...Housing First Program Social Welfare Policy Social Policy Analysis questions 1. The formal name of the social policy and what is its official purpose The proposed policy is Housing First, which is a policy solution aimed at offering the homeless with fast solutions to their problem and offering the services they need. The policy provides permanent, affordable housing to families and individuals suffering from homelessness (National Alliance to End Homelessness, 2014). This policy approach differs from other related strategies in its primary and immediate emphasis on providing accessible and sustainable housing solution. 2. A historical context, explaining the introduction of the social policy. Conventionally, most of the providers of housing to the homeless made it a necessity to show evidence of “housing readiness.” Some of the requirements were to enter treatment or to achieve sobriety before offering permanent housing. To address this problem, the Housing First program needs to provide permanent supportive housing. Being different and separate program from "rapid re-housing", it is a relatively new invention in social policy and human service programs. Being an innovation, this program has not undergone major changes. However, it spanned off from past programs to provide housing to the homeless. It developed as a substitute to emergency shelter/transitional housing progressions system. Major changes in policy have led to the actual implementation of this Housing...
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...1 The CDBG Case Management 585 Professor Stephanie Pane Shavon Adams September 29, 2015 2 Introduction The CDBG Case profiles the CRA department of BOK Financial Corporation, a struggling community development department that undergoes new leadership in an effort to improve overall performance. BOK’s newly appointed Senior EVP, Steve Bradshaw saw the need to make serious changes within the department due to barely satisfactory performance reviews, inefficient procedures and failure to serve the neighboring community. Although the CRA department, named after the Community Reinvestment Act, had received satisfactory ratings in their prior year performance evaluations, the complacency of the department threatened the potential for future growth opportunities for BOK and its affiliates. Bradshaw, with a clear direction of how he wanted the department to flourish, brought on a leader by the name of Paula Bryant-Ellis to spearhead the new direction of the CRA department. A professional with a strong background in banking and accounting, Paula was an ideal fit to lead the new direction of the CRA department. Her expertise and industry knowledge made her a perfect fit to restructure the department to increase their decreasing profitability. Paula and Steve quickly dove into the restructuration process along with a few other handpicked leaders. Over a two year time span, CRA’s new leadership managed to create quite a turn-around in reshaping the structure...
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...Problems of Unemployment * Unemployment is a problematic issue that affects the citizens of America, according to the US Department of Labor; unemployment has risen this year to 7.3 %, which is 0.8 points higher than last year. Economists are very sure that unemployment ratio will never be at 0%, however, there is hope that the rates can become much lower. Americans are laid off their jobs daily, reducing households to single income families are even no income. This long-lasting economic effect has knocked on the door of home and affected my family as well as other hardworking citizens. One writer stated, “Too often unemployment affects not only unemployed individuals but also members of their immediate families.”(Aber, 1997). In this essay I will discuss how unemployment has affected my family, how my family is coping with this issue and what positive movements the economy is working on to recover from this problem. What is your thesis? This is a persuasive essay, so I am expecting a point of view. Merely implying is not clear enough. You must be as clear as possible. In January 2013, my husband was laid off from his job with no warning. His supervisor approached him after his shift and was told him that the company was downsizing and his position was no longer needed. The supervisor gave him his last paycheck, and encouraged him to file for unemployment benefits. Unemployment benefits will not...
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...know that I have the right attitude to encourage good behavior and diminish bad habits and even reduce the number of people convicted of crimes later on down the road. In order for me to get my degree I must complete a total of 120 semester hours. In which 30 of those are general education. After completing the degree program I will be able to explain, evaluate, synthesize, demonstrate and apply methods and research to everyday problems that I may come upon. I am also aware that i may be required to do additional training that’s administered by the government organizations. There’s a social worker by the name of Mrs. Stephanie whom had been doing this line of work for over 17 years. She has traveled all over the United States doing numerous jobs. She has worked in a hospital in the NICU as a nurse, also in a prison working with inmates, also a counselor in different types of place. Now she works as a counselor/mentor here at Fort Campbell in the Family Readiness Center. Talking to young couples or a single mother...
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... Along with the social background information about a traditional homeless person, a chronic homeless person tends to be male, older, single, very little education, unemployed or very little experience in employment, drug dependent and receives very little to no support from others (Lee 510). Even though some homeless people reach rock bottom and finally realize they need to make some changes otherwise they will die, many homeless people will learn to cope and deal with their current situation and lives (Philipps...
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...History of Human Services “Social work in the US today, as elsewhere, reflects the historical, social, cultural, and political context in which it is situated” (Arnd-Caddigan & Puzzuto, 2008, p. 68). Understanding the history of human services is necessary to gain a complete understanding of human services. American human services practice was greatly influenced by the English social welfare system; thus, it is important to understand the history of English social welfare to understand American human services (Martin, 2011). The history of English social welfare systems begin with the feudal system of the Middle Ages. Under the feudal system, landowners would allow serfs to live on and farm the land (Martin, 2011). The landowners were expected to care for the needs of their serfs. During this era, the church emphasized charity, and individuals felt that poverty was necessary to be charitable as demanded by God (Martin, 2011). After the decline of the feudal system, England introduced the poor laws. The poor laws stated that poverty would be dealt with in the community and changed the perspective of poverty (Martin, 2011). Only those who were determined to be worthy poor were allowed to beg or receive other benefits, and the unworthy were punishable by law. The Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1601 organized the previous poor laws and served as a model for American human service laws (Martin,2011). These laws had three basic principles, greatest responsibility of providing for one’s...
