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Montoya, Karen. "Youth sexual exploitation training curriculum for child welfare service providers| A grant proposal." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1590136.
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The purpose of this project was to write a grant proposal seeking to fund the development of a curriculum that supports the needs of youth who have experienced or are at risk of, sexual exploitation. The proposal ultimately targets a potential host organization that could sustain and support the development of a curriculum and effectively reach the target population. The curriculum is intended to be used to train child welfare staff and group home service providers about the identifying markers and needs of sexually exploited youth. A literature review details the main causes, the biopsychosocial effects and what is being done to address the problem. Potential funding sources were reviewed. The proposal includes a needs assessment, implementation method, staffing, evaluation and budget narrative. The actual funding and submission of this grant proposal were not requirements for the successful completion of this project.
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Dean, Kristin, Jon Ebert, Jennifer Lambert, Michele R. Moser, and Janet Todd. "Expanding Evidence-Based Practice: A State-Wide Dissemination Effort Targeting Child Welfare Providers." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4968.
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The child welfare system in the state of Tennessee has faced many challenges, including accessing best practice mental health treatment, particularly for youth experiencing traumatic stress. In response, five state-funded groups, who were created to provide support and consultation to the Department of Children’s Services, initiated a project to train agencies serving the child welfare system in the use of evidence-based treatment. The result of this multi-disciplinary collaboration, which included individuals from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, was a state-wide dissemination and implementation program on the use of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The presenter(s) will briefly outline the development of the project; discuss gaining support in both urban and rural underserved communities; and share important lessons learned.
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Stephani, Josefine. "Privata utförares påverkan på kommunaluppföljning i Linköpings- ochEskilstunas kommun : En jämförande fallstudie av förekomsten avLagen om valfrihetssystem och dess påverkanpå uppföljning och utvärdering av hemtjänst ikommuners egen regi." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Statsvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-132170.
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Sweden has during a long time gone through a change to a higher rate of private providers in welfare services. Due to this change the Swedish government, in 2013, conducted an investigation regarding the monitoring of private providers. The investigation presented a suggestion of a new law to encourage municipalities to have a more structured monitoring. The investigation also proclaimed a need to investigate further how the law could include even the services provided by the municipalities themselves. The investigation saw a need to make the law more neutral between the both forms of providers. The purpose of this paper is to compare the two municipalities Linköping and Eskilstuna and the presence of the Act on System of Choice in the Public Sector and how that affect the monitoring and evaluation of the home care services that is provided by the municipalities themselves. The method chosen for this paper is a comparative case study. In both cases people with central professions have been interviewed and documents related to monitoring have been studied. Given this material, an analysis and a discussion about the results have been made. The conclusion of this is that there is a difference in the monitoring and evaluation of home care service between the both municipalities. The results indicate that the municipality with a higher rate of private providers have a more thorough and structured monitoring of both private providers and the services provided by the municipality itself. The municipality which have had only one private provider in home care services do not use the same material for monitoring both private and municipal providers.
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Martinell, Heather Marie. "DIFFERENT THERAPISTS, DIFFERENT OUTCOMES? DO REFERRALS TO DIFFERENT PROVIDERS IMPACT REUNIFICATION OF CHILD WELFARE CLIENTS?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/676.
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Child welfare agencies are responsible for the overall care and custody of children removed from their caregivers due to substantiated child abuse allegations. After the children are removed it is standard department procedure to offer court mandated reunification services. The only exception of this is when parent’s rights are terminated. Both the parents and children are ordered services based on the needs of the family. These services include but are not limited to parenting classes, drug treatment, and therapeutic services.
The purpose of this study is to examine whether families in different geographic areas, who are referred to different therapeutic providers, experience different reunification rates. The agency that provided the data for this study presumed that families in more affluent zip codes are more likely to be served by licensed therapists, while families in less affluent zip codes are more likely to be served by interns or unlicensed professionals, and that this difference in providers would lead to greater reunification rates in the more affluent zip code.
The study used data collected from client case files at a local child welfare agency. This data included clients from two distinct zip codes - one more affluent and one less affluent - as well as basic demographic and outcome information on the client’s case. After data was gathered a chi square test was utilized to compare the outcomes for clients in the two zip codes. It was initially presumed that families in lower socioeconomic areas were referred to non-licensed therapeutic providers such as interns and this may have impacted their reunification. However, the analysis revealed that families in the less affluent area were more likely to reunify than families in the more affluent area. These results were statistically significant and support the first part of the agency’s hypothesis, that families in different zip codes experience different reunification rates. However, these findings do not support the agency’s hypothesis that families in more affluent zip codes have higher reunification rates. Rather this study found the opposite: that families in the less affluent zip code had higher reunification rates. Implications for social work practice and research are discussed.
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Simpson, Joelle N. (Joelle Nicole-Johnson) 1973. "Dispatches from the front lines : tracking former welfare recipients and direct service providers in Massachusetts." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70319.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-95).
In August of 1996, welfare policy in the United States went through the most significant transformation since the New Deal. Once a theoretical notion and popular political agenda, welfare reform came to fruition in the United States with bipartisan support. President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which made good on his promise to "change welfare as we know it". The Personal Responsibility Act mandates that welfare recipients can only receive benefits for a limited period of time, also, all nonexempt recipients must work for their benefits. Furthermore, the law gives individual states much more autonomy in creating their own welfare policy and in determining who is eligible for benefits. The federal government rewards states decreasing the number of families on welfare and for reducing the number of out-of-wedlock children born to women on welfare. The states are given the power to reduce the grant amount given to recipients who do not meet the work requirements and other regulations. Several states, like Massachusetts, have used this new found "autonomy" to create welfare reform rules that are more stringent than the regulations developed at the federal level. As clients make the transition off welfare, they encounter barriers and victories at three critical phases in the transition. Phase one is the period of time when the welfare recipient is still receiving Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) benefits, but is scheduled to lose the benefits in less than 24 months. The second phase occurs during the recipient's first year without benefits. The final phase begins at the start of the former recipient's second year without benefits and lasts until the recipient is eligible for benefits again or achieves economic self-sufficiency. The welfare recipient's survival during each of the phases is dependent her strategy or approach to the transition, her level of preparation for the workforce, the support she receives from her family and advocate organizations, and her access to jobs and child care. Organizations that provide housing support can play a pivotal role in a TAFDC recipient's transition off welfare, since these organizations have the capacity to supply affordable housing and a "safety net" during each of the phases. As the number of "former" welfare recipients increases, it is imperative that policy makers and direct service providers uncover the barriers and successes that TAFDC recipients encounter as they journey from welfare dependency to a life without benefits. Equally significant is the need for an understanding of the welfare system from the perspective of the welfare recipient. The recipient's "bottom-up" perception sheds light on the complexities of the journey from welfare to a life without TANF benefits. If used properly, this knowledge can ensure that welfare reform becomes a policy that lifts poor families out of poverty instead of sentencing them to a life of low wages.
