Describes an organization which provides services and education for single mothers in Australia. (ST)

Alternatives to the present system of specialized service agencies for the blind in Australia are suggested as ways of changing stereotypes about blind persons and providing better services to the visually handicapped. (Author/GW)

From Harlem to Monrovia, Liberia, their service projects contribute increasingly and significantly to the total Black community. (DM)

This article outlines HFC goals, indicates how its focuses mark a swing from a clinical medical model to an educational model of treatment, and shows the increasing involvement of helping persons from the community, both professional and nonprofessional. (Author)

This paper examines the American experience of combining aid and services in public assistance, the parallel British experience, and some aspects of professional practice in order to highlight the implications of the money and morality issue for social welfare policy and social work practice. (Author)

This paper discusses the characteristics and child care arrangements of a study sample of 203 Negro working mothers in New York City. It was found that the mothers reluctantly seek unsupervised family day care because group day care facilities are not available. (Author)

In the distribution of benefits under a social welfare program, the frame of reference is extremely important as a guide to social policy. The school breakfast program discussed here is analyzed on the basis of two concepts--and the examination points up some basic problems. (WY)

Emphasizes the need to view adolescents and adults as an interacting unit and to avoid overspecialization of social services aimed at particular age groups. Programs should be restructured to increase youth-adult interaction, giving them more decision-making power, and also more responsibility. (NH)

Proposes a social service model based on Community Progress, an antipoverty program in New Haven, Connecticut, aimed at helping the poor achieve upward social mobility by facilitating their use of existing opportunities in employment, housing, and education. (Author)

Presented at the 1969 meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association in New York. (Author)

Pinpoints several problems in youth services in general and in rural areas in particular. Suggests strategies for overcoming these obstacles: packaging services which meet child's total needs, establishing youth service bureaus to coordinate families and human services resources, and using natural helping networks of the community. (Author/AH)

Proposes that a major constraint of research in child welfare has been the inability to coordinate reforms among various components of foster care reform. Reveals research advances in child welfare that demonstrate effective social work practice and indicate directions for comprehensive foster care reform. (Author)

Examined myths and stereotypes associated with the sexual and reproductive behavior of the urban poor, particularly poor White, Black, and Mexican-American women. Through extensive analysis of differences in family planning and fertility patterns, conclusions were reached about the relationship between sexual stereotypes, family social services,…

Describes the objectives and activities of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within the purview of the Reagan administration's civil rights policy. Describes OCR methodologies designed to ensure enforcement of nondiscrimination requirements in state implementation of programs under federal block grants. (MJL)