? Mention should be made of the excellent free guide to the Health and Welfare c. rvices of Hammersmith which is at present issued annually by the Borough Coun-j, ? It is something of a blueprint for the kind of information which such a guide ^?uld contain and for the method of arrangement. Following the opening list of , ^alth Committee members and a clear and simple index, it gives detailed a...

The lack of culturally appropriate health and mental health care has contributed to the large number of African American youth and families involved in the child welfare system. This article reviews the consequences of the insufficient access to culturally sensitive, evidence-supported interventions for African American foster youth. The authors describe a framework for the development of cultu...

The need to provide agricultural information to farmers has led to emergence of numerous ICT-based MIS projects in developing country. These projects aim at promoting commercialization of smallholder agriculture and subsequently their welfare. This study examines the welfare effects one such project in western Kenya. It uses household food security and access to medical health services as proxi...

OBJECTIVE This study uses administrative data to track the first re-reports of maltreatment in a low-income, urban child welfare population (n=4957) while controlling for other public service involvement. Service system involvement is explored across the following sectors: Child Welfare, Income Maintenance, Special Education, Juvenile Court, and various forms of Medicaid-reimbursed medical or m...

This paper examines the hypothesis that private agencies tend to provide more aid when the public welfare network is less extensive-i.e., that private agencies fill the gaps left by public welfare. Using data involving county emergency assistance programs, the research indicates that the private effort is indeed somewhat larger when the public network is smaller. The best predictor of the priva...

Approximately 80% of children served by child welfare agencies have parents who abuse or are dependent on alcohol or illicit drugs. Despite the devastating effects on children from living in substance abusing families, child protective service practitioners have limited options available to assist these families. The Parenting in Recovery program was created to address the needs of substance-ab...

Conserving contiguous areas often enhances environmental benefits. However, most conservation efforts are voluntary, incentive-based, do not reward landowners for contiguity, or select based on contiguity. Thus, achieving optimal contiguity of conserved parcels is unlikely especially with limited budgets. Using laboratory and artefactual field experiments, this paper evaluates two mechanisms in...

Although it is a widely used indicator, the use of substantiation in child welfare practice and research is not without critics. Much of this criticism concerns the ability of the substantiation disposition to distinguish between child protective services (CPS) investigations in which maltreatment occurs or does not occur. This study examined the relationship between substantiation and maltreat...

This special issue of Child Welfare emerged from a series of conversations with child welfare colleagues who partici pated in the work conducted by CWLA and the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund as they developed a unique partnership entitled. Fostering Transitions: CWLA/Lambda Legal Joint Initiative To Support LGBTQ Youth and Adults Involved with the Child Welfare System. A special issue...

introduction: the city can pay attention to citizen' needes is a healthy city. today disabled people are part of developing countries population due to war and natural disasters. and disabled people increase in developing countries. in the national development plans don’t tendency to them. research on disability has generally been undertaken by educated, white researchers from developed co...