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Drakul, Mira. "Evaluation of the Anishinaabewin Project, a service coordination agreement between West Region Child and Family Services and Winnipeg Child and Family Services Central Area." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0006/MQ45036.pdf.
Full textNewell, Amy Noël Abell Ellen Elizabeth. "Quality in family child care the voice of the family child care provider /." Auburn, Ala, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1632.
Full textDorge, Claudette R. T. "Social work consultation to Child and Family Services workers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ53151.pdf.
Full textOhaeri, Frances Ahunna. "Parental satisfaction with child mental health services." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3343.
Full textKansteiner, Suzanne. "A parent handbook for family childcare programs." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2007. http://165.236.235.140/lib/SKansteiner2007.pdf.
Full textTerling, Toni Lynn. "Family reunification practices of child protective services : interventions and outcomes /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
Full textHalbleib, Andrew. "An evaluation of mediation services applied to child protection and family conflict." Online version, 1999. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1999/1999halbleiba.pdf.
Full textCamargo, Mayra E., and Rocio Silva. "THE EFFECTS OF UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRATION STATUS ON FAMILY REUNIFICATION AND SERVICE DELIVERY IN CHILD WELFARE SERVICES." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/546.
Full textScharff, Karen. "Predictors of Use and Outcomes of Youth and Family Centers." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2781/.
Full textStewart, Latonia A. "An exploration of characteristics, child development knowledge, sources of information, and training needs of family home providers /." View online, 1993. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131396959.pdf.
Full textSammon, William J. "The Ontario Child and Family Services Act: Maintaining the balance between competing rights." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5823.
Full textHildebrand, Mary Anne. "A study of collaboration between child and family services and battered women's shelters." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0012/MQ32926.pdf.
Full textTurnbull, Kathryn Irene. "An examination of social workers' knowledge of Family Preservation Services in child welfare." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2502.
Full textEdwards, Glenda R. "An internal formative evaluation of the child protection supervision program at Winnipeg Child and Family Services-Central Area." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq23294.pdf.
Full textZarate, Emilia Maria. "Child protection in Texas : caseworkers attitudes and perceptions towards CPS services /." View online, 2007. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/210/.
Full textTurner, Karen Mary Thomas. "Parenting and family support in primary care settings /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17454.pdf.
Full textAllen, David Richard. "Examining the effects of parent education in a family resource center /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3112999.
Full textTypescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 170-182). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
Holnbeck, Christy. "Implementation of a Program Planning and Review Model at Winnipeg Child and Family Services." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ53102.pdf.
Full textStinson, Kathryn Lee. "Coverage of prevention of mother-to-child transmission services in Cape Town, South Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12644.
Full textThe effectiveness of prevention of mother-to-child of HIV (PMTCT) programmes depends on the successful coverage of a series of interventions through pregnancy, intrapartum and postpartum. Routine monitoring systems based on service data and limited to women on the PMTCT programme may overestimate intervention coverage at multiple points along this cascade. Methods: Cord blood specimens with individually linked anonymous demographic and pregnancy data were collected from three delivery services in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, and screened for HIV. Seropositive specimens were tested for the presence of antiretrovirals.
Kennedy, Christina. "Feeding the family : exploration of mothers' experiences and practice." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2015. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/4581/.
Full textBerry, Vashti Louise. "The relative contribution of family conflict to children's health and development." Thesis, University of Bath, 2008. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.512283.
Full textLee, Kasie R. "Child-Centered Play Therapy Parent Services: a Q-Methodological Investigation." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700088/.
Full textWilliams, Bryan L. "Physician utilization patterns and family characteristics of participants in the Comprehensive Health Investment Project." Master's thesis, This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01122010-020028/.
Full textQuestionnaires ([6] leaves) in pocket. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-72). Also available via the Internet.
Menzies, Peter, and de Sande Adje van. ""A formative evaluation of the Customary Care Program: Native Child and Family Services of Toronto"." School of Native Human Services, 2003. http://142.51.24.159/dspace/handle/10219/432.
Full textHolt, Nicole, Arsham Alamian, Deborah L. Slawson, and Shimin Zheng. "Child, Family, and Community Factors and the Utilization of Oral Health Services in Early Childhood." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/119.
Full textHicks, Vernae Elaine. "MINORITIES' PERCEPTIONS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/347.
Full textWinkler, Christene M. "Work-family conflict : buffering effects of organizational resources /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9842574.
