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The Utilization Of Aides In Public Welfare; Analysis, Evaluation, And Proposal, Leonard Mark Robinson, Shirley Ann Youngstrom
The Utilization Of Aides In Public Welfare; Analysis, Evaluation, And Proposal, Leonard Mark Robinson, Shirley Ann Youngstrom
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The purpose of this project was to trace the developments which led to the utilization of para-profess iona1 persons as service aides in public welfare departments and to examine, in particular, the developments in Oregon at the state and county levels. The establishment of such programs was mandated in the Social Security Amendments of 1967. A review of the 1967 legislation showed the legislative intent to be inconsistent with the stated purposes of the program. This inconsistency, it was found, has been reflected in Oregon’s aide program. The theoretical origins underlying the aide concept were also examined in order to …
Traits Associated With Choosing Social Work As A Career, Helen Ellsworth, James B. Epley, Carolyn Hanson, Robert L. Morasch, Roberta Roth, Norma Rowe, Richard H. Stowell, Fredrick H. Swan, Joanna M. Wadsworth, Aurita Zeigler
Traits Associated With Choosing Social Work As A Career, Helen Ellsworth, James B. Epley, Carolyn Hanson, Robert L. Morasch, Roberta Roth, Norma Rowe, Richard H. Stowell, Fredrick H. Swan, Joanna M. Wadsworth, Aurita Zeigler
Dissertations and Theses
This was a study of traits associated with the choice of social work as a career. Two samples of people from the metropolitan area of Portland, Oregon, who had shown an interest in social work, were studied, together with the factors that influenced this interest. The traits and factors considered were substantially those examined by Arnulf M. Pins in Who Chooses Social Work, When and Why? Traits measured by the Pins study of individuals who had gone on to graduate education in social work were held indicative of individuals most likely to become professional social workers. The Pins’ questionnaire was …