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Youth Service As Strong Policy, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Youth Service as Strong Policy

Advancing Community Development And Public Policy Through An Mis-Enhanced Network, Elizabeth Johnson, James Hinterlong, Michael Sherraden, Amanda Moore

Center for Social Development Research

Effective community development requires the establishment of links among multiple organizations and institutions. How well the network functions depend on the specificity and accuracy of the information exchanged. In this paper, we illustrate how the introduction of a management information system (MIS) to a network of economic development programs across the United States meets the diverse information needs of the multiple members and standardizes their communication. We discuss how the MIS, as a tool for community development, supports the collection and flow of information among network members, leading to expansion of the network. The success of this MIS-enhanced network is …

Experience In The American Dream Demonstration: Lessons For Monitoring In A Children And Youth Savings Account Policy Demonstration, Margaret Clancy, Lissa Johnson, Mark Schreiner

Center for Social Development Research

Experience in the American Dream Demonstration: Lessons for Monitoring in a Children and Youth Savings Account Policy Demonstration

Maximizing Internal And External Validity: Recommendations For A Children And Youth Savings Account Policy Demonstration, Sondra Beverly, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Maximizing Internal and External Validity: Recommendations for a Children and Youth Savings Account Policy Demonstration

Strategies For Creating Mis Technology To Improve Social Work Practice And Research, Elizabeth Johnson, James Hinterlong, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

This paper illustrates the potential for management information system (MIS) technology to integrate information collection, management and reporting within a single program or network of organizations. Properly devised and created, MIS applications improve administration, service delivery and practice evaluation. Three strategies are offered to guide the design and development of MIS software. This paper is based on lessons from the production and implementation of MIS software that serves as a management and evaluation tool for a nationwide policy demonstration. Data from the MIS have helped to shape state and federal policy.

Civic Service: Issues, Outlook, Institution Building, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Civic Service: Issues, Outlook, Institution Building

A Framework Of Asset-Accumulation Stages And Strategies, Sondra Beverly, Amanda Moore, Mark Schreiner

Center for Social Development Research

We propose that asset accumulation occurs in three stages. In the first stage (reallocation), current resource inflows must exceed current outflows. To meet this objective, people reallocate resources from current consumption, current leisure, or future consumption or leisure. In the second stage (conversion), people may convert resources from liquid to illiquid forms. In the third stage (maintenance), individuals resist temptations to dissave. We suggest that people adopt psychological and behavioral strategies to achieve each of these objectives. Putting the two types of strategies together with the three stages of asset accumulation results in six strategy groups. We provide examples of …

Costs Of Idas And Other Capital-Development Programs, Guattin Ng

Center for Social Development Research

This paper is an exploratory comparison of the costs of Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) relative to financial-capital programs and human-capital programs. Comparing program costs is informative but fraught with difficulties. a recurring theme is that due to a host of factors, costs vary not only between programs but also between sites in a single program. Notwithstanding the challenges involved, cost studies are important because resources are scarce and decisions must be made about resource allocation. Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are matched savings accounts designed to assist the poor accumulate assets. Savings are matched for three purposes: to increase returns on …

Depression And Poverty Among African-American Women At Risk For Type 2 Diabetes, Mary De Groot, Wendy Auslander, James Herbert Williams, Michael Sherraden, Debra Haire-Joshu

Center for Social Development Research

Poverty is associated with negative health outcomes, including depression. Little is known about the specific elements of poverty that contribute to depression, particularly among African- American women at risk for type 2 diabetes. This study examined the relationships of economic and social resources to depression among African-American women at high risk for the development of type 2 diabetes (N=181) using the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory as a conceptual framework. Women were assessed at three time points in conjunction with a dietary change intervention. At baseline, 40% of women reported clinically significant depression and 43.3% were below the poverty line. …

Financial Education And Savings Outcomes In Individual Development Accounts, Margaret Clancy, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Mark Schreiner

Center for Social Development Research

This study is the first quantitative look at the effects of financial education on savings outcomes for the poor in Individual Development Accounts. The findings suggest that financial education has sizeable effects, and that courses need not be long to take advantage of them. Marketing and public-policy implications are noted.

Women, Microfinance, And Savings: Lessons And Proposals, Rebecca Vonderlack, Mark Schreiner

Center for Social Development Research

Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well-being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services designed to address the development issues that confront women. The proposals call for safe-deposit boxes and for matched savings accounts for health care or education.

Alumni Communicator, Summer 2001, Wnec Alumni Association

Alumni Magazines

No abstract provided.

An Exploratory Study Of Informal Support And Life Satisfaction Of Older Persons In Macau, Meng Soi, Florence Fong

Lingnan Theses

The purpose of the research is to explore the forms of support provided by informal support networks of spouse, adult children, relatives, friends and neighbours for older persons in Macau. The research also attempts to identify the elements that contribute to life satisfaction among active older persons. As little research has been conducted in Macau, this study tries to introduce data and possible suggestions for initiatives in elderly policy in this area.