Full textLedesma, Andreana D. "Risk factors associated with child abuse and mitigating services : a conceptual framework /." View online, 2007. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/264/.
Full textCortis, Natasha. "Challenging the 'new accountability'? Service users' perspectives on performance measurement in family support." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1913.
Full textCortis, Natasha. "Challenging the "new accountability"? service users' perspectives on performance measurement in family support /." Connect to full text, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1913.
Full textAfter two decades of public management reform, the ‘new accountability’ of performance measurement is a routine feature in the relationships between Australian government agencies and the non-profit organisations they fund to provide child and family services. While performance measurement offers to resolve tensions about how governments manage the quality and productivity of contracted services, the indicators they commonly adopt raise well-documented practical, political and epistemological challenges in social services. Left unresolved, these challenges risk biasing representations of service performance, by emphasising the most tangible dimensions of service activities (such as measures of client throughput) over relationship building and care. Capturing only part of service activity compromises the usefulness of performance data for managing quality and outcomes, and denies policy makers critical information about the value and meaning of care in users’ lives. This thesis identifies and critically explores one set of challenges for performance measurement: the role of service users. Uniquely, I explore how user involvement in social service evaluation can make visible how these services enhance the quality of family and personal life. Using a case study of family support services in New South Wales, the research makes a series of empirical and theoretical contributions to problems of user involvement in social service evaluation. Firstly, the research examines the performance indicators currently used by government to monitor the efficiency and effectiveness of family support services in NSW. This shows that performance indicators in family support capture output more thoroughly than outcome, and confirms the minimal role that service users play in assessing service quality and outcomes. But while service users are largely excluded from participation in performance measurement, theoretical perspectives as diverse as managerialism and feminism treat service users as well placed to capture and report otherwise elusive information about care quality and outcomes. Further, participation in evaluation facilitates the exercise of users’ rights to self-expression and self-determination in the social service delivery and policy process. After identifying the widespread exclusion of service users’ perspectives from performance measurement in NSW family support, the thesis makes its more substantial contribution, in documenting findings from a detailed study involving adult family support service users (parents) and their workers (the ‘Burnside Study’). This qualitative study was conducted in four socio-economically disadvantaged service delivery sites located around New South Wales. Using focus group, interview and observational methods and a modified grounded theory approach, the study contributes exploratory evidence of what these service users think of, and how they think about service quality, outcomes, and evaluation in family support. The parents’ accounts of using family support capture their unfulfilled social ideals and the broader visions of the justice they hoped these social services would help them achieve. Their criteria for measuring service outcomes and service quality, and their views on evaluation methods embody core themes that social theorists have struggled to analyse, about the purpose of social services and the nature of ‘a good life’. The theoretical framework I develop highlights the role of family support in the context of service users’ struggles for social justice, and in particular, their struggles for self-realisation, recognition and respect (Honneth, 1995). The research extends theories of recognition beyond publicly articulated social movements to those struggles in social life and social politics that exist in what Axel Honneth terms the ‘shadows’ of the political-public sphere (2003a: 122). After establishing a conceptual framework that facilitates deeper interpretation of users’ perspectives, I present the findings in three categories: users’ perspectives on service outcomes; users’ perspectives on service quality; and users’ perspectives on evaluation methods. The findings show how service users define ‘service outcomes’ in the context of their struggles for recognition and respect, highlighting the contribution welfare services and welfare professionals make beyond the managerial ‘Three E’s’ of economy, efficiency, and effectiveness. Further, the findings confirm the importance of ‘helping relationships’ to the quality of service delivery in family support, despite the invisibility of service relationships in existing performance indicators. The complexity of worker-client bonds highlights the difficulty of evaluating social services using simple numerical counts of client or service episodes, and plays into broader debates about strategies for revaluing care work, and the role of care recipients. Finally, the findings show the role performance measurement processes and methods might play in facilitating users’ struggles for recognition. Users identified a role for evaluation in making visible the contribution of family support in pursuing their social justice goals, and saw evaluation as an opportunity in itself to facilitate recognition and respect. Overall, the thesis offers concrete evidence about how family support service users experience and define service quality and outcomes, and how they see their own role in evaluating the services they use. The research shows how users’ perspectives both contest and confirm the ‘new accountability’ of performance measurement, pointing to new directions, and further challenges, for conceptualising – and evaluating – social services.
