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Mlcek, Susan Huhana Elaine. "Paucity management models in community welfare service delivery." View thesis, 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/33647.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2008.
A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliographies.
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Chubarova, Tatiana Vladimirovna. "Occupational welfare in Russia with special reference to health care." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2001. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1663/.

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Relying on new empirical data, derived from a survey, and supplemented by an extensive study of available secondary material, this thesis represents the first attempt systematically to explore key issues regarding occupational welfare in Russia, with special reference to health care. The thesis is divided into three parts: a discussion of the problematic; an investigation of the evolution of policy; and an examination of primary and secondary empirical data. The fundamental theoretical problems of occupational welfare are approached in the light of research in the West, in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet Russia with emphasis both on divergences and commonalities. It is argued that any endeavour to separate Soviet and Western experiences is artificial and ultimately unproductive. Rather, the analytical penetration of ideological barriers renders possible an examination of their fruitful interaction. On the basis of existing knowledge two perspectives of occupational welfare -- social policy and organisation -- are introduced. An attempt to formulate a general definition of the notion of occupational welfare is also made. The evolution of occupational welfare and in particular its health care component are examined in their context, from the Tsarist era, during the Soviet Union and through to post-Soviet times, with a concrete aim of elucidating any continuities in policy pathways. Contemporary issues are associated with the initial outcomes of health reforms in the 1990s that are indispensable for projecting the future prospects of occupational welfare. The empirical component of the thesis reports the results of fieldwork carried out in Moscow between 1995 and 1997. The brief was to explore the contemporary status of occupational welfare in Russia in the context of changing social policy aims and methods evolving in the course of the transformation. The attitudes of senior managers of industrial enterprises providing in-kind health services for their employees were investigated, as were employers' actual health responsibilities in the light of the introduction of compulsory health insurance legislation. It is argued that occupational welfare has a distinct sphere of operation and offers potential, not only for the survival of the service area but also for its further development in the evolving socio-political environment. The thesis is a first step towards a deeper analysis of occupational welfare in Russia: an audit of outstanding issues, although not exhaustive, completes the account as an aid to further discussion and research.
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Hunt, John Anthony. "The development of pharmaceutical services in the British welfare state." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266923.

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Langham, Susan Jane. "The impact of the NHS reforms on social welfare : the case of coronary revascularisation services." Thesis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London), 1995. http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/4646509/.

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This thesis assesses the impact of the 1991 health care reforms on the British National Health Service with respect to one specialist service, coronary revascularisation, and examines the ways in which greater improvements in social welfare could be achieved. It is divided into three broad sections. The first section outlines the background to the reforms, the assessment criteria against which the reforms are to be measured and the service to be evaluated. The second section measures the impact of the reforms on efficiency and equity, the chosen assessment criteria, by means both of quantitative and qualitative analyses. The analyses describes the changes which had occurred since the introduction of market mechanisms into the NHS in 1991. Variations in the availability and use of coronary revascularisation services decreased and the contracting process became more sophisticated which suggested the reforms had been instrumental in increasing efficiency and equity. However, large variations remained and market mechanisms continued to cause a series of problems which signified that the reforms were still a long way off achieving an efficient allocation of resources. The third section considers how greater social welfare could be achieved. A strategy for improving social welfare involved managing the market for coronary revascularisations more effectively. An audit of waiting list management in three hospitals demonstrated that patients were often not treated within an appropriate time. The potential to improve efficiency and equity by more effective management of demand for coronary revascularisations therefore existed and the development of guidelines was recommended. Such guidelines were developed with the aim of prioritising patients according to their urgency of need. Finally, the thesis discusses the implications both for health care policy and future research.
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Cook, Jacqueline S. "With good intentions: Appalachian service providers in human services and community mental health." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76485.

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This study is a self-assessment of a small group of Appalachian face-to-face service providers in human services and community mental health. It has evolved from their daily experiences. The purpose of the study has been to reflect back to these providers information about themselves. That reflection has been given in the form of an Adlerian life style analysis, a psychological assessment for individuals modified as assessment of a group. The reflected impression provided its own image for change and an opportunity for the participants to assess what impact, if any, their jobs might be having on other aspects of their lives. In the process of informing the participants about themselves, there has been the intent to give that same information to the people who come for services, supervisors, administrators, policy makers, and ultimately the community of academics and scholars. The author of this study functioned as a co-worker with the other participants, becoming a part of that system which she was observing. The job gave wide access for observation and work with the participants in a variety of settings. The primary interactions took place in the homes of families referred for alleged child abuse and neglect, to include sexual abuse. The methodology allowed the research effort to be one of exploration and evolution. Based on the notion expressed by Carol Ehrlich that people can do research for and about themselves rather than having others do it for them, it drew from several theorists, described in order of their use in the study: H.T.Wilson, Brian Fay, Alfred Adler, Stephen Fawcett, and George Gazda. Presenting one subjective view of reality, conclusions of the study pointed to unconscious guilt on the part of participants with respect to system inadequacies, marked by a desire to feel superior in the helping relationship or in the relationship with those perceived to have authority over them. Unaware of these feelings, and in the simple performance of their jobs, the participants help to perpetuate the systems in which they work and often purport to deplore.
Ph. D.
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Xiao, Lina, and 肖莉娜. "Danwei based community services: a case studyof Tsinghua University." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30460578.

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Barrett, David. "Community care : the impact of current welfare policies and ideologies on older people in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire." Thesis, Middlesex University, 1992. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/9848/.

