Author: Indiana. General Assembly. Legislative Services AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Families in Poverty and Local Service Delivery
Author: Indiana. General Assembly. Legislative Services AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Raising Our Children Out of Poverty
Author: William J HutchisonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135411468
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Raising Our Children Out of Poverty shows what can be done at the national and local community levels to raise children out of poverty by strengthening families, communities, and social services. br>Based on the April 1998 symposium “Raising Our Children Out of Poverty” at the Saint Louis University School of Social Service, this important book is particularly timely given the prevalence of poverty among children in the United States. Social Work practitioners and other helping advocates will discover chapters discussing the future of foster care, ecumenical housing, collaborative practice in low income communities, fostering resiliency in children, programs that are alternatives to incarceration, and an innovative family support and empowerment program. This important book will help you provide improved services to families and children living in poverty.
Fragile Families, Fragile Solutions
Author: Robert HalpernPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231106672
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book presents a historical perspective on one of the central components of the U.S. social welfare network--family services--and provides a unique look at the advances this service network has achieved, problems it has confronted, and how it is likely to develop in the future.
Improving the Community Services Block Grant Act of 2003
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the WorkforcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Block grants
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Issues Relating to the Step Ahead Comprehensive Early Childhood Grant Program
Author: Neighborhood Poverty
Author: Jeanne Brooks-GunnPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610440862
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Perhaps the most alarming phenomenon in American cities has been the transformation of many neighborhoods into isolated ghettos where poverty is the norm and violent crime, drug use, out-of-wedlock births, and soaring school dropout rates are rampant. Public concern over these destitute areas has focused on their most vulnerable inhabitants—children and adolescents. How profoundly does neighborhood poverty endanger their well-being and development? Is the influence of neighborhood more powerful than that of the family? Neighborhood Poverty approaches these questions with an insightful and wide-ranging investigation into the effect of community poverty on children's physical health, cognitive and verbal abilities, educational attainment, and social adjustment. This two-volume set offers the most current research and analysis from experts in the fields of child development, social psychology, sociology and economics. Drawing from national and city-based sources, Volume I reports the empirical evidence concerning the relationship between children and community. As the essays demonstrate, poverty entails a host of problems that affects the quality of educational, recreational, and child care services.Poor neighborhoods usually share other negative features—particularly racial segregation and a preponderance of single mother families—that may adversely affect children. Yet children are not equally susceptible to the pitfalls of deprived communities. Neighborhood has different effects depending on a child's age, race, and gender, while parenting techniques and a family's degree of community involvement also serve as mitigating factors. Volume II incorporates empirical data on neighborhood poverty into discussions of policy and program development. The contributors point to promising community initiatives and suggest methods to strengthen neighborhood-based service programs for children. Several essays analyze the conceptual and methodological issues surrounding the measurement of neighborhood characteristics. These essays focus on the need to expand scientific insight into urban poverty by drawing on broader pools of ethnographic, epidemiological, and quantitative data. Volume II explores the possibilities for a richer and more well-rounded understanding of neighborhood and poverty issues. To grasp the human cost of poverty, we must clearly understand how living in distressed neighborhoods impairs children's ability to function at every level. Neighborhood Poverty explores the multiple and complex paths between community, family, and childhood development. These two volumes provide and indispensable guide for social policy and demonstrate the power of interdisciplinary social science to probe complex social issues.
Key Policies for Addressing the Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequities
Author: Centers of Disease ControlPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9289052651
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Evidence indicates that actions within four main themes (early child development fair employment and decent work social protection and the living environment) are likely to have the greatest impact on the social determinants of health and health inequities. A systematic search and analysis of recommendations and policy guidelines from intergovernmental organizations and international bodies identified practical policy options for action on social determinants within these four themes. Policy options focused on early childhood education and care; child poverty; investment strategies for an inclusive economy; active labour market programmes; working conditions; social cash transfers; affordable housing; and planning and regulatory mechanisms to improve air quality and mitigate climate change. Applying combinations of these policy options alongside effective governance for health equity should enable WHO European Region Member States to reduce health inequities and synergize efforts to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Combating Poverty in Europe
Author: Rune HalvorsenPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1784712183
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Discovering methods to combat poverty and social exclusion has now become a major political challenge in Europe. Combating Poverty in Europe offers an original and timely analysis of how this challenge is met by actors at European, national and subnational levels. Building on a European study comparing Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden and the UK, this book provides new insights into the processes and mechanisms that promote or hinder interaction between the increasingly multi-layered European system for responding to poverty and social exclusion in EU member states. The contributors present systematic and comparative analyses of social policy design, institutional frameworks and delivery practices from a multi-level governance perspective. Original and diverse, this book will appeal to researchers and scholars in comparative social policy, as well as policy officials in the EU, national government and anti-poverty NGOs.
United States Congressional Serial Set, Serial No. 14857, House Reports Nos. 281-321
Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Authorizations for Head Start, Follow Through, Community Services, and Establish Child Care Information and Referral Services
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Human ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Day care centers
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description