Week 3 - Continuing in your role as a juvenile court

Week 3 - Letter

Continuing in your role as a juvenile court probation officer and using the same client, Jennifer Scott, from the Week 2 assignment, examine ethical challenges that can?impact?supervision strategies?by writing?a 700 word?advocacy letter that will be presented to the judge during a hearing on your client’s risk and needs. You may want to review her background again.

Specifically, your letter should do the following:

• Summarize your client’s situation and major risk factors.
• Identify 1 ethical challenge that affects your client.
• Apply 3 ethical strategies that will address the challenge.
• Examine the role you will have as an advocate.
• Discuss how advocacy can be used for this situation.
• Recommend actions that would lead to the desired change.