by Joelle N. Simpson.
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Ahmad, Ashfaq. "An investigation into programme factors and providers' perceptions at family welfare centres in Faisalabad district of Pakistan." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260790.
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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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Robin, Blaine. "Exploring illness and social care management : comparing consumer perspectives of suffering and the challenges faced by service providers." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2010. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/6368/.
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This thesis as a case study explored the narratives of a convenience sample of four women with the disease known as lupus. The author used an ethnographic approach to investigate how these women coped and how service providers, including carers, met their needs. The author used participant observation in his role as Occupational Therapist (and son) to gain access to this sample. He asked them to keep written diaries about their day-to-day experiences of living with the illness. These diaries were later given to the author to read, study and analyse. Additionally, the author’s personal ethnography as a son was submitted as data for this study. This ethnographic writing centred on the life of one sole informant, his mother, who later died with the disease in hospital. Qualitative data analysis (QDA) techniques with grounded theory origins (Glaser and Strauss 1965,1967 and Charmaz 2007) was used to analyse the data. The techniques comprised of line-by-line analysis and coding, constant comparison of cases, thematic analysis, theoretical sampling and the development of framework tables. The study revealed a range of findings, which were later conceptualised into an ethnographic ontology of lupus. First, people encounter a daily struggle to cope with illness symptoms. Second, there was evidence of poor communication between the hospital ward staff (and carers) and failure for social workers to be the main advisor/counsellor of end of life care needs including missing referrals to hospice services. Health and social care professionals sometimes struggle to provide a basic level of service leading to a “know do” gap. This leads to an inconsistent level of end of life care for the individual and limited support for the identified carers. Narratives in diary form have a role to play in helping clinical teams develop meaningful insights into their life of their patients. Clinical teams in turn need to be forthright enough to develop “death covenants” for all patients (and their carers) with palliative care needs. Developing these tools and including them as intervention turn will lead to more cohesive practices within health and social care (Dean 1996, Dean and Melrose 1996, Mol 2008).
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Schwab, Lauren M. "Food Insecurity from the Providers' Perspective." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1368021811.
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Morifi, Mahlodi Patience. "The impact of the Financing Policy for Developmental Social Welfare Services (1999) on service providers in Tembisa, Gauteng Province." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01252005-103017.
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Duncan, Shara. "A safety organized practice training program for contracted service providers in the Ventura County child welfare system| A grant proposal." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10046251.
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Child abuse and neglect often leads to a child's removal, necessitating the intervention of the Juvenile Dependency Court. Parents are provided with services aimed at mitigating the risk factors leading to the removal and safely facilitating reunification. Therefore, the purpose of this project was to develop a grant to fund a Safety Organized Practice training program focusing on family engagement for service providers contracted with Ventura County Children and Family Services. The proposed training program would provide specialized training to child welfare professionals in order to increase the quality of interventions provided by child welfare professionals, enhance the quality of their visitations with families, and help promote improved reunification rates. The potential funding source for this grant was the W.K. Kellogg Foundation as this program coincides with the foundation's focal beneficiaries. The actual submission and/or funding of this grant was not required for the successful completion of the project.
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Clark, Nancy Elizabeth. "Perceptions of satisfaction in the delivery of services to kinship and non-kinship care providers." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2463.
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Prysmakova, Palina. "Public Service Motivation in Public and Nonprofit Service Providers: The Cases of Belarus and Poland." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1792.
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The work motivation construct is central to the theory and practice of many social science disciplines. Yet, due to the novelty of validated measures appropriate for a deep cross-national comparison, studies that contrast different administrative regimes remain scarce. This study represents an initial empirical effort to validate the Public Service Motivation (PSM) instrument proposed by Kim and colleagues (2013) in a previously unstudied context. The two former communist countries analyzed in this dissertation—Belarus and Poland— followed diametrically opposite development strategies: a fully decentralized administrative regime in Poland and a highly centralized regime in Belarus. The employees (n = 677) of public and nonprofit organizations in the border regions of Podlaskie Wojewodstwo (Poland) and Hrodna Voblasc (Belarus) are the subjects of study.
Confirmatory factor analysis revealed three dimensions of public service motivation in the two regions: compassion, self-sacrifice, and attraction to public service. The statistical models tested in this dissertation suggest that nonprofit sector employees exhibit higher levels of PSM than their public sector counterparts. Nonprofit sector employees also reveal a similar set of values and work attitudes across the countries. Thus, the study concludes that in terms of PSM, employees of nonprofit organizations constitute a homogenous group that exists atop the administrative regimes.
However, the findings propose significant differences between public sector agencies across the two countries. Contrary to expectations, data suggest that organization centralization in Poland is equal to—or for some items even higher than—that of Belarus. We can conclude that the absence of administrative decentralization of service provision in a country does not necessarily undermine decentralized practices within organizations. Further analysis reveals strong correlations between organization centralization and PSM for the Polish sample. Meanwhile, in Belarus, correlations between organization centralization items and PSM are weak and mostly insignificant.
The analysis indicates other factors beyond organization centralization that significantly impact PSM in both sectors. PSM of the employees in the studied region is highly correlated with their participation in religious practices, political parties, or labor unions as well as location of their organization in a capital and type of social service provided.
