big Burger - Something fun I did with kids that they absolutely loved. Click Here Vans & Vomit - Traveling with children it is bound to happen - Click Here An Appropriate Apology - Do you know what an appropriate apology is? Click Here Sentences and Essays as a Consequence - Some advice on using sentences and Essays as a consequence. Click Here IN RE GAULT 387 U.S. 1 - ARGUED DECEMBER 6, 1966. - DECIDED MAY 15, 1967 - My commentary on a ruling that has a great impact on Juvenile Justice. Click Here Secret Agent Houseparent - Electronics can be a great aid in supervising children Click Here Month of Madness - The Holiday Season - The Holiday Season in a Children's Home can be madness, read my story. Click Here Houseparents and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) - A commentary about a Department of Labor Opinion Letter and how it affects houseparents. Click Here Houseparent Salaries!! - A short article I wrote about houseparent salaries. Click Here Houseparent Salaries - The Child Welfare League of America publishes a quarterly newsletter. In the Spring 2003 edition, they have a summary of a scientific survey they did of member agencies concerning salaries. Click here for details Empty Chairs (As a national workforce shortage strikes child welfare, CWLA responds) - Here is an article I found on the Child Welfare League of America website. It deals with the staffing shortage that many facilities face. Click here to read the article |
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