problem focused services

     The section on problem focused services focused on the history of the child welfare and juvenile systems. The child welfare system began in the mid nineteenth century. This system was designed to take care and look after children who are not taken proper care of by their families. This particular service helped assist children who may have not gotten the proper care from parents.
     This section went on to talk about juvenile systems and the history behind that. In the 1970's the court system began to take children who did not attend school or who ran away from home and where supervised by court and or incarnated for these things. Costello makes a great point when he describes the different views of a child who is under the child welfare system and a child who is under the juvenile system. Children who were under the child welfare system were looked at as innocent because they had very little say in their descions but for a child under the juvenile system where looked at as bad kids because they chose to do the wrong thing.
      I feel that if we offered youth programs and listened more to their thoughts and inputs we would decrease the amounts of kids on the street and into violence and trouble.  I feel that as a youth worker the youth should be the one to say what they want, what they like, so that we don't run into problems of violence.  It is very important to offer after school programs and activities for the youth in todays society.