Children and Poverty
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21 pages. This paper focuses on poverty and its effects on children in the multitude of ways that poverty can strike, not only in the United States but also in the world over. The major focus on this topic is the anti-poverty organization called Childreach, which is the United States member of PLAN. How this organization is reaching out to help those children in need and the results it has seen will all be included herein. Other programs will be noted as well in order to provide a basis of opinion as to what exactly is being done to help the children that are victims of poverty. Bibliography lists 17 sources.
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CODE OF THE STREET:ELIJAH ANDERSON
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This 6 page paper gives an overview and critique of Elijah Anderson's book, Code of the Street. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Community Counseling for Needy Children
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6 pages in length. Discusses after-school community counseling programs for children and how it can exert a positive influence on their lives, self-esteem and well-being. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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Community Involvement Versus Big Government Programs
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This 11 page paper examines social capital, and the role of community in the United States. Works like Putnam's Bowling Alone and Hillary Clinton's It takes a Village are used in the analysis. The paper argues both sides of the issue and concludes that both views are compatible and can be embraced in unison. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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COUNSELING AND SOCIAL WORK: SKILLS NECESSARY
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This 4-page paper provides a profile for skills and attributes necessary for pursuing a job as a social worker and/or counselor. Bibliography lists 1 sources.
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Creating a Victim Services Unit
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A 7 page paper discussing the creation of a victim services unit, an entity that can take one of several forms but holds the goal of assisting victims of crime in a specific area. Suffolk County, New York; Washington, D.C.; and Denver all have very different histories in and approaches to victim services, but each is able to positively affect the lives of victimized citizens. The paper assesses structural form in an effort to find that which can best serve the new unit, concluding that structure is less important for victims than it is for the organization. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Cultural Competence
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The definition and basic reason for human services is the need for social cooperation and assistance. This 7 page paper identifies and discusses a number of issues that are of importance for the worker involved in working for an agency such as Suffolk's County Children And family Services. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Dangers of Enforced Leisure
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A 5 page position paper agreeing with the concepts presented in Steven Muller’s “Time to Kill” (The National Interest, Summer 1997), in which the author asserts that Europe’s perpetual high unemployment and business-constraining government regulations could in time destroy the fabric of the European culture. Both existing and emerging conditions “suggest that the outcome of large-scale enforced leisure will be a new form of social conflict in Europe” (Muller, 1997; p. 26). Muller’s (1997) thesis is startling and superficially can be rejected. Closer examination, however, reveals that his logic is sound and the future he envisions for all of the world’s most developed economies is one that is quite plausible and needs to be avoided. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Dangers Of The Elderly Living Alone
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A 4 page paper that looks at two of the many dangers for the elderly living alone: heat and nutrition, with an emphasis on heat-related deaths. Of all natural weather conditions, including heat, tornadoes, hurricanes, lightening and floods, heat takes more lives each year than any of the others and seniors are especially affected. Another issue facing the elderly who live alone is proper nutrition. Both issues are discussed with statistical data, the emphasis is on heat-related deaths. Three alternative solutions are offered to eliminate the risks of both issues among the elderly. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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