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Smiley-Robinson, Karen E. "The Industrialization of Social Services: the Effects of a For-Profit Provider on Workfare." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/190835.
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The effects of neoliberal practices on social policy decisions continues to favor a form of privatization in which corporatized marketplace practices are the guide for social institutional operations. One effect of this has been an increase of marketplace organizations as operators of social services programs, including welfare-to-work programs. These organizations adhere to the prevailing trends in business community for profit making, while ostensibly following the principles of welfare-to-work regulations for service delivery. However, the practices introduced by pursuing profit can conflict with the recognizing all the goals of workfare as outlined in the federal policy of TANF or the Temporary Aid for Needy Families. Under these regulations, providers are charged with assisting welfare recipients receiving cash support in addressing personal barriers to economic stability and in gaining employment intended to provide a catalyst to economic stability. This research examines a corporate social services provider, the practices instituted by its leaders, and the effects that those practices have on the staff of the welfare-to-work center and their clients. Specifically, this examines how the links between profit making and the statistical performance assessments of state funding agencies influenced an operational model, analogous to the manufacturing center for cheap labor. The emphasis on quick workforce attachment strategies exceeded the state's performance measures and allowed the maximization of profit; however, this research determines that these strategies denied workfare clients the services that they and the state expected them to receive.
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Jacobs-Kenner, Jerrie. "Analysis of alternative care placement changes as provided by case managers." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5509.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on July 27, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.
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Lidzén, Linda. "A Comparative Study of the Social Welfare Provided by Three Christian Churches in Accra, Ghana." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-466.
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The family is the first and oldest provider of social welfare in the West African country of Ghana. However, colonisation and urbanisation has changed that role and today additional providers of social welfare can be found; the government, religious organisations (churches etc), non-religious organisations and Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs).
This study will confirm the claim that the church takes on a role as a surrogate family and that it steps in where the government is not present, doing social work which is intended for the government. The study will also investigate what kind of social work the churches carry out (including what they put their focus on, which is dependent on their finance and location) and how these different projects are financed.
The study was conducted during a six week period in Accra, capital of Ghana. Representatives from three Christian congregations (Presbyterian Church of Ghana in Kaneshie, Global Evangelical Church in Kotobabi and International Central Gospel Church in Teshie) were interviewed, as was Dr. Ayidiya at the Department of Social Work, University of Ghana, in order to get background information on the present social welfare system in Ghana.
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Holmes, Lisa. "Exploring needs, costs and outcomes of services provided to vulnerable children and their families." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2017. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/25708.
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This overarching chapter for a PhD by publication brings together a programme of research that commenced in 2000 and includes a series of eight publications (from 2006-2014) that have been selected to demonstrate the development of a theoretical framework and research methods to explore the relationship between the needs, costs and outcomes of child welfare services provided to vulnerable children and their families. The findings provide an insight into how children s social care services can be provided as effectively and efficiently as possible. Along with an understanding of how and when support and services are, or can be, provided to vulnerable children and their families, in response to their specific needs and circumstances and consequently transform children s lives by improving outcomes.
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Shukla, Mahesh. "Long-Term Impact of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery (CABG) Report Cards on CABG Mortality and Provider Market Share and Volume." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3592997.
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Purpose: Empirical evidence on impact of CABG report cards on the quality of CABG surgery is patchy, mixed and mainly comes from uncontrolled and short term studies. CABG report cards are associated with a small decline in mortality after controlling for an overall declining trend. Whether report card publication has caused this decline is not known.
Methods: I use difference-in-differences and difference-in-differences-in-differences with fixed and random effects in OLS, Logistic, FGLS and GMM regression frameworks in a quasi-experiment set up in State-level and patient-level HCUP data with risk-adjustment to assess long term impact of CABG report cards on CABG mortality and provider market share and volume. This study uses counterfactuals, and multiple States as treatment and control States.
Results: CABG shows steadier and 17% steeper decline in in-hospital mortality rate when compared with other equally complex surgeries, and 30% steeper improvement when compared with pneumonectomy. There is a strong secular and statistically significant trend of decreasing CABG mortality. States with and without report cards were similar in terms of CABG mortality at baseline. We do not see long term impact of CABG report cards, State-mandated or voluntary, on CABG in-hospital mortality. Nevertheless, report cards have caused a gain in market share of 6% and 5% for low mortality hospitals and surgeons respectively in face of a secular trend of rising market share of average mortality hospitals and surgeons. CABG report card policy was also associated with decrease in hospital volume by 152 surgeries and decrease in surgeon volume by 14 surgeries a year over and above the secular trend of declining CABG volumes.
Conclusions: Concurrent Society of Thoracic Surgeons intiative and spillover of effects across States may explain why we do not see impact of CABG report cards in long term on improvements in quality of CABG surgery. National and regional system interventions with State CABG report cards appear to have created a perfect storm leading to a rising tide of CABG quality which has benefitted all States. It appears the report cards are associated with a change in today's culture of medicine biased in favor of interventions and procedures.
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Hylton, LeQuan M. "PERCEPTIONS OF THE HOMELESS TOWARD NONPROFIT HUMAN SERVICE PROVIDER." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4280.
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As the debate intensifies regarding developing remedies to meet the needs of America’s homeless, one solution is for governmental agencies to collaborate with and employ organizations from the nonprofit sector to assist with the needs of the homeless population. Included in the nonprofit sector, faith-based organizations (FBOs) have historically been a source of debate and contention in terms of collaborations with the government. However, Presidents Reagan, George H. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama have embraced the idea of including FBOs in the pool of service providers offering human services. In the Richmond, Virginia region, FBOs and nonreligious nonprofit organizations provide a range of
human services to a substantial population of homeless clients. Yet, whether the homeless population prefers services offered by FBOs versus nonreligious nonprofits in general and for specific categories of service is unknown. These specific categories of service include alcohol treatment and recovery, counseling, drug treatment and recovery, food pantries, health care, job training and placement, short-term and long-term shelter, and meal sites. In addition, this study seeks to identify models using variables from this study that predict the preference for each category of service. Since homeless clients overall and specific human service preferences are an unknown, the importance of this study is to inform policymakers, those in the nonprofit sector, researchers, and other interested parties of these preferences. A study of this nature is also important to compare policy implementation to the preferences of the homeless to ensure the implementation accounts for principles of social equity. In addition, a study of this nature seeks to fill a literature gap by examining and understanding the intersections of demographic characteristics and preferences. Using the cohort and the rational choice theories, this study examines the preferences of homeless individuals for particular types of service providers.
