Eight papers on multisite evaluation are presented. Topics include organizational and methodological issues, program theory, coordination of staffing, and the program review team approach. Programs and policies evaluated include those focusing on adult day health care, spousal assault, mental health, job-training for single mothers, criminal…

This article suggests that fundamentalist families are significantly different from nonfundamentalist families, that fundamentalist beliefs have an impact upon the family's operations to the extent that they are a distinct subculture, and that treatment requires sensitivity to their beliefs and a set of unique assessment and intervention skills.…

Interviewed adolescents in Northern Ireland to investigate their experiences with the divorce process and help provided by family, friends, and professionals. They considered the separation/divorce process long, frequently underpinned by acrimony and violence. Extended family and peers provided great support. Many teens used specialist counselors…

Studied the needs and use of services by HIV-positive youth of the services provided by the Boston HIV Adolescent Provider and Peer Education Network for Services (HAPPENS) program. Results for 1,044 youth shows that HIV-positive young people are accessing coordinated care. Also highlights gender differences in services needed. (SLD)

The Training Rural Alzheimer's Networking Services for Education and Referral (TRANSFER) prepares rural health and social service providers in West Virginia to detect the presence of cognitive disorders and offer care to these people and their families. A train-the-trainer model was developed that can be used with rural practitioners. (JOW)

Describes an evaluation of an innovative site-based service program, the Growth and Achievement Program (GAP). Results show that GAP clients had significantly higher gain scores than did the comparison group and were less likely to rely on public financial assistance as their primary source of income. (RJM)

Describes a course in the first-year college composition sequence (with substantial research and argumentation components) that is organized around a career focus on social services practice. Describes how the students learn about connections between writing, thinking, problem solving, composition class, and their chosen profession. (SR)

Confronts the thesis that Germany is witnessing a process of "normalization" of social work, substantiated by the expansion of the fields of action of social work, with findings of a sociocultural "division of society." Inquires into the consequences of these findings for clients and objectives of social work. (DSK)

Describes the development and features of Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Service's Child Health System (CHS), a computerized health record application designed to capture information on the health status and medical needs of over 60,000 children. Includes a brief overview of the 2,688 cases entered into the system during the…

Defines empowerment based on self-determination, collaboration, and democratic participation, and distributive justice. Identifies possibilities and limitations for applying these principles in child protection practice. Discusses necessary and sufficient conditions for the use of empowerment guidelines, and the dilemma associated with their…

A review of rehabilitation, job training, and educational programs available to inmates in Nigerian prisons finds that they are inadequate to prepare prisoners for postprison life. Recommendations include more part-time instructors, diversification of vocational education, establishment of library services, and focus on lifelong learning. (SK)

Discusses issues related to measuring outcomes of social-work interventions with children. Emphasizes the need for regular, carefully timed assessments. Argues that approach and perspective differences obscure relationships between program and child outcomes and that assessing family-services outcomes raises accountability questions. Suggests that…

Examines the essential features of prevention activities and relates them to modernity and social systems. Draws on systems theory to argue that prevention activities help to maintain, and yet weaken, boundaries by which social-system functioning is sustained. For this reason, preventive policy making can be described as recursive. (Author/KB)

The importance of integrating services with housing to help low-income families achieve stability is gaining recognition. The variations in types of existing housing and service initiatives have produced a complex language with multiple meanings and overlapping definitions. The National Low Income Housing Coalition proposes the umbrella term …

Funding under Title IV-E has historically not been available to American Indian communities, therefore, tribes have had to develop agreements with states to access these funds for child care services. This study analyzes Title IV-E intergovernmental provisions to help tribes and states strengthen Title IV-E agreements. A nationwide content…