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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Human service organizations"”.
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Information use by levels in human service organizations
… frequency with which information about clients, services, staff, and finances are used by human service workers. The 241 questionnaire items were developed from 66 information items determined to meet minimum information requirements for community mental health centers (CMHCs).
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Mapping Urban Infrastructure: Temporal Metropolitan Geographies of Nonprofit Human Service Organizations
Across the United States, planning for human services relies largely upon public-private partnerships with nonprofit organizations as the result of decades of federal retrenchment. The locational patterns of nonprofit human services organizations (NHSOs) have been studied in the nonprofit …
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The social construction of interprofessional teams in human service organizations: Two case studies
The study explores the way in which professional members who were engaged in struggles with each other around the nature and extent of autonomy over their work, and/or control over the work of others, socially constructed interprofessional team relations and processes. There were two major …
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Compassion in organizations: sensemaking and embodied experience in emergent relational capability. A phenomenological study in South African human service organizations
Compassion in organizations is researched as a three-stage process of collective noticing another's pain, empathic concern or feeling another's pain and taking action to ease their suffering, and is ascribed to the orchestration of spontaneous individual acts of compassion in accordance with …
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Providing Culturally Appropriate Services to Immigrant Children and Families Involved with the Allegheny County Department of Human Services
… the same time posing various challenges to local human service organizations.</p><p> This research studies the experience of human service organizations in Allegheny County with immigrant children and families and focuses specifically on prevention, family support and foster care programs. The …
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Social capital in human service/child welfare organizations: implications for work motivation, job satisfaction, innovation, and quality
Public human services organizations are part of society’s complex web of organizations that serve all dimensions of society, including disadvantaged and vulnerable individuals, families, groups, and communities under the rubric of social welfare. This dissertation is an exploratory study of the …
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The ALIVE Center (A Local Information & Volunteer Exchange): An Evaluation of the Year 2003-2004
… Center maintains a current database of local human service organizations. The second objective, to establish a resource center and provide referrals and information to 1,000 people, was achieved. The third objective of maintaining a website was also met. Matching over 200 volunteers with local …
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On the Front Lines: Managerialism in Substance Abuse Agencies
… policies have led to changes within the field of human services in the United States since the mid-1970s. These policies, which seek to reduce the role of thefederal government through tactics such as privatization, continue to be evident across human services organizations today. This policy …
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Cracking the shell of White fragility: Priming employees for anti-oppressive/anti-racist learning
… adoption of AO/AR practice frameworks by most human service organizations, consistently integrating the practical elements of AR work into professional interactions continues to challenge many organizations (deFinney, 2011; Saraceno, 2012). This OiP considers the barriers to AO/AR praxis for …
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A proposed model of an interstate metropolitan extension service authority for metropolitan Washington
This study showed that Extension Services, like any other human service organizations, are having difficulty in serving diverse populations where there are overlapping political jurisdictions. One example of such a situation was the interstate metropolitan region that included Washington, D.C., …
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The Influence of Perceived Workplace Spirituality on Job Satisfaction, Intention to Leave, and Emotional Exhaustion among Community Mental Health Center Workers in the State of Kansas
… & Levin, 2001). There might not be adequate human service management principles to cope with social workers' emotional burdens, rekindle their motivation, create meaningful experiences at work, and even help them understand and accommodate their clients' current needs such as spiritual …
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De hjälper oss till rätta : normaliseringsarbete, självbestämmande och människor med psykisk utvecklingsstörning
… residents everyday life. All units studied were human service organizations, loosely coupled with their superior levels, where daily activities were carried out by street-level bureaucrats with high auton-omy. Only concerning the basic personal decisions and the framework for col-lective …
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Problemen förgår, lösningarna består : Organisering av kommunala insatser för unga arbetslösa med försörjningsproblem
… organized. By organizing programs the munici-pal organizations have gained valuable resources aiding their ad-vancement and influence, such as financial funding, suitable clients and legitimacy. The development of local intervention programs for young un-employed recipients of social assistance …