Reference no: EM133649017

Jimmy Prego is a passive, deeply disturbed early adolescent. He lives in a therapeutic home where he sometimes had to be protected from other residents. Now he is ready to be moved to a less restrictive environment; a therapeutic foster home, something your supervisor originally suggested, and now seems like the optimum solution.

You have contacted such a home and begun plans to move Jimmy in about two weeks. You inform your supervisor that have initiated the move, and she tells you that space has become available in an even less restricted group home run by your own agency. She encourages that Jimmy move to the agency group home instead of a therapeutic foster home.

You tell your supervisor that you will check it out, she seems very uncomfortable. After your site visit, you discover the residents are older, bigger, and more aggressive than Jimmy. You inform your supervisor that you don't think the group home is a good fit for a boy like Jimmy, who has had difficulties defending himself in his current center.

You have since learned that the agency you work in has placed pressure on all supervisors to boost the group home's census, in order to increase the financial revenue to the agency. Jimmy's mother is unable to assist in making a decision because of her own personal and mental health problems. She also insists that she trusts you and trusts that you will do what is best for Jimmy. Jimmy's issues and his age make it unlikely that he is capable of making the decision.

Using the Ethical Decision Making model-

1. Identify the ethical issue including the social work valuesand duties that conflict.

2. Identify the individuals groups and organizations likely to be effected by ethical decision tentively identify all viable courses of action and the participants involved in each, salong with the potential benifits and risks for each Thoroughly how would you evaluate this case?