11/18/09

The SERIES:

 RACHEL 911 is a dramatic one hour television series that deals with protecting the safety and well-being of a child and the struggles of being a social worker who has the authority to determine apprehension.

RACHEL 911 revolves around our main character, Rachel O’Connor and her urban social worker comrades who struggle in the same office fighting for the protection of children the best way they can while trying to balance the effects of their work on their own personal lives. None of them are perfect, yet they interact with each other on an episode-to-episode storyline. They encounter humorous moments, distraught times, personal problems, addictions, adulterous relationships, and LIFE.

The arcs in the stories will be the lessons each character learns while dealing with the case studies they are assigned. Depending on what life crisis or success the Caseworkers are experiencing in their own personal lives, the episode will mirror the storylines in the case files. Because of the multi-character, multi-plot structure of the series the seasons will have many lifelines. The main focus of the series will be the trials and tribulations that Rachel will fight for and against to survive in her personal world and in the lives of the children she rescues or loses. By day she rescues the innocent and by night she tries to rescue herself.

Although each episode is closed ended, each is a single battle for child protection. The episodes will revolve around true case stories which will be rewarding, comical, triumphant and sometimes tragic.

The SYSTEM:

 The Provincial government is responsible for ensuring the safety and well-being of children through the administration of the Family and Child Service Act. This statute assigns the authority to apprehend a child “in need of protection” to the Superintendent of Family and Child Service, in the Ministry of Social Services. The superintendent then delegates this power to child protection social workers, ministry employees authorized to act on the superintendent’s behalf. These social workers have the authority to determine when apprehension is necessary and when other means of protecting the safety and well-being of a child, such as providing services to the child’s family, is sufficient.

 The Family and Child Service Act states that in carrying out the powers and responsibilities created by the Act, the “safety and well being of a child shall be the paramount consideration.”

 A child is in need of protection when the child is:

 1) abused or neglected so that his/her safety or well-being is endangered

2) abandoned

 3) deprived of necessary care through the death, absence, or disability of his/her parent

 4) deprived of necessary medical attention

 5) absent from his home in circumstances that endanger his/her safety or well-being

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