Instructional Objectives for this activity:Explore the foundation of child abuse/neglect and delinquency.
This week you learned about ways familial situations affect adolescents. In some circumstances, family issues contribute to delinquency; in others, adolescents dodge deviant behaviors. Please complete the following:
- Investigate the Department of Human or Family Services in your State or County.
- Determine what criteria they use and how they remove a battered child from a home.
Summarize your findings in an assessment report. Share the agencies procedure and as well as your opinion on how this system operates and any suggestion you could add to improve these services.
Provide a context for this individual work based on the learning activities which precede it, and/or the relevance of the concept to the course topic.
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The Texas department of family and protective services which in short form is written as DFPS is mandated to investigate cases of abuse, exploitation, and negligence of children, elderly people, and people with disabilities (Harnsberger, 2011). Its creation dates back to the year 2004 whereby, prior to this it was known as the PRS meaning the Texas department of protective and regulatory services. This is neither a juvenile nor is it an adult agency of criminal justice. Its main headquarters are located at the 701 west 51st street in the Winters Human Services Center. This department is comprised of four main programs. They include statewide intake, child protective services, child care licensing, and adult protective services. These programs have various functions that they were established to work on. One of these functions is regulating different types of day care and 24 hours foster homes and residential child care facilities. Another function is managing
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