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Advocacy
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Helping
in Child Protective Services |
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by Charmaine Brittain and Deborah Hunt |
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A
competency handbook for child protection caseworkers. The
hefty resource begins with basic rundowns of child protection
history and the casework process before delving into guidelines
for more specific aspects of the profession: interviewing
children, intervention with families and medical evaluation,
to name a few.
556 pages. $65. Oxford University Press.
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An
Assessment of the Privatization of Child Welfare Services:
Challenges and Successes |
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Madelyn Freundlich and Sarah Gerstenzang |
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Outlines
for youth workers and policy-makers the impact of privatizing
child welfare services, by reviewing six case studies of privatization.
The book highlights common themes among the cases, focusing
on how privatization affected services, and concludes with
recommendations about how to implement privatized family services.
309 pages. $29.95. Child Welfare League of America.
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Other
People's Kids: Social Expectations and American Adults' Involvement
with Children and Adolescents |
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Peter C. Scales |
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Investigates
the decline of non-relative adult interaction with youth in
United States despite its many benefits for youth development.
Drawing largely on a study by the Lutheran Brotherhood (now
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans) and a survey of 1,425 Americans,
Scales discusses the influence of the adult community on youth.
Though sometimes resorting to complicated research jargon,
the book helpfully examines the wariness of many adults to
make contact with youth, and the cost of this wariness to
youth development. 274 pages. $59.95. Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Publishers.
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Making
Children A National Priority:
A Framework for Community Action |
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Linda Morgan and Teri Martin |
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Provides
youth workers with a helpful guide for achieving results in
community action. After establishing the need to make children
a priority in this effort, the authors present resources and
advice on what they call the "Six-I" model: initiating,
invigorating, inquiring, imagining, innovating and implementing.
Full of valuable websites and contact information, this is
a solid resource for any prospective community organizer.
93 pages. $14.95. Child Welfare League of America.
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The
Goodness Within |
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By Mark Redmond |
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Offers
insightful reflections on working with troubled teens by following
the 22-year youth work career of the author, who began as
a volunteer at New York's Convent House and is now executive
director of Spectrum Youth and Family Services in Burlington,
Vt. Redmond's well-told narratives of his experiences with
youth and youth workers are grouped by themes such as forgiveness,
courage and leadership, and focus on finding hope in all kids.
Goodness would be especially thought-provoking for newcomers
to the field and among those for whom religion is a driving
force in their work - the latter because Redmond's career
and stories are grounded in Christianity, with regular references
to the Bible and Christian principles.
191 pages. $17.95. Paulist Press.
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Brain
Smarts and Fragile: Handle With Care |
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Mothers Against Drunk Driving |
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Two
activity guides for middle-school-age youth that could be
useful and important to children. The books explain the importance
of not interfering with cerebral development during the first
two decades of life. They also describe the parts of the brain
and its endocrinal reactions, as well as the effects of alcohol
on the brain.
Free. MADD, 511 E. John Carpenter Freeway, Irving, TX 75062.
(800) GET-MADD.
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