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Khumalo, Princess Sengeziwe. "The effectiveness of social support mechanisms provided to HIV and AIDS opharns: the case of Tembisa child and family welfare society, Gauteng." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1005633.
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The study was aimed at investigating the effectiveness of social support mechanisms provided to HIV and AIDS orphans in Tembisa, Gauteng Province. An interview guide was designed and it guided the in-depth interviews with HIV and AIDS affected and infected orphans. In addition, a focus group was run with the social workers and the children‟s caregivers. Empirical findings gathered were based on the qualitative information from the participants. The findings indicated that social support systems were effective although there were various challenges facing their smooth running. Firstly social support provided to orphans is mainly provided by caregivers, social workers, schools and the government. Secondly for some, the support is not entirely enough to help them cope with life. The minority of the orphans indicated that they were not even aware that they were orphaned. The study therefore recommends that social workers and caregivers be trained on how to be effective social support systems for HIV and AIDS orphans. Furthermore psycho-social support groups need to be more informational and inclusive of HIV and AIDS orphans.
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Sandström, Glenn. "Ready, Willing and Able : The Divorce Transition in Sweden 1915-1974." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Centrum för befolkningsstudier (CBS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-60216.
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This thesis attempts to extend the historical scope of divorce research in Sweden by providing an analysis ofhow the variations in the divorce rate over time and across geographical areas are connected to the economic, normative and institutional restructuring of Swedish society during the period 1915-1974. The thesis finds that the economic reshaping of Sweden into a modern market economy is at the center of the process that has resulted in decreased marital stability during the twentieth century. The shift from a single- to a dual-provider model and an increased integration of both men and women into market processes outside the family have resulted in lowered economic interdependence between spouses, which in turn has decreased the economic constraints to divorce. This conclusion is supported by the empirical finding that indicators of female economic self-sufficiency are associated with increased propensities for divorce, during the entire period under research in this thesis. That changes in the constraints experienced by women have been important is further emphasized by the finding that women have been more prone than men to initiate divorce, and that this gendered pattern of divorce was established already during the early twentieth century in Sweden.The results further indicate that the growth of divorce is connected not only to a shift in the provider model but also to the way sustained economic growth has resulted in a general increase in the resources available to individuals, as proposed by the socio-economic growth hypothesis. During the 1920s and 1930s, high-strata groups, such as lawyers, journalists, engineers and military officers, exhibited a divorce rate on the same level as in the general population of Sweden today. By the early 1960s, however, this positive associa- tion between social class and divorce had changed: by then it was rather couples in working-class occupations who exhibited the highest probability of divorce, which is a pattern that appears to have persisted since then. These findings indicate that a general increase and more even distribution of economic resources betweenboth genders and social classes have facilitated individuals’ possibilities to sustain themselves independent of family ties. This democratization in the access to divorce has meant that growing segments of the populationhave gained the means to act on a demand for divorce.However, another result of the thesis is that it is not possible to limit the analysis to a strictly economic perspective. Rather, economic changes have interacted with and been reinforced by changes in values, as wellas in institutions, during the periods when widespread and rapid behavioral change has occurred. In Sweden, like in most other Western countries, this was primarily the case during the 1940s and a period covering approximately the second half of the 1960s and first half of the 1970s. The studies of the thesis suggest that these two periods of rapid growth in the divorce rate stand out as periods in Swedish history when attitudes also changed more rapidly toward values that can be regarded as permissive, secular and more open to indi- vidual freedom of choice. Trenchantly, these two periods also correspond to the two harvest periods in Social Democratic welfare state policy. In the thesis it is argued that the marked increase in government services and social security at these time points integrated with and reinforced economic restructuring in a way that worked to “de-familializate” individuals by making them less dependent on family ties for social security. Institutional changes of this type have been particularly important for making single life more feasible for women and low- income groups. In the thesis, it is argued that the timings of substantial behavioral change become difficult to understand if the analytical perspective does not explicitly incorporate how such contextual-level changes in values and institutions have integrated with changes in the provider model and the economy during thesedynamic periods of the divorce transition in Sweden.
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Abrams, Widdicombe Aimee Samantha. "The Impact of State-Provided Paid Family Leave on Wages: Examining the Role of Gender." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/883.
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The U.S. is the only OECD country that does not offer any form of federal paid parental leave. Only three states—California, New Jersey and Rhode Island—have state-provided paid leave policies; implemented in 2004, 2009 and 2014, respectively. Through descriptive statistics and difference-in-difference-in-difference regression analyses of the wages of women and men of childbearing age (19-45 years) in those three states, we assess whether the paid leave programs have effected wages, and whether these effects vary depending on gender. Our results show that wages of women of childbearing age saw negligible net effects post-policy in policy states, although statistically insignificant. On the other hand, the wages of men of childbearing age saw improvements post-policy implementation in policy states, compared to wages in non-policy states. Although the policies do not necessarily widen the gender wage gap, they do not work to help close it, due to flaws in the policies. To be more effective in reducing gender wage gaps, these policies need to increase the amount of paid support, and implement job protection rights in order to decrease the opportunity costs of men taking leave. If more men are able to take paid leave, then potentially parts of the gender wage gap that are due to employers viewing women as less attached to the workforce can decrease. Through this research we came to important conclusions that highlight the ways in which support of working parents in the US is lacking, and offered recommendations to create more equitable and effective policies.
