Family Drug Courts Family drug courts (FDCs) are specialized courts within the justice system, which handle cases of child abuse and neglect that involve substance use by the child’s parents or guardians (Brook et al. 2015; Chuang et al. 2012). FDCs are one method of addressing parental substance use disorders and parenting issues within the court and child welfare systems, using a collaborativ...

This paper analyzes the political and economic issues that people with disabilities face related to globalization; how people with disabilities have been adapting globalization and surviving under worldwide competition system. It explains that economic globalization exacerbates inequality and deprivation of people with disabilities. The rising tide of neo-liberal welfare policies emphasized eff...

Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. The possibility of having a job was introduced reduce welfare dependency and facilitate successful labor market integration. In the present study, we use German Panel Study Labour Market Social Security (PASS) for years 2006-2014 analyze impact on chances exit. Dynamic multinomial logit models contr...

globalization effects on social security systems and on social expenditures in different countries will be analyzed in this chapter. our consentration is yet on anglo-saxon countries . but it is assumed that many offer countries are under the same pressure of globalization on their social security expenses as the anglo-saxon countries . this will be examined later in another chapter. in previou...

i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to take this opportunity to thank my committee for all of your help in contributing to the final product of this research paper. Dr. Velazquez, thank you so much for believing in my work and in me as a student. When I started the MPA program, I did so just in hopes of taking a shot at gaining one more tool to create a path for a better life. Because of your help ...

This paper is concerned with the interlinked issues of citizenship and the structured dependency of older people within Social Gerontology. It argues that implicit in much British Social Gerontology is a strategy of advancing the wellbeing of elderly people through the extension of citizenship rights. Absence of these rights leads to poverty, exclusion and ageism being commonplace experiences o...

State theorists maintain that Social Security Board (SSB) bureaucrats managed the evolution of public welfare. Institutional politics theory more readily accepts the influences of political interest groups. SSB archival records offer an opportunity to contrast these models and explore the early measurement of old age dependency. In reports designed to protect the 1935 Social Security Act, SSB s...

As child welfare systems across the country face the problem of parental substance abuse, there is an increasing need to understand the types of treatment approaches that are most effective for substance-abusing parents in the child welfare system-the majority of whom are mothers. This structured review of the literature focuses on evidence related to two areas: (1) individual-level interventio...

In setting the stage, “Understanding Health and Social Care” tracks the history of the welfare sector back to its charity and voluntary action roots in the early 19th century. From that point onwards, it tells the story of the gradual formalisation of both social services and the National Health Service, accompanied by an evolution of practices, emergence of health professions and developments ...