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...Homelessness: America’s Invisible Numbers As each decade passes there comes to light a new or growing national problem that faces our country. Our nation’s history is blanketed with social problems the American people have encountered, such as civil rights, recessions, political struggles, warfare, and increasing unemployment. Each of these issues has received media attention for the problems, complications, and obstacles they provide for the population. Each of these issues in their own right is important and needs to be addressed because it affects every person in the country. However, there is another problem that poses a challenge to the American people that does not receive the attention it so desperately needs. The issue is American homelessness, a segment of the population that continues to grow with each passing year. Homelessness is caused by a number of factors that differ for each person. The most significant causes of homelessness are the lack of affordable housing coupled with a national increase in poverty, mental illness and addiction disorders. According to the McKinney-Vento Act of 1987, a homeless person is defined as any person who lacks housing. This includes individuals whose primary residence during the night is a supervised public or private facility that provides temporary accommodations or an individual who is a resident in transitional housing. This means an individual who lacks fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, and an individual...
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...Implications for Social Change Creating necessary changes in education is one of the XYZ school district’s visions. Training professionals to teach with new technological resources is part of the technology plan within the XYZ school district (McIntosh County Schools Handbook, 2010). Constructive changes may build the opportunity for teachers to empower students, schools, and communities (GaDOE, 2008; Hall, 2010). School officials can consider the access of technology (Skevakis, 2010) to expanded social interactions, enhanced technological understandings, and adapt teaching strategies using wireless technology resources (Weston &ump; Bain, 2010). The outcome and results from this study will be used to provide a guideline for designing an online educational community. Therefore, social change may occur when a community of professionals is brought together by desires to enrich the lives of students and prepare teachers for a world dominated by wireless communication systems (Weston &ump; Bain, 2010). The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009) propose that ongoing, job-embedded professional development through an online network creates the opportunity to improve teacher technology efficacy and adapt to new media literacy. This study will offer training to improve teacher technology efficacy, encourage new media literacy, and provide a set of skills, and cultural knowledge for teachers to help students function in an environment where technology constantly changes...
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...Refreshing A Thirsty World Chief Financial Officer CAGNY 2012 Gary Fayard Forward-Looking Statements This presentation may contain statements, estimates or projections that constitute “forward-looking statements” as defined under U.S. federal securities laws. Generally, the words “believe,” “expect,” “intend,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “project,” “will” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, which generally are not historical in nature. Forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from The Coca-Cola Company’s historical experience and our present expectations or projections. These risks include, but are not limited to, obesity and other health concerns; scarcity and quality of water; changes in the nonalcoholic beverages business environment, including changes in consumer preferences based on health and nutrition considerations and obesity concerns; shifting consumer tastes and needs, changes in lifestyles and competitive product and pricing pressures; risks related to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in the acquisition, as well as the integration, of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.'s former North American business; continuing uncertainty in the credit and equity market conditions; increased competition; our ability to expand our operations in developing and emerging markets; foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations; increases in interest rates; our ability...
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...Why Should Government Support the Arts? State governments today face monumental challenges: record-breaking budget shortfalls, rising unemployment, widespread home foreclosures and escalating needs for public assistance. States are wrestling with these immediate pressures while also trying to address long-term concerns about education, economic competitiveness and health care. All the while, public managers and elected officials must uphold the principles that taxpayers expect: thrift, accountability, equity and transparency. In this environment, all areas of spending—including the arts—are under increased scrutiny. Lawmakers may question whether government has a legitimate role to play in the arts or may ask why the arts should receive funds when so many other needs are pressing. We encourage you to welcome dialogue about these issues. The 40-year history of state arts agencies proves that when policymakers understand how the arts benefit government and citizens, they find a way to continue support, even during hard financial times. We hope that this document will help bring those benefits to the foreground and help your state answer common questions about government’s role in arts support. Designed for public arts leaders and advocates to excerpt and adapt, this material can be used to support your state’s case for the arts. Select the points that are most relevant in your situation. Quote the research. Add your own examples, and consider the tips and ideas included...