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Falk, Rolf, and Lotta Wallén. "Skattefinansierad äldreomsorg i förvandling : Vill och kan idéburna organisationer medverka?" Thesis, Ersta Sköndal högskola, Institutionen för socialvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-4155.
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Syftet med studien har varit att förstå hur företrädare för idéburna organisationer med social inriktning inom äldreomsorg ser på sin egen, organisationens och civilsamhällets roll som serviceproducent av offentligt finansierad välfärd. För att uppnå syftet har semistrukturerade intervjuer genomförts med sex företrädare på ledande nivå inom idéburna organisationer med skiftande storlek och geografisk spridning. Lundquists förbindelseteori har delvis använts som en teoretisk utgångspunkt i analysen. De har i Lundquists termer gett uttryck för ett aktörskap som vi har försökt förstå genom att sätta det i relation till de strukturer företrädarna verkar inom och är beroende av. Resultatet från intervjuerna visar generellt på att de två lagrum som styr villkoren för driften av äldreomsorg på entreprenad och i egen regi, lagen om valfrihetsysten respektive lagen om offentlig upphandling ger kommunerna stora friheter i tillämpningen. Det gör att förutsättningar att bedriva äldreomsorg varierar stort vilket skapar osäkerhet och kan hämma de idéburna att ta en större roll. Organisationerna anpassar sig på olika sätt till förutsättningarna. De större aktörerna använder sina resurser för att skapa sig ett handlingsutrymme. Det görs genom att eftersträva en större kontroll av hela vård- och omsorgskedjan tack vare en mer omfattande administration och fler servicefunktioner inom den egna verksamheten. Möjligheten att involvera frivilliga inom äldreomsorgen ger dock i det närmaste ett obefintligt tillskott, speciellt i termer av någon ekonomisk vinning. Riksorganisationen för idéburen vård och omsorg, Famna, har en central roll och är en samlande kraft för de flesta av de intervjuade organisationerna när det gäller påverkan och opinionsbildning på nationell nivå, inte minst genom sina remissvar till olika departement. De har även en viktig uppgift i att ta fram utbildningar till medlemmarna och driva gemensamma nationella utvecklingsprojekt. En sammanfattande slutsats är att villkoren för organisationerna är komplex och beror främst på de lokala förutsättningarna där de ekonomiska ramarna sätter tydliga gränser för möjligheten att ta en större roll som utförare av äldreomsorg.The purpose of this study has been to understand how representatives of non-government organisations active in the care for the elderly view their own, the organisation’s and civil society’s role as service providers of publicly funded care. To achieve this objective, semi-structured interviews have been performed with six representatives in leading roles within non-government organisations of varying size and locations. Lundquist’s theory of stakeholders and structures have in part been used as a starting point for the analysis. This has, in Lundquist’s terms, given voice to a stakeholdership which we have tried to understand by relating it to the structures within which the representatives work and are dependent on. The result of the interviews give a general picture of one of the two laws that control the conditions for the management of municipal as well as outsourced care for the elderly; the law of freedom of choice and the law of public procurement, which give the councils great scope for adaptation. This means the prerequisites for managing care for the elderly vary greatly which creates uncertainty and may hamper the non-government organisations to take on a bigger role. Organisations adapt in different ways to these prerequisites. The bigger stakeholders use their resources to create space to work. This is done by striving for a stronger control of the entire chain of care thanks to a more extensive administration and more service functions without their own management. The possibility of involving volunteers in the care for the elderly, however, gives a practically non-existent addition, especially in terms of financial gain. The national organisation for non-government care, Famna, holds a central role and is a uniting force for most of the organisations interviewed when it comes to advocacy and opinion forming on the national level, not least through its comment letters to different departments. They also have an important role in creating training programmes for their members and run joint national development projects. To summarise, our conclusion is that the conditions for the organisations are complex and depend primarily on the local prerequities where the financial framework sets clear boundaries to the possibility of taking on a more extensive role as providers of care for the elderly.
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Balnave, Nikola Robyn. "Industrial Welfarism in Australia 1890-1965." University of Sydney. Work and Organisational Studies, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/572.
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This thesis examines industrial welfarism in Australia from 1890 to 1965. This period witnessed the gradual spread of the welfarism movement throughout Australian industry as employers sought ways to increase productivity and control in the face of external challenges. Once reaching its peak in the immediate post-War period, the welfarism movement was gradually subsumed as part of the increasing formalisation of personnel management. Waves of interest in welfare provision coincided with periods of labour shortage and/or labour militancy in Australia, indicating its dual role in the management of labour. Firstly, by offering benefits and services beyond that made necessary by the law or industrial awards, welfarism was designed to create a pool of good quality workers for management to draw from. Secondly, managers sought to enhance their control over these workers and their productive effort, using welfarism as a technique to build worker consent to managerial authority. This could be achieved through subtle methods aimed at boosting loyalty and morale, or through more direct programs designed to increase worker dependency on the company. In both ways, individual and collective worker resistance could be minimised, thereby reinforcing managerial prerogative. Despite its adoption by a variety of companies, a number of economic, political and institutional factors limited the extent of industrial welfarism in Australia. These include the small-scale of most enterprises prior to the Second World War, state involvement in the area of industrial relations and welfare provision, and the strength of organised labour. While the welfarism movement did not reach the heights experienced overseas, it nonetheless provided an important contribution to the development of formal labour management in Australia.
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Pierre, Aurélie. "Assurance maladie complémentaire : régulation, accès aux soins et inégalités de couverture." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLED031/document.
