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is one of only a few such organizations in the country. They provide a range of important services like social services, health education, case management, affordable housing and healthy meals. The organization's model is considered one of the best in the country and has been modeled by other organizations. Serving Seniors Agency's staff members are committed to bettering the lives of low-income seniors and they do this by constantly coming up with and executing innovative programs that impact both seniors and the entire community (Serving Seniors, 2016).
Serving Seniors Agency's operations are funded by grants, well wishers' donation and matching gifts. People also volunteer their time to work in… Continue Reading...
need for social services to address influxes of poor. Issues ranging from physical and mental illness to poverty needed to be addressed by volunteers within the social work framework, leading to the evolution of the Settlement House Movement and the Charity Organizations, the precursors to modern social work ("What is the History of the Social Work Profession?" n.d.).
References
Stern, M.J. & Axinn, J. (2011). Social Welfare. Pearson.
"What is the History of the Social Work Profession?" (n.d.). Retrieved online: http://www.socialworkdegreeguide.com/faq/what-is-the-history-of-the-social-work-profession/
6. Social welfare agencies ironically discriminated against African-Americans, exacerbating the problems… Continue Reading...
than 10 people. We developed a white paper and presentation for Alan Painter as well as documents for Department of Social Services and the Department of Health and Human Services to see if they would allow a nurse to work in home for each homeless family with children or single women.
To achieve these initiatives, we are proposing a budget increase of 50% from the Federal Government and the City government now. This will result in us providing additional space for the homeless families with children or homeless single women. Furthermore, the additional 50% budget will allow us to have funding to provide the necessities to the additional 812 people… Continue Reading...
the states to develop " community planning and social services, research and development projects, and training personnel in the field of aging," (The Older Americans Act: Aging Well Since 1965," n.d.). Basically, the OAA created an actual infrastructure to support America's aging population.
The OAA is currently comprised of seven titles:
• Title I: Declaration of Objectives
• Title II: Administration on Aging (Aoa)
• Title III: Grants for State and Community Programs on Aging
• Title IV: Activities for Health, Independence, and Longevity
• Title V: Community Service Senior Opportunities Act
• Title VI: Grants for Native… Continue Reading...
needed to succeed in a competitive environment. These findings have implications for educational policy and social services, but there is a complex interaction of individual variables and cultural variables in learning.
References
Zhang, L.F. & Sternberg, R.J. (2010). Learning in a cross-cultural perspective. Learning and Cognition.
Week 2
The study described in "Self-Regulated Learning and Social Cognitive Theory" in the text talks about the concept of self-regulation and agency in terms of social cognitive theory. Results show that it is possible to integrate these theories and concepts into classroom learning. Agency refers mainly to the ability to make choices through self will, and refers also… Continue Reading...
using drugs, and other symptom management plans including speech therapy, occupational, and physical therapy, medical, equipment, and medical supplies social services, dietary counseling…[…… parts of this paper are missing, click here to view the entire document ]…Adult day care services, for instance, offer various social, health and such-like support services under protective daycare settings (WebMD, 2019). This helps the elderly people with impairments like disability, Dementia, and Alzheimer’s to continue with their lives in a community. Other alternative care venues include the support housing programs and CCRCs (Continuing Care Retirement Communities) (WebMD, 2019). Intermediate care venues are also appropriate for the people who are mentally retarded (WebMD, 2019). They… Continue Reading...
Services has a two form mission to a selection of social services; child care, day care, camping, immigration services, social support, and recreational services to Jews as well as over training services for philanthropy for Jews. The use of costs control has the potential to significantly change activities, better their process, and cut on operational costs. Costs control would be best as the organization has limited financial resources.
Likewise, Nazareth enterprise would also benefit from the costs control strategy so as to cut on their operational costs and realign roles of the board members. Currently, the roles and relationships between… Continue Reading...
for example, will accept their food stamps and other social services like Medicare but they will also refuse to break party lines. The ultra-poor conservatives therefore opt out of voting entirely, choosing disenfranchisement over betrayal of the tea party. It only requires a few notches up on the social class ladder for people to vote against social services entirely, even for people who are dangerously close to poverty. Similarly, wealthy Tea Party advocates also take advantage of all the social services programs they can but admit they are "ashamed" of doing it in the same way they are too… Continue Reading...
accompaniment. The role of a victim advocate may as well extend to contacting organizations such as social services and criminal justice that may provide information pertinent to a crime. The pertinent information provided may include; victim’s rights, victimization, crime prevention, criminal justice process, notification of inmates escape or release. Given that the victim possesses the most informed perspective relative to the crime, as opposed to telling the victim what decision to effect, a victim advocate provides the victim with diverse information that aid in reaching the appropriate decision (U.S. Attorneys , 2019).
A Criminal Justice Process
Navigating a criminal justice process can be a complex process… Continue Reading...
kids. Owing to issues of domestic abuse and violence, Social Services have been involved, and all 6 kids are under child protection. Another matter of great concern is that the boy's stepdad as well as his mother abuse drugs and alcohol. Lastly, to exacerbate issues, the entire household was evicted from social housing due to debt and a failure to pay their rent, and was subsequently housed in an overcrowded provisional living space (Adams-Langley, 2013).
Although Lennox was moved to his grandmother's home, the household included a cousin suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and this gave rise… Continue Reading...
social services such as healthcare are enjoyed by the majority of the population (Khazan). Although Obamacare and other initiatives have expanded the social welfare net to a slightly greater degree, America does not have the level of protection that other nations do and American exceptionalism does not call this into question as problematic or view it as a deficit of the American system. Criticisms of America are often projected onto the individual and attributed to a personal failure, rather than a failure of a nation which is assumed to be… Continue Reading...
today's workforce in relation to job-related burnout. Those working in people-oriented professions like education, sales, and social services have an especially difficult time and costs businesses hundreds of billions each year from absenteeism, lessened productivity, and medical insurance. Although researchers have examined thoroughly this problem in both occupational and organizational literatures, ironically it is rarely explored in marketing literature. The authors note that professional selling is not only highly stressful, but leads to emotional burnout from savvy competitors and pressure to increase sales and revenue for their respective company. Therefore, the authors aimed to examine moderating effects of emotion-focused and problem-focused coping and see how it… Continue Reading...
wealth, providing all Cubans with basic health care, education, and social services, and became an important inspiration and ally in the export of Marxist revolution…”[footnoteRef:2] The support of the Soviet Union and the influence of Fidel Castro are major reasons for the embracing of Marxism and communist ideology. [1: Alan Knight, "Democratic and Revolutionary Traditions in Latin America," Bulletin of Latin American Research 20, no. 2 (2001): 17, doi:10.1111/1470-9856.00009.] [2: Marshall C. Eakin, The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures (Macmillan, 2007), 308.]
Sader explains the need for revolution came from the need to transcend the limits of both… Continue Reading...
While so many concerned world leaders, politicians, and social services professionals have bemoaned the physical and materials consequences of the Syrian Civil War on displaced persons, there is an even greater issue at stake. This issue has largely been ignored by experts. This issue is the existential crises afflicting so many displaced people: the loss of identity. The bulk of this presentation explores the idea that if one’s present is suddenly put into a state of upheaval (as though the rug has been pulled out from under one) it can shift how solidly and lucidly one views one’s… Continue Reading...
