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The Salt Shaker (Vol. 5, Issue 2), Valparaiso University

SALT Shaker

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Embracing Our World: Are We Accountable?, St Mary's University

President's Peace Commission - Programs

The President’s Peace Commission existed from 1984 to 2013 at St. Mary's University. The Commission fostered an ethical commitment to participate in the establishment of world peace and social justice.

This program is about sustainable human development, social justice and electronic waste.

The Salt Shaker (Vol. 4, Issue 4), Valparaiso University

SALT Shaker

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Gambaran Korban Dalam Menghadapi Kekerasan Dalam Rumah Tangga, Farida Hayati Tobri, Dini Widinarsih

Jurnal Ilmu Kesejahteraan Sosial

Domestic violence is a social problem which has multiple causes and complex This research has founds that there are variety of domestic violence backgrounds, the intent of violence, the form of domestic violence, the impact of violence for women, and also the effort to ends domestic violence

Slavery And "Abuse Regeneration", Christine Bell

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Skinner’s depiction of modern day slavery is graphic and challenging. Anyone viewing prohibitions on slavery, or abolition, as historical anachronism, or requiring reinterpretation for modern-day practices, must think again. Skinner persuades us that slavery in its most old fashioned sense is alive and well and, worse than that–on the rise.

Via (Vol. 1), Valparaiso University

VIA

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Program Mitigasi Bagi Anak Terpapar Hiv/Aids, Fentiny Nugroho

Jurnal Ilmu Kesejahteraan Sosial

Mitigation services for children living with HIV/ AIDS who have done such as health and psychosocial services for children and also training and financial assistance for economic improvement for the child's parent Especially psychosocial services for children, not all agencies provide this service, so it's a service aspect that still needs to be developed. Mitigation model that has been done in general is family-based care, while community-based have limitations because there still exists the stigma from society. In implementation, the mitigation program experienced a number of obstacles, besides there is also a supporting factor

Types And Measurement Of Poverty In Australia, Isbandi Rukminto Adi

Jurnal Ilmu Kesejahteraan Sosial

During Millennium Summit 2000 the United Nations (UN) has declared the Millennium Development Goals. The UN acknowledges the importance of poverty problems. The first goal of MDGs is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger The declaration also mentioned that proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day and people who suffer from hunger should decrease by half in 25 years (from 1990 to 2015) Related to poverty problems The 8th goal of MDGs is to develop a global partnership for development Global Partnership, in this case, could be seen by giving opportunities for people from developing …

Kebijakan Hiv/Aids Dan Prevention Mother To Child Transmision (Pmtct) Di Indonesia, Triyanti Anugrahini

Jurnal Ilmu Kesejahteraan Sosial

The various policies which related to HIV/AIDS in Indonesia is continue to be developed in line with the increasing number of HIV/AIDS cases in Indonesia since the cases were first found in 1987 By using the framework of a retrospective policy analysis (analysis of policy), this paper will review the formulation of the policy and its contents, seen from several dimensions that are interconnected with one another, ie the contents of the policy (content), national and international contextual conditions (context), policy-making (process) and the actors that play the role and influence in the policy-making (actors) Policy analysis is described based …

Pemahaman Bullying Di Sekolah, Fitriyah Fitriyah

Jurnal Ilmu Kesejahteraan Sosial

This research was conducted to determine the understanding of the concept of bullying from the teachers, students and the perpetrator, the victim's parent and also the efforts to prevent bullying and the constraints to eliminate bullying in schools. This research was conducted with qualitative research approach and descriptive research with research sites in SMUN in South Jakarta. The survey results revealed that the school including teachers, perpetrators and victims of bullying and parents do not understand about bullying which is still a lot of bullying occurred at school However the school has sought to minimize with various efforts such as …

April Roundtable: Introduction

Human Rights & Human Welfare

An annotation of:

“A World Enslaved" by E. Benjamin Skinner. Foreign Policy (March/April) 2008.

Likelihood Of Developing An Alcohol And Cannabis Use Disorder During Youth: Association With Recent Use And Age, Ken C. Winters, Chih-Yuan Lee

Department of Family Science and Human Development Scholarship and Creative Works

Aim: We extend the literature on the association of early onset of drug use and estimated risk for developing a substance use disorder (SUD) by investigating the risk that recent onset of alcohol and cannabis use confers for developing a substance use disorder at each chronological age of adolescence and young adulthood (12-21-years-old). Design: Using 2003 data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health [Substance Abuse Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA), 2004. Overview of Findings from the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Office of Applied Studies, NSDUH Series H-24, DHHS Publication No. SMA-04-3963, Rockville, MD], …

The Salt Shaker (Vol. 4, Issue 2), Valparaiso University

SALT Shaker

No abstract provided.

