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Housing Hardships During Covid-19, Sophia Fox-Dichter, Yung Chun, Stephen Roll, Katie Kristensen, Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Social Policy Institute Research

Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. households were burdened by the cost of rental and mortgage payments, burdens which disproportionately fell on Black and Hispanic families. Using a 5-wave survey, we examined whether disparities in housing cost burden continued throughout the pandemic and trends in how households fell behind on rent and mortgage payments. We found that more than a third of households experienced housing cost burdens during the pandemic, with a slightly higher percentage of households of color bearing cost burdens than white households. Renters had greater cost burdens than homeowners.

During the pandemic, significantly more Black and …

The Socioeconomic Impacts Of Covid-19 Study: Survey Methodology Report, Stephen Roll, Sam Bufe, Yung Chun, Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Social Policy Institute Research

When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, and economic shutdowns began in March 2020, households across the United States were faced with an unprecedented crisis that would affect their health, financial security and overall well-being for an unforeseeable amount of time. In order to examine and track the wide-ranging impacts of the pandemic on households, as well as the efficacy of different public and private efforts to mitigate these impacts, the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis (SPI) launched the Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 Survey (SEICS) in the United States just weeks after the pandemic became a national …

Employment, Financial And Well-Being Effects Of The 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit: Wave 1 Executive Summary, Leah Hamilton, Stephen Roll, Mathieu Despard, Elaine Maag

Social Policy Institute Research

The 2021 temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) is unprecedented in its reach and is predicted to cut American child poverty by more than half. The expanded CTC provides families with $3,600 for every child in the household under the age of six, and $3,000 for every child between the ages of six and 17. Almost all middle- and low-income families with children are eligible for the CTC. Married parents making less than $150,000 and single parents making less than $112,500 per year will receive the full amount of the credit, which begins to phase out slowly after …

From Displaced To Our Place: Using An Educational Narrative To Build Community In A Displaced Community, Morgan Frederick

Symposium of Student Scholars

Thomasville heights is a displacement neighborhood for people pushed out by Atlanta’s Urban Renewal projects. Thomasville Heights remains a casualty of a system of economic segregation. Under this system of segregation these neighborhoods are left in detrimental states. It is in places like Thomasville Heights where the phrase “place matters” becomes a call to action. A town of 6000 residents and only one elementary school, Thomasville heights is bordered by multiple freight yards, a cemetery, landfills, and Atlanta’s US penitentiary, just a 5-minute walk from that one elementary school. There remains a vast difference between that of low-income urban, and …

Children Coping With Domestic Violence, Sammie Fairbanks

Symposium of Student Scholars

No abstract provided.

Children Coping With Domestic Violence, Sammie Fairbanks

Symposium of Student Scholars

Children Coping With Domestic Violence

According to the national domestic violence hotline (2020), domestic violence “(also referred to as intimate partner violence (IPV), dating abuse, or relationship abuse) is a pattern of behaviors used by one partner to maintain power and control over another partner in an intimate relationship” (National Domestic Violence Hotline, 2020). Domestic Violence is everywhere and unfortunately does not discriminate. Cherokee Family Violence Center is a nonprofit organization working towards ending domestic violence. Their mission is “to enhance the safety of those impacted by intimate partner violence through services that empower victims while advocating for a community …

I. Using Social Media To Promote Awareness Of Hiv And Aids In Children: Education And Community Resources, Savannah Barnett

Symposium of Student Scholars

In this day and age, social media is critical to the success of a company whether it be for-profit or nonprofit. Eighty (80) percent of nonprofits use Facebook and 70 percent use Twitter worldwide which means that agencies who opt not to use social media are missing out on free to low-cost advertising and community engagement/ awareness (Domingues, Lopez, & Astudillo, 2016). No matter the business model or tax status, the way a company gains social media attention stays consistent in terms of what to post, how often, and the overall aesthetic and graphics that go along with the posts. …

Proses Pemberdayaan Pada Keluarga Penerima Manfaat Program Keluarga Harapan Dalam Pertemuan Peningkatan Kapasitas Keluarga Sesi Pengelolaan Keuangan (Studi Deskriptif Di Kelurahan Srengseng Sawah, Kecamatan Jagakarsa, Kota Jakarta Selatan, Provinsi Dki Jakarta), R. Arlingga Hadistira A. P., Sari Viciawati Machdum

Jurnal Pembangunan Manusia

This research is descriptive qualitative research that discusses the financial management of beneficiary (KPM) of Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH) organized by the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia in Srengseng Sawah Village, Janggakarsa District, South Jakarta. Data collection in this study was conducted through observation and interviews with purposive sampling technique. This study generally aims to see the process of empowering beneficiaries of the Program Keluarga Harapan in the Family Capacity Building Meeting (P2K2) or Family Development Session (FDS) in Srengseng Sawah Village and to determine the role of assistants in implementing P2K2 Financial Management Sessions in …