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This thesis investigates whether community care policy and service delivery is rhetoric or reality. The social policy and under-pinning ideologies that surround community care are reviewed. Important benchmarks are presented in the form of a chronology and aetiology of The National Health Service and Community Care Act, 1990. An interview schedule was designed from the perspective of older people and was used with a sample of 40 older people, 20 at Luton in an inner-city setting and 20 in Redbourn (Herts), a rural location. The qualitative research design allowed the respondents to express themselves with minimal interference from the researcher. The purpose of the in-depth interviews was to explore their lives including everyday experiences, the process of retirement, important Governmental influences and views of themselves. Their access to services was also considered. The data gave detailed descriptions of everyday life, including the concerns of economic and political influences. From the data the concept of 'Economic Fragility' was developed, this replaced Social Class as a variable. Similar patterns of experience emerged for some groups of respondents, these included connections with 'pervasive economics', gender and the semiotic of language. Further analysis highlighted conceptual connections at both a micro and macro theoretical level, the former focusing on life cycles and the latter revealing how political social control, in its present form, marginalises and manipulates certain groups of older people into becoming 'problem' populations. The relationship between the micro/macro concepts is of major significance to the programme in the identification of a predictable career path for the 'Economically Fragile'. This culminates in personal experiential journeys through the Social Incarceration Spiral. Further, some theoretical considerations are explored and some alternative policy proposals are made. Finally, this programme argues that Community Care as an ideology, current policy and service, as propounded by the current Government, is seriously flawed.
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Sharland, Elaine Ruth. "Protection, partnership and the promotion of welfare : the experience of professional intervention in child sexual abuse referrals." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310561.

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Han, Ik-Hee. "Health care policy, equity and the welfare state : the case of national health insurance programme in the Republic of Korea." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302096.

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Gulube, Thokozile Maureen. "An investigation into Kwa Mashu Family and Child Welfare Society as it interacts with other organisations in the provisions of welfare services." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15950.

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Bibliography: pages 153-156.
The study investigates Kwa Mashu Family and Child Welfare Society, a welfare organization providing child welfare services to the community of Kwa Mashu. This organization interacts with other organizations that serve the interests of the child. The study investigates the Kwa Mashu Family and Child Welfare Society as it interacts with other organizations in the provision of Child Welfare Services. The study was motivated by the earnest desire of the organization to find out from the community of Kwa Mashu how the latter views the society in the midst of changing circumstances within the Township. The study is descriptive and exploratory, it explores and describes the child welfare field. It addresses the development of this field and demonstrates how the political priorities affected child welfare provision in South Africa. The study also gives a brief profile of Kwa Mashu Township in which the society operates. In the analysis of Kwa Mashu Family and Child Welfare Society special attention is given to the structure of the organization and the channels of communication within the organization and between the organization and the community. The study investigates the views and opinions of 50 community organizations operating within Kwa Mashu. The study discovered that these organizations had a variety of views about Kwa Mashu Family and Child Welfare Society. The major discovery was that although the community organizations are aware of Kwa Mashu Family and Child Welfare Society they are unaware of the services offered.
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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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The outcomes of a child protection/family support programme, the Cottage Community Care Pilot Project, were evaluated in this study. The evaluation employed a non-equivalent comparison group design of 'at risk' consenting first-time mothers in the perinatal period with babies up to 6 weeks of age. Ninety-three families were recruited and 58 of these were matched with a trained volunteer home visitor. Analysis of assessment items and questionnaires, reviews of hospital records and the Department of Community Services Child abuse and neglect notification register and focus groups with mothers and volunteers provided the information used in this study. The CCCP had an impact on particular aspects of family function, certain infant and maternal health indices and the families' use of community services, but its contribution to reducing the incidence of child abuse and neglect is less clear. Client and volunteer feedback indicated support for the programme. While home visitation by trained volunteers is not proposed as the total answer for effective child protection or family support, the findings of this evaluation suggest that there is a place for similar programmes.
Master of Science (Hons)
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Cameron, Chris. "Ensuring the welfare of the child : an actor-network theory based analysis of the activities of Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority Inspectors." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.247468.

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Stamos, Peter Spiro. "The welfare state and the challenge of economic crises : the case of Sweden 1974-1987, with particular attention to the Swedish health care system." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385812.

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Bash, Camille Rose. "The influence of community support services in reducing potentially preventable readmissions." Thesis, Walden University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3602920.

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Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ranked all hospitals based on Medicare readmission rates for heart attacks, heart failure, and pneumonia. CMS offered subsidies to hospitals ranked in the 4th quartile to develop community support services to reduce the problem of potentially preventable readmissions (PPRs). CMS cited 4 of the 5 hospitals in Prince George's County in the 4th quartile. The purpose of this quantitative research study was to investigate the relationship between community support services and the reduction of PPRs in Prince George's County. The Evans and Stoddart field model of health and well-being guided this study with support from Bertalannffy's general systems theory. This study sought to relate community support services to PPRs in Prince George's County in contrast to other Maryland counties. To evaluate relationships between community support services and the reduction of PPAs, secondary data were provided by CMS in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin. The data included 26 behavioral community support factors from 53,229 Medicare paid claims in Maryland residents from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2011. Lack of diabetes screening is a community support factor within quality of care. Using multiple regressions, there was a statistically significant relationship found between diabetic screenings and pneumonia readmission rate. The implication for social change is that reimbursement of key screening recommendations to CMS, local government, and hospitals in Prince George's County may reduce readmission rates, thereby positively affecting patients, improving community health, and decreasing health care costs in Prince George's County.

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Landman, Liezel. "Integration of community development and statutory social work services within the developmental approach." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10042005-153317.

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O'Brien, Martin Anthony. "The correctional programme : a sociological analysis of the community dimension in health, policing and social welfare services." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.277277.

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Hill, Sarah. "Separate lives, silenced voices : women offenders speaking out on domestic violence and community-based services." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2003. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3080/.

