Child Abuse and Neglect Resources Term Paper

Child Abuse and Neglect Analysis

The placement agency that I am personally affiliated with is Operation Safehouse which is a transitional living facility for at risk homeless youth ages eighteen to twenty one. There are two primary locations. One is in Riverside, CA and the other is in Thousand Palms, CA (SafeHouse, N.d.). Both locations offer services that include offer education, employment, case management, therapy, and life skills for our clients that have entered into our program. It is extremely likely that a high percentage of the individuals who enter into the program have encountered abuse or neglect at some point in their development or recent past. I would personally estimate that roughly one-half to three-fourths of clients meet the criteria for abuse and neglect. Most of these individuals come from environments that are too toxic for them to stay so they seek help from outside resources. For many of these individuals, the transition into a treatment or counseling program can be difficult and many are hesitant to leave an abusive relationship even if there is help available. This analysis will look at three different types of organizations that offer similar or complementary service for abused or neglected adolescents.

The Future of Children

The Future of Children is a collaboration of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution and the mission of the Future of Children is to translate the best social science research about children and youth into information that is useful to policymakers, practitioners, grant-makers, advocates, the media, and students of public policy (The Future of Children, N.d.).The special target area for the organization actually focuses on the dissemination of information. The organization publishes at least two journal articles a year and attempts to keep any technical rhetoric out of these so that the research presented is more accessible to a broader audience.

The organization's main route in which they disseminate information is undoubtedly through their website. On the site there are links that allow the user to access all of the different publications that have been produced by the organization over the years. The topics of these publications range greatly from military children and families to postsecondary education to children with disabilities among others. The only clear link between these topics is that they focus on childhood development through adolescence and cover a broad array of topics on these research areas. There are also webcasts and other resources that are made available to users.

Child Trauma Academy

CTA is a not-for-profit organization based in Houston, Texas working to improve the lives of high-risk children through direct service, research and education (Academy, N.d.). The organization believes that there is a crucial importance of childhood experience in shaping the health of the individual, and ultimately,….....