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Agency-based tracking of difficult-to-follow populations: runaway and homeless youth programs in St. Louis, Missouri
- Authors:
- POLLIO David E., THOMPSON Sanna J., NORTH Carol S.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 36(3), June 2000, pp.247-258.
- Publisher:
- Springer
This study explored agency-based tracking methods for runaway and homeless youth in the USA. 118 Programme discharges from three federally funded agencies serving runaway/homeless youth in Missouri were tracked for a follow-up study of this population. Sixty-nine percent of the sample was successfully located and fifty-nine percent interviewed. Significant findings included: fewer contact attempts over fewer days were made for individuals successfully interviewed, individuals tracked through Division of Family Services were less likely to be located and interviewed, and individuals successfully located were significantly younger. The report provides encouraging evidence that even relatively unsophisticated protocols for tracking agency clients developed in collaboration with community agencies can yield follow-up samples that are acceptably representative of programme participants.
Perceptions of power in client/worker relationships
- Author:
- COHEN Marcia B.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 79(4), July 1998, pp.433-442.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
Recent literature in America on empowerment-oriented social work practice raises questions about the nature of power in client/worker relationships. This qualitative study explores client and worker perceptions of power in their relationships with each other.
Round pegs in round holes: a social work care management service for 'vulnerable adults' in West Oxfordshire
- Author:
- GILDERS Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 9(3), 1997, pp.45-58.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Over recent years many Social Services Departments have tended towards specialist teams and away from genericism. This article describes a pilot post of social worker
Service delivery using consumer staff in a mobile crisis assessment program
- Authors:
- LYONS John S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 32(1), February 1996, pp.33-40.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Interest has developed in the use of mental health consumers as staff members in community programmes for persons with serious mental illness. The present study investigates consumer service delivery in a mobile assessment programme designed to assist homeless people with severe psychiatric disorders. Consumer and non-consumer staff were generally comparable. Results suggest that consumer staff engaged in more street outreach and were less often dispatched for emergencies. There was a trend for consumer staff to be more likely to certify their clients for hospitalisation. In sum, consumer staff appear to provide a valuable contribution to this form of service delivery.
The Russell House companion to working with young people
- Editors:
- FACTOR Fiona, CHAUHAN Vipin, PITTS John
- Publisher:
- Russell House
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 258p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Lyme Regis
This book is aimed at both professionals and volunteers who work with young people. The contributors to the book come from a wide variety of professionals such as, youth justice workers, teachers, health educators, drug educators, community development workers and academics. Each contributor outlines the specific styles of intervention and service delivery in their fields and how these methods interact with the work of the other professionals.