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The primary aim of this study is to explore women offenders' experiences of, contact with, and delivery of, community-based health and social care services. Women offenders represent a particularly disadvantaged and silent group in society whose views have largely been disregarded in previous studies. More specifically, there has been a general lack of attention to their experiences of trying to meet their welfare needs before and after they encounter the Criminal Justice System (CJS). This research sought to provide a more informed understanding of what participants wanted to convey about their lived realities, the meaning of their experiences of help-seeking and their perceptions of appropriate responses to their welfare needs. The study was local, purposive and applied. It was underpinned by feminist epistemology and qualitative, heuristic and collaborative methodology. Reflexive dimensions were an integral part of the whole research process. It was also strengthened by a wish to change policy and practice as a direct consequence of hearing and taking account of service users' standpoints on experiencing those policies and practices. Of central importance was a desire to view women offenders not as research 'subjects' but as 'participants' in a process which would put their views and perspectives at the centre of the study. Therefore, before embarking on the study, I set up a research advisory group as a means of collaborating with women who had direct and personal experience of the CJS as 'expert advisers', to help guide and develop the research. I also sought ways of working collaboratively with research participants, for example, by utilising research methods such as participant observation and semi-structured interviews and asking participants to provide feedback on how I had written up my interactions with them. I also incorporated participant and gatekeeper evaluation methods to seek their views on their experiences of the research. The original contributions to the body of knowledge and understanding that this research makes are in the identification of characteristics of a service generic model of communitybased welfare provision. This relates particularly to the attitudes and behaviours of and delivery by service providers and individual practitioners. It is also framed in the context of participants' shared experience of domestic violence and its impact on their help-seeking from welfare services which was previously hidden and unknown. In addition, the study adds to feminist social research methodology through the development of a feminist and heuristic approach to collaborative research that seeks to involve the 'knowers' in an innovative way, that is, as 'expert advisers', throughout the research process. The profound and lasting impact is the clarity of its core findings: what emerge from women who participated in this work are appeals for service providers, individual practitioners (and researchers) to be in relationship with them. Hence, there is a call for the reduction of destructive boundaries in relationships and the integration of reflexive practice, in both the provision of community-based welfare services and approaches to conducting research of this kind.
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Holley, Lynn Carol. "Ethnic agencies in communities of color : a study of missions, services, structures, and capacity-building needs /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11152.

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Molefe, Sopeng Prince. "Welfare provision by selected self-help organizations : exploratory study." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2556.

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Nieratka, Lindsey R. "Do Payments for Hydrological Services Reduce Poverty and Strengthen Social Capital? An Examination of Household Welfare and Collective Action in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, Mexico." FIU Digital Commons, 2011. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/405.

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Payments for Environmental Services (PES) is a method of attaching market value to environmental benefits which have typically not been valued in the marketplace. This thesis investigates the impact of the government hydrological services program in two communities in Oaxaca, Mexico. Using interviews, semi structured and household surveys, I investigate the effect the PSAH has had in alleviating poverty and increasing social capital in the communities as well as investigate willingness to accept (WTA) payment for additional PES programs. The PES payments put household incomes above national poverty lines. Social capital improved both within and between communities. WTA for additional PES depends on the use of the land in question. Overall, participation in the PSAH has had a positive impact in both communities.
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James-Scribner, Jason. "Developing an online learning community to connect private and public child welfare services with faith-based communities| A grant proposal." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10099851.

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Child welfare agencies continue to be challenged in their separate and collaborative pursuits to achieve child safety, well-being, and permanence. The debate over separation of church and state is turning new corners with the recognition that collaboration between faith-based communities and public/private child welfare can exist and yield great benefits. Individual sovereignty of faith-based, non-profit, private, and public child welfare agencies can better provide for national mandates of child safety, well-being, and permanency by allowing every provider to fulfill its mission according to its own values. Greater collaboration should be viewed less as private and faith-based supplementation of public incapacity and more as a strategic partnerships that capitalizes on the strength of each public and private sectors. Online, competency-based learning communities hold great promise to provide discursive learning opportunities for the transfer of training and practice knowledge regarding faith-based partnerships to advance the mandates of child welfare.

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Leung, Yui-kee, and 梁銳基. "Perceived organizational climate and job satisfaction: a comparison between social work personnel in voluntaryagencies in community development and family welfare services." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31247908.

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Kelleher, Larni. "Evaluation of the Cottage Community Care Pilot Project /." View thesis View thesis, 1999. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030519.145848/index.html.

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Thesis (M.Sc.) (Honours) -- University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, 1999.
A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science (Honours), March, 1999. Bibliography : leaves 117-125.
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Melamid, Elan. "What works? integrating multiple data sources and policy research methods in assessing need and evaluating outcomes in community-based child and family service systems /." Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 2002. http://www.rand.org/publications/RGSD/RGSD161/RGSD161.pdf.

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Leung, Yui-kee. "Perceived organizational climate and job satisfaction : a comparison between social work personnel in voluntary agencies in community development and family welfare services /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1987. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12341629.

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Byrne, Elaine. "A participatory approach to the design of a child-health community-based information system for the care of vulnerable children." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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The existing District Health Information System in South Africa can be described as a facility based Information System, focusing on the clinics and hospitals and not on the community. Consequently, only those who access health services through these facilities are included in the system. Many children do not have access to basic health and social services and consequently, are denied their right to good health. Additionally, they are excluded from the routine Health Information System. Policy and resource decisions made by the District Managers, based on the current health facility information, reinforces the exclusion of these already marginalised children. The premise behind this research is that vulnerability of children can be tackled using two interconnected strategies. The first is through the creation of awareness of the situation of children and the second through mobilising the commitment and action of government and society to address this situation. These strategies can be supported by designing an Information System for action
an Information System that can be used to advocate and influence decisions and policies for the rights of these children
an Information System that includes all children. An interpretive participatory action research approach, using a case study in a rural municipality in South Africa, was adopted for the study of a child-health Community-Based Information System. The context in which the community is placed, as well as the structures which are embedded in it, was examined using Structuration Theory. This theory also influenced the design of the Information System. As the aim of the research is to change the Information System to include vulnerable children, a Critical Social Theoretical and longitudinal perspective was adopted. In particular, concepts from Habermas, such as the creation of a public sphere and the &rsquo
Ideal Speech Situation&rsquo
, informed the methodology chosen and were used to analyse the research undertaken.

Based on the research conducted in this municipality, four main changes to the Health Information System were made. These were: &bull
determination of the community&rsquo
s own indicators
&bull
changes in data collection forms
&bull
creation of forums for analysis and reflection, and
&bull
changes in the information flows for improved feedback. Other practical contributions of the research are the development of local capacities in data collection and analysis, the development of practical guidelines on the design of a child-health Community-Based Information System, and the development of strategies for enabling participation and communication. In line with the action research approach adopted, and the desire to link theory and practice, the research also contributed on a theoretical level. These contributions include extending the use of Structuration Theory, in conjunction with Habermas&rsquo
Critical Social Theory, to the empirical context of South Africa
addressing the gap of Community-Based Information Systems in Information System design
extending the debate on participation and communication in Information Systems to &rsquo
developing&rsquo
countries, and developing generalisations from a qualitative case study.
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Li, Beiliu, and Ying Wang. "Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working with social welfare in China : characteristics, difficulties, possibilities." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för socialt arbete och psykologi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-11412.

