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From Their Lives: A Manual On How To Conduct Focus Groups Of Low-Income Parents, Helen Ward, Julie Atkins
From Their Lives: A Manual On How To Conduct Focus Groups Of Low-Income Parents, Helen Ward, Julie Atkins
Faculty, Staff, and Alumni Books
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A Framework For Quality Assurance In Child Welfare, Mary O'Brien, Peter Watson
A Framework For Quality Assurance In Child Welfare, Mary O'Brien, Peter Watson
Faculty, Staff, and Alumni Books
This guide outlines a framework for implementing quality assurance programs for child welfare services. The components are based on federal requirements, national standards, and child welfare research. Five steps are described: select outcomes and standards, integrate quality assurance goals and procedures throughout the agency, collect data about outcomes, analyze data, and improve systems as indicated by evaluation findings. Specific topics include the role of the quality assurance system in the Child and Family Services Review process, communication of quality assurance practices, and staff participation in analysis. The manual describes each step of the quality assurance system and reviews the tasks.
Child Care, Money And Maine: Implications For Federal And State Policy, William Hager, Allyson Dean, Judy Reidt-Parker
Child Care, Money And Maine: Implications For Federal And State Policy, William Hager, Allyson Dean, Judy Reidt-Parker
Faculty, Staff, and Alumni Books
"Child Care, Money and Maine" was chosen as the title for this document because, as we enter into the new century, child day care services have become an essential component to a healthy economy in Maine and in the nation. The availability of good child care has a major impact on a family’s ability to find, train for, and sustain employment. Child care is also crucial to modern businesses being able to recruit, retain and sustain employees. Lack of dependable and appropriate child care will be a critical barrier to the movement of low-income families from welfare to work. The …