Services/Child Welfare

Bachelors of Science in Early Childhood Care

SOC 420

Breyer State University
Instructor: Shawn C. George, MS, BSW

SYLLABUS

COURSE OVERVIEW: Welcome to Services/Child Welfare, a course in the curriculum for the Bachelors Degree, Early Child Care. We are excited to offer you this interesting and informative course. We believe you will find it quite beneficial to your future endeavors. It is my pleasure to have you in this course.

TIME FRAME: This is an eight-semester hour course. This course is allotted ten weeks of time. You must complete all of the requirements for the course successfully by the end of the ten-week period. The first day of week one will begin the day that you register for the course, or the day that you notify me, your instructor, through email that your textbook has arrived and you are ready to begin your studies. Please be cognizant of the time frame.

TEXTBOOKS: There is one required textbook for this course.

Book 1: The Child Welfare Challenge, Policy, Practice, and Research, second edition. Peter J. Pecora, James K. Whittaker, Anthony N. Maluccio, Richard P. Barth with Robert D. Plotnick. Aldine de Gruyter; 1992. ISBN # 0-202-36125-X (cloth : alk.paper) ---- ISBN # 0-202-36126-8.

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EXAMINATIONS: This course is comprised of a midterm exam and a final exam. The midterm exam must be taken by the last day of week five. The final exam must be taken by the last day of week ten. You will have three days to complete the midterm and three days to complete the final, which will commence once you access it from the classroom.

To access the exams you must email me to inform me that you are ready to start the exam. I will then program your access and email you back that you are now authorized to take the exam. To access, you will come into the classroom, click on testing, and click on the exam you are going to take. You will need your User I.D. and Password to access the exam. The exam will appear on your screen. Once again, upon access you will have 3 days (72 hours) to submit your answers. The program provides me with the date and the exact time that you access the exam, as well as the exact date and time that you submit your answers. Thus, the program is timing you. When you are ready, go back into the classroom and click in your responses and then click submit. Shortly thereafter I will forward to you your questions, answers (right or wrong), the correct answers and your computed score, via e-mail. The midterm examination covers material found in chapters 1 through 7. The final examination covers material found in chapters 8 through 14, plus Appendix A. Both the midterm and the final are open book and objective type exams (multiple choice and true and false).

GRADING: The grading scale for this course is as follows:

90-100%    = A
80-89%      = B
70-79%      = C
Below 70% = Fail

COMMUNICATION: As always, you are encouraged to communicate with me. I am here to assist you in meeting your goals for this course. Communication shall be done primarily through email. Our classroom for this course has a "chat" room. I am also willing to meet with you one-on-one in the chat room at your request. From time to time, depending on how many students are enrolled in this course at a particular time, we may have some scheduled group chats. You will receive more detailed information at the time such chat sessions would be scheduled. Please keep my email address handy. If during your time in this course you change your email address, please be sure to notify me right away.

WRITTEN ASSIGNEMENTS: There are no written assignments for this course.

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR: Shawn C. George holds a Bachelor in Social Work from Youngstown State University and a Master degree in Social Work from Breyer State. He has worked extensively helping children and families resolve their conflicts and crises. Since 1998 he has worked for Trumbull County Department of Job and Family Services as a Social Services Worker II, located in Warren, OH. He earned numerous training certificates in the broad area known as social work. He will strive, as we all should, to further his education throughout his life.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: The following objectives are to be interpreted as broad, and are not meant to eliminate your studying of any chapter of the book.

Upon completion of this course, you should:

1). Know the purposes and goals of child welfare services.
2). Understand the policy context for child welfare.
3). Be familiar with child and family-centered services.
4). Understand how poverty affects children and their families.
5). Have a well-rounded knowledge base of the child abuse and neglect.
6). Be familiar with preventive as well as preservation and reunification services, related to child welfare.
7). Be have a good understanding of foster care and residential group care services.
8). Learned some of the more important organizational requisites.

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