Objective: Using data from a nationally representative panel study, the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW), we address the following questions: (a) What are the youth, family, community, and child welfare system risk factors that place youth (ages 11-14 years) living at home, who are referred for maltreatment, at increased…

Lifelong learning is recognized as an important tool to reduce social exclusion, but out of the many investigations into the provision of lifelong learning in Europe none has yet sought to examine the specific situation of mental health care service users. This study examines the provision of lifelong learning for this disadvantaged group; it…

The current study replicates work of Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northeast and Islands. It describes dropout prevention programs in nine Mid-Atlantic Region (Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) school districts serving communities with populations of 24,742-107,250 (as of July 2008). All nine…

This most recent Iowa Kids Count data book, "Iowa Kids Count 2010: Trends in the Well-Being of Iowa Children," provides data on 20 different indicators of child and family well-being at the United States, Iowa, substate and county level. The annually produced data book presents health, education, welfare and economic data including…

The powerful, reciprocal connection between school and housing segregation has long been recognized. The housing-school link was a key element in both the 1968 Kerner Commission Report and in the legislative history of the Fair Housing Act. The relation of school and housing segregation was also explored in a series of school desegregation cases…

The Center of Family Life (CFL) is a private nonprofit agency. Since its creation in 1978 CFL has offered a wide range of services to children and families in Sunset Park, a low-income multi-echnic Brooklyn, New York neighborhood. All families with children under age 18 and pregnant women living in the neighborhood are eligible for services free…

This annual report of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) is for fiscal year 1990. A introductory overview presents brief program descriptions and trends. Tables describing expenditures for fiscal years 1989 and 1990 by program type and overall DHS program expenditures categorized by federal and state amounts for the years 1937-1990,…

Brown states that "paraprofessional counselors can and do contribute meaningfully to the improved adjustment of their clients." In this article he carefully reviews the evidence for this assertion, takes a hard look at the state of research, and points to the problems yet to be solved. (Author)

Describes services rendered by the Near West Side Multi-Services Center in Cleveland, Ohio where 22 independent organizations and agencies are housed in the same building in order to provide the convenience of "one-stop shopping" for social services. (Author/HMV)

This monograph was written to inform organizations working with homeless families about some potential sources of funding for their programs and to briefly describe the benefits available to homeless families. The focus throughout is exclusively on services and not on housing. Readers are guided to the major resources available through both the…

The rapid growth of the proprietary sector in the provision of social services creates a challenge for the social work profession. Little is known about social work services in for-profit organizations or about how they compare to similar non-profit settings. A comparative study was conducted of social work services in proprietary and non-profit…

As of 1978, a total of 43 states had enacted the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC), a law specifying those persons and agencies who must and those who need not follow ICPC procedures when placing a child into a family across state lines. In the early 1970s, funds were made available to the American Public Welfare Association…

The provision of Federal aid is more limited in United States territories and possessions than it is in the states. These areas are generally exempt from Federal taxes as an incentive to their economic self-reliance. This study analyzes the impact of extending full Federal aid and income taxes to these areas. Although Federal spending in these…

A brief analysis of the War on Poverty, Medicare, and the Family Assistance Plan shows that political factors influenced their design and their fate more than need or effectiveness. The author suggests that social workers have a role in promoting the wiser and wider use of research data for determining social policy. (Author)