With the growing awareness of the nature and scope of the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in the United States, a few state child welfare agencies have started to develop and implement training on CSEC for their social service staff. Since other state child welfare agencies may adopt a similar training model, it is important to evaluate the effectiveness of these CSEC training...

Informal carers save the state's health and social care services billions of pounds each year. The stresses associated with caring have given rise to a number of short-term care services to provide respite to carers. The Carers (Recognition & Services) Act of 1995 identified formally for the first time, the important role that unpaid carers provide across the community in Britain. The planning ...

At present there is a profusion of agencies and governments which send missions of prosthetics and orthotics experts into developing countries. Included are the U N , the World Rehabil i tat ion Fund , the Wor ld Heal th Organization, the Social and Rehabili tat ion Service of H E W , Public Hea l th Service, certain religious organ­ izations, H O P E ship, and perhaps others. These agencies se...

1. The public employment service (PES) emerged in industrialized countries around the end of the nineteenth century as a result of concerns about the social and economic impact of unemployment. The early labour exchanges were mainly concerned with job-broking, that is with the process of arranging for jobseekers to obtain jobs and employers to fill vacancies, but some also became involved in ne...

Scientists have documented the general decline in the health of marine ecosystems. The human impacts on marine ecosystems are forcing resource agencies and scientists to rethink how society manages ocean and coastal systems. Since the 1960s, the scientific and intellectual basis of an ecosystem-based approach to manage and restore landscapes has been developing with state and federal resource a...

Statistical agencies release sample microdata from social surveys under different modes of access ranging from Public Use Files (PUF) in the form of tables or highly perturbed datasets to Microdata Under Contract (MUC) for researchers and licensed institutions where levels of protection are less severe. In addition, statistical agencies often have on-site datalabs where registered researchers c...

BACKGROUND A process evaluation of a participatory supportive return to work program, aimed at workers without a (permanent) employment contract who are sick-listed due to a common mental disorder, revealed that this program was executed less successfully than similar programs evaluated in earlier studies. The program consisted of a participatory approach, integrated care and direct placement i...