{"title":"The Affirmative Action Debate and the Implications for Social Work Education","authors":"S. Kwok, Dora M. Y. Tam","doi":"10.1300/J185v02n01_05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J185v02n01_05","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Affirmative action is one of the most heated and widely debated social policies over the past three decades in the United States and Canada. However, social work professionals have not contributed much to the debate. This paper aims to (1) understand the history and the development of affirmative action in higher education, (2) examine the debate, and (3) discuss the implications of this debate for social work education.","PeriodicalId":437502,"journal":{"name":"The Social Policy Journal","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131338852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Employment Experiences and Support Services Use Following TANF Exits","authors":"S. Anderson, R. Schuldt, A. Halter, Jeff Scott","doi":"10.1300/J185v02n01_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J185v02n01_04","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The welfare reforms embodied in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) emphasized the devolution of program authority, which raises questions concerning the variability of outcomes across geographic areas. This article analyzes sub-state variations in the post-exit employment experiences and support services use of a random sample of 514 former Illinois Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients. Findings reveal substantial variations in employment and support services outcomes across four types of geographic areas (large city, suburban, other urban, and rural). The implications of these findings for social policy development and research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":437502,"journal":{"name":"The Social Policy Journal","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131146486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Federal GPRA Evaluation Mandate","authors":"T. Davis","doi":"10.1300/J185v01n03_05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J185v01n03_05","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) mandates inclusion of evaluation in federal agency strategic plans, impacting human service programs receiving federal support. Recommended evaluation methods include flexible ongoing and participatory approaches. Yet social work may not be prepared to appropriately respond to the government's demands for accountability. This paper reviews GPRA and its implications for social work practice, evaluation, and research, offering response strategies. The paper suggests that the creation of a National Center for Social Work Research (S. 70/H.R. 663) could help bridge evaluation gaps, offering a centralized mechanism for monitoring evaluation activities and maximizing federal research resources.","PeriodicalId":437502,"journal":{"name":"The Social Policy Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129332537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paid Maternal and Parental Leave Legislation and Primary Prevention","authors":"S. L. Rahn, H. Burch","doi":"10.1300/J185v01n03_06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J185v01n03_06","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract For child development, the first three years are crucial to foundations for emotional and mental health, for toilet training and vocabulary development, and for the precipitation of conscience and essential inner controls. For this reason, these are also the primary prevention years during which marital intactness and paid maternal and parental leave benefits are of crucial importance. A comparative social policy review of the status of parental leave legislation in North America and in Europe confirms that the United States is far behind.","PeriodicalId":437502,"journal":{"name":"The Social Policy Journal","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131690234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"British Statutory Sector Partnerships with the Voluntary Sector","authors":"P. Ware, M. Todd","doi":"10.1300/J185v01n03_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J185v01n03_02","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The boundaries of the welfare state in Britain have shifted considerably since the early 1980s. In the context of a desire to see an expanded mixed economyof welfare, the voluntary and community sectors have been expected to take on, in partnership with the statutory sector, a more active role in the delivery of a range of welfare services. Governmental speeches and policy initiatives in the UK have reasoned that the voluntary sector is cost-effective, offers “added value” to users and statutory sector purchasers, provides high quality services, is adaptable to changing needs and promotes greater user involvement. This article takes a critical look at some of the claims that are often made for service-providing voluntary organizations in the field of community (social) care.","PeriodicalId":437502,"journal":{"name":"The Social Policy Journal","volume":"168 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116276960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Internet Resources on the Nonprofit Sector for Social Policy Research","authors":"","doi":"10.1300/j185v01n03_07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/j185v01n03_07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437502,"journal":{"name":"The Social Policy Journal","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126262971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Mothers Cope When Their Welfare Grant Is Cut","authors":"Judith R. Smith, J. Brooks-Gunn","doi":"10.1300/J185V01N04_05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J185V01N04_05","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this qualitative study of welfare mothers' perceptions and responses to receiving an economic sanction, we recruited a convenience sample of mothers of preschool children whose benefits had been cut due to noncompliance with an employment activity. The interviews combined semi-structured and open-ended questions, as well as measures of maternal depression and economic hardship. No pattern of differences in strategies was found between those women who complied with the work mandate and those who did not. Many of the women were confused about the reason for the cut in their benefit. Policy ramifications of findings in regard to the 2002 TANF Reauthorization legislation are discussed.","PeriodicalId":437502,"journal":{"name":"The Social Policy Journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134115116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One Volume Down … A Status Report on The Social Policy Journal","authors":"R. Hoefer","doi":"10.1300/J185v01n04_01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J185v01n04_01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437502,"journal":{"name":"The Social Policy Journal","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133564354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Broadening Our Focus, Asking Questions and Providing an Answer","authors":"","doi":"10.1300/j185v01n03_01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/j185v01n03_01","url":null,"abstract":"The Social Policy Journal continues its growth with this, its third issue. We broaden our focus, ask questions and provide an answer with this set of articles. As such, we move in the direction laid out in the vision of the Journal, taking another step towards becoming “the journal of choice for manuscripts concerning social policy, policy practice, administration of social policy, history of social policy, evaluation of social policy, comparisons of social policy, and teaching of social policy” (emphasis in original). It is a truism that we live in an international and global society. Ideas pass from one part of the world to another via e-mail and the Internet in an instant. The simple fact that we have received manuscripts from around the world indicates that information travels quickly. This issue of The Social Policy Journal finds us recognizing the international nature of social policy debates as we publish two papers examining social policy outside of the United States’ borders, specifically the relationship between government and the voluntary sector. Patricia Ware and Malcolm J. Todd examine this situation in the United Kingdom while Linda J. Roberts dissects the changing context of small nonprofits in Canada. Shifts in government ideology have profound impacts on the lives of cli-","PeriodicalId":437502,"journal":{"name":"The Social Policy Journal","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132498228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Civil Savior and Scapegoat","authors":"L. Roberts","doi":"10.1300/J185v01n03_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J185v01n03_03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, the Nova Scotia experience is used to depict the grassroots perspective of providing compassionate services in an increasingly dispassionate society and to stimulate analysis by front line workers on what is happening to community-based services. Particular attention is paid to the role of small agencies by providing a snapshot of the struggles associated with being small. In the end, the purpose of speaking out is to challenge policy makers to make more informed and benevolent decisions on social welfare.","PeriodicalId":437502,"journal":{"name":"The Social Policy Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129936553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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