Youth Protection Flashcards
Montreal had ___ youth centres, their name are:
2, Batshaw and CJM
Fundamental principles of YPA:
- REACTIVE, not Proactive/prevention
- Every effort must be made to maintain a child in the family environment or the most important person for the child.
- The primary protection role of the child is belong to the parents.
- Protection consist to ensuring the fundamental needs of the children.
DYP MUST intervene when:
- Neglect or Abandonment
- Psychological ill treatment (Exposure to domestic violence)
- Sexual or physical abuse, involve in drugs abuse or prostitution
- Serious behaviors disturbance (rebellions or aggressive)
- Others situations: child runs away from home or hospital without authorization, skipping school, abandoned after being placed in foster care.
When there is a report, how do they deal with it?
-The RTS worker analyzes the report, decide to retain or not the report for further evaluation under the laws. If not retained, the declarant is informed.
-Assign a priority code:
Code 1: Immediate (same day) assignment
Code 2: Assignment within 24h
Code 3: Waiting list - assign ASAP
What is the most common and persistent form of child maltreatment?
Neglect: 65% of all report, 70% of all the cases followed at Batshaw, the area that receives the least attention (research, legislation, practice)
Domain of CHN practice:
Signalements Fostercare, emergency mixed bank Adoption Permanency planning cases Child Health Clinics
Key Protective Factors: Shown that this is linked to a lower incidence of child abuse and neglect.
Nurturing and Attachment Knowledge of parenting and of child and youth development Parental resilience Social connections Concrete support for parents
Neglect is defined as a:
Failure to provide minimum care and lack of supervision that presents a risk of serious harm to a child.
four main subtypes of neglect:
- Physical neglect (failure to provide basic needs or supervision in order to ensure safety)
- Emotional neglect (failure to attend to a child’s psychological, emotional, or social needs)
- Medical neglect (failure to provide/seek necessary medical tx)
- Educational neglect (failure to ensure that a child’s formal education needs are being met)
Assessment of neglect: Behaviours that may indicate neglectful parenting
- A parent appears indifferent to their child
- A parent is apathetic or depressed
- Behaves irrationally
- Abuses substances
- Denies a child educational or behavioral problems
- Views a child in a wholly negative light
- Relies on a child for the satisfaction of emotional needs
Assessment of neglect: Direct indicators
- Child hunger
- Inappropriate clothing
- Untreated health problems
Contributing factors affecting perpetrators’
risk for child abuse: Individual
-Substance abuse
-Lack of understanding of
child’s needs
-Prior experience of child abuse
-Access to
younger children
-Poor parental impulse control
Contributing factors affecting perpetrators’
risk for child abuse: Relationship
- Social isolation
- Family disorganization,
- Parenting stress (younger parents, Unemployed, Single, many children)
- Intimate partner violence;
Contributing factors affecting perpetrators’
risk for child abuse: Community
- Community violence
- Poor neighbourhood
- Other deficits in social determinants of health
Contributing factors affecting perpetrators’
risk for child abuse: Societal
-Lack of social structures to support the family
-Inadequate social support or policies to support parenting
skills and childcare.
