Social Workers' Perceptions of Family Preservation Programs

The passage of the Adoptions and Safe Families Act of 1997, with its focus on child safety and concurrent planning, has presented family preservation workers with new challenges and new opportunities. Twenty volunteers from a large comprehensive social service agency were interviewed to determine their experiences with two models of family preservation—Multisystemic Therapy (MST) and Traditional Family Preservation Service (TFPS) or practice as usual. Workers from both programs were able to articulate values consistent with family preservation as important strengths of the programs— keeping families together and empowering families for example. Information from referring agencies was described as variable and not especially useful when working with seriously troubled families, especially as it related to risk and child safety. Both groups indicated that the jargon of family preservation had permeated their agencies, and that working with other agencies was at times a challenge, though for different reasons. Finally, despite some reservations about the effectiveness of short-term treatment with families that face serious challenges, both groups of workers were generally satisfied with family preservation as an approach to practice.

A research strategy for social assessment of lake restoration programs /

Mode of access: Internet.

Social Security Act amendments of 1949 : hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, first session, on H.R. 2892, a bill to amend the Social Security Act to enable states to establish more adequate public-welfare programs, and for other purposes, and other bills [and] H.R. 2893, a bill to extend and improve the old-age and survivors insurance system, to add protection against disability, and for other purposes, and other bills.

Considers legislation to extend and improve the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance system, and to add disability protection. Includes H. Rpt. 80-2168, "Social Security Act Amendments, 1948," on H.R. 6777, June 2, 1948 (p. 1096-1158), pt.2.

Social security and related welfare programs. Rev and updated by publisher's editorial staff.

First published in 1952 under title: Social security, Federal and State laws.

Osiris III; an integrated collection of computer programs for the management and analysis of social science data.

v. 1. System and program description.--v. 2. Error Messages.--v. 3. Summary of control cards.--v. 4. Sample jobs.--v. 5. Formulas and statistical references.--v. 6. Primer.

Program administration review of the social security disability insurance and the supplemental security income vocational rehabilitation programs.

Report year ends Sept. 30.

Who should benefit? : Streamlining social benefit programs.

v. 1. Narrative -- v. 2. Appendix.

Current health status and the future demand for health care programs and social support services : follow-up analyses from the survey of aging veterans /

"March 1985."

Social Security disability programs : assessing the variation in allowance rates /

"August 2002."

Counting the disabled : using survey self-reports to estimate medical eligibility for Social Security's disability programs /

"January 2001."

Historical redistribution under the social security old-age and survivors insurance program and disability insurance programs /

"February 2004."

Social security financing and options for the future [microform] : hearings before the Subcommittee on Social Security and Income Maintenance Programs of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session ....

"July 10, 1981"--Pt.2.

National Commission on Social Security Reform recommendations : hearing before the Subcommittee on Social Security and Income Maintenance Programs of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, February 15, 16, 22, 23, and 24, 1983.

Item 1038-A, 1038-B (microfiche)