The Salt Shaker (Vol. 4, Issue 1), Valparaiso University

SALT Shaker

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Hybrid Chronicles: Biracial And Biethnic Perspectives On The Pedagogy Of Unlearning Racism, Stéphanie Wahab, Sunshine T. Gibson

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article details an autoethnography project of our odysseys into the pedagogy of unlearning racism. Our know ledge creation process forced us to re-envision both our locations in, and pedagogy of, anti-racism work, with particular attention to the challenges and dangers of teaching about, to, and from White privilege within social work. In the end, we are both troubled and invigorated by what we experienced, witnessed, and supported. By asking people of color to share their personal narratives of racism in the presence of Whites, teachers, facilitators, and diversity trainers stand to continue privileging Whiteness where Whites benefit and learn …

Upaya Meningkatkan Kualitas Derajat Kesehatan Lingkungan Melalui Perubahan Perilaku Kesehatan, Wiriasto Herry Septiadi

Jurnal Ilmu Kesejahteraan Sosial

The change sanitation behaviour is one efford to increase the healthy quality of the environment. The hygiene disposal excreta is one activities to develop quality for healthy environment. Disposal excreta have relatation with human behaviour/habits. The bad sanitation behavior and unsaniter condition from sanitation services could make environment polution. Based on that condition, one efford to enhance the quality of the environment is by changing sanitation behaviour.

Peran Pesantren Dalam Penghapusan Kekerasan Terhadap Perempuan, Bunda Sri Sugiri

Jurnal Ilmu Kesejahteraan Sosial

Pesantren is one of educational institution which base on religion. Program Interagency Network for Prevention of Violence against Women (VAW) is an innovation to increase the function of Pesantren as a service institution for woman violence victim. The main focus of this program is designing a center of Perlindungan bagi Wanita (Puspita), a women's crises center base on Pesantren. Pesantren set as a center of advocating for woman, because Pesantren has a very strategist task in doing various change in society. However we realized that Pesantren has no distribution yet and also in effort for preventing violation on woman, especially …

Pendidikan Seksualitas Untuk Anak Melalui Pemasaran Sosial Sebagai Salah Satu Upaya Pencegahan Child Sexual Abuse, Sari Viciawati

Jurnal Ilmu Kesejahteraan Sosial

Children empowerment through sex education can prevent children from sexual abuse. Sex education absolutely can be more efective for children if it is given earlier by parents. The problem is their parents often do not know what the importance of sex education. Although parents know that sex education is important, they do not want to do it because they still feel embarrassed. To fulfill the needs of parents to deliver knowledge about sex education is one of the effort to prevent child sexual abuse, a seminar had been held in this action research. After joining the seminar, there were many …

Greening The Campus: Contemporary Student Environmental Activism, Ashley Dawson

Publications and Research

In November 1992, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) issued a report entitled "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity." Written by UCS Chair Henry Kendall and signed by 1,700 of the worlds leading scientists, including the majority of Nobel laureates in the sciences, the report's admonition was conveyed in the strongest terms.

The Salt Shaker (Vol. 3, Issue 4), Valparaiso University

SALT Shaker

No abstract provided.

Penindasan (Bullying) Di Sekolah, Dwi Amalia Chandra Sekar

Jurnal Ilmu Kesejahteraan Sosial

The aim of this article is to give some information and attempt to raise awareness about behavior problem among children in or around the school in terms of abuse or intimidation (bullying). School as intitution, gives knowlege and skill to develop positive self-potential for students cannot be completedly reached. For the children who became the victim, schools are no longer can give them feeling secure and hapiness. School bullying occured long time, but there is only small attention from school, parents, communities, because they considered it as a normal behavior dan become tradition in school. Bullying can bring fear and …

Transgender Justice, Richard M. Juang

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Proceedings from CLAGS's Trans Politics, Social Change and Justice conference will be available in January 2007 under the title Transgender Justice.

When Disability Enters A Teacher’S Life, Must The Teacher Stop Teaching?, Laura L. B. Border

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Disabilities are usually discussed in academe in the context of the undergraduate student population; nevertheless, graduate students and faculty also represent a certain percentage of persons with disabilities. This essay presents a case study and an analysis of a consultation with a graduate instructor, inviting us to examine the issues of disability in the life of a teacher.

