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Shattered Hearts (Full Report): The Commercial Sexual Exploitation Of American Indian Women And Girls In Minnesota., Alexandra (Sandi) Pierce
Shattered Hearts (Full Report): The Commercial Sexual Exploitation Of American Indian Women And Girls In Minnesota., Alexandra (Sandi) Pierce
Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking: 1st (2009)
Table of contents
Acknowledgements iii
Background 1
Organization of the report 3
I The context 4
Native women’s experiences during colonization 5
Native women’s experiences during national expansion 7
Native girls’ boarding school experiences 8
Impact of assimilation policies on Native women 10
The damage caused by life in prostitution 14
II Methods and definitions 16
III Prevalence 28
Involvement in prostitution 28
Involvement in the Internet sex trade 35
IV Patterns in entering the sex trade 36
Age of entry 36
Modes of entry 39
V Factors that facilitate entry 53
Generational trauma 53
Runaway, thrown away, and/or homeless …
Managing Performance [In Child Welfare Supervision], Megan E. Paul, Michelle Graef, Erika J. Robinson, Kristin Saathoff
Managing Performance [In Child Welfare Supervision], Megan E. Paul, Michelle Graef, Erika J. Robinson, Kristin Saathoff
Center on Children, Families, and the Law: Faculty Publications
One of the primary roles of a supervisor is to manage worker performance. Performance management is the "continuous process of identifying, measuring, and developing the performance of individuals and teams and aligning performance with the strategic goals of the organization" (Aguinis, 2007, p. 2). Supervisors must regularly assess current performance levels and take steps to improve performance in a way that is congruent with agency goals. The ultimate goal is to achieve agency objectives through individual and team performance.
To effectively manage performance, supervisors must know what the performance expectations are for workers and clearly communicate these expectations to workers. …
Recruiting And Selecting Child Welfare Staff, Michelle Graef, Megan Paul, Tara L. Myers
Recruiting And Selecting Child Welfare Staff, Michelle Graef, Megan Paul, Tara L. Myers
Center on Children, Families, and the Law: Faculty Publications
In this chapter, the focus is on recruiting and selecting new staff and on the steps agencies can take to ensure that they are doing the best possible job to attract and hire a high-performing, committed workforce. This chapter reviews a number of strategies for improving recruitment and selection processes and provides case examples from the authors' work with child protection agencies in several states. These projects have been accomplished by a team of researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center on Children, Families, and the Law (CCFL). Some of the techniques described here will be familiar, whereas others are …