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Cette thèse s’intéresse, en France, à la place de l’assurance maladie privée (ou complémentaire) dans l’organisation globale du système d’assurance, sous l’angle des inégalités sociales et de la solidarité entre les individus bien-portants et les malades. Elle étudie en particulier le rôle joué par l’assurance complémentaire sur l’accès aux soins, la mutualisation des dépenses de santé et le bien-être de la population. Les travaux menés dans cette thèse révèlent l’importance de l’assurance complémentaire pour accéder à des soins reportés dans le temps pour raisons financières. Ils montrent en revanche que, généraliser l’assurance complémentaire, dans le modèle actuel de co-financement des soins, ne permet ni de répondre à des objectifs d’équité ni-même d’améliorer le bien-être de la population. Ils révèlent en sus que l’assurance complémentaire induit une moindre mutualisation des dépenses de santé pour les plus malades et invitent à repenser son rôle dans le financement des soinsThis thesis deals with the place of private health insurance in the overall health insurance scheme in France, focusing on social inequalities and on solidarity between healthy individuals and sick patients. It particular, it addresses the role of private health insurance on access to health care, mutualization of health expenditure, and welfare. The results of this thesis reveal the key role of private health insurance to access to care postponed over time for financial reasons. However, our results also show that generalizing complementary health insurance in the current health insurance scheme does not allow pursuing equity goals nor increasing welfare. They finally reveal that the mutualization induced by private health insurance appears relatively weak, compared to the one induced by public health insurance. They therefore encourage a change in the role of private health insurance in funding medical care
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Skhosana, Rebecca Mmamoagi. "Social welfare services rendered to street children in Pretoria: perspectives of service providers." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/12067.
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A qualitative study was undertaken to develop an understanding of the social welfare services rendered to street children and to ascertain how these social welfare services can be enhanced from the perspective of service providers employed by NGOs in Pretoria. An explorative, descriptive and contextual research design was utilised. The researcher used purposive and non-probability sampling methods to draw the sample. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect information from nine service providers working with street children. Data were analysed according to the framework provided by Tesch (in Creswell, 2009). Data
was verified using Guba‘s model (in Krefting, 1991).The study highlights challenges
faced by NGOs in providing social welfare services to street children. The study provides a critical analysis of some of the key social welfare service challenges that need to be addressed to ensure effective and sustainable delivery of social welfare services.
how these social welfare services can be enhanced from the perspective of service providers employed by NGOs in Pretoria. An explorative, descriptive and contextual research design was utilised. The researcher used purposive and non-probability sampling methods to draw the sample. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect information from nine service providers working with street children. Data were analysed according to the framework provided by Tesch (in Creswell, 2009). Data
was verified using Guba‘s model (in Krefting, 1991).The study highlights challenges
faced by NGOs in providing social welfare services to street children. The study provides a critical analysis of some of the key social welfare service challenges that need to be addressed to ensure effective and sustainable delivery of social welfare services.
the social welfare services rendered to street children and to ascertain how these social welfare services can be enhanced from the perspective of service providers employed by NGOs in Pretoria. An explorative, descriptive and contextual research design was utilised. The researcher used purposive and non-probability sampling methods to draw the sample. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect information from nine service providers working with street children. Data were analysed according to the framework provided by Tesch (in Creswell, 2009). Data
was verified using Guba‘s model (in Krefting, 1991).The study highlights challenges
faced by NGOs in providing social welfare services to street children. The study provides a critical analysis of some of the key social welfare service challenges that need to be addressed to ensure effective and sustainable delivery of social welfare services.Social Work
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Morifi, Mahlodi Patience. "The impact of the Financing Policy for Developmental Social Welfare Services (1999) on service providers in Tembisa, Gauteng Province." Diss., 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25040.
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Transformation of social service delivery began after 1994 with the establishment of the Reconstruction Development Programme. It was followed by the commitments made in the World Summit on Social Development (Copenhagen, 1995) with the emphasis on sustainable development. The Financing Policy for Developmental Social Welfare Services (1999) was introduced as a transformation tool to implement the White Paper for Social Welfare (1997). The researcher is working as a social worker in Tembisa and discovered in practice that there is little evidence of the transformation of social welfare services as stipulated in the Financing Policy for Developmental Social Welfare Services (1999). This study was part of a team effort among four researchers to investigate the impact of the Financing Policy for Developmental Social Welfare Services (1999) on service delivery in different communities in Gauteng. The aim of the study was to determine the impact of the Financing Policy for Developmental Social Welfare Services (1999) on service delivery in Tembisa from the perspective of service providers. A quantitative research approach was utilized and data was gathered through a questionnaire. From the research findings, it was concluded that, although service providers have made progress with regard to transformation of social services to a developmental approach, many challenges remain with regard to fast tracking this transformation process. Recommendations based on the research findings and conclusions of the study indicated that transformation of social service delivery to a developmental approach depends on clearly defined guidelines to give direction to service providers on how to transform social services to a developmental approach. These guidelines should include training, partnerships, communication forums, monitoring and evaluation and practice of principles for developmental approach.Dissertation (MSD (Social Policy))--University of Pretoria, 2006.
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Bai, Yu. "Maltreated children with mental health needs does coordination between child welfare agencies and mental health providers improve their outcomes? /." 2007. http://www.etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-1843/index.html.
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Martin, Sonia. "Social divisions in an era of welfare reform: a critical analysis of neoliberalism and the underclass thesis." 2006. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/28285.