Realistic Possibilities Of Passing Interest [Photo Essay], Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, Fred Yurichuk

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

This reflection on a series of photographs from the exhibition URGENT gathered by members from "A day in the life photography and story collective" begins to examine the way social structures are implicated in the lives of those who are living in poverty and how their lives can be rendered visible. Through our work in communities with people who are experiencing homelessness and insecure housing we consider the role of photography in picturing and subjecting communities to a gaze that has the potential to be empathic and engaged or uncaring and disengaged.

Revisiting Queer Latinidad: A Clags Seminar Course Review, Anel Méndez Velázquez, Ileana Jiménez

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Anel: The construction of a latinà-queer "we" is very problematic. The construction of a "queer we" and a "latinà we" separately—and any attempt to add them up in a "queer-latinà we"—privileges and universalizes particular imagined identities at the expense and exclusion of specific cultural and personal practices and ways of being.

Letter From The Executive Director, Paisley Currah

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Heterosexuality is under attack--not by the authors of a new "I hate straights" broadsheet, not by vacationers in Provincetown, but by state judges in the US. In August, New York's highest court ruled that the New York State Constitution "does not compel recognition of marriages between members of the same-sex." Their reasoning? In part, the decision declared, because opposite-sex relationships are "often too casual," and thus result in the production of children by "accident or impulse." And so, "unstable relationships between people of the opposite sex present a greater danger that children will be born into or grow up in …

Hubungan Antara Pendidikan Seksual Yang Didapat Melalui Orang Tua, Peer Group Dan Media Massa Dengan Perilaku Seksual Remaja : Studi Kasus Pada Smu "X" Jakarta, Dini Handayani

Jurnal Ilmu Kesejahteraan Sosial

Adolescent’s sexual behavior can be controlled to be inactive by providing sexual education to them. From 215 adolescenst,63.3% seldom receive sexual education from their parent. There’s 76.7% respondents get sexual education through peer group. 68.8% respondent admits that receive frequent sexual education through mass media. There’re 77.7% respondents are sexually inactive. Liveliness depends on various activities and also its intensity. There’re 22.3% respondents never having courtship. 3.3% respondents, who have motived in courtship, have sexual activity before married. From relation between variables, the respondents who seldom receive sexual education have possibility consider 0.83 more sexually active than the respondents who …

Dampak Pemasyarakatan Buku Kesehatan Ibu Dan Anak Terhadap Perilaku Kesehatan Komunitas Saran, Isbandi Rukminto Adi

Jurnal Ilmu Kesejahteraan Sosial

The Health condition has been recognized as one of the indicators of the welfare condition in one community. In relation to that assumption, this article will describe the condition of mother and children in such areas in Indonesia which related to the Official Development Assisstance (ODA) programme which had been introduced by the Japan International Cooperation Agency. The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) handbook programme had been undertaken for about 10 years and has shown different results in many different areas in Indonesia. This article will show the effect of the MCH handbook programme to the mother’s child health behaviour …

Redistribusii Tanah Dalam Usaha Pengetasan Kemiskinan Masyarakat Petani:Simulasi Sistem Informasi Geografis Dalam Kegiatan Redistribusi Tanah Di Wilayah Provinsi Kalimantan Tengah, Sofyan Cholid

Jurnal Ilmu Kesejahteraan Sosial

Nowadays the land use problem couldn’t be solved as we expected. However, it becomes more complicated in line to the increasing of various development and community activities. These activities require some efforts in managing human settlement in the case of land ownership. The very significant limitation and fundamental in executing settlement of authority and ownership of land is there’s no factual and actual data, either from object and subject land reform aspect. According to this study, poverty alleviation through land reform pattern is much assisted with exploiting a SIG technology because the analysis of capacities and ability the data in …

Kajian Tentang Kecerdasan Emosi Dalam Perusahaan, Wahyudi Wahyudi

Jurnal Ilmu Kesejahteraan Sosial

Emotional quotient determine worker’s efficacy, because it could guide the worker’s motivation in their work. Emotional quotient could guide the worker for their maximal performance, learning new skill, working with team, adaptation for changes, challenge and stress. Without emotional quotient the worker will hard to manage his emotion and relation with their colleagues. Through understanding about emotional quotient the worker could improve their ability in learning and developing their relation between their colleagues. Some experts have studied about emotional quotient, they are: Daniel Goleman, an expert in academic psychologist who explained that, emotional quotient has two competences, which is personal …