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Lesson 11 (Videos (The Freedom Principles (he answer to most of America’s…

- - - - Community ecology - the psychological and practical relationships between humans and their social, as well as physical, environment.
      - A community is structured to have five functions (Warren, 1988):
        Production, distribution, consumption - The community provides its members with the means to make a living. This may be agriculture, industry, or services.
        Socialization -The community has means by which it instills its norms and values in its members. This may be tradition, modeling, and/or formal education.
        Social control -The community has the means to enforce adherence to community values. This may be group pressure to conform to and/or formal laws.
        Social participation -The community fulfills the need for companionship. This may occur in a neighborhood, church, business, or other groups.
        Mutual support -The community enables its members to cooperate to accomplish tasks too large or too urgent to be handled by a single person.
    - - The traditional playground setting had swings, a slide, a teeter-totter, and a sandbox.
      - The modern playground had various sculptures on which children could climb, crawl, and slide.
      - The adventure playground had old lumber, tires, crates, bricks, and rocks.
      - Gemeinschaft - communal, cooperative, close, intimate, and informal interpersonal relationships.
      - Gesellschaft - associative, practical, objective, and formal interpersonal relationship.
    - - Members of the business community can: provide specific schools with materials, financial aid, human resources, and professional support, serve on school advisory councils or on school boards, and offer schools the use of business settings for job placement or offer field sites for work experience programs.
    - - Preventive services - programs that seek to lessen the stresses and strains of life resulting from social and technological changes and to avert problems
      - Supportive services - programs that maintain the health, education, and welfare of the community
      - Rehabilitative services - programs that enable or restore people’s ability to participate in the community
    - - Government programs promoting children’s health include the following: Medicaid, Maternal and child health services, Center for Disease Control, and Child nutrition programs.
      - Government programs providing some support to families include the following: Child welfare service, Social services block grants (Title XX), and Child and adolescent service system programs.
      - Government programs assisting families with child-care issues include the following: Income tax deduction and Subsidized day care.
      - Government programs for children with special needs include the following: The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and The Family Violence Prevention and Services Program.
    - - The following are some reasons for becoming involved:
        Learn about the needs in your community, Conserve funds for charities, nonprofit, faith-based, and other community organizations by contributing your time, Share your skills and gain new ones, Develop self-esteem and self-confidence by feeling needed and valued, Meet new people from all walks of life, and Enhance your resume and make important networking contacts.
      - Volunteers provide: tutoring at-risk youth, building homes for low-income people, caring for homebound seniors, working at a food bank, donating food, clothing, and household items, helping maintain parks by cleaning the environment, and responding to a natural disaster.
    - - Child advocacy - the process of sensitizing individuals and groups to the unmet needs of children and to society’s obligation to provide a positive response to those needs.
      - Examples of ongoing children’s advocacy groups: Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), and National Congress of Parents and Teachers (NCPT).
      - Types of therapeutic intervention or treatment used with families: Family preservation, parent education, child care, Family Therapy, kinship care, Foster care, Parent support groups, Institutionalization, and Adoption.