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Failed Child Welfare Policy: An Essay Review, Anthony N. Maluccio

Journal of Family Strengths

Hutchinson, J.R. (with C.E. Sudia) (2002). Failed Child Welfare Policy—Family Preservation and the Orphaning of Child Welfare. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

This essay reviews Failed Child Welfare Policy (Hutchinson, 2002), in which the author argues that the public child welfare system has failed to meet the needs of children and families coming to its attention. She recommends using the available—and limited—resources to reorganize and reconstruct the service delivery system with emphasis on familycentered services.

Supporting Families Through Short-Term Foster Care: An Essay Review, Anthony Maluccio

Journal of Family Strengths

Aldgate, J. and Bradley, M. (1999). Supporting families through short-term fostering. London: The Stationery Office.

This essay reviews a British qualitative study of short-term foster care from the perspectives of birth parents, children, foster parents, and social workers. Respondents highlighted the value of short-term foster care as a family support service and also offered many recommendations for improving service delivery. The study provides useful implications for restructuring child welfare services in the United States and for promoting cross-national collaboration in future research activities in the area of child and family services.

A Case Study Of An Agency's Three Family Preservation Contracts, Mark Ezell

Journal of Family Strengths

This article presents a case study of a nonprofit child welfare agency that delivered family preservation services under three different purchase-of-service (POS) contracts. The research specifically focuses on how certain POS contract provisions and reimbursement rates influence the delivery of family preservation services. The three contacts examined differed on criteria, such as reimbursement mechanism, service volume, definition of clientele, and reimbursement rate. The study found that as reimbursement rates decline and as administrative costs increase, the service provider struggled with cash flow, staffing, fundraising, and service provision, among other things. It is concluded that contract-related resources, policies, and procedures impact …

Stories Of Grief: Narratives By Bereaved Parents, Cecilia Ann Bosticco

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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7th Annual Mentoring Breakfast, February 7, 2002, Black Faculty And Staff Association

BFSA Collection - Mentoring Breakfast Materials

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Building A Tower Of Babel Or Building A Discipline? Talking About Legal Writing, Terrill Pollman

Marquette Law Review

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Family Preservation Journal, 2002, Volume 6, Issue 2. (Entire Issue)

Journal of Family Strengths

Entire issue (large pdf file)

Articles include:

• Applying the Strengths Perspective to Increase Safety and Well-Being: Views from Families and Providers. Diane DePanfilis, Joshua Okundaye, Esta Glazer-Semmel, Lisa Kelly, and Joy Swanson Ernst
• Changing Tides and Changing Focus: Mapping the Challenges and Successes of One State's Implementation Of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. Scottye J. Cash, Scott D. Ryan, and Alison Glover
• Promising Practices to Engage Families and Support Family Preservation. Marianne Berry
• Implementing Intensive Family Preservation Services: A Case of lnfidelity. Raymond S. Kirk, Kellie Reed-Ashcrafi, and Peter J. Pecora
• Supporting Families through Short-Term Foster Care: …

Applying The Strengths Perspective To Increase Safety And Weil-Being: Views From Families And Providers, Diane Depanfilis, Joshua Okundaye, Esta Glazer-Semmel, Lisa Kelly, Joy Swanson Ernst

Journal of Family Strengths

Consensus about the value of the strengths perspective is developing among child welfare and family service practitioners. Yet, few first-hand reports are available from the perspectives of family members and interdisciplinary service providers about the principles most important for engaging and supporting family members to achieve needed outcomes. This paper briefly highlights principles most often cited as key to application of the strengths perspective and compares first-hand accounts from family members and service providers. These views were elicited through focus groups facilitated by a community-based family support program.Implications for strengths-based practice with families are discussed.

Is There A Place For Social Work Within Rural Schools, And What Can It Look Like?, Kris Robertson

Theses : Honours

The impetus for this research followed my social work placement in a rural high school in the Southwest area of Western Australia. The aim of this research is to identify a role for school social work in relation to practice in rural schools, and to develop a conceptual framework for practice. The literature review sought to demonstrate a need for such services by demonstrating the issues for youth in rural areas. The claim was that providing such a service in rural areas would address issues of access and equity, in line with social justice principles. The results of this research …

Operational Diversity: Saying What We Mean, Doing What We Say, Wayne Jacobson, Jim Borgford-Parnell, Katherine Frank, Michael Peck, Lois Reddick

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Diversity issues, ranging from individual learning styles to institutional equity, are central to teaching and learning, but identifying and addressing these issues is a formidable task. At the Center for Instructional Development and Research (CIDR), our staff is gaining ground on this work through the Inclusive Practices Portfolio, a collaborative forum for documenting, sharing, and supporting our individual and organizational diversity initiatives. The process of developing the center’s portfolio and the portfolio itself are mechanisms for change within the center and a model far change at our institution and beyond.

Focus Emu, September 3, 2002, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

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Court Review: Volume 38, Issue 4 - Drug Treatment Programs: Policy Implications For The Judiciary, Arthur H. Garrison

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Drug use in the United States has been cited for the growth in American prisons over the past decade. Heroin, once considered a drug to be avoided and scorned, has had resurgence in use by middle-class youth and white-collar professionals due to the increased purity of the drug and the lack of need to use needles for ingestion. Naltrexone has been used as a method of helping heroin addicts to end their drug dependency, but such programs have limitations in their use and effectiveness. This paper is drawn from an evaluation of a drug treatment program in Wilmington, Delaware. The …

Affirmative Action Plan, 2002-2003, Illinois State University

Affirmative Action Reports

Illinois State University Affirmative Action Plan

University Report 2001-2002, Various

General Fiscal Chronicle

Annual Report to the Board Of Trustees of George Fox College

Bringing The Library To The Students: Using Technology To Deliver Instruction And Resources For Research, Judith Arnold, Jennifer N. Sias, Jingping Zhang

Librarian Research

To provide equitable services and access to off-campus students, librarians must meet the challenges of the digital divide and the geographic divide. Instruction and document delivery are key services that can determine how successful a library is in meeting its responsibility to distance learning. This session will focus on technological solutions to instruction, access, and document delivery in technology-challenged and remote environments.

Focus Emu, October 29, 2002, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

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Focus Emu, March 19, 2002, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

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Focus Emu, March 12, 2002, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

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Focus Emu, January 29, 2002, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

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Focus Emu, December 10, 2002, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

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Focus Emu, March 5, 2002, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

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Focus Emu, August 13, 2002, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

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Ceremonial Script, December 15, 2002, Eastern Michigan University

Commencement Programs and Materials

No abstract provided.

Winter Commencement, December 15, 2002, Eastern Michigan University

Commencement Programs and Materials

No abstract provided.

Eastern Michigan University Class Schedule - Spring 2002, Office Of The Registrar

Class Schedules Collection

No abstract provided.

Eastern Michigan University Class Schedule - Fall 2002, Office Of The Registrar

Class Schedules Collection

No abstract provided.

Eastern Michigan University Class Schedule - Winter 2002, Office Of The Registrar

Class Schedules Collection

No abstract provided.

Board Of Regents Meeting Materials, January 15, 2002, Eastern Michigan University

Board of Regents Meeting Materials

No abstract provided.

Board Of Regents Meeting Materials, June 25, 2002, Eastern Michigan University

Board of Regents Meeting Materials

No abstract provided.

Board Of Regents Meeting Materials, September 24, 2002, Eastern Michigan University

Board of Regents Meeting Materials

No abstract provided.