Course: Case Management Text Book: Fundamentals of Case Management Practice: Skills for the Human Services (HSE 210 Human Services Issues) Author: Summers, Nancy 1. Ecological Model: Case due 26 October - 1 November Discuss the utility or lack thereof of the Ecological Model. Using this model, design interventions for 2 cases found at the end of Ch. 3. Exercise 1: Looking at Florence’s Problem on Three Levels Instructions: Looking at Florence’s problem as she presented it to the case manager. Decide which parts of her problem are on the micro level. Florence came in to see a case manager in an agency that addresses child abuse and neglect. Recently her daughter, Crystal, was removed from the home because of complaints by neighbors that she was abusing the child. An investigation of the situation by child-care worker indicated the abuse was severed. The discipline she was administering was discipline she had experience and witnessed as a child from her parents and her aunts and uncles who lived on farms near her family. Florence related that she was the oldest daughter, third of nine children, of a farm family of 12 people. Her parents worked hard from sun up until long after dark. Much of the housework was done by Florence and her aunt, who lived with them. Her mother was ill, often in her room in bed. Florence does not know what the illness was, but does not recall her mother ever seem a doctor. She tells the case manager that she knows her mother and her aunt did not like her. At 18, Florence ran away with Dave, who did mechanical work on cars. “He was my first and only boyfriend”, she explains, weeping. Florence and Dave never married, and they had one child, Crystal. Last April, Dave died in a car accident on the interstate. Florence cries as she describes that night and the way the police came to her trailer and how kind they were to her. She describes how alone she has felt ever since. Florence received welfare. She completed eight grades before her father “yanked me out of school to do housework. Said it was no place for a girl. A girl didn’t need any schooling.” “Florence has enjoyed school, mostly from the companionship of other girls.” I’m shy of people, you know. But at school I had friends”.” Florence remembers school as hard, and she had trouble with subjects like math and science. ‘Mostly I sat there and worried about what would happen when I got home from school. It was always something: Mom was worse, I was in trouble, and there was some big push to get in a harvest. I was glad when I quit. Leaving with Dave has alienated Florence from her family. “Dave use to say, “They’re just mad “cause they can’t use you no more. “For this reason, Florence has not seen her family since Dave’s funeral, and they have made no attempt to get in touch with her even though they are only a few miles apart. The welfare agency reports that their workers have rarely seen Florence and have not as yet offered her any services for going t.