| Head of the Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA), Ann Greene, has informed that the possibility exists for the young mother of three-year old ‘Leon’ – who was recently rescued by welfare officers – to reclaim him once proven capable of properly parenting a child,Cheap NFL Jerseys Free Shipping, after a six-month assessment.Greene said that to date the child has been adapting nicely to his new environment at one of the agency’s ‘safe houses’.Just a week ago, following a hotline report to the CCPA, the child was rescued from an unkempt Charlotte Street property in which he had resided with his 74-year-old grandfather, for the past two years.Yesterday, Greene told Kaieteur News that as soon as the child’s health is satisfactory, moves will be made to place him into a foster home.Greene specified that the decision is fixed on temporary foster care, and not adoption. She said that the agency has taken a decision to rule out adoption at the moment,Cheap Jerseys China, so as to allow the child’s 20-year-old mother a fair opportunity to reclaim him, as she has indicated a desire to do so.If proven incapable, however, the agency will seek to have him permanently placed into a home.In order to help the young mother to achieve her goal,NFL Jerseys China, Greene said that the agency has been working with her on a one-on-one basis. Contrary to the belief that the agency cares only about children, the CCPA Head said that in order to help the child, assistance needs to be given to the family.This is the case, she noted, with the young mother. Greene said that the mother, in her sincerity,Cheap Jerseys USA, has admitted to needing help and as such, the agency is prepared to offer her just that.“We have to help the mother if she needs help, and if she is willing to work towards making a better life for her child, then she can have our support. Yes, the focus is on the child, but we can’t work with the child in isolation, we have to work with the child and the mother.”Greene informed that the mother has accepted counseling and has already attended her first session.“She understands now that help and support is available. She didn’t know she could have gotten help to get her life organized.”Greene said that counseling for the young mother currently involves “helping her to sort out her situation”,Cheap Stitched Jerseys, while noting that she too has been a victim of mistreatment.“She has to set some goals in terms of looking at her self-development. She has to be able to sort out her childhood; and then she needs assistance as to how she will parent her child. Since she obviously has not received that sort of support, that is the kind of support we are giving her.”Turning her attention to little ‘Leon’, Greene said that in his current environment, the toddler is getting the “love and attention” that he needs, after living in a home where he received very little.Greene noted that of primary importance, and one of the impediments that the agency will be working to address,Wholesale Jerseys, is the development of his language skills.Not only did the CCPA identify this problem, but a source close to the situation had told Kaieteur News that the child would be heard, but his words were unintelligible. The source assumed it was because the child had no one to “talk back to him”.Greene shared the same notion, while considering that at his age the child should have been equipped with a wider vocabulary.“He should have been making sentences. He has missed the part of his childhood which includes such important years, because they are the foundation years. His language skills were never developed and you find that these children who have missed it, they don’t catch up. When they go to school, there’s a gap that could never be filled.”Greene said that in order to give the child a push, while considering families to foster him, the agency will be looking to place him into an environment where “people are talking and things are happening quickly” so that he could catch up and cultivate those skills.The CCPA Head has confirmed that until now the child has not particularly been verbally responsive.“He is behind and we have to work on him. But since it is just a week, we are allowing him first to get used to the new environment. Now we are just letting him be, giving him the love and attention for now and see that he eats.”Added to that, Greene said that the welfare officers are monitoring his level of communication with other children in state care and, depending on the improvement, steps will be made to enroll him to be part of Speech Therapy classes at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. |
