This research examined the issue of community capacity development in a university. The main way communities were empowered was through the education management programmes offered at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. The research is among the first to examine the issue of community capacity development through university programmes. The…

The implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) as a professional model of practice for social work has been suggested as one approach to support informed clinical decision making. However, different barriers and processes have been identified that impact the use of EBP at individual, organizational, and systemic levels. This article describes…

The article reports on the findings of a comparative case study of six projects that operated in Israel between 1980 and 2000. The study findings identify characteristics of the programs, the host organizations, and the social and political environment, which differentiated programs that are sustained from those that are not. The findings reaffirm…

Describes observations and interventions made by a social services agency in Israel as it attempted to develop a low-cost, efficient method of early intervention. Skilled social workers were hired and given special training. They then worked with caregivers in day care centers where children and parents were defined as at-risk. (SKC)

Discusses the Medical Foster Parent Program of the Children's Home and Aid Society of Illinois and La Rabida Children's Hospital and Research Center in Chicago. The program provides foster care for seriously ill children who are wards of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services who would benefit from staying outside of a hospital.…

Describes an innovative program designed to train teachers to play an important role in school social work. (Author/CS)

Describes group education program for adoptive parents developed by a social service agency. The program aims at assuaging the fears raised in adoptive parents by the controversy over sealed records and the adoptee's search for biological parents. (CM)

Reports on adoption placement services for older children provided by the Lutheran Social Service of Kansas and Oklahoma. (SB)

Describes a program of peer supervision, consultation and specialized training that was implemented when the supervisor of four caseworkers (providing services to children living at home) was laid off. (Author/RH)

This issue presents information about the Concern for Children in Placement (CIP) project which promotes a cost-effective case monitoring system to assist courts and agencies in knowing where children under their supervision are placed and why. The CIP pilot test is described and plans for wider dissemination are presented. (JMB)

Based on a survey of nearly 50 agencies in 13 states, describes orientation programs designed to meet the special needs of Indochinese refugees and immigrant women, both in the United States and in overseas refugee camps. (Author/GC)

This joint final report of nine Research Utilization Specialists (RUS) Demonstration projects conducted in state vocational rehabilitation agencies covers all aspects of the projects including resources used, roles and functions, dissemination and utilization strategies, and project outcomes. It is primarily a casebook, presenting specific…

Describes how a family community center in Milton, Vermont provides the "base" where rural families, formerly isolated from both agencies and each other by geography and economics, can gather and receive a variety of services under one roof. The program is illustrated with a case study. (Author/BB)

Campus Compact: The Project for Public and Community Service is described. It is a national, action-oriented effort to increase student community service by centralizing and increasing access to public service information, heightening awareness of public service, and reducing the disincentives now discouraging students from volunteer work. (MLW)

Describes a center which has a program of group therapy for parents in families where patterns of child abuse were developing and also offers full daytime care for their children. (NH)