Closing the Gap: Research, Policy, Practice, and Shared Parenting

Afcc Think Tank Final Report Closing the Gap: Research, Policy, Practice, and Shared Parenting

I. Overview......................................................................................................153 II. Definitions Relevant to Shared Parenting............................................................154 III. Social Changes Leading to the Emergence of Shared Parenting as a Major Family Law Controversy.............................................................................

Closing the Gap from Policy to Practice

One of the frustrations of life for those who seek change, is the slow pace of reform. Policy reform in arts and culture is no exception. Governments offer promises, but they seem to take forever to arrive, and are often watered down when they do. Why is this so? We have no shortage of policies, Acts, discussion papers and other worthy documents telling us how things could change, but there is ...

Power of information: closing the gap between research and policy.

States play an increasing role in setting U.S. health policy. A survey of 292 state government policymakers finds that officials are overwhelmed by the volume of information they receive and have a strong preference for information that is concise and more relevant to current debates. Younger officials are more likely to use electronic information, while older policymakers prefer printed materi...

Closing the gap between NLP research and clinical practice.

This is an exciting time in clinical natural language processing (NLP). Many of the ideas discussed in the NLP community over the last decade have finally come to fruition: we have had shared tasks in the clinical arena [1, 2]; several NLP pipelines have been released as open source resources [3, 4]; the community is working together to develop standards that will increase interoperability of N...

MIP: Theory and Practice - Closing the Gap