Proses Pemberdayaan Tenaga Kerja Disabilitas Melalui Pelatihan Vokasional Oleh Pt Thisable Enterprise Untuk Disalurkan Sebagai Mitra Golife, Suci Ramadhani, Indra Lestari Fawzi

Jurnal Pembangunan Manusia

Persons with disabilities are the group most vulnerable to discrimination in society. Discriminatory behavior causes persons with disabilities to lose access to their rights, especially in terms of getting a job. Many persons with disabilities are unable to find jobs due to low educational backgrounds and lack of skills. To ensure access to work, Indonesia has passed Law Number 8 of 2016 concerning Persons with Disabilities. In this regulation, there is an obligation for the government and companies to employ persons with disabilities. In fact, the job opportunities that must be provided to persons with disabilities have not been maximally …

Pelaksanaan Kegiatan Promotif Santun Lansia Di Puskesmas Kecamatan Cilincing, Jakarta Utara Pada Tahun 2019, Diantri Astuti, Indra Lestari Fawzi

Jurnal Pembangunan Manusia

The elderly diseases are generally degenerative diseases, the handling requires a long time and high costs, so that it will be a very heavy burden for the government. The Puskesmas Santun Lansia is a health center that provides comprehensive health services to the elderly population, which includes promotive, curative, preventive, and rehabilitative services. Health care for the elderly give priority to quality promotion and prevention. This study aims to evaluate the process of implementing the promotional activities of Santun Lansia at the Cilincing District Health Center and what are the supporting and inhibiting factors in the implementation of this activity. …

Homelessness Estimates In The Mountain West, 2020, Saha Salahi, Vanessa Booth, William E. Brown Jr.

Demography

This fact sheet summarizes a recent report titled, “The 2020 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress,” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. By synthesizing homelessness vulnerability categories to the Mountain West states, this report offers data for Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.

Implementasi Kebijakan Triple Skilling Dalam Membangun Sumber Daya Manusia Terampil Dan Produktif (Studi Kasus: Balai Besar Pengembangan Latihan Kerja Bekasi), Syifa Fauzi, Bambang Shergi Laksmono

Jurnal Pembangunan Manusia

The development of skilled and productive human resources is one of the main priorities of President Joko Widodo's policy. The unemployment burden which continues to increase due to the emergence of mismatches of workers' skills with company needs and automation will be a threat to the future of the workforce in Indonesia. The Triple Skilling Policy (Skilling, Re-skilling, Up-skilling) were made to minimize labor problems in Indonesia. Balai Besar Pengembangan Latihan Kerja Bekasi as one of the vocational training centers that conducts job training has implemented a Triple Skilling policy in 4 vocations which are Electronic Engineering, Refrigeration, Information and …

Peran Gapoktan Karya Bersama Dalam Implementasi Program Peremajaan Sawit Rakyat (Psr) Di Bandar Durian, Aek Natas, Labuhan Batu Utara, Azizah Maharani, Bambang Shergi Laksmono

Jurnal Pembangunan Manusia

This research discusses the role of the oil palm joined farmer groups in the implementation of People’s Oil Palm Rejuvenation program (PSR). The PSR program is a program designed by the government to assist oil palm farmers in increasing the productivity of oil palm farmers and supporting Sustainable Rural Development which impacts on improving the welfare of oil palm farmers. In the PSR program, the role of oil palm farmer groups is very important, as they are the grant beneficiaries and managers, so that the success or failure of the program also depends on the farmer groups. In this study, …

Evaluasi Program Pemberdayaan Petambak Pada Budidaya Udang Vannamei Oleh Pt Infishta Di Kecamatan Blanakan Kabupaten Subang, Yudhi Amrial, Ety Rahayu

Jurnal Pembangunan Manusia

Poverty is the main problem experienced by fish farmer in Indonesia. This happens because of the monopoly by middlemen. One solution to this problem is by empowering fish farmer. This study aims to evaluate fish farmer empowerment programs through vannamei shrimp farming conducted by PT Infishta in Blanakan District, Subang Regency. The qualitative approach and the type of formative evaluation research conducted with in-depth interviews with 8 informants who know about the implementation of fish farmer empowerment programs in the vannamei shrimp farming. The results of the research explain the input stages and the program implementation process. The input stage …

Housing For All Collection, 1994-2002, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

This collection includes professional correspondence, official business documents, financial papers, photographs, and other miscellaneous materials related to the Housing for All organization.

