Holistic Practice Case Plan The Aim of this project is to demonstrate the knowledge and understanding youth workers need to professionally support the holistic needs of a young person. This includes...

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Holistic Practice Case Plan The Aim of this project is to demonstrate the knowledge and understanding youth workers need to professionally support the holistic needs of a young person. This includes identifying the risks and protective factors required to build resilience, the range of identified needs and to assist the young person to navigate and negotiate access to appropriate support services. This assessment requires students to write a referenced, academic introduction that demonstrates your understanding of the literature on strengths-based approaches and Holistic practice theory, the relevance of holistic practice to youth work theory and the application of strengths-based theory to this case study. By using the provided case-plan template, students are to prioritise research and justify three (3) key life ideas of identified critical importance for Rebecca. These life areas form the basis of the navigation and negotiation process between the youth worker and Rebecca. Each life area requires detailed examination of appropriate support services within Rebecca’s community, eligibility, referral and level of support required. Students are also required to provide a comprehensive conclusion that addresses the implementation of the plan and follow up protocols. A reference list that complies with VU Harvard guide must be provided. Rebecca's story (Bec) Two seven year old girls are working side by side in a small combined grade two and three class in the inner suburbs of Melbourne. Bec has only been at the school for a term and yet Jo is clearly her best friend. Just before Bec and her family (both parents and an older sister) leave town, she gets Jo to agree to look after her pet mice as she is not allowed to take them with her. As the father worked as an officer in the Army, the family moved often throughout Australia. Bec’s dad applied a dictatorial, distant and cold approach to parenting where minor behavioural issues were responded to with yelling, anger and physical punishments. Bec’s home lacked warmth, compassion and kindness. Bec’s mother (who was driven by fear of her husband’s rage) sought to ‘keep dad calm’ by going to extensive measures to avoid family conflict. Bec learnt that ‘giving dad space’ and not talking unless spoken to, made life less scary. Bec had no trouble making new friends with other children in the street upon arriving at a new town with her family however, maintaining friendships and social networks has always been difficult due to dads work requiring these regular moves. However, Bec and Jo felt a special bond and regularly wrote letters and sent a birthday present to each other every year. The two girls were keen to spend time together however every invitation Jo's family sent to Bec’s family was refused; perhaps this was understandable as the parents didn't really know each other. When the girls were about 15, Jo's family were travelling through Sydney and they rang to see if Bec was free to catch up, luckily her mother agreed to drop Bec off at their hotel for the night as dad was attending a military conference and mum was free to make the decision. Their friendship seemed as strong as ever and the time spent together had a positive effect on Bec emotionally. It was at this time Bec began to imagine a life away from her father. Education was not important for females in Bec's family. Bec’s dad believed that a woman’s role in life was to stay home, have children and ‘take care of her man’. They now lived in Brisbane and there was no support or encouragement for Bec to be successful at school. Her elder sister had left home and had no contact with the family. In the lead-up to her elder sister moving out, their mother had stopped cooking after the meals were regularly thrown in the bin by the father describing them as inedible. The remnants of his frozen meals or the left over rolls from her sister's work at Subway seemed to be the only food in the house. With her sister gone, meals became even more unplanned and irregular. In year 9, a teacher at Bec’s school became concerned about her appearance, the fact that she never brought lunch to school (or had money to buy lunch) and continued to wear a worn-out school dress that were 2 sizes too small. Student wellbeing staff purchased a uniform for Bec to wear at school but Bec refused to take the item home for washing stating ‘dad will explode’. Wellbeing staff called authorities to report their observations and express their concerns. Child Welfare officials rang dad and requested a home visit. Dad was given a time and date that staff would visit and as such, dad ‘coached’ all family members on what to say and what not to say. Bec was also directed to ‘clean every inch of this house’ in the days leading up to the visit. Staff attended, identified nothing of concern and the matter went no further. Teachers and welfare staff sought to support Bec as best they could during school hours. In the last months of her year 12 studies the family moved house again, more than an hour’s travel from the school where she needed to complete her exams. Bec had attended at least 11 schools and lived in more than 12 houses during her short life. Despite this, Bec was determined to complete Year 12 and with the help of her teachers, a girlfriend in Sydney and Jo in Melbourne she persevered with her studies. Jo and her family life seemed a stark contrast to Bec's transient existence. Jo lived in the same house all her life and had negotiated with her parents which school she wanted to attend. Jo's stable home environment also included an open and trusting relationship with her family. During her early adolescence she had often asked questions around self-harming, defining mental health issues and the roles and impact of dysfunctional family members. At the time these questions seemed related to school projects or random curiosity however, with hindsight; it is obvious that the answers and information was being channelled back to Bec. During this final year at school, Jo and her family passed through Brisbane on their way to a holiday on the Great Barrier Reef and again, the girls briefly caught up. In conversations about the following year, Bec asked if Jo and her family would assist her to apply to a University in Victoria and thought that it would be easier if her VTAC application and information could all be based at their house in Melbourne. Jo’s family paid for Bec's VTAC application, encouraged her and organised her enrolment details when she was accepted into a University course with an ATAR of 86. The serious nature of Becs’ intention to escape her family completely only became clear when Jo asked for help from her family to organise the payment for a one way flight to Melbourne - strategically organised for the day after Bec's father was deployed overseas. Bec was following her dream of attending University, leaving home and she didn't want anyone to know or to be able to follow her. When she finally arrived in Melbourne she only had hand luggage and was nervous and unwell. It was only now that the level of neglect and physical and mental abuse could start to be identified. Over the following days it became evident that Bec: · has no money or financial support · has never been to a restaurant · did not know how to use a knife or fork, or to set the table · could not recognise vegetables, or know what was good food to eat or how to cook · has never been to a dentist or a doctor and had no health records · has no record of school immunisations but thought she had received one of three cervical cancer shots but not the correct sequence · has no knowledge of sexually transmitted disease · has no contact with her elder sister and does not ever want her father to find her · has only a small plastic bag of clothes and no other belongings · was unwell, rundown, unhealthy skin and depleted system · has never celebrated Christmas or her birthdays · does not know how to drive · only has two friends from her childhood but has been supported by teachers in the many schools · is a gentle, shy and embarrassed young woman · has experienced violence and physical abuse in the home to her and her mother - "he only beat the crap out of me once" · potentially has mental health issues and would need counselling · did not want to talk about her previous life. Now that Bec was living in Melbourne and temporarily staying at Jo’s house the focus was to get her enrolled at Uni and then to get Bec to focus on her own health and wellbeing and accessing all the support services she was entitled to.
Sep 22, 2020
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