Suchinda, Kajonrungsilp Kennedy Larry DeWitt. "A model curriculum for parent education in Thai society." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1995. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9633396.
Full textTitle from title page screen, viewed May 17, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Larry D. Kennedy (chair), Robert L. Fisher, Ione M. Garcia, John R. McCarthy. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-129) and abstract. Also available in print.
Anderson-Michael, Julie L. "A study of the first four fiscal years of Eastern Illinois University School of Family & Consumer Sciences Child Care Resource & Referral /." View online, 1996. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998764272.pdf.
Full textMcDonald, Kelsey. "Partnership rhetoric and risk realities : the implications of risk in government/non-government family services partnerships." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2014. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/173451.
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Richerson, Lauren A. "Child, family, and school predictors of outcome of a school-based intervention for children with disruptive behavior problems." Ohio : Ohio University, 2004. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1090939935.
Full textMendoza, Natasha Stella. "Single Mothers, Substance Misuse and Child Well-being: Examining the Effects of Family Structure and Service Provision in the Child Welfare System." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243514455.
Full textDannenberg, Sally. "Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation Early Childhood Initiative Grant /." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2006/2006dannenbergs.pdf.
Full textSamady, Lila Massoumi. "Evaluation of the family nurturing program: The family education component of the Riverside County Dependency Recovery Drug Court Program." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2876.
Full textMendenhall, Amy Naca. "Patterns and predictors of service utilization of children with mood disorders effects of a multi-family psychoeducation program /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1196271824.
Full textFeatherstone, Brigid M., C. Ashley, C. Roskill, and S. White. "Fathers Matter: Research findings on fathers and their involvement in social care services." Family Rights Group, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2708.
Full textThis publication Fathers Matter is the culmination of a two year project which has looked at the largely neglected area of fathers involved with social care agencies because of child welfare needs or concerns. The publication includes a series of research reports, including new analyses of fathers¿ experiences, an international literature review and the results of a survey of local authorities. The publication considers the implications of this research and sets out clear recommendations for Children¿s Services Departments, health services and national government.
Hall, Craig S. "Youth and Family Based In-Home Services Program in Tennessee: Factors for Success." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2282.
Full textBailey, Carl, Ana C. Hurd, and Tina Tanguay-Hill. "A longitudinal study of a family maintenance program." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/817.
Full textRandall, Mary. "Engagement with voluntary family services : views of parents and practitioners." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2021. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/184068.
Full textDoctor of Philosophy
Hoffman, Elaine. "Raising a child with autism : exploring family support structures." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71773.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a condition that, at present, affects approximately one out of every 100 children globally and indications are that the prevalence thereof is steadily on the rise. ASD is a complex neurological condition that impairs social interaction, communication and behaviour. Research on the wide-ranging effects of ASD and its unique characteristics in each child with ASD is widely available. Several studies refer to the fact that ASD has an impact on the family unit, but very few researchers have investigated the support that families from different cultural groups in South Africa are enjoying whilst raising a child with autism. The current situation being what it is means that professionals and families have very little data on the subject and inadequate support is available to address the specific needs of families who are raising a child with autism. The aim of this study was to investigate the support structures of three families from three different cultural groups in South Africa who were raising a child with autism. The central issue that was researched was the support structures available to parents raising a child with autism, and how parents access that support. This is a qualitative study within an interpretive research paradigm. In this case study, the methods of data collection comprised semi-structured interviews, observations and reflective journals. This design embraced qualitative research methods that could expose the uniqueness of each family’s experience and allowed participants the freedom to express this. The three families, who were purposefully selected for this study, were from different cultural backgrounds. One of the children in each family met the criteria published in the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition, text revision (American Psychiatric Association, 