Housing for All, Inc. was formed in 1994 in Pittsburg, Kansas, a non-profit organization to serve as an emergency/transitional shelter for people in need. The organization operated until 2002, when it was merged with the Southeast Kansas Community Action Program (SEK-CAP).

Taking The Measure Of Addiction Recovery: A Brief History Of Recovery Capital, Austin Brown

Population Health Research Brief Series

Drug overdose and alcohol-related deaths continue to rise in the United States. Despite the billions of dollars spent on drug and alcohol treatment annually, the U.S has failed to properly deal with addiction. This brief discusses the concept of ‘recovery capital’ as an important theoretical advancement in the field of addiction treatment. It argues that health policies should promote personal, social, community and cultural capital to increase recovery success and measure an individual’s capacity to heal from a substance use disorder.

An Empirical Research On Developing The Framework For Managing Sexual Abstinence Issues Of The Chinese Male Seafarers, Bin Dong

Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)

No abstract provided.

Linking Human Resources And Child Welfare Data (Video), Quality Improvement Center For Workforce Development

Workforce Analytics Resources

When examining workforce data, it can be valuable to capitalize on data from a variety of systems, such as various human resources (HR) databases, learning management systems, and child welfare information systems. Each can be useful on their own, but additional information can be learned when different types of data are connected. For example, applicant information may be stored in a database that is separate from other HR data on those hired, and there is value in looking at the connections between applicant data and later aspects of employment.

Data linkage involves pairing observations from two or more data files …

Workforce Metrics Using Child Welfare Data, Quality Improvement Center For Workforce Development

Workforce Analytics Resources

Workforce metrics that can be constructed from child welfare data fall into three categories: caseload/workload, case continuity, and worker- and unit-level variability.

Caseload/Workload Metrics

Caseload metrics can help to

• Assess compliance with caseload standards (e.g., policy, statute)
• Describe and inform case assignment decisions
• Describe and address the work burden experienced by staff
• Describe and address inequities in caseloads among workers
• Inform workforce planning or staffing decisions
• Monitor caseloads to assess policy or practices intended to affect caseloads

Caseload metrics are among the most commonly used workforce metrics that can typically be obtained from child welfare data. These metrics are usually …

Unmet Needs And Social Challenges For Older Adults During And After The Covid-19 Pandemic: An Opportunity To Improve Care, Alyssa Elman, Daniel Baek, Elaine Gottesman, Michael E. Stern, Mary R. Mulcare, Amy Shaw, Morgan Pearman, Michelle Sullivan, Sunday Clark, Timothy F. Platts-Mills, Rahul Sharma, Tony Rosen

Journal of Geriatric Emergency Medicine

Many older adults have unmet needs and social challenges that can negatively impact their health and well-being, particularly during and after the COVID pandemic. These include social isolation, inadequate care or assistance with their daily activities, food insecurity, housing insecurity, poverty, and abuse/neglect/exploitation. An ED visit provides a unique and critical opportunity to identify these issues and initiate intervention for these vulnerable older adults. By assessing for unmet needs and social challenges, considering a team-based approach as to how they may be ameliorated, using online tools, and integrating telehealth and EMS, ED providers have the potential to dramatically improve …

Integrating Occupation-Based/Focused Assessments During The Evaluation Process. Opportunity To Revisit The Topic In A Post Covid-19 Practice Setting?, John S. Luna

School of Social Work Faculty Publications

Occupational therapists treat clients across the lifespan, and every successful intervention begins with a successful evaluation. Incorporating a variety of norm-referenced standardized assessments into the assessment process has become increasingly important to justify services to third party payors identification of goals, and intervention strategies. However, occupational therapists tend to select assessments that are focused and measuring performance skills and client factors versus occupations and performance of occupations. The purpose of this article is to examine the topic of occupation based and occupation focused assessments. While using occupation-based/ occupation-focused assessments is not a new topic, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how …

Workplace Ostracism, Megan Paul

Umbrella Summaries

What is workplace ostracism?

Workplace ostracism is “the extent to which an individual perceives that he or she is ignored or excluded by others at work” (Ferris et al., 2008, p. 1348). The most popular measure is the 10item Workplace Ostracism Scale (Ferris et al., 2008). Example items include “others avoided you at work,” “others refused to talk to you at work,” and “others at work shut you out of the conversation.”

Why is workplace ostracism important?