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Non-governmental organizations play an increasingly important role in society today. The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics, difficulties, and possibilities for NGOs working with social welfare in China. This paper presents data by using qualitative method and analyzes it with the social ecological perspective. The results of this study show that top-down NGOs like the one studied in this paper are experimental organizations which are established according to China's social environment in order to undertake the welfare services ordered by the government. In this way the government legalizes the working of NGOs. However, the result is that, on the one hand, NGOs help government to promote the quality of public services, and on the other, relying on the government becames an obstruction of NGOs development.
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Bazunu, Antoinette. "Are Florida's children safer? : a public management perspective of the decision to privatize child welfare services in district 7." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1062.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.
Bachelors
Health and Public Affairs
Public Administration
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Nel, Corlie Susann. "The Impact of the financing policy for developmental social services (1999) on delivery in Nellmapius, Gauteng Province." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04152004-151250/.

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Moth, Richard Robert. "'The Business End' : perspectives on mental distress in the context of neoliberal restructuring of community mental health services." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5274/.

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Contemporary neoliberal reconfigurations of statutory mental health services involve significant organisational changes. Based on findings from twelve months fieldwork within a community mental health team, the thesis examines the effects of this new service landscape on the way conceptualisations of mental distress are utilised and articulated. The thesis combines critical realist epistemology and reflexive ethnographic method to produce a contextually situated understanding of the field capturing the dynamic relationships between concepts, agents and the context of action. This draws on and extends Rhodes’ ‘pentimento’ (1993) as a conceptual framework for understanding mental health practice. It argues the mental health team is a ‘differentially sedimented structural institution’ in which practitioners and service users navigate a field of contradictions defined by four strata: the custodial system of the asylum; the biomedical treatment system of the hospital; community care within the Keynesian welfare state; and neoliberal welfare reconfigurations. These are conceptualised as ideological positions that coexist within practitioners as alternative modes of thinking and operate in a relationship of mutual tension. Practice should be understood as a process shaped by mechanisms at different levels of scale from micro to macro, and involving movement between these overlapping and co-existing strata of historically sedimented meaning.
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Perez, Mary Carmen, and Desiree Violet Prendergast. "EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES ON CLIENT PROGRESS IN CASE PLANNING AS ASSESSED BY SOCIAL WORKERS IN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/683.

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The research study explored the impact of community resources has on client progress in their case plans as assessed by social workers in Child Welfare Services. The study site was at the Children and Family Services Agency in Central California. The data was gathered using face-to-face interviews with social workers by using a prepared interview guide, which was later transcribed for data analysis utilizing axial, and selective coding. During the Data analysis the researchers found two major themes that have an influence in the clients’ case progression and they include the following: 1.) barriers towards case plan progression and 2.) key elements to case plan progression. The termination of the study included the preparation of the study findings and was presented to the gatekeepers of the research site.
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Maldonado, Raul Angel. "RESILIENCE AND RESISTANCE: HOW THE INLAND EMPIRE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY THRIVES." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/739.

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Society’s current focus on the transgender community is complicated, and further heightened by the lack of protections for the transgender community. Current studies only assess the hardships transgender individuals face and the impact they have on their well-being. This study sought to explore what effects the lack of resources and support have on the transgender community in the Inland Empire. This study utilized a qualitative approach incorporating semi-structured interviews of participants. The author also sought to explore how the transgender community in this area are able to mitigate any negative experiences. The qualitative data provided rich grounding in understanding the process by which these two factors are linked. Such that, the lack of resources or access to available resources contributed to distress and delayed transgender identification and transitioning. The contribution of the study is important because of the stigmas associated with being a member of the transgender community. The author contends that this research contributes to providing a better understanding of why these stigmas exist and how social services can alleviate and provide equitable and competent resources for the transgender community in the Inland Empire. The major themes derived from the data were separated by access to resources, finding community, in-group discrimination, lack of competence, risking vulnerability, sense of self, social support, and visibility. Sub-themes included: asserting gender, dysphoria, machismo, and socio-economic climate.
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Landsberg, Janice M. "How total quality management can be applied to nonprofit human service organizations in the nongovernment community welfare sector and how it can be used to identify priority areas for development." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1995. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36275/1/36275_Landsberg_1995.pdf.

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This thesis explores the critical issues of Total Quality Management ( TQM ) in relation to service industries, and nonprofit human service organizations in the nongovernment community welfare sector ( NGNPHSO ) in particular, and proposes a model that managers could use in applying TQM to their organizations. The research problem is: how total quality management can be applied to the nonprofit human service organizations in the nongovernment community welfare sector and how it can be used to identify priority areas for development. The research was undertaken because of the paucity of prior research relating TQM to nonprofit human service organizations in the nongovemment community welfare sector; the size, significance and public accountability of the sector; the recognition of the benefits that implementation of TQM could bring to the sector; and the development of a model that managers could use. The thesis is a theoretical study and researches the importance of service quality in service industries and NGNPHSO in particular. It explores various approaches to quality, outlines the specific characteristics of NGNPHSO and demonstrates how these impact on the application of quality in NGNPHSO. It demonstrates that TQM has proved to be the most appropriate tool for identifying priority areas for development and attaining benefits for NGNPHSO, and proposes a model which can benefit managers in analyzing their organizations, in understanding the implications of deficits in particular areas, and planning what action to take to enable improvement in services and products. The thesis demonstrates an integration of knowledge of TQM and NGNPHSO not previously attempted in Australia, and makes interpretations using this synthesis of how TQM can be applied to benefit NGNPHSO. It shows that at present the NGNPHSO sector lacks the basics in the understanding of quality, but would benefit from the application of TQM and provides suggestions about how this may be achieved.
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Leedham, Ian. "From mental handicap hospital to community provisions : a study of changing service patterns and the production of client welfare." Thesis, University of Kent, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.236241.

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Hough, Christine Victoria. "Every child matters : a small scale enquiry into policy and practice." Thesis, University of Cumbria, 2010. http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/3736/.

