Street-Level Engagements: <i>Migrated Families Encountering the Local Welfare State</i>

Fragile Families and Welfare Reform

Questions & answers: Words from the street: delivering on a provincial mandate at the local level.

At the local level, Hospital Project Managers (PMs) were single points of contact for the provincial WTIS project team and were responsible for delivering on all aspects of the WTIS deployment within hospitals. Here, two PMs share their WTIS deployment experience from Beta/Phase I (completed in March 2006) and Phase II (completed in December 2006). It was through valuable insight and feedback s...

Encountering the Physical World

Manufacturing and product design are grounded in the physical world. The entire product lifecycle involves a wide range of integrated tasks that focus on the properties of physical objects, beginning with begins with the design of physical objects and the specification of the materials from which the physical objects are made. Thus, reasoning tasks within manufacturing and product design requir...

Street-Level Strategies of Child Welfare Social Workers in Flanders: The Use of Electronic Client Records in Practice

The use of information and communication technology (ICT) in child welfare services has increased significantly during the last decades, and so have the possibilities to process health data. Parton (2009) states that this evolution has led to a shift in the nature of social work itself: from 'the social' to 'the informational'. It is claimed that social workers primarily are becoming informatio...

Former Welfare Families Independence and Recurring Dependency

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