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Full-Text Articles in Social Work
Collaboration With Parent-Run Organization, A Support Agency And Adults With Developmental Disabilities To Improve The Quality Of Life, Alan Kurtz, Janet May
Collaboration With Parent-Run Organization, A Support Agency And Adults With Developmental Disabilities To Improve The Quality Of Life, Alan Kurtz, Janet May
Poster Presentations
CCIDS staff worked with a parent organization to develop a plan for evaluation of a residential alternative for their adult children that included pre-post quantitative and qualitative measures of resident quality of life and a review of planning documents. A quality of life survey was administered separately to residents and parents shortly before their move into the new residence and about one year after their move. CCIDS also provided training for agency staff, parents, and residents on authentic person-centered planning and facilitating community connections.
Life History From The Vantage Point Of A Cane, Elena Ford
Life History From The Vantage Point Of A Cane, Elena Ford
Poster Presentations
According to Kaiser (2018) “Appearance style is a metaphor for identity”. And while the typical body can project the self through selecting, donning, and displaying fashion, the disabled body has been denied that critical mode of self-expression, until recently. Lack of clothing choice has prevailed due in part to benign and even intentional neglect and omission of disability from both fashion design and display. As a result of negative attitudes towards disability, expectations are perpetuated that function should trump any concern with aesthetics, and that attention to fashion and appearance is petty and frivolous. Yet, the increasingly omnipotent visual culture …
Disability Imagery: A Bastion Of Social Change, Faith Perez, Renee Stronach, Class Of Dis 450 Disability: Population-Environment
Disability Imagery: A Bastion Of Social Change, Faith Perez, Renee Stronach, Class Of Dis 450 Disability: Population-Environment
Poster Presentations
In the visual and material culture of the 21st century, image is power. This inquiry used thematic analysis to examine the meanings of disability imagery on a continuum from tragedy to an inevitable and celebrated part of human diversity and provocateur of social change. Five themes emerged: disability as tragic (exclusion, isolation, fear); disability as inspiration porn (disabled people are brave or special just for living); close but not quite (some positive imagery segregation and impairment are foregrounded); and celebration of disability as human diversity (the goal for change).
Policy Brief: Lifespan Respite Care Reauthorization Act, The 2015-2016 Cohort Of New Hampshire Leadership Education In Neurodevelopmental And Related Disabilities (Nh Lend) Program Trainees.
Policy Brief: Lifespan Respite Care Reauthorization Act, The 2015-2016 Cohort Of New Hampshire Leadership Education In Neurodevelopmental And Related Disabilities (Nh Lend) Program Trainees.
Policy Analysis
The Lifespan Respite Care Act (PL 109-442) provides critical support for families caring for loved ones at home. Family caregivers in the United States provide an estimated $470 billion worth of uncompensated care—a figure that exceeds the total Medicaid budget for 2013 (NAC Task Force, 2016). According to the National Respite Coalition, access to respite care helps protect caregiver health, strengthens families, keeps marriages intact, and prevents the need for expensive institutional long-term care. Reauthorization of the Lifespan Respite Care Act is essential to the well-being of individuals in need of long-term care and their families affected by long-term health …
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Fall 2011), New Hope For Women Staff
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Fall 2011), New Hope For Women Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Spring 2011), New Hope For Women Staff
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Spring 2011), New Hope For Women Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Fall 2010), New Hope For Women Staff
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Fall 2010), New Hope For Women Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Fall 2009), New Hope For Women Staff
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Fall 2009), New Hope For Women Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Spring 2009), New Hope For Women Staff
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Spring 2009), New Hope For Women Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Fall 2008), New Hope For Women Staff
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Fall 2008), New Hope For Women Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Spring 2008), New Hope For Women Staff
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Spring 2008), New Hope For Women Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Fall 2007), New Hope For Women Staff
New Hope For Women Newsletter (Fall 2007), New Hope For Women Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
The Domestic Violence Myth Acceptance Scale: Development And Psychometric Testing Of A New Instrument, John Peters
The Domestic Violence Myth Acceptance Scale: Development And Psychometric Testing Of A New Instrument, John Peters
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Since 1980, researchers and practitioners have had access to valid and reliable measures of myths about rape (Burt, 1980) and child sexual abuse (Collings, 1997). Despite the utility of such measures in research and program evaluation, no such measure of domestic violence myths currently exists. The present study was undertaken to fill this gap. In this study, domestic violence myths were defined as stereotypical attitudes and beliefs that are generally false but are widely and persistently held, and which serve to minimize, deny, or justify physical aggression against intimate partners. Based on defensive attribution and radical feminist theories, these myths …
The Aging Imperative In Maine: Present Realities And Future Prospects, Helen. B. Miltiades, Lenard W. Kaye
The Aging Imperative In Maine: Present Realities And Future Prospects, Helen. B. Miltiades, Lenard W. Kaye
Maine Policy Review
Maine has one of the oldest populations in the United States. In this article, Helen Miltiades and Lenard Kaye, guest editor for this special issue, provide an overview of Maine’s aging population and the challenges—and opportunities—faced in the “revolution in aging” that is taking place. They point out how the growing older adult population is expected to place greater demands on family caregivers, on the health and long-term care systems, and on state and federal budgetary and policy decisions. Describing some of Maine’s innovative public and private sector responses, they note that Maine has been in the forefront in providing …
Adolescent Homelessness: A Roundtable Discussion
Adolescent Homelessness: A Roundtable Discussion
Maine Policy Review
Where do homeless adolescents come from? Are there more homeless youth today than ten years ago? How do we help these youth? What do they need? In December 1998, these questions formed the core of a Maine Policy Review roundtable discussion featuring: State Representative Michael Quint; Dana Totman, deputy director of the Maine State Housing Authority; Christine O’Leary, coordinator of Portland’s Preble Street Resource Teen Center; Bob Rowe, executive director of New Beginnings in Lewiston; and Brad Coffey, chair of the board of Bangor’s Shaw House from 1994-1998. In their wide-ranging discussion, the participants focused on the varied circumstances that …
Experts Probe Child Abuse Problems At Conference, Lisa Halvorsen
Experts Probe Child Abuse Problems At Conference, Lisa Halvorsen
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Every day there are hundreds of recorded instances of children being abused or sexually molested, yet often times nothing is done about it. Part of the problem is that a lot of people don't know what to do.