CHILD ADVOCACY

TOPIC: Child Welfare 

Write a 1-2 page paper answering the questions below….

Think about your child-hood from birth to eighteen.  What child welfare needs did you or your family have? For example, did you or any of your siblings have a disability? Were your parents divorced?  Did you or a sibling have difficulty in school?  Was there any point in your or your sibling(s)’ development that caused problems for the family?  All of these issues may have necessitated family adjustment and/or services.

• What were the issues?
• Did you receive services for them?
• If so, what type of services?
• If not, why did you family choose not to do so? (were there no services? Did the family feel they could handle their own issues?, etc.)
• What was the outcome of receiving or not receiving services?
• Were they any cultural biases involved?