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...scrutiny for several decades. The enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) was hardly the first fiscal policy for healthcare in the history of the economy. There is a long list of fiscal policy attempts from predecessors such as Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Richard Nixon and most recently Bill Clinton (Sparer, p462). In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt drafted amended provisions to his pending Social Security legislation to include publicly funded health care programs but ultimately removed the provisions due to opposition by the American Medical Association (Coombs, p5). Following the Second World War, President Harry Truman called for universal health care as a part of his Fair Deal in 1949 but strong opposition stopped that part of the Fair Deal (Peon, p161-168). On July 30, 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the legislation establishing the Medicare and Medicaid program, social insurance programs administered by the United Stated government providing health insurance coverage to people who are either 65 or meet other special criteria for need (Roemer, p845). In October 1972, President Richard Nixon signed the Social Security Administration Amendments of 1972 which extended Medicare to those under 65 who have been severely disabled for over two years (Ball). The 1980’s saw the passage of The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) signed by President Ronald Reagan, which allowed employees the ability...
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...Background Solyndra was a Fremont, California based manufacturer of cylindrical solar panels, founded in 2005. The solar panels that Solyndra manufactured could be used on top of flat rooftops, such as Target©, without needing additional land to set up the panels. (Grabell, 2012) Prior to any political and legal issues, Solyndra was well known globally and had hundreds of solar assemblies around the world. Solyndra had over $1 billion in private investments and over $2 billion in backlogged orders. (Grabell, 2012) Now, we fast forward to the American Recovery Act and Reinvestment Act of 2009, where Solyndra was granted a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy (DOE), to build a 300,000 square-foot factory near the existing manufacturing site, in an effort by the Obama Administration to go “green”, and create 1,000 jobs. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), is also known as the Stimulus Act. It was intended to save and create jobs and provide relief to programs like education, health, and renewable energy. Solyndra defaulted on the loan from the stimulus and eventually filed Chapter 11, Bankruptcy. After the Solyndra debacle, efforts to promote going “green” were considered scandalous. (Markham, 2013) Legal Troubles and Applicable Laws Many businesses and countries were all attempting the green efforts during the 2009 time period and China, specifically, was blamed for the ultimate bankruptcy filed by Solyndra in 2011. President Obama’s first...
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...Social Media and Its Effect on Human Behavior Online social networks such as Facebook or LinkedIn, already popular with millions for their easy ability to help people forge connections based on common interests, also have become ideal "laboratories" for social scientists who want to study human behavior. "The volume of online social networking is exploding, and it appears it is becoming more pervasive than real-life social networking," said Dan Stefanescu, professor of mathematics and computer science at Suffolk University in Boston, where he is directing several projects using online social networks as a research tool. "This is not surprising, given the ease with which one can pursue interactions in the digital world." Furthermore, in an online social network environment, "it is so much easier to find new 'friends' for social intercourse because, unlike in real life, one can reach the 'friends' of 'friends' of 'friends' of your 'friends,' ad infinitum," he added. Data available from online networks can provide insights into certain behaviors—how people will vote in upcoming elections, for example, or what consumer products they are likely to buy—and also can prompt blueprints for engineering new social systems, and predicting certain events and economic outcomes, he said. In the job market, for example, information obtained from social networks can improve "the ability to find better employer/employee matches which, in turn, imply better productivity, and reduction in wasteful...
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...item A and elsewhere assess the usefulness of modernization theory as an explanation for differences in the levels of development of different societies. (18 marks) When the Second World War ended, it became clear that countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean were remaining poor despite exposure to capitalism and the rational scientific ways of thinking that underpinned this economic system. There was also the concern by the leaders of the wealthier countries that widespread poverty, encouraged by the strong mass appeal of communism, could lead to social unrest across the world. This political instability was seen by US politicians likely to limit the growth of the US economy as communist ideology was anti capitalist and likely to impede US trade interests. As a response to these potential developments the theory of modernization was born. The roots of modernization theory lie in the work of 19th century sociologists, Durkheim and Tonnies, who argued that societies move forward through predictable stages towards modernity. Walt Rostow saw the process of development as an evolutionary process in which countries progress up a development ladder of five stages. This model of development follows the pattern of development that developed countries allegedly experienced between the 18th – 20th centuries. Rostow argued that at the bottom of his ladder were the traditional societies whose economies were dominated by subsistence farming. Subsistence farming...
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...23, 2014 Assignment II Listen to the news with ears that are open only for the negative and one would come away from the conversation about the of 2009 wondering who in the heck is running the country. Over the last five years I have heard many opinions on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the statement declaring the stimulus as one of the biggest mistakes made by President Obama is in my opinion an inaccurate one. The Stimulus or The Recovery Act, was an economic stimulus package enacted by the 111th United States Congress in February 2009 and signed into law on February 17, 2009, by President Barack Obama. To respond to the Great Recession, the primary objective was to save and create jobs almost immediately. Secondly to provide temporary relief programs for those most impacted by the recession and invest in infrastructure, education, health, and renewable energy. The cost of the stimulus package was estimated to be $787 billion at the time of passage, later revised to $831 billion between 2009 and 2019. The Act included direct spending in infrastructure, education, health, and energy, federal tax incentives, and expansion of unemployment benefits and other social welfare provisions. It also created the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. The goal of the stimulus plan was not only to boost the economy but to increase confidence in and restore faith in the ability to grow the economy. The average citizen didn’t understand much of what was...
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