What About the Kids?

ABSTRACT

Although rhetoric about family-centered services and breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty has survived many failed public welfare strategies, few meaningful collaborative efforts between school systems and the public welfare system have emerged. The following case study describes the processes in which a county DSS director successfully engaged the school system to change the educational trajectories of its children in poverty by using the university as a bridge partner. Capitalizing on the freedom associated with using block grant funds for innovative programs, the collaborating partners redefined the relationship between the two systems through a common goal. Successes, barriers, practice implications and lessons learned are identified and discussed in the case example.     

A Case for Improving Social and Supportive Service Delivery for Ex-Offenders with Community Information Systems (CINS)

Research has shown that information technology, such as reentry mapping, community information systems (CINS) and other geographic information system (GIS)–related applications have improved criminal justice and social welfare outcomes. These Web-based applications are essential in that they serve as portals for extensive data allocation, collection, storage, and information sharing. One such Web-based application, reentryBase, is a planned CINS, designed to respond to the growing need for improved delivery of social and supportive services to those returning from prison and jail. Its specific aim is to build capacity for both outreach to ex-offenders and networking among and between reentry stakeholders.     

Reducing Prejudice Within Community-Based Organizations

ABSTRACT

Efforts to help community-based organizations (CBOs) develop interventions that reduce prejudice within the workplace and during service provision can be informed by social psychological prejudice reduction techniques, which tend to be successful in controlled laboratory settings but have limitations that inhibit utility in applied settings. Alternatively, the use of diversity training to reduce prejudice has increased within the for-profit sector, but is rarely applied to CBOs. This article discusses the overlap between the basic and applied literatures, and how community practitioners can use the information gained from both to support CBOs who encounter challenges with diversity.     

Sense of Need for Financial Support and Respite Services among Informal Caregivers of Older Americans

ABSTRACT

Financial support and respite services are two of the most frequently reported types of help that caregivers of older adults need. Using an expanded health behavioral model, this study examined the effects of predisposing, enabling, and needs factors on caregivers' sense of need for these two types help. Data were drawn from the 1999 National Long-Term Care Survey and included 1,058 caregiving dyads in the community. The results indicated that caregiver-related factors more than care recipient–related factors affected caregivers' sense of need to seek both types of help. The findings direct to two important implications for long-term care policy for and practice with older adults: improvement of service for caregivers and service delivery systems.     

中国体育竞赛服务产业市场发育机制研究

体育竞赛服务产业是体育产业的核心内容,其市场发育水平直接关系到体育产业的发展规模和发展速度,应得到重点优先发展.采取大力发展草根赛事,加强社群体育竞技系统的培育;积极提升赛事水平,强调消费者利益的重要性;结合科学新技术,拓展体育竞赛市场收益新途径;科学改善国民财富分配比例,培育国民体育消费习惯等措施,将有效促进我国体育竞赛服务市场的发展壮大,使我国体育竞赛服务业在全球化经济发展蓝图中抢占一席之地,有力推动我国体育产业的科学健康发展.     

中国出口的贸易要素含量——基于非竞争型投入产出的分析

HOV模型的思想使得我们必须从要素含量的角度重新审视我国出口内涵。文章以我国2007年42部门的非竞争型投入产出表为基础,将进口产品重新拆分,重新计算了2007年出口中的要素含量,发现剔除进口产品,出口要素中间投入呈现出基础原材料较多,劳动报酬占出口价值的比重较大等现象。于此,应加快转变贸易增长方式,以获取更多贸易利益。     

京津冀晋蒙地区生产性服务业发展与制造业升级

生产性服务业是制造业发展的高级要素,是制造业升级和效率提高的重要源泉。京津冀晋蒙地区是中国的主要经济区域之一,其制造业升级是全国产业结构优化的主要部分。使用2001—2011年20个制造业细分行业的面板数据,对京津冀晋蒙地区生产性服务业发展与制造业升级之间的关系进行实证分析,得出其生产性服务业发展与制造业劳动生产率提高具有显著正相关关系的结论。同时,从生产性服务业细分行业的角度出发,比较了京津两市对该地区经济发展的促进作用,以验证将京津两市设立为该地区生产性服务业发展核心的科学性与合理性。     

论新四军对华中抗日根据地群众医疗卫生事业的支持

抗战期间,各种疾病的流行给根据地人力物力造成极大的破坏。新四军积极支持地方医疗卫生工作,为群众施诊施药,建立地方医疗机构,推行卫生防疫运动,动员民间中西医,培养群众卫生习惯,培训地方医疗人员。这些措施的推行,减轻了根据地群众的疾病痛苦,掩护了伤病员,解决了地方工作人员的医疗问题,密切了军民关系,扩大了新四军的影响。     

A Computer-Integrated Approach to Program Evaluation

Abstract

Outcome evaluation of group work intervention in residential agencies. Development of a management/clinical information system and related computer applications.

Program evaluation as discussed in this article describes a service delivery-focused approach to program evaluation which is actually designed and implemented in a residential treatment agency for delinquent youth, the evaluation approach represents a practical strategy which applies much of the current thinking and research in the area of user focused evaluation. The approach has been refined by incorporating the product of the authors' experiential learning and pragmatic adaptations which evolved out of field testing the model over several years.

The authors present the overall approach to evaluation and the development of the evaluation model within an agency context. The author's then describe the development of a computer-based system which is designed to serve as both a management information system and a clinical information system. Basic aspects of the computer-based evaluation system are presented. Throughout the article, the authors discuss process-related issues pertaining to the introduction of evaluation to both management and staff and movement toward the implementation of an automated evaluation system.     

Social Service Needs of Hispanic Immigrants

Abstract

Large numbers of poor Hispanic immigrants have come to the U.S. in recent years with many social service needs. This qualitative, pilot study of Hispanic immigrants in the Washington Heights community in New York City identifies their perceived needs and barriers for accessing services. Seven face-to-face interviews with community-based professionals and four focus group interviews with thirty Hispanic immigrants provide the data. Both groups of informants report many unmet service needs, especially in the areas of health care and housing. Data support the view that Hispanic immigrants often require micro-and macro-level advocacy that can best be performed by Spanish speaking social workers.