Ostracism in the workplace is important because it is associated with an array of job attitudes, stress indicators, and behaviors. Specifically, ostracism is …

Multi-Tiered Systems Of Supports: A Framework For Improving Schools, Hank Bohanon

Education: School of Education Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Utilization Patterns Of Community-Based Mental Health Services Among School-Going Adolescent Girls In Southwestern Uganda., William Byansi

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATIONGlobally an estimated 20% of children and adolescents experience a disabling mental illness (Belfer, 2008). Mental health disorders are the second leading cause of disease burden and the eleventh leading cause in older adolescents (15-19 years). Yet, children and adolescents are over-represented in low-resourced countries and settings often characterized by violence, wars, diseases, physical and sexual abuse, all of which are associated with poor mental health functioning (Kieling et al., 2011; Naker, 2005). Moreover, in LMICs the treatment gap is about 93% of individuals without access to mental health services with virtually no coverage of evidence-based interventions …

Impact Of Care Practices On The Food Security And Nutritional Status Of Ethnic Minority Children With Work-Away Parents In Rural China, Yiqi Zhu

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Background and significance: Zero Hunger as the second Sustainable Development Goal builds crucial foundation to achieve other sustainable development goals and is a key approach to the Social Work Grand Challenges. In China, there is a huge gap between in nutritional well-being between urban and rural children. Among all the rural Children, ethnic minority children often live in the poverty-stricken regions have parents work away in urban regions. Their nutritional well-being is understudied. Improve the well-being of ethnic minorities children with work-away parents and closing the nutrition gaps of the rural and urban become the key for China to further …

Patterns And Trends Among Intimate Partner Homicide Cases: An Analysis By Victim’S Sex And Race/Ethnicity, Shih-Ying Cheng

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Data suggest sex and race/ethnicity disparities in intimate partner homicide (IPH) and different trends in the IPH rates over time by sex and racial/ethnic groups. It is, however, less clear how to explain the disparities using the existing literature. This dissertation investigates the patterns and trends among IPH cases with a focus on differences within and between victims’ sex and race/ethnicity subgroups using the National Violent Death Reporting System, Restricted Access Database (NVDRS-RAD). Data were linked to Census and policy data using the geographic indicator in the NVDRS-RAD. Latent class analysis (LCA) and mixed-effects modeling were performed to identify patterns …

Returning To Our Roots: Re-Introducing Art Back Into Occupational Therapy, Vivi Trinh

Summer 2021 Virtual OTD Capstone Symposium

The usage of arts and crafts played a significant role in the fruition of the profession, but as it adopted more medically- and evidence-based treatment methods, most practitioners steered away from arts and crafts. The overall purpose of this project was to promote the use of art in OT as well as learn about the current use of art in OT through discussions held with practicing and retired occupational therapists and OT students with fieldwork experience. A portion of the project includes conducting a needs assessment at Urban Street Angels (USA), a community-based facility in downtown San Diego, CA that …

Occupational Therapist’S Impact In Current And Changing Roles And Routines For First-Time Foster Parents, Kathryn Chatfield, Becki Cohill, Susan Macdermott, Karen Park

Summer 2021 Virtual OTD Capstone Symposium

The purpose of this study was to understand occupational therapist’s impact in current and changing roles and routines for first-time foster parents as well as understanding how to establish, preserve and maintain such meaningful domains. This study allowed for insight into current and changing roles and routines for first-time foster parents. The results from this study allowed for further comprehension on how roles and routines were impacted, and that education and tools can be used to help decrease disruption to these domains. Understanding that taking on a new role as a foster parent means routines will be impacted in one …

Motivational Factors And Opportunities To Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics (Stem) Majors Among Native Hawaiian And Other Pacific Islanders (Nhpi), Shanthia Espinosa, Alma M. O. Trinidad

McNair Symposium

Higher education is a contentious space that poses challenges and barriers to the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. This study explores the motivational factors and opportunities to STEM fields among Native Hawaiian Pacific Islanders (NHPI). A qualitative method was used in this study, examining public archival data (e.g., videos, recordings, digital information, etc.) of self-identified NHPI scientists, scholar-activists, leaders, and their narratives of entering the STEM fields. Specifically, the portrayal of needs and promotion of NHPI representation and access were examined, including messages that inspire and encourage STEM interest among NHPI youth. This study explores motivation, opportunities, and …

Secondary Traumatic Stress, Burnout And Resilience In The Child Welfare Workforce: Early Results From Nebraska’S Randomized Controlled Trial Of Resilience Alliance, Quality Improvement Center For Workforce Development

Other QIC-WD Products

A 2018 needs assessment indicated that more than 50% of the child welfare workforce in Nebraska was experiencing elevated secondary traumatic stress (STS). STS refers to the experience of people – generally professionals– who are exposed to others’ traumatic events as part of their work. As a result of this exposure, these professionals can develop their own traumatic symptoms and reactions such as sleeplessness and anxiety. The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) in partnership with the Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development (QIC-WD) implemented CFS Strong, a multi-phased workforce intervention …