2000) for Autism or Pervasive Developmental Disorder not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS). The study found that the parents in the three families received support from their spouses and the neuro-typical siblings. The families also enjoyed physical support, financial support and emotional support from different sources. Parents reported feeling supported when others show acceptance and understanding of their children’s deficits and when such others are prepared to ‘go the extra mile’. The three families also perceived information and guidance as a valuable source of support. Even though they had firm support structures in place, they also reported on the lack of support available to them. All three families enjoyed these forms of support, but it was interesting to find out that the families received the support from different sources.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Outisme of outisme spektrum versteuring (OSV) is 'n toestand wat tans ongeveer een uit elke 100 kinders wêreldwyd affekteer en daar is aanduidings dat die voorkoms daarvan steeds toeneem. OSV is 'n komplekse neurologiese toestand wat swak sosiale interaksie, kommunikasie en gedrag tot gevolg het. Navorsingsresultate oor die breë gevolge van OSV en die unieke eienskappe daarvan in elke kind met OSV is algemeen beskikbaar. Verskeie studies verwys na die feit dat OSV 'n impak het op die gesinseenheid, maar tot dusver het baie min navorsers die ondersteuning ondersoek wat gesinne uit verskillende kulturele groepe in Suid-Afrika tydens die opvoeding van 'n kind met outisme geniet . Die huidige situasie voorsien professionele mense en gesinne van baie min data oor die onderwerp en onvoldoende ondersteuning is beskikbaar om die spesifieke behoeftes van gesinne met 'n kind met outisme aan te spreek. Die doel van hierdie studie was om ondersoek in te stel na die ondersteuning wat gesinne in verskillende kultuurgroepe in Suid-Afrika tydens die opvoeding van ‘n kind met outisme geniet. Die sentrale ondersoekvraag het betrekking gehad op ondersteuningstrukture vir gesinne met ‘n kind met outisme binne hul kultuurgroep, sowel as die wyse waarop die gesinne toegang tot die ondersteuning verkry. Die studie was kwalitatief van aard binne 'n interpretatiewe navorsingsparadigma en ’n gevallestudie is as navorsingsontwerp gekies. Data is deur middel van semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude, waarnemings en reflektiewe joernale ingesamel. Die kwalitatiewe navorsingsmetodes omvat die uniekheid van elke gesin se ervaring en laat deelnemers die vryheid om uitdrukking daaraan te gee. Drie gesinne is doelbewus vir hierdie studie gekies. Die gesinne moes oor die volgende kenmerke beskik: Hulle moes uit verskillende kulturele agtergronde (Afrikaan, Wit en Indiër) kom. Hul kind moes voldoen aan die kriteria in die Diagnostiese en Statistiese Handleiding van geestesversteurings, vierde uitgawe, teks hersiening (2000) vir Outisme of pervasieve ontwikkelingsstoornis nie anders gespesifiseer nie (PDD-NOS). Verskeie etiese beginsels is vir hierdie studie nagekom om te verseker dat die navorsing eties was. Die studie het bevind dat die ouers in die drie gesinne ondersteuning van hul gades en die neurotipiese broers en susters van die kind met outisme ontvang het. Die gesinne het ook fisiese ondersteuning, finansiële steun en emosionele ondersteuning vanuit verskillende bronne geniet. Die gesinne het aangedui dat hul ondersteun voel wanneer hul kinders se afwykings aanvaar word, begrip daarvoor getoon word en andere bereid was om die ‘ekstra myl te loop’. Die drie gesinne het ook inligting en leiding as waardevolle bronne van ondersteuning ervaar. Selfs al het die families sterk ondersteuningstrukture in plek gehad, het hulle ook die gebrek aan ondersteuning uitgelig. Al drie gesinne geniet die bogenoemde vorme van ondersteuning, maar dit was interessant om uit te vind dat die families hierdie ondersteuning vanuit verskillende bronne ontvang het.
Gambill, Samantha Marie. "An Investigation of Child and Family Factors Predicting Parental Response to Children's Conduct Problems." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1491915896302843.
Full textHaines, Lisa Catherine. "Perceived Need of Directors for Family Therapy-Related Services in a Child Care or Preschool Setting." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31119.
Full textMaster of Science
Kelleher, Killarney, University of Western Sydney, and Faculty of Health. "Evaluation of the Cottage Community Care Pilot Project." THESIS_FH_XXX_Kelleher_K.xml, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/743.
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Calderon, Nancy Razo, and Elisa Adriana Hernandez. "Child welfare workers' perceptions of reunification services: Are timeframes feasible?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2911.
Full textKaylor, Barbara J. "Child abuse has Healthy Start made a difference in Oregon? /." Related resources; Click on: Programs & Initiatives > Healthy Start, 2002. http://www.ccf.state.or.us/pageoccfsitemap.html.
Full textStout-Miller, Ruth, Larry S. Miller, and Mary R. Langenbrunner. "Religiosity and Child Sexual Abuse: A Risk Factor Assessment." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1998. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3462.
Full textPiper, Christine. "'Making-sense' of child neglect : an exploration of child welfare professionals' practice." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2013. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/20345/.
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