It will help us to support children in
vulnerable child contact cases, to maintain positive relationships with both parents, encouraging parents to develop the skills required to parent apart.
Not exact matches
This is how it works: • The
Children's Centre manager identifies relevant agencies already dealing with
vulnerable families — for example schools, health visitors or a local homeless families unit • A simple form summarising the facilities and activities available at the Centre, and asking for a parent's
contact details and a signature, is created • The manager / staff at the other agency agree, as part of their usual data recording protocols, to ask relevant service users to fill in the form.
The «Consent to
Contact» scheme, developed by the Wellington and Meredith
Children's Centres in Ipswich, involves reaching out to
vulnerable families by «piggybacking» onto the work of other agencies.
«These are very
vulnerable children,» says Jo Mandell, training and development co-ordinator for the charity Kids VIP, which works to improve
contact between
children and their imprisoned relatives.
The World Health Organization reports that although the parasitic illness has almost disappeared in countries where sanitation has improved,
children remain especially
vulnerable in endemic regions due to their elevated
contact with dirt.
For example, the sick people may come into close
contact with others who are extremely
vulnerable — the elderly, young
children, or those who have never been exposed to the infection before.
Because THS is absorbed through skin,
children are especially
vulnerable given their close
contact with household surfaces.
Does the job involve
contact with
vulnerable people, including
children, the elderly or disabled persons?
The depression scores of the maltreated
children with the s / s genotype that had relatively regular
contact with their primary supports were 67 % higher than those of the maltreated
children with less
vulnerable genotypes who had comparable
contact with their supports.
Moreover, this
vulnerable population dealing with one or both of these co-occurring issues often come into
contact with the
child welfare system.
Highest priority is given to
vulnerable children, young people and their families including those from Indigenous or culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds,
children and families in
contact with the
child protection system, and young people transitioning from out - of - home care.
The objectives of this mental health outreach service were to provide assessment and treatment to a
vulnerable group of families who could not access mental health services, 10 to liaise with appropriate agencies, and to train hostel staff.24 The evaluation of this service was faced with constraints and limitations, particularly the mobility and engagement of the population and the resulting sample size, 11 the major environmental changes in the lives of these families during their
contact with the service, hence their potentially confounding effect, and the need for an eclectic mental health intervention to meet the needs of
children and their parents.