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1. This research study examines aspects of the effectiveness of the Every ChildlYouth Matters (ECMIYM) programme with regard to its implementation in 2006. Part 1 of the study explores the practical implications of ECM/YM for professional practice across the different welfare agencies, through a series of loosely structured interviews with managers, case workers and young offenders (aged up to 16 years). From an analysis of the data, using grounded theory approaches, three key findings were inducted. These findings suggested the following: I. A lack of consistency in the quality of targeted support provided by integrated services for the most vulnerable children and young people and their families; II. A lack of fine tuning in: a) the identification of vulnerability across different cohorts of children and young people, according to their changing circumstances; b) the ways in which information (about vulnerable children and young people) is shared and used across the different welfare agencies. 2. Reflection on these findings led to a further review of the literature that focuses on critiques of social policy. The analyses of research data within this domain suggest the limitations of social policy making that conforms to a linear, mechanistic approach, because it does not respond to individualised, local need. This suggests further that it is the policies themselves that account for the perceived lack of fine tuning identified in the above findings in part one of this research thesis. Therefore it was important, next, to capture data which drew on respondents' personal perceptions of welfare provision, which might endorse, or otherwise, those aspects in which part 1 of the study suggested that the ECM/YM agenda is failing, in some localities, to meet the needs of the most vulnerable children, young people and their families. 3. In part two of this study, further research was conducted through a series , of extended conversations with: male offenders (aged between 16 and 24 years); parents/partners of prisoners; managers from voluntary/not for profit organisations and senior multi-agency professionals. The data were analysed using a phenomenological approach. Overall, the findings suggest that a purely mechanistic, evidenced-based approach to providing welfare support for vulnerable children, young people and their families can result in negative outcomes when compared with a more contextualised, holistic approach.
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Mbanaso, Michael Udochukwu. "Urban Service Delivery System and Federal Government Bureaucracy: A Structural Analysis of Spatial Distribution of Water Supply in a Suburban Community of Metropolitan Lagos." PDXScholar, 1989. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1234.

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This study identifies the prevailing scarcity of urban public services and the conceptual relations among service delivery, patronage, bureaucratic activities and structural factors in the Lagos Metropolitan region. It examines the extent to which clientelism, bureaucratic decision rules and structural theoretical models explain water service delivery patterns in Festival Town (Festac), a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria. The unprecedented pace of growth of the Lagos Metropolis since the mid-twentieth century gave rise to the spectacular spatial expansion of the continuous built up region. Urban industrial and governmental institutions have not kept pace with the population growth rate of Lagos. This demographic trend also continues to tax the urban service delivery system. The federal government policy proscription entailed the planning and creation of a new town, Festival Town (Festac), as a response to addressing the urban public service problem in the Greater Lagos. Festac is well serviced with modern urban infrastructural facilities for the delivery of water supply and water related services. In recent years, however, the local residents of Festac have been faced with a similar problem in water supply which is not different from that experienced by urban residents in other parts of Lagos. The painstaking efforts that detailed a pre-planned, designed and carefully considered development of a new urban community have not succeeded in creating a regularly functioning delivery of water supply and water related services. Various analytical tools were utilyzed in conducting the study. The study concludes that the central factors in the prevailing scarcity of water supply in Festac are technology and infrastructural dependence and dwindling federal state revenues, all of which exacerbate the internal production of essential urban public services and thereby making delivery problematic. The findings presented in this study demonstrate the significance of the specific articulation expressed in the link between the Nigerian export sector, the fiscal capacity of the federal state and public service financing. This study recommends that if the Nigerian public service delivery system is to overcome its contemporary problems, policies should be adopted which largely depend on existing internal resources.
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Maughan, Matthew. "Finding the Soul in the Soil: How Welfare Farms of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Create Spiritual Communities." DigitalCommons@USU, 2012. http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1192.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830, but its connection with agrarian themes is found in all of LDS canonized scripture, implying a sense of antiquity from the time of Adam in the Garden of Eden. Scriptural examples and teachings of LDS leaders build the foundation of the Latter-day Saint agrarian theology. Valuing this connection to the land remained constant during the Church’s early development, but diminished in theological focus years before the Great Depression. During the Depression, the Church proactively created a Church Security Plan (later renamed the Church Welfare Plan) to aid Church members’ temporal and spiritual needs. Welfare projects provided relief through Mormonism’s concepts of independence, self-reliance, stewardship, and welfare. The application of the Church Welfare Program encouraged the development of these doctrinal principles, and resulted in the creation of spiritual communities on Church welfare farms as the needs of the community were met, both LDS and non-LDS. Welfare farms, created during the Great Depression, establish an environment for the application of the agrarian theology that has existed within Mormonism since its beginnings, and acts as an ideal setting for the creation of spiritual communities.
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Taylor, Rebecca Kate. "An exploration of the mechanism by which community health workers bring health gain to service users in England." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6552/.

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This thesis presents the findings of a qualitative exploration of how Community Health Workers (CHWs) conceptualise their role in delivering health improvement. The characteristics of CHWs described in the literature, and their role in health improvement, are examined critically. Interview data from 27 CHWs and 15 others across four services is used to explore the health improvement mechanism from the perspective of CHWs. Theory from a range of disciplines is used to explain it. The literature provides incomplete accounts of the mechanism. The empirical work suggests that, in the services sampled, the mechanism may predominantly be one of social support (informational, instrumental, appraisal and emotional support). Three distinct and essential processes emerge (needs assessment, effective service provision, and client engagement). The analysis reports how who CHWs are, and what they do, appear to be important influences on the social support processes, and that CHWs may be better at delivering this kind of support than traditional professional workers, particularly to socially excluded individuals. Overall, this work suggests that CHWs may perform a unique role, as experts in social support. The proposed mechanism can be used to inform service design and evaluation, to maximise CHWs’ potential to deliver effective social support.
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Alufandika, Dina. "Appraisal of community-based childcare practices in rural Malawi: the case of Malili traditional authority area, Lilongwe District." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1005968.

