Developed as a program to help protect family life and children, the Colombian Institute for Family Well-being operates as a "Ministry for Children," providing a variety of medical, psychological, and educational services. (CS)

Staff of a child abuse program in a Philadelphia hospital worked with parents in their own homes to help them develop greater competence as adults and as parents. This article describes the use of social learning theory, with some techniques of behavior therapy, as the basis for treatment. (Author)

This study concerns police services delivery in small-to-medium sized metropolitan areas. It addresses three broad issues: the producers of police services, agency cooperation and service delivery, and agency size and service delivery. Each issue is treated in a separate chapter and includes a discussion of several related questions. The 80…

This article illustrates the feasibility of using the public agency caseworker (even if inexperienced) in a treatment role to deal with a child's adjustment to separation. (CS)

Aimed at both policy makers and service providers, this report assesses services and policies regarding adolescent parents and pregnant adolescents and recommends a number of additions and changes. The first chapter examines the services already offered to pregnant adolescents and adolescent parents, including counseling, family planning,…

Intended to provide new caseworkers with an introduction to child abuse and neglect, the two part document presents information from a multidisciplinary perspective. Twenty-three articles in the first book and seven in the second are included on the social worker's role, assessment and counseling of abusive and neglecting parents, the impact of…

Little is known about the roles of the family, kin and non-kin support networks in determining the use of social services by the elderly. An examination of the role of the formal and informal support systems to explain social service utilization by black and white older adults used path analytic procedures to test an explanatory model of…

In this annotated bibliography, sources of information are compiled on the topics of: (1) understanding adolescents and youth; (2) special challenges for youth workers; and (3) process and practice in youth work. Areas covered include cultural diversity, human sexuality, health, careers, feminism, and methodologies for working with youth and youth…

While there were wide differences between countries, all areas were taken into account to obtain a balanced view because every country has young people who are disadvantaged in one way or another. The problems of young people were identified as accidents, malnutrition, pregnancy, substance abuse and suicide. These problems were being approached by…

Although geographically specific, this report is intended to serve as an educational resource for community, agency, and legislative personnel regarding the impacts created by revised legislation about children and the approaches used to improve the quality of justice for young people and their families. It is based on changes made in the juvenile…

Because previous studies that focus on undocumented aliens (those residing in the United States illegally) fail to define the barriers that inhibit use of mental health services, the proposed model considers these barriers and outlines ways in which social workers employed in mental health institutions can actively help undocumented Mexican…

The primary purpose of this report was to assess the extent to which multiple benefit participation in governmental economic support programs occurs among the minority poor and jobless. Data were supplied by the National Urban League Black Pulse Survey, which interviewed 3,000 black households in an attempt to assess the needs and status of blacks…