The thesis adopts mainly a qualitative approach in exploring the possible informal support elements that contribute to life satisfaction as perceived by active older persons. Sixty-five in depth …

Assets And The Poor: Implications For Individual Accounts And Social Security, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Assets and the Poor: Implications for Individual Accounts and Social Security

Assets, Health, And Well Being: Neighborhoods, Families, Children And Youth, Deborah Page-Adams, Edward Scanlon, Sondra Beverly, Tom Mcdonald

Center for Social Development Research

Assets, Health, and Well Being: Neighborhoods, Families, Children and Youth

Saving In Ida Programs, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Saving in IDA Programs

Service Learning And Older Adults, Melinda Carden

Center for Social Development Research

Service Learning and Older Adults

Toward A Universal And Progressive Asset-Based Domestic Policy, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Toward a Universal and Progressive Asset-Based Domestic Policy

2001 July, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for July of 2001.

Stress And Coping Experiences Of Women In Transition: From Welfare To Work, William Jesse Gill

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Welfare reform and the consequent emphasis on employment represent a stressful sequence of events in the lives of women who are already facing the chronic stressors associated with single parenting and poverty. The current study assessed the levels of distress, factors contributing to distress, and coping resources utilized among a sample of 60 mothers who were making the transition from welfare to work. Ninety percent of the women were single or separated, and 71 percent were African American. All were receiving public assistance from two neighboring social services agencies in Virginia.

Psychological distress was measured by the Brief Symptom Inventory …

A Longitudinal Study Examining The Stability Of Occupational Stressors Identified By Nursing Home Administrators, Gay Lynne Andrucci-Armstrong

Health Services Research Dissertations

As a result of the ever changing and expanding role of the nursing home administrator in conjunction with the stricter legislation governing nursing facilities over the past decade and the graying of America, a study specific to this population was warranted. The purpose of this study is to determine the relative change in the self-reported occupational stressors of nursing home administrators over a five year period (December 1994 to June 1999) secondary to the increased regulatory climate of the nursing home industry.

This study was carried out in three phases and included all practicing nursing home administrators in Virginia. Phase …

The Impact Of Microenterprise Assistance Programs: A Comparative Study Of Program Participants, Non-Participants And Other Low Wage Workers, Cynthia Sanders

Center for Social Development Research

The Impact of Microenterprise Assistance Programs: A Comparative Study of Program Participants, Non-Participants and Other Low Wage Workers

Service And The Human Enterprise, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Service and the Human Enterprise

Developing Transnational Social Policy: A North American Community Service Program, Margaret S. Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Developing Transnational Social Policy: A North American Community Service Program

Saving, Ida Programs, And Effects Of Idas: A Survey Of Participants, Amanda Moore, Sondra Beverly, Mark Schreiner, Michael Sherraden, Margaret Lombe, Esther Y. N. Cho, Lissa Johnson, Rebecca Vonderlack

Center for Social Development Research

Saving, IDA Programs, and Effects of IDAs: A Survey of Participants

Savings And Asset Accumulation In Individual Development Accounts, Mark Schreiner, Michael Sherraden, Margaret Clancy, Lissa Johnson, Jami Curley, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Min Zhan, Sondra Beverly

Center for Social Development Research

Savings and Asset Accumulation in Individual Development Accounts

Savings Deposits, Incentive Structure, And Management Information Systems: Implications For Research On A Children And Youth Savings Account Policy Demonstration, Margaret Clancy, Lissa Johnson, Mark Schreiner

Center for Social Development Research

Savings Deposits, Incentive Structure, and Management Information Systems: Implications for Research on a Children and Youth Savings Account Policy Demonstration

Creating Community In A United States City: Bangladeshi Women Share Their Immigrant Experiences, Lisa Young Larance, Rubena Malik

Center for Social Development Research

Creating Community in a United States City: Bangladeshi Women Share Their Immigrant Experiences

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes 2001-06-29, Bowling Green State University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

The official meeting minutes of Bowling Green State University's Board of Trustees.

Disruptive Behavior Disorders And School Based Intervention Services, Peggy S. Swenson

Theses and Graduate Projects

This explorative quantitative study investigates the perceptions and knowledge of elementary school teachers in regard to the disruptive behaviors displayed by an increasing number of students. This study also addresses the methods of intervention teachers find to be effective in reducing disruptive behaviors in the classroom. A Likert-scale survey was used to gather information from seventy-six teachers of students in first through fifth grade. Survey questions focused on factors that can contribute to disruptive behaviors as well as several methods of interventions utilized in the five schools located in the four school districts surveyed.