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Online Dissemination of Research: Are professional associations making the grade?

This paper examines research to find out if professional associations succeed in disseminating research to social workers.  The findings found that the online dissemination of research by these professional associations is lacking. There is a lot of room for growth in the associations supporting social workers by keeping them up to date and disseminating new information through their websites.

Author(s): 
Borah, V. E., Aguiniga, D. M.
Year of Publication: 
2013

Better Care, Better Volunteering

With growing interest in volunteer-tourism around the world, there is an increasing trend of volunteering within residential care centres such as orphanages and children’s homes. There is a critical need to raise awareness of the risks of harm involved in these volunteering practices, through informing all actors involved of the negative impact on children’s well-being, development, and rights.

Author(s): 
Anna McKeon, Christian Larsson, Daniela Papi, and Maryann Bylander
Year of Publication: 
2014

Migrant Social Workers' Experience in New Zealand: Education and supervision issues

Social work has recently featured a mobile workforce, joining other professions in having members navigate the opportunities and challenges posed by working and living in countries other than their country of birth and the country where they obtained their professional qualifications. Local data on professionals employed in the social services workforce in New Zealand were needed to inform educational and institutional responses to this complex phenomenon. Study findings highlighted a range of themes with significant implications for research, practice and education.

Author(s): 
Beddoe, L., FoucC., Bartley, A., Harington, P.
Year of Publication: 
2012

Participatory Action Research

Participatory action research (PAR) is driven predominantly by a desire for positive social change. Growing out of social and educational research, it is one of the few research approaches embracing the principles of participation and critical reflection. It closely parallels the purpose of social work as conceptualized in the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW)/International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW)

Author(s): 
Baldwin, M.
Year of Publication: 
2012

Promoting Social Development: Building a professional social work association in Namibia

Namibia's government has established a social welfare system with a social development emphasis. This study examines the role of the National Association of Social Workers in promoting social development and cohesion among social workers in Namibia. Their findings indicate that professional associations can play an important role not only in marketing social work and offering continuous professional development education, but also can help in promoting social development in Africa.

Author(s): 
Ananias, J., Lightfoot, E.
Year of Publication: 
2012

Human Resources and Health Outcomes: Cross-country econometric study

This research study tested the strength and significance of density of human resources for health with improved methods and a new WHO dataset. The research analyzed cross-country multiple regression analyses with maternal mortality rate, infant mortality rate, and under-five mortality rate as dependent variables. They found that the density of human resources for health is important in accounting for the variation in rates of maternal mortality.

Author(s): 
Anand, S., Barnighausen, T.
Year of Publication: 
2013

Health Information Systems: The foundations of public health

Public health decision-making is critically dependent on the timely availability of sound data. The role of health information systems is to generate, analyze and disseminate such data. In practice, health information systems rarely function systematically. The products of historical, social and economic forces, they are complex, fragmented and unresponsive to needs. The result is painfully apparent in the inability of most countries to generate the data needed to monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

Author(s): 
• AbouZahr, C., Boerma, T.
Year of Publication: 
2005

Summary Report of the 3rd Annual Global Social Service Workforce Symposium

The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance hosted its 3rd Annual Symposium on June 2nd, 2016. The event was held at the Birdsall House Conference Center in Washington, DC and also via live webcast. Just over 300 participants from 25 countries across NGOs, government, academia, donors and others joined the discussion in the room or online about ways of strengthening the social workforce to better support vulnerable families and children. The symposium enabled the exchange of information between members of the Alliance and other experts across countries and regions.

Author(s): 
Global Social Service Workforce Alliance
Year of Publication: 
2016

An Evaluation of the Community-Based Care and Support Services for Older Persons in a Specific Community

A comparison of the viewpoints of social workers, social work department officials and receivers of care about their roles and responsibilities within the community and their understanding of the roles of others.  The evaluation found that while most participants understand the system there was a general belief in the need for greater support of social work for the elderly and problems with work load that lead to prioritization of other cases over those of the elderly.

Author(s): 
Mpho Tshesebe, Herman Strydom
Year of Publication: 
2016

Perspectives of Patients and Caregivers on the Logistical Barriers to Providing Mental Health Services in Uganda

Interviews were conducted with caregivers and patients about their access to mental health services and asked them to identify major barriers.  Through this process they concluded that some of the logistical barriers such as inadequate staffing and irregular supplies were leading to problems with care providers including burnout.

Author(s): 
Justus Twesigye, Ashraf Kagee
Year of Publication: 
2016

Challenges Faced by Unaccompanied Minor-refugees in South Africa

This qualitative study explored the experiences of unaccompanied minor-refugees from Zimbabwe to South Africa. The findings revealed that services by statutory social workers were limited, compared to services by social workers employed in non-governmental organizations. It highlights the specialized skills needed to address the specific needs of these children and the lack of formal training in this area.

Author(s): 
Lungile Magqibelo, Marcel Londt, Shiron September, Nicolette Roman
Year of Publication: 
2016

Consequence of Adult HIV for Affected Children: Modelling the impact (full report)

The PEPFAR Orphans and Vulnerable Children Technical Working group, in partnership with Management Sciences for Health and the Human Sciences Research Council, undertook a three-phase project, including a review of the evidence linking children affected by HIV and AIDS to consequences for their psychological health.

Author(s): 
PEPFAR, MSH, HSRC
Year of Publication: 
2014

Report Highlights: Modeling the impact of HIV on affected children

In order to more accurately identify the long-term consequences of the HIV epidemic for children, the PEPFAR Orphans and Vulnerable Children Technical Working group, in partnership with Management Sciences for Health and the Human Sciences Research Council, undertook a three-phase project to create a model that predicts long-term negative outcomes for children affected by HIV using the best evidence available.

Author(s): 
PEPFAR, MSH, HSRC
Year of Publication: 
2013

Stronger Together

This report is intended as a guide to governments, in particular ministries of health and finance, in making decisions on the integration of community responses to HIV in national AIDS plans and linking health and community service delivery. It also lists all the different forms of work that community care givers partake in from HIV prevention to testing, treatment and legal services.

Author(s): 
UN AIDS
Year of Publication: 
2013

Promoting Education for Vulnerable Children by Supporting Families: A holistic intervention in Uganda

This article reports on the Western Uganda Bantwana Program, which worked with more than 1,000 HIV/AIDS-affected families with the goals of improving socioeconomic status, psychosocial functioning, and educational participation. Bantwana offered home visits for psychosocial support and connected vulnerable families to social services as needed.

Author(s): 
Stephanie Simmons Zuilkowski & Inbal Alon
Year of Publication: 
2015

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