Shaping Attitudes in Public Child Welfare: An Innovative MSW Training Program

Children investigated by child welfare are at significant risk for poor cognitive, emotional, social, behavioral and economic outcomes. In 2000, California formed the Child Welfare Services Group to propose changes in how child welfare services are delivered, the CWS Redesign. California State University, Long Beach’s child welfare training program developed its complement. Fundamentally, Redesign calls for partnering with families and communities to strengthen families, prevent unnecessary placements or re-unite families successfully. These changes are a paradigm shift in attitudes toward birth families and communities. In a qualitative study, interns logged their observations and subsequent impressions of CWS-Client encounters to explore how attitudes are learned. Majority of interns observed positive, collaborative encounters and perceived birth parents as motivated. Their impressions support introducing interns to birth families on the front-end of CWS training.

Dignity and the Eighth Amendment: A New Approach to Challenging Solitary Confinement

The use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails has come under increasing scrutiny. Over the past few months, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy all but invited constitutional challenges to the use of solitary confinement, while President Obama asked, “Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for 23 hours a day for months, sometime for years at a time?” Even some of the most notorious prisons and jails, including California’s Pelican Bay State Prison and New York’s Rikers Island, are reforming their use of solitary confinement because of successful litigation and public outcry. Rovner suggests that in light of these developments and “the Supreme Court’s increasing reliance on human dignity as a substantive value underlying and animating constitutional rights,” there is a strong case to make that long-term solitary confinement violates the constitutional right to freedom from cruel and unusual punishment.

Manual para la Batería de Exámenes de Aptitud General [BEAG] /

Manual for the Spanish translation of the General aptitude test battery (GATB), developed by the California State Employment Service.

Areas of Critical Environmental Concern /

"BLM CA GI 001 8011."--p. [12]

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Improved motorcyclist licensing and testing project. Annual report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Improved motorcyclist licensing and testing project. Executive summary. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic/Pedestrian Safety Program, Washington, D.C.

Improved motorcyclist licensing and testing project. Volume I. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic/Pedestrian Safety Program, Washington, D.C.

Improved motorcyclist licensing and testing project. Volume II. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic/Pedestrian Safety Program, Washington, D.C.

The effectiveness of traffic safety material in influencing the driving performance of the general driving population. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.

Fish bulletin.

Mode of access: Internet.

Water quality criteria /

Bibliography: p. 467-548.

The effective use of the all-purpose homemaking room : curriculum series /

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-94).

Home projects in the homemaking program /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 39).

Proposed agricultural code.

Mode of access: Internet.