Ch10 ECOLOGY OF THE COMMUNITY (p374-411)
10.1 COMMUNITY: STRUCTRUE &FUNCITONS
10.7 CREATING CARING COMMUNITIES
10.10 COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: ADVOCACY
10.2 THE COMMUNITY'S INFLUENCE ON SOCIALIZATION
10.6 PREVENTIVE, SUPORTIVE, & REHABILITATIVE SERVIES
10.5 MACROSYSTEM INFLUENCES ON COMMUNITY SERVICES
10.8 MESOSYSTEM INFLUENCES: LINKING COMMUNITY SERVIES TO FAMILIES & SCHOOLS
10.3 THE COMMUNITY AS A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
10.9 COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: VOLUNTEERISM
10.4 THE COMMUNITY AS A SUPPORT SYSTEM
community ecology
- production, distribution, consumption
- socialization
- social control
- social participation
- mutual support
The People Who Life There
- How did they earn a living?
- How did the people in our community instill in us their norms and values?
- How did our community enforce its rules?
- How did the people in our neighborhood community socialize with one another?
- How did the people in our neighborhood community help one another?
- education (quality academic programs & safe schools)
- childcare
- recreation (facilities & opportunities)
- community safety
- citizen involvement
- physical environment (clean, safe, attractive, well cared for)
- employment opportunities (good jobs, economic growth)
- cost of living
- neighborhood quality (housing affordability, good government, cultural opportunities, specific supports for children & families)
10.2a Physical Factors
noise
community desin
Play Settings
-traditional playgrounds (swings, slide, teeter-totter, & sandbox)
-modern playground (sculptures for climbing, crawling, & sliding)
-adventure playground (old lumber, tires, crates, bricks, & rocks)
Population Density & Composition
-population density
-learned helplessness
-population composition
-homogeneous
-heterogeneous
10.2b Economic Factors
10.2c Social & Personal Factors
The Neighborhood Setting
Patterns of community Interaction
Size of community
Social diversity
Shared norms
Valued types of social relationship
-provide specific schools with materials, financial aid, human resources, & professional support
-serve on school advisory councils or on school boards
-offer schools the use of business settings for job placement or offer field sites for work experience programs
a) Increasing population
b) Changing nature of the family
c) Increasing urbanization of communities
Public agencies
Private agencies
Combination agencies
supportive services
rehabilitative services
preventative services
10.6a Preventive Services: Parks, Recreation, & Education
10.6b Supportive services: Family & Child
Referrals
Economic assistance
Counseling
Family preservation
Senior citizens
Child health & welfare
Protective
Child care
Foster care
Adoption
10.6c Rehabilitative Services: Correction, Mental Health, Special Needs
Correction
Mental Health
Special needs
- ensuring income security
- improving health
- increasing educational achievement
- preparing adolescents for adulthood
- strengthening & supporting families
- protecting vulnerable children & their families
- making policies & programs work
- creating a moral climate for children
- providing financing for programs
- at-risk youth
- ex-offenders
- homeless & hungry
- substance abusers
- those with HIV/AIDS
- welfare-to-work families
- mental health
- physical health
- trauma
- emergency medical services & transport
- disaster case management
- disaster preparedness for child care/elderly education, elementary, secondary education, child welfare, & juvenile justice
- sheltering standards, services, & supplies
- housing
- evacuation & reunification
10.7b Health Care for Families
10.7c Social Support for Families
10.7a Economic Assistance to Families
10.7d Special Services for Children with Special Needs
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
- Unemployment compensation
- Social Security survivor or disability benefits
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
- Veterans' benefits
- Child nutrition services
- Other services
- the persistently high rate of unemployment among parents
- the inability of parents to earn high enough wages to escape poverty
- the growth in the number of female-headed households because of divorce & out -of-wedlock births
- inadequate preschool education, public education, & job training
- inadequate budgets in government programs
Homelessness
- Medicaid
- Maternal & child health services
- Centers for Disease Control
- Child nutrition programs
- Child welfare services
- Social services block grants (Title XX)
- Child & adolescent service system program
- Income tax deductions
- Subsidized day care
- The Child Abuse Prevention & Treatment Act
- The Family Violence Prevention & Services Program
- learn about the needs in your community
- conserve funds for charities, nonprofit, faith-based, & other community organizations by contributing your time
- share your skills & gain new ones
- develop self-esteem & gain new ones
- meet new people from all walks of life
- enhance your resume & make important networking contacts
10.9a Volunteer Groups
- tutoring at-risk youth
- building homes for low-income people
- caring for homebound seniors
-working at food banks
-donating food, clothing, & household items - helping maintain parks by cleaning the environment
- responding to natural disasters
10.10a Advocating for Child Protection
1- Children's Defense Fund (CDF)
2- Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)
3- National Congress of Parents & Teachers (NCPT)
- Overview
- Definitions
- Identification
- Statistics
- Risk & protective factors
- Perpetrators
- Impact
- Fatalities
- Contact
- Family preservation
- Parent education
- Child care
- Family therapy
- Kinship care
- Foster care
- Parent support groups
- Institutionalization
- Adoption
1) Establish local commission for children & families
2) Establish a neighborhood family center
3) Foster community projects
4) Combat alcohol, drugs, & violence
5) Foster youth participation in local policy bodies
6) Plan communities to consider the children who will be growing up in them