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The government of Malawi established the community based childcare (CBCC) programme with the aim of addressing early childhood problems and achieve national development in the long run. The CBCC programme, as one of the approaches to early childhood development (ECD), is guided by the national early childhood development policy. It promotes some practices that somehow deviate from the traditional childcare ways that communities have always known. Experience has shown that programmes that have elements of conflict with commonly held beliefs are bound to meet with resistance in society. The study employed a mini survey, focus group discussion, observation and document review to understand how the CBCC childcare practices in Malili intersect with commonly held beliefs about childcare as well as how they reflect on the national ECD policy. The study also focused on understanding the perceptions of community members on the CBCC programme. The study revealed that while some aspects of CBCC delivery conform to commonly held beliefs about childcare in the area under study, others diverge from such beliefs. Such convergence and divergence appear to be in line with the propositions of transformalist globalisation theory- one of the perspectives adopted for the study. The study also found that care practices at CBCC are not a true reflection of the national ECD policy as community members’ perceptions, poor community participation, poverty and lack of caregiver training in ECD contribute towards poor quality of care in CBCC, contrary to what is defined in the national ECD policy. The study also found that while both CBCC caregivers and sampled community members perceived the quality of care at the centers as poor, caregivers had a more positive perception towards the CBCC than community members. The study indicated that CBCC are centres of desperation for low economic status communities. Findings from the research have revealed that cultural values and commonly held beliefs, and exposure to new knowledge through globalisation play a role in determining childcare practices as well as perceptions towards them. In this sense the study has indicated that meanings that communities attach to development interventions influence their actions and perceptions towards it.
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Thomson, Katharine Ruth. "Services for people with learning difficulties in the Russian Federation : a case-study approach to the development of a post-Communist welfare system." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368291.

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Walker, Peter E., and n/a. "For better or for worse ... : a case study analysis of social services partnerships in Aotearoa/New Zealand." University of Otago. Department of Social Work and Community Development, 2007. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070914.145613.

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Partnerships between organizations are seen as one of the building blocks of the �Third Way� approach to welfare provision both in Europe and in New Zealand. While there is much discussion of this emphasis on building social capital and working in partnerships these partnerships are usually perceived as being between government and community or private organizations as part of a new phase of neo-liberalism. Using qualitative research this thesis explores three partnership sites: Those within a Maori social service provider, Te Whanau Arohanui, and the local Hapu and State organisations; that between the Ngai Tahu Maori Law Centre (an indigenous organization) and the Dunedin Community Law Centre; and finally the State lead Strengthening Families partnership initiative. This thesis is concerned with the development of citizen participation in public policy decision-making through partnerships. While contemporary studies of policy change have identified stakeholder and actor-network forms as dominant these often seem even less democratic, participatory, accountable and transparent than those they have supposedly replaced. I draw on ideas of deliberative governance to explore options for both the theory and practice of sustainable, permanent and participatory policy change in an age of diversity. I suggest that the practice of Community Development is needed to supplement descriptive and post-facto accounts of policy change and so create a usable practice theory of effective mechanisms for participatory input. Using a series of case studies of partnerships, a tentative practice theory and strategy for change is proposed. This is set within an interactive framework that is able to confront levels of power to encourage diversity and participation in decision-making from bottom-up initiatives.
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Lee, Virginia. "From caregiving to bereavement : weaving the strands of identity : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." Massey University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1314.

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“In what ways does the experience of caregiving for a terminally ill family member affect the experience and process of bereavement?” The identity of family caregivers in palliative care has been ambiguous: caregivers are often unaware they fit the description of ‘carer’. Previous research describes two contrasting constructs that shape the identity of the caregiver: burden and privilege. Research, including this study, suggests that the emergence of identity as a carer impacts on the course and experience of bereavement. Two semi – structured interviews were conducted with a small number of caregiving family members: during the caregiving role and in their subsequent bereavement. This exploratory study used phenomenological research to examine the experiences of those caregivers interviewed. The data were examined using the existential themes uncovered in analysis. This paper reports on those themes.
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Bagnall, Karen. "The utilisation of community work within a military context : the role of the social worker." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53184.

