The Community Services Branch of the Family Services Section of the North Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS) surveyed all 100 DSS county directors to determine if directors saw HIV/AIDS as a problem now and/or as a potential problem in 5 years. Forty-one percent of the directors indicated an immediate need for difficult-to-provide…

Findings of a study on child abuse reporting practices are presented in this paper. A survey of 1,196 professionals (social workers, psychologists, and doctors) and 267 elementary and secondary principals yielded response rates of 59 and 69 percent, respectively. Findings indicate that although school district policy and resource limitations…

Over the last three years, religious groups and communities around the United States have become increasingly aware of the arrival in this country of large numbers of Salvadorans and Guatemalans seeking refuge from violence and persecution but instead facing arrest and deportation as illegal aliens. This guide is an attempt to mobilize, orient,…

Suggesting the need to base education programs for social service personnel on functions they perform, the author discusses implications for curriculum, articulation, accreditation and certification, access, staffing and finance. Separation of professional education for social work and general education in the field of social welfare is…

This article discusses the experiences of the Research Utilization Laboratory (RUL) of the Chicago Jewish Vocational Service over a five-year period. The topic is approached in terms of the elements involved in the utilization of research and in terms of the problems the RUL encountered. (Author)

Australia has a need for trained interpreters, particularly to work in social services involving immigrants. Training courses have begun for such interpreters, one at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. This course aims toward bilingual fluency and teaches communication skills and both Australian and foreign sociology. (CHK)

While the accomplishments of paraprofessionals and the paraprofessional movement are many, several problems still remain. The author argues that the abuse and misuse of paraprofessionals can only cease when the movement becomes involved in massive social change. (Author/PC)

This paper seeks to improve the conceptualization and measurement of interorganizational fields and organization-environment relations. (JC)

This document contains presentations on the state of social services and care for the aging in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States given at the 1986 International Conference on Social Service and Aging Policies. Included are a conference statement by T. H. Li, remarks by Shui-teh Hsu, the major of Taipei, and these presentations: (1)…

Little empirical research has focused on whether comprehensive service programs for pregnant teenagers and teenage parents have helped to prevent or reduce the occurrence of subsequent pregnancies. This 4-year follow-up study evaluated what impact 8 services provided by a nonprofit agency have had on preventing repeat pregnancies, including…

Developmental psychopathology can be viewed as a macroparadigm within which to integrate theoretical and empirical contributions stemming from other paradigms such as biomedical, behavioral, psychodynamic, cognitive, sociological, and family systems. By highlighting the interconnections among these different approaches and providing an overarching…

This document reports on the collaborative effort of eight community foundations across the country in a demonstration project aimed at encouraging agencies which already work with teenage mothers and their children to extend services to teenage fathers and prospective fathers. The program described offered the young men a range of services to…

This paper explores the differential development of Connecticut's voluntary Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) projects as they move from grass-roots organizations that are akin to social movements to street-level bureaucracies and finally to managed professionalized agencies. The federal government has identified an appropriate continuum…

While West Germany is an affluent society, it is also progressive in terms of its social weflare system. This country's constitution of May, 1949, known as The Basic Law, formed the foundation of the system that simultaneously guarantees human dignity and free personal development and promotes social justice and progress. A national economic…

Discussions of foster care issues were conducted in four Nevada cities. Topics discussed in Reno included an overview of foster care in Nevada, Federal law and its application in the State, and prevention of placement in foster care. Discussed in Las Vegas were provision of foster care to children in southern Nevada and prevention of foster care…