When the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security launched Mission Child Protection in 2007 it was to address the obvious need that exists in the country. This was to not only remove children from situations that were dangerous to life and limb but also to offer them the opportunity to have some chance at a normal life free from fear and pain. Three years later the programme is still going strong and numerous lives have been changed by the workers at the Child Protection Agency.According to Director of the Child Protection Agency, Mrs. Ann Greene, the Ministry does not seek to remove children from their homes and families. That option is a last resort. Yet there are extreme cases where the children involved are not safe and it must be done. These children are taken into care at any of the three state-owned institutions and the workers immediately set about healing their hurts as best as they could.They are given an opportunity to make normal lives for themselves when they attain the age of majority. But frequently they reach their majority and are in no position to be out on their own since they lack the financial resources necessary even though many of them are able to achieve either a trade or academic certificate.Greene noted that of the approximately 700 children in the care system across the country, those that have aged out of it and do not choose to return to their families or do not have that option are allowed to stay in the homes.As these young adults begin to work toward their independence the Ministry has decided to meet them ‘halfway’ along that road to self-sufficiency. The Director stated that plans are in the works to commission a Halfway House for youths that have aged out of the system and have nowhere else to go,Jerseys NFL Cheap, but who still need a modicum of support and care as they make their way to independence and a life lived on their own terms.Before a child is taken into the care of the state a strict protocol of actions must be followed,Cheap Air Max 90 Shoes, since the intent of a social worker is to ensure the well being of the child both physically and mentally and that must be done with as little shock to the child’s psyche as possible.The social workers of the Ministry must therefore verify reports of abuse and neglect,Nike Tns Cheap Online, attempt to meet with the people involved both adults and children alike and work with them to resolve the matter, employing counseling and remedial measures wherever possible.There are a few cases however where the parents are so dysfunctional and unfit for their duties as guardians that leaving children in their care would be irresponsible at the very least.These children come in all races and ages, with all kinds of abuses and pains piled on their innocent bodies and minds, some of them are violent and distrusting, lack rudimentary social skills as a result of the lives they have been living to survive or suffer a laundry list of other psychological issues as a result of trauma and abuse.If after assessing their cases there are no close relatives willing or able to take them in or their parents are still deemed unfit even after counseling by social workers, when all hopes of reintegration with their families have failed, then the children are placed in the centres. They make their homes there, they go to church and school from the centre,Cheap Jerseys From China, they eat their meals in its halls,Cheap Nike Air Max 97 Shoes For Women, they do their homework there … a life as stable and as safe as is possible in these circumstances is given to them by the Ministry until they attain their majority.At present, those that have passed that age and are free to leave usually stay on if they do not have homes and families to return to,Cheap NFL Jerseys Store, helping those that have newly arrived into the system.