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Thesis (MSocialWork)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Community work fulfils definite functions within the social work milieu and develops according to a process. The SANDF does not possess any definite guidelines regarding community work. The resultant consequence is that community work is not utilised to its full potential in that the client system does not always receive a quality service. The purpose of this study was to compose a framework for the Directorate of Social Work within the SANDF, which can serve as a guideline for the possible formulation of a policy document on community work within social work practice. The objectives of the study are firstly to provide theoretical and practical guidelines which social workers in a military setting can follow when utilising community work as a social work method of intervention. Secondly, to explore the knowledge and skills of social workers in the military within the SANDF regarding community work. Thirdly, the need for guidelines with regard to community work within the SANDF, was explored. This study was confined geographically to the social workers in the military of the Western Province. An exploratory study was executed in order to achieve the stated goal and objectives. The research methodology was a quantitative design being a data collection instrument in the form of a questionnaire. The questionnaire was used to probe skills, knowledge perceptions and attitudes relating to community work and to determine the impact of existing community programmes. The empirical study enabled the researcher to draw certain conclusions. Although certain misconceptions were evident, the respondents understood the term developmental social work, community and community work, as well as the systems involved in the community work process and the practice models. The most utilised social work method was casework. The respondents who utilised community work made use of a community work process. Most of the respondents utilised the social community education model in the military. Most of the respondents indicated that guidelines for community work within the SANDF would be helpful. Approximately thirty percent of the respondents experienced problems while making use of community work as a social work method of intervention. A number of recommendations stem from the findings and conclusions. The social workers knowledge with regard to community work needs to be updated. Practical opportunities need to be provided to afford the social worker the opportunity to implement the newly acquired knowledge. Community work guidelines need to be determined within the SANDF, and need to be formulated into a policy document. Specific community work posts, which include all disciplines, need to be created within the SANDF. Post-graduates studies should be undertaken by social workers before being promoted into managerial positions.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Gemeenskapswerk is een van die drie primere metodes van maatskaplike werk. Gemeenskapswerk is 'n proses wat mense help om hulle probleme en behoeftes duidelik te identifiseer en wat die gemeenskap verder help om potensialiteite en vermoëns te ontwikkel om probleme en behoeftes self te kan hanteer, op te los en te voorkom. Gemeenskapswerk het 'n bepaalde funksie binne die maatskaplike werk milieu en verloop volgens 'n proses. Die SANW beskik nie oor geskrewe riglyne vir gemeenskapswerk nie. Dit kan die kwaliteit van dienslewering aan die kliëntsisteem beinvloed. Die doel van hierdie studie is om 'n raamwerk vir die Direktoraat Maatskaplikewerk Dienste in die Suid Afrikaanse Nationale Weermag(SANW) op te stel wat as riglyne vir gemeenskapswerk in die maatskaplike-praktyk benut kan word, en aangewend kan word om 'n beleidsdokument saam te stel. Die doelwitte van die studie is eerstens om 'n teoretiese uiteensetting van verskeie praktyk modelle van gemeenskapswerk en die proses van gemeenskapswerk in die maatskaplike-praktyk aan te bied. Tweedens is beoog om deur middel van 'n ondersoek te bepaal oor watter kennis van en vaardigheid in gemeenskapwerk , maatskaplike werkers in die SANW beskik. In die derde plek is die behoefte aan riglyne vir gemeenskapswerk in die SANW ondersoek. Die studie is begrens tot maatskaplike wekers in die militêr verbonde aan die Westelike Provinsie. 'n Verkennende studie is onderneem om die gestelde doelstelling en doelwitte te bereik. 'n Vraelys is benut as instrument ter insameling van die data. Die empiriese ondersoek is gedoen deur die benutting van kwantitatiewe navorsing om die voorkoms van die werklikhede te bespreek. Na aanleiding van die empiriese ondersoek is bepaalde gevolgtrekkings gemaak. Alhoewel die respondente die terme gemeenskapswerk, gemeenskappe en gemeenskapwerk modelle en die vier sisteme binne gemeenskapswerk verstaan, het verwarring wel voorgekom. Daar is bevind dat die gevallewerkmetode deur die oorgrote meederheid van die respondente gebruik word. Daar is ook bevind dat gemeenskapswerk verloop volgens 'n proses. Die gemeenskaps-opvoedkundige model word deur die meerderheid van die respondente benut. Daar is bevind dat riglyne vir gemeenskapswerk in die SANW bruikbaar sal wees, omdat ongeveer dertig persent van die respondente probleme ondervind tydens die benutting van die gemeenskapswerk proses. Aanbevelings na aanleiding van die bevindinge en gevolgtrekkings sluit in dat maatskaplike werkers in die militêr se teoretiese kennis oor gemeenskapswerk uitgebrei moet word, waarna opleiding benodig word om hierdie kennis toe te pas. Riglyne vir gemeenskapswerk in die SANW moet opgestel word en in 'n beleidsdokument saamgevat word. Die SANW moet spesifieke gemeenskapswerkposte skep wat alle dissiplines sal insluit. Voorts moet nagraadse studie ook 'n vereiste wees vir maatskaplikewerk-personeel om tot 'n bestuursposisie bevorder te kan word.
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Hunter-Moffett, Shaniece Anejo. "Participants' perceptions on the effectiveness of the "Parents in Partnership" program of Los Angeles County." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3325.

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The purpose of this study was to examine participants' perceptions on the effectiveness of the "Parents in Partnership" program (PIP) of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. Parents in Partnership (PIP) is a collaborative effort between the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and parent partner paraprofessionals toward facilitation of safe reunification and permanency through education, support and mentoring of birth parents. The program's sole goal is the timely and safe reunification of children and their families. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with fourteen participants in the PIP program. Both mentors and mentees were interviewed.
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Schooneveldt, Simon P. "Do the lived experiences of people who have been breached by Centrelink match the expectation and intent of the Howard Government?" Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/85/1/schooneveldtThesis.PDF.

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In the past three years, the number of breach penalties applied by Centrelink to welfare recipients have more than trebled, with some 349,000 incidences reported for the 2000-2001 year. This Masters Degree research study examines the lived experience of some individuals who have been breached by Centrelink, to ascertain whether their lived experiences accord with the stated policy expectations and intent of the Howard Government. Government policy statements are identified from the literature, as are a range of alternative viewpoints and critiques offered by commentators. A qualitative research survey instrument was developed. Survey data was collected from people passing on the footpath outside three Brisbane Centrelink offices. Fifty-six individuals who stated they had been breached at least once responded. The results of primary and secondary analysis of the collected data is presented in the findings, followed by discussion as to how the lived experiences of the unemployed respondents matched Government expectation and intent
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Mlcek, Susan Huhana Elaine, University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, and Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre. "Paucity management models in community welfare service delivery." 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/33647.

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The juxtaposition of doing ‘more with less’, and ‘being privileged to be a community welfare worker’ gives some indication of the anomalies present in how community welfare work is conceived and manifested. The original contribution of this thesis is to provide further knowledge and understanding of the nature, level and extent of paucity management models to inform the way that community welfare services are delivered in rural communities. Paucity management relates to the way that managers identify and utilise strategies to counter the anomaly of possessing a deep philosophical underpinning in the value of community work, with the lack of means to meet all the needs and expectations of community members. Fifteen managers from the Central West Region of New South Wales in Australia were asked to share work narratives about the way their activities contributed to sustaining their communities. The research confirms yet again that community services are delivered strategically in spite of, or because of, a resource poor environment that is mainly punctuated by the non-availability of ever-decreasing funds. New ways of seeking resources has resulted in managers and workers navigating competing priorities at ground level, with trying to balance the tensions implicit in a directive provider-purchaser work dynamic that has seen the evolvement of the hybrid government organisation. This qualitative research used a phenomenographic approach to collect the managers’ stories. Data collection methods included individual interviews, focus group discussions, as well as further consultative communication. A complex theoretical framework, incorporating ideas from paucity management, aspects of structuration, and chaos/ complexity, was used to analyse the data through a structure of awareness of variation in the managers’ experiences. The findings show that community welfare managers do work in a resource poor environment, do acknowledge the presence of paucity management, and do address the limit-situations of service delivery through different, but complimentary, paucity management models that are creative, pragmatic, communicatively competent, and ‘auto-managed’. Their combined narrative gives a clearer understanding of the style of management that the managers used, as well as some of the strategies that contributed to ‘chameleon qualities’ of management.
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Wei, Yen-Zung, and 魏彥宗. "Discussion on Community Construction Elderly Welfare--Welfare Services to the Elderly Community of Changhua Fu-Tien Case." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13874795289894520040.

