CASE STUDY 5:  You are attending a picnic given by your best friend’s family.  In the course of the day you are introduced to her cousin, Charles, who is a lawyer for a big corporation.  In the conversation he asks where you work and you respond that you are a youth worker at Sunny Farms. He remarks, “You must be good at sports since I often see kids playing basketball when I drive by the agency.  It’s really good that these young people have such a nice place to stay.”

Given the cultural and economic background of these youth and their ages, the physical environment of the building appropriately meets their needs because:

Based on the information given above, which of the following responses would probably be most effective with Janice?

Based on the information given in the case study, evaluate how Linda (the staff member) took steps to protect herself and the child (Janice).

Harry was aware that these youth had a lot of room to grow personally and emotionally.  He also recognized their skill levels in social skills and problem solving, along with their general developmental deficits.  The camping trip would create a new context for youth to be challenged; and they would also be required to respond to those challenges, both individually and as a group.  If implemented successfully, the youth would have fun and experience a broad range of feelings, attitudes, new skills, behaviors and ideas that would offer them new ways of thinking of, and interacting with, themselves and the world they live in.   What option below promotes the most effective approach to enabling the youth to gain from this experience?

Your assessment of Octoria’s behavior in the scenario was influenced by your understanding that behavior is typically _____.

A recommendation you might make later to your friend to improve the program is:

Based on the above information, how would you best describe Ted’s effectiveness as a team leader?

Which of the following statements about the Red School House class environment, rules, and procedures (as described here) fits the best model of child and youth care?

One day, one of the child care workers, Laurie, noticed something moving on Ricardo’s head. When she examined it closely, she thought she saw head lice and nits in his hair, although she did not have much experience with these matters. She called it to the attention of the center’s director, who confirmed that she thought that it was lice. The center director told Laurie to inform Ricardo’s grandmother, who usually came to pick him up, that she must get him checked out by the doctor before he came back to the center. Since it was only 45 minutes until the end of the day, the center director said it would be okay to keep Ricardo in class until the grandmother came to pick him up. “If the other kids are going to get the lice, they probably already have it,” she said. The Red School House employs two Spanish-speaking child care workers, but one of them called in sick on the day that the staff discovered that Ricardo had head lice, and the other one was on a Caribbean cruise during her vacation that week. Given that Ricardo’s grandmother could not speak English, the father was unavailable, and none of the staff members could speak Spanish, what should the center director and Laurie have done about telling someone about the possibility that Ricardo had lice?