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This thesis is a study of social divisions and an assessment of the impact of neoliberalism upon them. Its purpose is to investigate the nature of contemporary social divisions, and whether or not the ????underclass???? is a useful way of conceiving the social and economic marginalisation of some individuals. The underclass thesis crystallises in a powerful and contentious way some fundamental premises that underpin the neoliberal philosophy, namely that the welfare state is considered a threat to freedom, discourages work, and is socially and economically damaging. Thus there ought to be a reduced role for the state in the provision of welfare. There are two fundamental weaknesses in social democratic critics???? contributions to debates about welfare reform. The first relates to a focus on residual welfare and measurements of poverty, largely neglecting the systems of power that underlie welfare distribution. The second relates to the omission of agency. Critics???? responses have tended to ignore the behaviour of the welfare beneficiaries targeted by current reform. In order to address both of these issues, I have formulated a critical post-traditional paradigm of social divisions. The study comprises three stages. The first is an historical overview of neoliberal policy developments and a quantitative analysis of social divisions. The findings indicate that neoliberal nations have the lowest commitment to welfare, and the highest levels of poverty and widening inequality. In Australia, labour market changes and educational underachievement are likely to contribute to new and emerging divisions, and the cumulative nature of disadvantage is apparent within low socio-economic areas. The second stage of the study examines the policies of the Howard Coalition Government in Australia and focuses on the prevalence of the underclass phenomenon in current welfare reform. Records central to the Government????s welfare reform agenda are analysed to examine policy makers???? normative beliefs. The findings reveal that the underclass thesis is an ideological construct that legitimises a reduction of welfare provision and control of the unemployed. The third stage of the study focuses on the experiences of unemployment among young people, and the views and experiences of welfare providers who work with them. The data show that individuals make decisions about their lives from the range of options they perceive to be available to them at a particular point in time. These options are not limited to those made available by the provisions of the welfare state, nor are they solely the product of inter-generational welfare. The welfare providers enforce the Government????s position on welfare reform by endorsing a version of the underclass thesis in their work and directing their interventions at the individual. Considered together, the findings reveal that a conservative neoliberal social policy fails to capture the complex interaction that occurs between individuals and their social environment, and the impact this has on their labour market activities. By successfully converting the problem of welfare dependency into a private issue, a neoliberal social policy is legitimised and current social arrangements are maintained.PhD Doctorate
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Wang, Yun-Ya, and 王韻雅. "The Overuse of Welfare Resources- Provider’s Perspectives." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72360302443365764215.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
社會政策與社會工作學系
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The purpose of this study was from the service provider's perspectives to explore the phenomenon of overuse of welfare resources, form factors and coping. The literature review found that the current overuse of welfare resources related discussions tend to focus on the “in cash”, that is, welfare dependency. In addition to discussion of “in cash”, this study trying to figure out overuse of “in kind” welfare resources, and understanding of providers perspectives of this phenomenon, form factors and coping. This study used qualitative research methods, through purposive sampling to select the ten senior service providers (practice years for more than three years). Findings are summarized as follows: 1.The phenomenon of overuse of welfare resources: “In cash” divided into six dimensions: asset conditions inconsistent, welfare resources to demand, incorrect attitude, subject to the availability of resources to apply for routine work, political factors involved . “In kind” divided into service and psychological dimensions. Services dimensions involves “misunderstanding of welfare policy”, “ wasting of service resources", and" service provider omnipotent". Psychological dimensions involves "emotional dependence(negative)”, “emotional dependence(positive)”,and emotional dependence does not exist". 2. The overuse of welfare resources factors: “In cash” summarized the following four factors: the external environmental factors, "internal factors", "personal factors", and "other factors". Services dimensions of “In kind” involves external environmental factors and personal factors; psychological part involves "personal factors". 3. The coping of overusing welfare resources: “In cash” and services dimensions of “in kind” available to proceed from the “policy” and “practical” side. Psychological dimensions of “in kind” is summed up the" practical side ". According to the results of this study, the researcher has some "policy", "practical aspects" and "research" suggestions.
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Chih-yu, CHANG, and 張志宇. "Exploring social work practitioner who provide spiritual service in Christian social welfare organizations." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26297402581486396739.
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碩士高雄醫學大學
醫學社會學與社會工作學研究所
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The issue of spirituality has earned widespread respect in recent years. Though the social works in Taiwan are not often discussed, more and more people are dedicated to how spirituality influences social work nowadays. In addition, the importance of spiritual deserves much attention. Our study is to interview seven social works on the Christian social welfare organization and analyze four thematic analyses. To start with, some viewpoints, methods, expectations, and outcomes are summarized from workers providing spiritual service with practical experience. Next, some restrictions should be noticeable when providing spiritual service. Besides, we discuss the significance of spiritual service in terms of practical social work. Finally, in order to make people pay more attention to the issue of spirituality, these piratical workers should try to name spirituality requirements during the process of services. Moreover, feedback experience from service users should be worthy of further researches. By this proposed study, we expect that spiritual service could obtain the appropriate position in social works and let practical works have ability to satisfy user requirements of spirituality. Consequently, spiritual service will be better and maturer.
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Tsai, Meng-Shan, and 蔡孟珊. "Empower Employment for Transformation from Welfare Service User to Service Provider: A Case Study on the Indigenous Women of Sinyi Township." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5943kv.
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碩士靜宜大學
社會工作與兒童少年福利學系
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The purpose of this research is to explore the empower employment process in which female indigenous welfare service users are transformed into service providers, and it focuses on the life transitions that they encounter when gaining employability and career achievements. For this purpose, six indigenous women from Sinyi Township who participated in the empower employment and teaches at that institution were interviewed to collect and analyze qualitative data. Research results show that employment opportunities are limited in indigenous tribes with most indigenous women participating in unpaid housework; Even those with employment needs usually only work part-time within the tribe to assist with household bills. However, ever since the welfare institution started to promote the female empower employment program in the tribe and employing the trainees as full-time after-school teachers, indigenous women’s career development and household income have undoubtedly improved. This paper also used the researching findings to summarize a few of the empower employment program’s outcomes: (1)Indigenous women have regained self-confidence through the empower employment process; (2) Empower employment was used to raise female tribesmen’s status and worthiness; (3)Empower employment helps Indigenous women in returning to the job market and receiving continued education to improve their professional knowledge.
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Tsai-LingShih and 石采靈. "The Preliminary Study on the Community-Oriented Social Services of Senior Citizens' Welfare Institution─from Service Provider's Perspective in Tainan South District." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3e6cnm.
