After reviewing the required reading and viewing materials, please respond to the following questions:

1 What risk factors are present in Isaac’s life (Case Example 2.3 on p. 40 of McCoy and Keen)? Be specific.

2 What protective factors are present in Isaac’s life? Be specific.

3 Based on the information on risk and protective factors, if you were given $1 million dollars to prevent child abuse in your community, how would you spend your funds?

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION;

Child advocacy

Introduction

Children are often at the center of public policy debates and discussions. They have a right to be heard, but what is that voice? How do we get it? What can we learn from them? These are things that child advocates work on.

Child advocacy involves a broad range of activities and strategies from being an individual voice for a child, to public policy development.

Child advocacy involves a broad range of activities and strategies from being an individual voice for a child, to public policy development. It is often defined as “the collection of activities designed to ensure the rights and well-being of children, especially those who have been abused or neglected.”

Child advocates seek solutions to problems affecting children’s lives, such as poverty and hunger; health care access; violence against children; child labor; hazardous working conditions in schools (e.g., exposure to chemicals); exposure to pesticides; lack of safe drinking water . . .

It is often utilized to address issues facing children such as access to health care, education, as well as other societal needs.

Child advocacy is often utilized to address issues facing children such as access to health care, education and other societal needs. A child advocate can help give a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves.

In the United States, there are many different agencies that provide services through which you can get involved in the lives of your loved ones. These include:

• The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Center on Child Abuse Prevention (NCCAP) works with local partners across the country on programs that promote healthy development among young people from birth to age 18 years old. The agency also works with local agencies across America; they were created following legislation passed by Congress in 1974 known as Title IV-E or “Child Welfare Services Act.”

• The Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) provides funding grants through several different types of programs aimed at helping individuals stay safe while living in society today including sexual assault prevention efforts among others.”

Child advocates are responsible for supporting children’s rights, as well as identifying and addressing the needs of youth.

Child advocates are responsible for supporting children’s rights, as well as identifying and addressing the needs of youth. As a result, they can be involved in politics, research and advocacy on behalf of all young people.

Child advocates are not just about rights or needs; they also advocate for future generations. They work to ensure that policies protect children from harm or exploitation by adults or others in society.

Child advocacy relies heavily on the use of research-based evidence in order to support the issue at hand.

Child advocacy relies heavily on the use of research-based evidence in order to support the issue at hand.

Research-based evidence is a major component of any child advocacy strategy, and it’s important that you understand how this type of evidence can be used effectively.

Researchers must do an extensive amount of research before they begin their studies and write up their findings. The next step is then publishing or presenting these findings so other researchers can learn from them as well. In addition, there are many ways for researchers to share their work with others: through conferences or publications; by posting abstracts online; even by hosting seminars for other professionals interested in similar topics (such as teachers).

A child advocate can help give a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves

A child advocate is someone who speaks on behalf of children. This can be a parent, teacher, social worker or other professional. It can also be an individual or an organization.

The role of the child advocate varies from state to state and country to country but generally it’s someone who will speak up for your child if you’re unable to do so yourself.

For example: In South Africa there are many organizations like ChildLine that provide help for kids who need it most – like when they feel unsafe at home or school because they don’t know what happened after leaving those places; these organizations offer counselling services as well as advice about how best protect yourself against abuse (e.g., by locking doors during certain hours).

Conclusion

Child advocates are responsible for supporting children’s rights, as well as identifying and addressing the needs of youth. This position involves a broad range of activities from being an individual voice for a child to public policy development. Child advocates often rely on research-based evidence in order to support their issue at hand. A child advocate may also help give a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves due to age or disability status; this could be done through ad campaigns or other methods such as technology.