Community Agency Vignettes

Instructions: This assignment will ask you to pick one child vignette and research community

agencies that would support them. Please pick one of the child vignettes below and answer the

corresponding questions. In your response, please let me know which vignette you decided on.

Your questions should be answered thoroughly and include specific details regarding the

resources for each child. For example: If you would recommend referring the children the

Health and Family Services, what would you be referring them for? If you are going to

recommend going to a WIC office, what is the specific information that they will need and

where can they find the office.

Vignettes

Anthony

Three-year-old Anthony and his family are behind on rent. They are facing possible

homelessness and worrying they will run out of food. Many of these challenges can be linked to

the difficulty Anthony’s mother is having in finding steady employment. A consequence of

these stressors may be seen in how Anthony’s behavior has changed at his childcare. He has

become more socially withdrawn and has begun hitting and punching other children and having

tantrums.

Questions:

1. What resources might support Anthony’s family with housing and food? Please list the

specific resource information: (name, address, phone number and any other

information a family might need to have regarding these resources). Please be sure

that you include both housing and food resources.

2. What resources might support Anthony’s teachers to bolster all aspects of his learning

and development, including helping him to self-regulate?

Qasim arrived recently with his mother, father, and older sister, Daba, from Syria. Qasim is

three years old.

At home Qasim’s family speaks Arabic, but both parents are eager to learn English. Through an

interpreter, Qasim’s parents report that he has an extensive vocabulary and seems to be adding

new words and using longer sentences, in Arabic, each day.

The journey to San Diego was a perilous one. His family has shared that Qasim sometimes has

bad dreams about their journey that wake him up and require stroking, rocking, and soothing

words to get him back to sleep. His family calls him a “little professor” based on the fact that he

is extremely curious, quite perceptive, and very interested in how things work. To support his

English development and help him begin to feel at home, his family is sending him to a nearby

early childhood program each day. His teacher reports that he often seems withdrawn and

quiet, but is also watching the other children to see and follow what they’re doing. She

acknowledges that she doesn’t know any Arabic and is struggling with how best to support

Qasim and collaborate with his family.

Questions:

1. What resources might support Qasim’s family in their adjustment to their new

community? Please list the specific resource information: (name, address, phone

number and any other information a family might need to have regarding these

resources).

2. What resources might support Qasim’s teacher in her work with him and her

engagement of a family that does not speak English?