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  1. An Orphanage in Mexico: Four United Nations' Human Rights of Children and Wolins' Prerequisites for Efficient Group Care...

    In Mexico there are officially 1.8 million orphaned children, without counting non-orphaned children deprived of family, who also need care; of these, only 657,000 are living in 703 orphanages. Mexico's...

  2. The application and evaluation of goal attainment scaling to the Janis drug treatment program

    Janis is a residential drug treatment program for drug abusers between the ages of twelve and eighteen deigned to rehabilitate the participants. Five homes, each staffed by two trained residential coordinators...

  3. Protocol for Culturally Responsive Organizations

    Communities of color have long been marginalized in mainstream service delivery – invisible in terms of their access to resources and services, the adequacy of such services, and in the types of interventions...

  4. A Study of Multnomah County community support services for the chronically mentally ill

    In recent years attention has been given to the problems of the chronically mentally ill in regard to the effects of deinstitutionalization and a need for community supports. In this study, 77 service providers...

  5. Community-based Approaches for Supporting Positive Development in Youth and Young Adults with Serious Mental Health...

    Our goal in this chapter is to describe empirically- supported and promising community-based programs or approaches that are designed to promote positive development and to achieve better outcomes for young...

  6. Policy Brief: Strengthening Mentoring Opportunities for At-Risk Youth

    Mentoring the next generation of youth is critical to the future health and prosperity of our nation. Yet, millions of young people are currently growing up without the guidance and support from parents or...

  7. Getting Performance Metrics Right: A Qualitative Study of Staff Experiences Implementing and Measuring Practice...

    BACKGROUND: Quality improvement is a central goal of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model, and requires the use of relevant performance measures that can effectively guide comprehensive care...

  8. Public Opinion and the Oregon Death with Dignity Act

    Oregon voters legalized physician-assisted death in 1997 by passing the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. This law allowed terminally ill, mentally competent adult residents of the state to legally obtain a...

  9. A Study of Behavior Changes Among Children Who Have Left the Children's Psychiatric Day Treatment Center

    This study began with the authors' interest in the Portland Public Schools' program for Emotionally Handicapped children. Originally, the researchers were interested in assessing behavioral characteristics and...

  10. Getting the Most out of Healthcare as an Autistic Adult

    The Academic Autistic Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education (AASPIRE), a partnership between academic researchers and members of the Autistic community, has conducted a series of studies to understand...

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