Family First Prevention Service Act.

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Family First Prevention Service Act.

Part one: Social Policy Description.

The title of the policy is Family First Prevention Service Act. The Family First Prevention Service Act was made a la in the year 2018. It was passed to concentrate the attention of the already existing child well-being to keeping children safe in their families. The service activities aimed at reducing upset that comes as a result of keeping children in a different environment out of home care. The law makes it easy for families to access health services, it also makes it easy for the families to access substance use treatment, and also improves childrearing aids (Stoltzfus, E. 2018). Persons affected initially before the law was enacted were therefore mostly children and the youths. The law changed the case of a country providing care to families and older youths and especially it made changes in the role of community service providers. For instance, the courts used to make decisions for families and this looked outdated. This paper presents a detailed explanation of the policy goals and outcomes and social work values.

Part Two: Policy Goals, Objectives, and Outcomes.

The policy goal was to turn the attention of today’s child well-being system to keeping children safe with their families. The policy hence was made to concentrate child care at a family level. The main objectives of the policy included the creation of prevention measures for children’s wellbeing by exploiting changes in families first before the community service comes in. this is because probably it was known that family care worked more efficiently than community care. In most cases, when children and the youths are ignored by their families and the community is to be in charge of them, their morals change and there are mostly exploited. The community service is also not doing well to be able to be mandated with the care for the young. The policy offered a good plan that would help jurisdictions on selection and cost of evidence-based programs that would be useful to children and young youths.

The policy offers several resources that will help to address the problems. These resources include the offering of a child-oriented welfare system, provision of First evidence-based practice exploitation and cost tools, giving the family first planning and readiness toolkit, and provision of practitioner’s guide. The policy does not however provide funding because of reasons like avoiding misuse of the funds or lack of enough funds to cater to all needs.

Part Three: Social Work Values.

The policy will promote social change, it will improve community development, and also empower families and communities. The relationship between family members will increase greatly when the responsibility of taking care of children was attached to the family. Before-after the responsibility was given to community service, most children distanced themselves from the family and this sometimes caused a misunderstanding in families. Development was also concentrated in families and neighboring communities upon installation of the policy (Testa, M. F., & Kelly, D. 2020). There was therefore significant empowerment of the families and the community.

Part Four: Conclusion.

The goal of the paper is to learn more about the family first prevention service act and the situation before and after the passing of the policy. I have met the goal by describing a problem that was affecting children before the policy and the solution that came after the policy was passed. I am confident that the policy will be successful because of its more advantages.

References.

Stoltzfus, E. (2018). Family first prevention services act (FFPSA). Congressional Research Service, IN10858.

Testa, M. F., & Kelly, D. (2020). The evolution of federal child welfare policy through the Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018: Opportunities, barriers, and unintended consequences. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 692(1), 68-96.