Proposal for "B" Grade

Children coming from unhealthy families have greater struggles ahead than children reared in healthy families. For my "B" project, I would propose designing a family mentoring program for families in Douglas County Wisconsin. This project would include researching family mentoring programs already in place as well as a needs assessment for families in Douglas County. The final project would be presented in the form of a proposal to Douglas County Department of Human Services including a plan for implementation of a family mentoring program.

Proposal for "A" Grade

For this project, I would like to teach a session for the Cohort on child abuse and neglect issues. I would hope to teach the class before the two sessions included in the Toxic Child Series that are addressing similiar issues in a broader format. Specifically, the sessions on Feb. 3, 1999 on Sexual Abuse: Prevention, Intervention, and Referral and March 3, 1999 on Intervention & Referral: Community resources, insurance issues, welfare laws, mandatory reporting in Minnesota, and other issues. I would plan to examine more closely the issues of working with children from unhealthy homes where abuse/neglect and domestic violence are present in their everyday lives. Inluded in my presentation would be the dynamics of child abuse and neglect as well as tools for responding to the abused/neglected child. I believe a class presentation would also afford participants more opportunity for open discussion of the issues than will be provided for in the larger more formal Toxic Child sessions.

Answered by Marcia Gurno (mgurno@aol.com) on October 25, 1998.

-- Anonymous, November 11, 1998

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CONTRACT FOR GRADE - SECOND TERM 2/10/99

Proposal for B Grade

For my 'B' project, I will read the book, "Savage Inequities" by Steven Koval and submit a book report.

For my 'A' project, I will draft a booklet for reporting child abuse and neglect in Douglas County WI. for mandated reporters. The final project will be a finished booklet to be distributed to schools within the four school districts contained within Douglas County, WI.

-- Anonymous, February 10, 1999