Describes Tayari, an adoption service organized by black personnel with special procedures designed to reach black clientele. Tayari is a division of the San Diego County Department of Public Welfare. (BRT)

This document reports on a congressional oversight hearing on the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Program on its 25th anniversary. This hearing is also the opening hearing toward the reauthorization of VISTA, the Federal Government's only full-time domestic volunteer service to alleviate poverty-related problems. Testimony includes…

A systematic investigation was conducted into the nature of interagency cooperative relationships to identify characteristics, factors, and components. Through a review of the literature, terms were defined, and incentives and benefits, facilitators, and barriers were identified. A naturalistic approach to inquiry was used to study the interagency…

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

Due to the demand for social work manpower, an urgent need exists to restructure the available qualified personnel. The monograph deals with the development of social work delivery systems by using teams. The introduction deals with: (1) an awareness to either reduce services or employ unqualified personnel, (2) finding unique jobs for social…

This paper examines the major theoretical approaches to the study of socialization, with an emphasis on media effects. The three major bodies of literature studied are the major theoretic approaches utilized in the general area of developmental psychology, the theoretical paradigms evident in studies dealing more specifically with child…

The efficient management of social service agencies is in part dependent on a clear understanding among board members, executive directors, and staff of their own and one another's role expectations and functions. Concludes that agency personnel showed only a moderate degree of clarity. (Author)

Author believes that the rise of the Manpower Services Commission means youth workers must drop their mystifying community labels and reassert the specialist nature of their jobs. In the wake of the State giving up the commitment to youth service, examines where youth work will be done on the future. (Editor/RK)

A model for treating delinquents is proposed in which traditional community agencies would integrate small numbers of delinquents into groups of prosocial children. This innovation would reduce the adverse effects of labeling and peer-group composition, among others, without interfering significantly with the agencies' operations. (Author)

The immediate goal was to train 120 women to work in community agencies. The long range goal was an improved body of knowledge regarding utilization of woman Power, particularly knowledge regarding recruiting, selection, and training for careers in youth serving agencies. (Author)

Describes innovative developments of operational concepts and procedures that express social work perspectives of the earlier and current social reform areas. (Author)

A survey of 181 neighborhood social service organizations in Chicago finds that, under conditions of demographic and socioeconomic change, leaders of these agencies establish cooperative relations on the basis of common organizational memberships and common racial or educational status. (Author/RW)

Examines the definition and symptoms of the burnout syndrome, with specific discussion of the causes of burnout among workers in social service agencies. (SK)

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)

Presents some principles for promoting interdisciplinary education and research within a university and facilitating mutually beneficial relations between university faculty and community human service providers. Includes examples from the experience of the University of Pittsburgh Office of Child Development. (EVL)