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南華大學
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Since 1993, Taiwan has become an aging society. Because of the change of family structure, there is a rising need for elders’ care. Therefore, the government policies have promoted community development and community care so welfare can be implemented locally. As a result, elders can age as well as cared locally. Fu-Tien community earned the best community award in Chang-Hua County, and was the main case of this study. Research methods included focus group, participant observation, and text analysis. Research findings showed that a good senior social welfare community requires a successful community development which needs capable leaders, devoted workers, and efficient community resources incorporation. The research findings also offered the community development process for future references.
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Hung, Chi-Hung, and 洪志宏. "The Experiences of Promoting Community-oriented Welfare Services in Dong-xin Community Development Association, East District, Taichung City." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/k3ygk4.

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國立暨南國際大學
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Literature reviews in past papers on community development and overall community building show that the communities with welfare service development as the goal often come across manpower resource and financial shortages, as well as other difficulties during the process. Without the promotion of a well-organized development association, the welfare services provided by communities are likely to be short-lived. This study explores the key factors during the welfare community development undertaken by the Dong-xin Community Development Association and analyzes the plights faced and the relevant coping strategies when promoting welfare communization. The research results shall serve as a reference for other development associations whose goal is to promote welfare communization. Research results indicate that the key factor for Dong-xin Community Development Association to promote a welfare community lies in the attitude of its President while difficulties faced during promotion mainly are lack of financial resources and event venues as well as relevant limits imposed by the public sector. Through a series of responsive strategies, Dong-xin Community has resolved the difficulties. Strategies that respond to the lack of financial resources include mainly: 1. Networking expanded by the President; 2. Input of public sector; 3. Matching assistance from the directors and supervisors of the Board; 4. Sales of featured products of the community; 5. and User-pay policy. For the lack of event venues and relevant limits imposed by the public sector, good interaction of the key action taker in the community is utilized to borrow venues and through the interpersonal relationship of the key person, public servants have been asked for help to overcome relevant limits imposed by the public sector. Finally, this study would like to put forward the discussions on expanding community human resources, connecting public sector resources, reviving community industries, and community issues/activities, offering feasible suggestions for the welfare community. The study is looking forward to assisting other interested associations in moving towards the welfare community together.
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Wang, Jeng-Yi, and 王正億. "A Perspective of Localized Welfare -- the Impact of Community Care Services on Elderly Living Alone." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34764049529941732628.

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The studt focuses on 127 elderly, living alone in Luzhou City and Sanchung, Taipei County, have been receiving community care services. With the evidences quantitatively described by the ecological systems theory and five concepts developed with the focus of welfare localization, a qualitative analysis will be made. For the quantitative section, it is consists of a questionnaire-based survey； the qualitative analysis based on interviews with four elderly people、four direct service volunteers as well as four indirect services social worker. In summary of quantitative and qualitative analysis, the main outcomes are as follows: 1. Characteristics of elderly who under the localized caring: (1)The lone living elderly more healthy are more suitable with localized care services. (2) The financial resources of elderly people are the government subsidies. (3) Elderly people feel the loneliness and worry about the crisis from occurring continuously. 2. The main services for elderly on community services: (1) The elderly are comprehensively acknowledge the community care services. (2) On-phone caring checks for elderly people are substantially helpful. (3) Meal delivering services are high demanded, it is provided not enough. (4) The marco regulations must be flexible in light of local conditions. 3. The importance of volunteers: (1) Volunteers are more acknowledged by elderly than social workers. (2) Volunteers are more accepted by elderly than social workers. (3) Generational and gender crisis of community care services volunteers. 4. Executional ability of community-based policies contractors: (1) Overloaded workloads constrains the implementations of community-based program contractors. (2) The key factors of the community care services performance results, is the resources linking ability of social workers. 5. The participation and recognition of self-determination of elderly: (1) Lone living elderly’ micro-vision system would be affected by intermediary, external and marco-vision system effects that surrounding. (2)The elderly have low degree of self-determination. The paper presents some key suggestions: 1. Community care services for gelderly should provide more medical and home safety relevant services. 2. Locality authority should subsidize the on-phone caring checking service. 3. It should continuing recruit community care service volunteers. And develop professional-orientated. 4. To increase elderly’self-determination and participation..
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Hsu, Pei-Ling, and 許倍綾. "A case study about Community-oriented welfare services for theElderly of Guangren Pingzhen District., Taoyuan City." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48zm83.

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元智大學
社會暨政策科學學系
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Since 1993, Taiwan has entered an aging society, and gerontology has become an essential societal concern. As early as 2005, the Ministry of the Interior has launched flagship community-oriented welfare service programs, in which competition-type and project-type budget subsidies are provided to promote community-based welfare. In 1996, the Ministry of the Interior promulgated implementation rules for community-oriented welfare service programs, and in 2007, the Executive Yuan approved the implementation plan for establishing community care stations to provide basic welfare services. Eleven years have passed since the implementation of the community care station program, and to anticipate future needs, reviewing the relevant policy and its current practical operation are imperative. The community care station in Guangren Pingzhen District., Taoyuan City, was established in 2008. It is one of the earliest community care stations to be established. In this year, the community care station completed a decade of operation. During this period, local staff and volunteers have operated the station through their hard work, and they have endured hardships and have ardently worked to eliminate problems, thereby providing the community with an excellent venue for community care. Accordingly, the present study examined this community care station as the research site in 2016. Specifically, related literature and data were compiled to conduct analysis, in addition to engaging in face-to-face interactions and conducting in-depth interviews with staff members and volunteers therein. Subsequently, governmental officials in charge of social welfare, experts, and scholars were interviewed to gain valuable information for further analysis. This study was conducted over a one-year period and revealed the following conclusions, which can be referred to by relevant authorities: 1. Cooperation among the industry, government, and academia may improve the quality of services provided at community care stations. 2. Community care stations can provide quality care to elderly people; however, increasing the care quality entails effort by the government, who should encourage establishing more community care stations and provide more funding for hiring professionals to advance the initial work. 3. Currently, the volunteers of community care stations are mainly elderly women. Measures should be implemented to attract younger people to participate in community care station activities. 4. For obtaining social resources, the public should be encouraged to donate money through corresponding tax exemptions or reductions. Keywords: geriatric welfare, community-based welfare, community care
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