Client Impact The client I chose for this diversity interview is Willie Hazzard, age 13. Willie is Diane Hazzard's youngest son. Willie is clearly affected by many generations of poverty, his mother's addiction, abandonment due to his mother's addiction, and his exposure to the foster care system. Willie appears to lack confidence, is hostile, and appears to be too familiar with street life. His lack of confidence can be attributed to his mother's lack of parenting when he was young, which led to him being removed from the only home he had ever known and placed into the child welfare system. It went around to several homes and was returned to its mother 6.5 years later, so it was never able to plant roots. His mother also constantly told her children that they would come home next year while they were in foster care, but next year did not arrive for many years. Willie's hostility seems to stem from the same issues. It is evident that he is still angry at his mother for her addiction problem which led to his removal from home. At one point he even tells her “You don't do anything for me… anything”. Multigenerational poverty is the link between Willie's mother's addiction, her children's removal from home, and family dynamics. According to one study, poor African Americans are more likely to drop out of school (Aizer, 2008). Developmental issues are difficult to identify in Willie as we don't see him often in the film. However, we see HIV in the home with Love. HIV has been found to correlate with poverty (Stobbe, 2010). Infant mortality is also high among those living in poverty (Ortiz & Briggs, 2003). Socially, we see Willie struggling with trust. This is a developing… middle of the paper… ability to read body language and other nonverbal cues. This will help me change the subject or reframe things when I sense tension, anger, or confusion in the room. References Aizer, A. (2008). Neighborhood violence and urban youth. Cambridge, MA: NationalBureau of Economic Research.Alexander, R. r. (2010). The impact of poverty on African American children in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Online Public Policy Forum, 2010(4).Dworkin, J. (2002). Love and Diana. United States: Chilmark Productions. Erikson, E. H. (1964). Childhood and society. New York: Norton.Ortiz, A.T., & Briggs, L. (2003). The culture of poverty, crack babies, and welfare cheats: Creating the healthy white baby crisis. Social Text, 21(3), 30-60.Wagstaff, A. (2004). Child health: reaching the poor. American Journal of Public Health,94(5), 726.