Attitudes Towards Harm Reduction for Substance Abusers: An Annotated Bibliography
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This 3 page paper provides an overview of an annotated bibliography on the attitudes of social workers towards harm reduction for substance abusers. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: MHSocW34.rtf

Australian Family Health Assessment: Stresses, Substance Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Child Protection Concerns
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A 9 page discussion of family stresses that can result in domestic violence. Among the most innocent victims are children. The author provides guidelines that can be used in family assessments to predict domestic violence and ultimately utilized to protect children.
Filename: PPfamAss.rtf

Authority in the Family and Welfare Consumerism
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This 4 page paper is written in two parts. The first part of the paper considers how and why authority within the family has changed ion the UK since the 1950's, including reference to Foucault and sexual liberation. The second part of the paper considers why there has been an increase in welfare consumerism in the UK since the 1980's. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
Filename: TEfampow.rtf

Baby Boomers & Their Retirement Years
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This 17 page report discusses the 'baby boom' generation (Americans born between 1946 and 1964) in terms of their retirement plans, options, and likely economic realities. This report examines general issues related to retirement and baby boomers but focuses on the issues confronting women of the baby boom generation as they move toward their retirement years. A hypothetical survey and its methodology and findings are also discussed in relationship to the topic. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
Filename: BWretire.wps

Baltimore’s Child Protective Services & Chessie
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A 5 page research paper that reports on the child protective services (CPS) in Maryland, specifically focusing on a computerized system designed to track the state’s 10,000 foster children. The system is named the Children’s Electronic Social Services Information Exchange, which has been dubbed “Chessie.” The writer reports on its current problems and offers evaluation and also refers briefly to a previous report, khcpsmd.rtf. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khmdcps2.rtf

Being Homeless and What Defines an American Today
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A 7 page paper which focuses on the homeless to define an American living in 2006, illustrating how the homeless portray American ideals, and considers the struggle to survive through contemporary articles and literary/artistic media (a speech, memoir of a homeless person, and two poems). Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: TGhomeless.rtf

Benefits To Placement Of Parents In Adult Day Care Facilities
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5 pages in length. It has been said that as people age and become more and more dependent upon others for their care, their needs reflect those similar to a child's. As a means by which to uphold whatever independence and sense of self that might still remain, adult day care has become one of the most promising alternatives. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: TLCAdtDC.rtf

Bereavement Program/Hawaiian Children
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A 6 page research paper that discusses the elements involved in planning a bereavement program to help Native Hawaiian children. The writer discusses that such a program should be age appropriate, consider the Native Hawaiian culture and include aspects of play therapy. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: khberhaw.rtf

Book Review / Information Highway Not As Great As We Think...
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A 3 page review of Clifford Stoll's "Silicon Snake Oil : Second Thoughts On The Information Superhighway" in which the writer discusses Stoll's thoughts on the various social problems that an expanding Internet will present. Bibliography lists 2 supporting sources.
Filename: Silicons.wps

Boys & Girls Clubs of America/An Assessment
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A 5 page research paper that reports on a student-initiated study of a BGCA facility's educational, training and self-development opportunities for members and staff. Bibliography lists 1 sources.
Filename: khbgca.rtf

California State Department Of Mental Health: Infant Preschool Family Mental Health Initiative Delivery Of Services
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7 pages in length. Maintaining stable mental health is a critical component to being able to live within a civilized society; those whose mental health is compromised for any number of reasons are often without appropriate resources to help them function at an adequate cognitive level. As a direct result, these individuals may gravitate toward fringe communities whereby the challenge of meeting basic human needs is greater than they can achieve. Indeed, adults with mental health problems are difficult enough to assist through limited state services, but when the individual in question is an infant or young child, it becomes critical for the state to intervene in the effort to fend off a lifetime of mental instability. The California Infant Preschool Family Mental Health Initiative (IPFMHI), conceived as a way in which to develop and expand "infant and early mental health services for children age birth to five and their families" (Knapp, 2006). Prevention, however, is as much a part of this service as is addressing existing problems, being that the Initiative - as part of the overall California State Department of Mental Health - is rooted as much in avoiding mental health issues as it is in intervention. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: TLCCalInfSvc.rtf