What is The Healing Tree?
The Healing Tree is a team of highly trained, compassionate counselors who help children and their families through the process of healing from recent or past trauma. The Healing Tree offers confidential counseling in the form of individual, family and group therapy for children ages 3 through 17 years who have experienced physical or sexual abuse. Using evidence-based treatment methods, The Healing Tree also offers counseling to family members and caregivers. Recognized as one of Florida’s premier providers for counseling children who have experienced trauma from abuse, our licensed counselors combine their expertise with warmth and compassion to facilitate the healing process.
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The multidisciplinary team includes case managers, medical professionals, and psychologists who assess risk factors and recommend services to protect children and help strengthen families. The services that the Child Protection Team provides supplements the Florida Department of Children and Families child protective investigations and law enforcement.
Who is eligible for services through the Child Protection Team?
The child is automatically eligible for services by the Child Protection Team once a suspicion of child abuse or neglect has been reported and accepted by the Florida Abuse Hotline or law enforcement for investigation.
Is there a fee for services for the Child Protection Team?
No, there are no financial criteria for Child Protection Team services.
Where is the Children’s Advocacy Center located?
The CAC is located on Michigan Street, between Orange Avenue and I-4. Our physical address is:
601 W. Michigan St.
Orlando, FL 32805
407-317-7430.
What should I do if I suspect that a child is being abused or neglected?
If you have reasonable suspicion that a child is being abused or neglected, call the Florida Abuse Hotline at 1-800-96-ABUSE. You can speak to a hotline counselor about your concerns and they will be able to determine if a report is
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The 2015 Florida Statutes. 1995-2015 “Mandatory reports of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect; mandatory reports of death; central abuse hotline.” The Florida Legislature. Section 39.201. Retrieved from
This case study will assess the government of Florida, a state government. It will touch on several important issues such as providing a general overview of how the government functions and what resources it provides, as well as some current issues the State of Florida is facing in government administration. Because the State of Florida is a state government, it tends to “resemble the national government in composition and organization of their executive branch agencies” (Milakovich, 2013, p. 21). The work and services provided by the State of Florida include services for children and families, such as services concerning adoption, child abuse, children with disabilities, food stamps, and marriage/divorce.
If the boy needed something, the tree most more than willing to help him and make him be happy. If a mother saw that her child needed help and they were struggling she would do everything in her power to make him happier. No good mother in the world would want to see her child struggling and every mother should treat her child the way the tree treated the
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Mandated Reporters are persons who, as a result of their profession, are more likely to be aware of abuse or neglect of persons with disabilities. Mandated Reporters are required by law to report cases of suspected abuse to the Disabled Persons Protection Commission (DPPC) when they have a suspicion that a person with a disability is suffering from a reportable condition of abuse or neglect. Other persons who are not mandated to report may choose to file reports of suspected abuse. Who are Mandated to Report?
Correspondingly, child abuse provides community education programs regarding the recognition of abuse and neglect which introduces a helpful framework of conceptualizing the types of agencies who offer child abuse prevention and treatment mechanisms (Gladding & Newname, 2014, Pg. 374). Whereas, Gladding and Newsome (2014) mention that college mental health services provide support within their practices to address the issues which pertain to their mental health, relationships, and behaviors throughout their time on campus, notably stress, homesickness/adjustment, complex trauma or dating violence, and drug and alcohol abuse (Pg. 381-386). Although they aim to research the best practices to support their population, in contrast to having different populations. Children protections aim to create Home-Based services to provide interventions within the homes of the youth with emotional disturbances (Gladding & Newsome, 2014, Pg. 734). However, college mental health services providing a structural nature of centers which provide group counseling, support groups, couples counseling, substance abuse counseling, career counseling, and eating disorders treatments (Gladding & Newsome, 2014, Pg.
Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010 This is a guide to how organisations must work with other services and individually to fulfil their duties to safeguard children and promote their welfare. Children Act 2004 After the death of 8-year-old Victoria Climbie at the hands of her carers, an independent inquiry led to Every Child Matters policy which led to the Children Act 2004. This act includes: • A duty for key agencies to safeguard children. • The local authority to set up a Local Safeguarding Children’s
Partnership working means that, all agencies and professionals work together to safeguard children. Each professional or agency will have a different role to play but each of them is all as important. Good communication between them all is vital and failing to do so could mean that a child who is suffering will be left unnoticed. Police, health visitors, GP, hospitals, child minders, nursery, school, after school clubs, leisure clubs, social workers, family, friends, neighbours and the local community are all responsible for safeguarding children before it reaches crisis point Question: Question 9 Answer: Children 's Social Care When a child has been harmed or abused the head teacher will be the first person to deal with it, she then has a
In the book “The Giving Tree”, the tree gave all she could to the boy she loved very much. I believe “Be the Tree” means that Seth would have wanted to be like the tree to everyone receiving the scholarship. He would want to be like the giving tree, which he is in a special way. To me, Being the tree is the scholarship recipient. I have read where Seth was a very Christian person, who wanted everyone to know Christ.
Thru my investigation, I found that the DSS began recruiting non-profit organizations in the community like La Alianza to fulfill its sociocultural gap; especially, racial and ethnic minorities to provide the welfare for the abused and neglected children in the state of Massachusetts. A collaborative relationship with La Alianza was established by DSS, with an intention to manage and offer better child welfare services. La Alianza was highly reputable at the time in fulfilling its mission. DSS hoped that La Alianza would close the cultural sensitivity gap they were struggling with in providing the childcare and family needs in the Hispanic community.
I am able to discuss any work related concerns during my supervision as well and discuss my professional development. Staff is able to access courses, workshops and seminars that enhance the knowledge relating to the implementation of safeguarding policies. Weekly staff meetings improve working practice allowing staff to discuss child safeguarding issues. Nevertheless, not everyone in the team holds same level of safeguarding training, especially agency staff or volunteers that come in contact with children and families, creating great risk to their
For the Child provides; assessment, specialized therapy, and advocacy support within the court system. Children and teens with complex trauma receive treatment that is longer and more
According to a Child Protective Investigation, there are approximately half a million children in the U.S. foster care system, otherwise known as congregate care (group homes and institutions). Children are placed in congregate care when they are found to be in an unsafe environment. Usually children of abuse or maltreatment are placed first (Font, 2015). Out-of-home-care causes increased problems of attachment, behavioral, and psychological disorders in the developing child. Child safety is the primary goal of out-of-home-care; however, maltreatment investigations are still reported in those institutions.
Informative Speech Outline: Child Abuse Purpose At the end of my presentation, the audience will be able to explain what child abuse is, the three most common types of child abuse and list the impacts that child abuse has on the victim. Introduction Remember when you were a child, and try to remember what your biggest fear was. The one fear that made your heart beat so fast you can almost burst out of your own chest.