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This is summary report written for the Pasco Discovery Coalition regarding their annual coalition assessment report. It is meant to provide an overview of the report given to the coalition based on the survey results.

A look into my personal leadership style. My leadership philosophy has three levels. Those levels are introspective, interpersonal, and Intrapersonal. The introspective deals with how we deal with ourselves and includ...

With the worldwide, national, state, and local economies facing an economic downturn, it is important to examine its effects on social service agencies and social work. The active policy of how economic downturns effe...

Nationally over 1.5 million youth runaway and put themselves in dangerous situations such as substance abuse. Research shows that this is in a large part due to problems within the family unit. Many interventions assi...

The Crisis Residential Center's (CRC) Directions Program Evaluation for the 2006-2008 Financial Grant Years plans to look into the effectiveness of the aforementioned program. To do this, the existing literature regar...

A self reflective paper looking at myself as a part of the dominant culture.

Breaking the Cycle of Addiction presents an eight week curriculum for working with alcoholics. The curriculum brings together experts in the various systems that the member is a part. To make the group as effective as...

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and similarly lead groups make up a vast amount of groups in both America and around the world. They are led in a laissez fair manner and are often open groups where anybody is allowed to att...

A review of the Regehr, Chau, Bruce, and Phillip, 2002 study examining managers and supervisors responses to stressors while working for a child welfare agency.

Populations or groups are often broken up into subgroups. Prisoner’s are a subgroup that is not often looked at, when looking at diverse populations. There are many stigmatisms that are on prisoners and other reasons ...

Humes (1999) was granted unprecedented access to the juvenile courts in California. The juvenile court system is closed to outsiders and often seems secretive. The juvenile court system encompasses a large number of y...

Working with a diverse population requires the social worker to examine aspects that make up the population. To fully examine a population, a few of the aspects that should be researched are as follows; best practices...

Death is one of the few transcendent activities that all people participate in. Even though it is a constant, it is often a taboo subject. Along with death being a taboo subject, so is the funeral. People generally de...

The concerns of juveniles involved in the justice system are often topics of discussion in regards to rehabilitation. SB 5370 addresses job skills training for juvenile offenders as a method of rehabilitation. The pro...

Poverty is an overarching social issue that affects people in many ways. Stress has often been associated with poverty. This relationship is explored through Kozol (1995) and his experiences with children in an impove...

Genograms and eco-maps are graphical representations to help process life circumstances. They are useful for describing relationships, characteristics, and seeing interactions form an aerial point of view. They are he...

Jacob Campbell in conjunction with Reid Helford (professor at Columbia Basin College), Sue Delucchi (Executive Director for SHCN), Antonio Cruz (professor at Columbia Basin College) for help with translation put toget...