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碩士國立成功大學
都市計劃學系碩博士班
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According to the prediction of population in 2012 from Council for Economic Planning Development (CEPD), Taiwan will become the Super Aged Society in 2025. Base on this condition, there are phenomena point out the issue on the elderly care, such as the increase of senior welfare policies, the change in socio-economic environment and the fast growing population of disabled elders. In this study, we will focus on problems in institutional care. We found that the core concept of current policies and literatures related to institutional care were both the “Ageing in place”, saying that welfare care institutions should be involved in the community in any kind of way. However, there were literatures regarding this kind of facilities as NIMBY facilities. From here, we can see there is still gap between theories and public acknowledgement. Therefore, purposes of study are to: 1. Discover how the institutions exist and involve in the community, 2. Discover the difference of the level of involvement in the community between types of institutions and 3. Discuss the main reasons for affecting institutions implementing their services within the community and propose suggestions at last. Research methods adopted in this study include: literature review, secondary databases, and field study. We propose a checklist to measure the level of involvement in the community base on literature, current care resource and the ageing index within each region. Tainan south district was therefore chosen to be the empirical region. Service providers are the proper objects for conducting the interview due to their complete understanding of their type of clients and the content of their services. We found it hard for service providers to improve their images in the community, and the main factor for affecting this is the business type of institution. The nature of profit-making of the small private institutions make the owners care more about the quality of their services inside the institution than the type of activity they promote to the community. Also, the lack of incentives make the owner not only having no obligation but also no willingness to think about taking real actions inside the community. Relatively, large scales of foundations are more likely to work this out due to their rich in funds and number of staffs. Under current regulation, the feasibility of improving the level of community involvement is better for the big scale of institution than the small private sector. We suggest that there should be an overall plan controlling the distribution of all the care institutions considering the resource balance among all the regions, at the same time regulating the market. As for the practical level, we recommend the service providers take proactive actions or at least sustain the physical environment of the institution inside the community.
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Van, den Berg Elisabeth D. C. "Factors influencing the capacity of extended families to provide psychosocial support to AIDS orphans." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2150.
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Statistics on HIV/AIDS are alarming. Very little is known about how communities are actually coping with this disease and what methods seem to be working to empower them to deal with it.
Psychosocial distress is one of the dimensions of the impact of AIDS on children and families, and stresses the necessity to enhance the capacities of extended families and friends to be able to deal with these psychosocial issues.
Using qualitative research and a case study as the strategy of inquiry, this dissertation of limited scope explores and describes the factors influencing the capacity of extended families in providing psychosocial support to AIDS orphans.
A literature study was done to give a theoretical overview on the following aspects:
* AIDS orphans
* The extended family and HIV/AIDS
To reach the first objective of this study, an empirical study was done and semi-structured interviews were used to obtain information from four extended families in the Mukwe area of the Kavango Region in Namibia.
The literature study and the empirical study enabled the researcher to draw conclusions on the factors which influence the capacity of extended families to provide psychosocial support to AIDS orphans.
The information was analysed, interpreted and published in this research report so as to reach the other objectives of this study.Social Work
M. Diac. (Play therapy)
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Dunga, Ntombifikile Sylvia. "An investigation of the services provided by the Bhambayi Drop-in Centre in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal for orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV and AIDS." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19999.
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The purpose of the study was to investigate the services provided by the Bhambayi Drop-In Centre in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal for orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs).
Qualitative research design and in-depth interviews with key informants and foster parents of the OVCs were conducted. The study found that the services which are provided by the Centre enabled the orphans and vulnerable children to enjoy life as normally as possible and to experience life meaningfully. As beneficiaries of the Bhambayi Drop-In Centre the children had access to education and two meals per day.
Beyond meeting such basic needs, the study also found that Centre instilled a sense of belonging and community in the children. Access to social grants enabled the children’s basic needs to be met. In addition foster parents played a crucial role in taking care of orphans and vulnerable children.Health Studies
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Maseko, Priscilla Zanele. "An exploration of the needs of and services provided to orphaned and vulnerable children affected by HIV and AIDS in Richmond, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18569.
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The focus of this dissertation is on exploring the needs of and services provided to orphaned and vulnerable children (OVCs) in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal. This research is based on the findings from in-depth face-to-face interviews, and the focus group discussion conducted with key informants and primary caregivers of OVCs, respectively. The findings underline that although the needs of OVCs are similar to those of all other children, OVCs face unique challenges. It further shows that the government of South Africa has been responsive in developing relevant legislation, policies, and programmes that attempt to address the needs of OVCs. The findings also revealed that the services provided are coordinated, to a limited extent, through the Flagship Project led by the office of the Premier and. that coordination and integration of activities rendered by various stakeholders is crucial to a positive impact, and in increasing the accessibility of these services.Social Work
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Anthony, Inge. "Understanding the experiences of adolescents trafficked for sexual exploitation : informing social work services." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/14355.
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The impact of adolescent human trafficking for sexual exploitation is of such a nature that it interferes with the attainment of adolescent developmental tasks that would lead to the ability to become independent adults. This interference offers specific challenges to service providers. The goal of this study was therefore to develop an in-depth understanding of service providers’ perceptions of the experiences of adolescents trafficked for sexual exploitation with a view to inform social work services. The research methodology entailed the use of the contextual, explorative and descriptive research designs within a qualitative approach. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. Data analysis led to the identification of themes, sub-themes and categories that addressed the goal of the study. A literature control was conducted to verify the data and to draw conclusions and make recommendations for social work service delivery.Social Work
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Shiferaw, Biruhtesfa Bekele. "Strategies to improve utilisation of skilled birth attendance services in North West Ethiopia." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22941.
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The purpose of this study was to determine factors influencing skilled delivery service utilisation in order to develop strategies to improve utilisation of skilled birth attendance service in North West Ethiopia. The objectives were to explore and describe the perceptions and experiences of the community regarding skilled utilisation of the birth attendance service; explore reasons for non-utilisation of skilled birth attendance service; asses the health system experience of provision of skilled birth attendance service; and formulate strategies to improve utilisation of skilled birth attendance service.
The study employed a qualitative, descriptive, and explorative research design to address the research questions formulated by the researcher. The study used focus group discussion guide to obtain information from pregnant women and women who gave birth recently. Furthermore, the study used an interview guide to gather information from health extension workers, midwives, health centre heads, district health office technical experts and heads. It also employed and inductive thematic analysis approach to analyse the qualitative data. The study further used the Atlas ti version 7 for the data analysis. The steps followed for the analysis were data immersion, coding, displaying, reduction, and interpretation.
Overall, nine themes emerged from the analysis of the data. Consequently, the researcher used the findings of the study to develop strategies to improve the utilisation of skilled birth attendance service.Health Studies
D. Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)