The Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina is a wonderful agency dedicated to helping parents utilize better strategies when interacting with their children to help prevent child abuse. I chose this agency because of their commitment to providing children with the experience of growing up in a nurturing environment and developing secure positive relationships with their parents and caregivers. They offer information and training to other agencies on implementing curricula for families who are at risk for losing their children to foster care. They also provide support to agencies when implementing these programs to parents to ensure model fidelity. There are a few positions that I would be interested in such as the coach or coordinator for the different curricula offered through prevent child abuse agency. The requirements for the positions are not posted but knowledge of the curricula and experience working with children and families is a must.
The Children and Family Services Center in Charlotte, NC is an agency comprised of 10 other agencies working with children and families. I chose this agency because they have a variety of services to offer children and families. The other agencies provided health care, counseling, early education services and advocacy services for children. All of these areas are of importance to me and I would like to be a part of an agency serving in these areas or one of the other agencies that are a part of the family services center.
The Exceptional Children's Assistance Center is another agency that interested me. Their mission is to improve the lives of all children, but they have an emphasis on children with disabilities. They provide education for families on IEPs, advocating for their children and a host of other services available for parents. They have parent educators who provided information, education and support to parents of children with disabilities. There are no listed qualifications for the parent educator positions but I feel that this would provide a different avenue for the parent educator skills that I currently possess.
Charlene,
ReplyDeleteAll of the agencies that you mentioned sound like great collaborations for children. Abuse is such a heart breaking problem and they defietly need advocates for them. I also think that the Exceptional Children's Assistance Center sounds interesting. IEP meetings can be a pretty intimidating experience for parents with a lot of lingo that that don't understand. I think parents sometimes need an advocate so that they can be assured that everyone is doing what is best for the child.