Examines how social-work services can aid in involving the unmarried father in matters of adoption concerning his child. (PB)

Administrative human service units require an information system that supports decisions regarding case management, treatment planning, monitoring, and evaluation. An integrated information system that utilizes a relational database for both direct practice and administrative decision making is described. (Author/ABB)

Discusses the effect of the current economic crisis on the administration of human service agencies. Offers a systematic approach to managing such agencies with limited financial, human, and physical resources. Emphasizes the need for administrators to utilize the minimum amount of agency resources to provide clients with effective services.…

Collaboration of a public social service department and a public adoption department demonstrated that it was possible to find permanent adoptive homes for many children who were in foster care. (Editor)

A bureaucratic orientation of social workers is found to be conservatizing; a client orientation, radicalizing; and professional orientation, when taken alone, is neither. When coupled with agency or client orientations, however, professionalization intensifies the conservatizing effects of agency orientation and the radicalizing effects of client…

Progressive lifelong transformative education has recognized the impact of social inequalities on learning. Some scholars applying feminist knowledge have acknowledged that violence against women (VAW) also affects learning. Yet, in this recognition there is an implicit assumption that learning is itself positive and peaceful, and impacted…

In this collection of papers, individuals with no prior experience in telecommunications describe their experiences as participants in a major demonstration of telecommunications applied to the needs of persons with developmental disabilities in Vermont. Conducted by the Alternate Media Center of New York University from summer 1979 through…

A cooperative planning effort by six public service agencies in California's Imperial County, an agricultural region suffering from the nation's highest unemployment rate and lowest per capita income, was designed to link and integrate the agencies' employment and training programs. It was found that the proper perspective for planning is as…

This brief study utilizes the source of referral as a means of assessing agency effectiveness. (Author)

The recent emergence of a novel form of social-change activity, professionalized reform, is studied using the National Council of Churches as an example. A revised theory of organizational transformation is advanced, specifying the conditions under which oligarchy emerges and supports a transformation of organizational goals in a radical…

Schools can initiate cooperative relationships with community agencies and help them develop programs to meet student needs. To help administrators assess the helping potential of various agencies, this article offers guidelines for considering agency staff, accreditation, references, professional and ethical stndards, insurance coverage,…

Analyzes the managerial shortcomings of nonprofit organizations and offers some remedies for improving their information systems and then using the data generated to produce better funding procedures and more effective training for top managers. (Author/JG)

Arizona has compiled one of the most dismal records in the country for addressing children's needs. For example, at the time of this report, the state ranked last in state support of early childhood education and graduated fewer high school students than 47 other states. Hopeful signs of citizens' concern have recently been found in results of a…