Shared Family Care: Fostering the Whole Family to Promote Safety and Stability

ABSTRACT

Shared Family Care is an innovative child welfare service that temporarily places whole families in the homes of community mentors who, along with a team of professionals, help the families to obtain the skills and resources they need to move toward self-sufficiency and adequately care for their children. This article provides an overview of this model, identifies existing programs in the United States, discusses key elements of the model, summarizes outcomes and comparative cost information, identifies implementation challenges, and provides tips for starting a Shared Family Care program in any community.     

A New Grandparenting

Summary

The author explores the social identity of older persons and their potential for taking leadership roles in their families and communities as mentors to young persons with disability. Dealt with is the powerlessness of both these groups within society and the way in which they may be able to empower each other. It is posited that serious and active grandparenting and mentoring have the potential of filling a large gap in the continuum of meaningful and productive activities for older adults and provide highly valuable support and human resource to young persons with disabilities.     

Female Part‐Time Managers: Careers,Mentors and Role Models

This paper explores the careers of 27 women employed as part‐time managers in a range of UK public, private and not‐for‐profit sector organizations. Drawing upon semi‐structured interviews, the article briefly summarizes the career trajectories of these women, prior to and after a transition to part‐time working, before exploring whether and how career progression is linked to the support of role models and mentors. The part‐time managers in this sample held varied careers while working full‐time, but careers often stalled following a transition to part‐time work. Given research has identified role models and mentors as having a positive impact upon career progression, this paper explores the existence of role models and mentors within the sample of female part‐time managers. While the majority of interviewees identified role models, just over half identified these as negative role models who did little to champion part‐time working. Drawing upon Gibson's ‘positive/negative’ role model dimensions, we argue the likelihood of identifying positive and negative role models alters when an analysis takes account of gender and working hours. Few interviewees identified mentors: just four women spoke of being mentored currently, though ten others identified being mentored in the past. We argue this lack of mentors and the identification of negative role models, the majority of whom were women, exacerbates the already precarious position of these female part‐time managers. The paper concludes by commenting on the lack of support for female part‐time managers, and the paucity of influential people working part‐time in organizations, despite the rapid growth of part‐time work in the UK over the past four decades.     

高校辅导员职业化、专业化研究综述

高校辅导员职业化、专业化是我国高等教育发展的必然要求,也是辅导员自身发展的必然要求。近几年,关于高校辅导员队伍职业化、专业化建设的研究已经成为热点。文章从高校辅导员职业化、专业化建设的必要性出发,探讨建设的措施与途径,对近年来辅导员职业化、专业化建设研究进行综述。     

Factors influencing mentees' and mentors' learning throughout formal mentoring relationships

A qualitative case study approach was taken to identify what factors were perceived to influence learning for mentees and mentors during a pilot formal mentoring programme, within a West Midlands Healthcare Trust. Both sides of five dyads were interviewed at regular intervals over a 17-month period (October 2009 to February 2011). The results from this longitudinal study show how learning was expected and achieved by both parties, over time. Factors influencing learning were categorized and later compared to pre-existing theory in relation to sharing experiences, sharing information, discussing politics, reflection, observation and support. Additional categories emerged in relation to questioning and listening skills, and similarity and difference between both parties. A change of emphasis was clear in relation to some factors which influenced learning, as the relationships matured. These findings have theoretical and practical implications for human resource development (HRD) professionals in relation to how formal mentoring programmes are designed and supported over time.     

Community mentors as coaches: transforming gender norms through cricket among adolescent males in urban India

Addressing violence against women and girls (VAWG) through the medium of male team sport may be a promising strategy for addressing interpersonal violence and gender norms transformation in urban communities. Parivartan is a violence prevention programme in a large slum community in Mumbai, India, which works with men and boys to reduce violence and promote gender-equitable attitudes and beliefs via membership of a cricket team and mentoring from coaches. This article discusses findings from a recent evaluation of the programme.     

研究生导师立德树人履责：定位、定向、定法

立德树人是研究生导师的首要职责。研究生导师要从明“强国复兴”之大德、守“处世为民”之公德、严“修身养性”之私德的目标定位，把握和内化立德树人的履责内容；从最低的“无觉”的阶段、次低的“他觉”阶段、次高的“自觉”阶段、最高的“慧觉”阶段的发展定向，认识和提升立德树人的履责境界；从把稳“学思践悟”思想之舵、坚定“己立立人”取譬之道、用好“寓教于研”磨砺之策、练就“因人而异”施教之法、凝聚“协同多方”奋进之力等实践定法，创新和用好立德树人的履责方略。     

《远大前程》中的成长主题和领路人原型解读

成长,作为一个文学主题在文学史上占有相当重要的地位。优秀的成长小说总是能够被各个年龄层次的读者所接受和喜爱,其原因不只在于它本身所包含的艺术性,还在于它的原型特征。本文就成长小说的主题原型和成长过程中的领路人原型两个层面来解读小说《远大前程》,展现主人公皮普成长路上的困惑与觉醒。     

Needs and availability of support among care‐leavers: A mixed‐methods study

Data are scarce on the long‐term needs of care‐leavers and on the support resources that are available for them in the years after leaving care. This mixed‐methods study presents data on the needs and availability of support of 222 Israeli care‐leavers, suggesting that the most urgent needs of care‐leavers are a lasting need for a stable and available support figure and assistance with educational issues. For some care‐leavers, these needs are fulfilled by their mentors. Parents and other familial figures were found to be the most common support resource for care‐leavers, which highlights the need for the intervention of social workers to improve relationships within families while the children are still in care. Due to high rate of young people who have no support resources and a low rate of services utilization, social services should provide a platform to support this group, using mentors and other supporters. The longitudinal data of up to 4 years after leaving care indicated that the availability of various types of informal support improved over the years, and the reports on difficulties in relationships of the care‐leavers with their parents were significantly fewer 4 years after leaving care than on the verge of leaving care.     

对研究生科研实践能力培养的策略性思考

对于研究生科研能力的培养是一个十分复杂的系统工程，应从个人、教师、制度、社会、国际交流等多个层面与角度分析探寻解决途径，这样才能做到策略与方法的科学、有效与合理。