|
Showing 1 - 12 of
12 matches in All Departments
The Integrated Children's System (ICS) is part of the British
government's long term program to improve outcomes and life chances
for children. The ICS is an inter-agency framework designed to hold
information about children and enable easy reference, communication
and shared access between different elements of children's
services. The ICS was developed to support effective practice with
children and families and improve decision making and planning for
children in need. The system provides a more structured and
systematic approach by integrating the processes of working with
children in need from the point of first contact through to the
final review. This book outlines what the ICS is, how it works and
how to ensure that it is implemented effectively. Drawing on the
findings of several pilot projects, this book will be a valuable
source of guidance for those using and implementing the database,
policymakers and social care managers.
Bonnie & Clyde's First Christmas is about my two dogs, Bonnie
and Clyde, who love to make new friends with all different kinds of
animals in the neighborhood. One day, on a warm and sunny morning,
I watched Bonnie and Clyde looking at all the different colorful
birds and butterflies gliding peacefully in the blue sky above me.
On another day I observed a beautiful blue and white butterfly
landing gracefully on Bonnie's nose. I smiled and laughed to
myself, because it was such a funny moment. Bonnie did not seem to
mind having a new friend on her button nose. I began to wonder,
"Can two dogs, a rabbit, and a butterfly become friends with the
help of the Christmas Spirit?" You will love this sweet story and
fall in love with Trudy Ann, the caterpillar that turns into a
beautiful butterfly.
"I have often been identified as a 'protest poet, '" writes Wendy
Rose, "and although something in me frowns a little at being so
neatly categorized, that is largely the truth." A prolific voice in
Native American writing for more than twenty years, Rose has been
widely anthologized and is the author of eight volumes of poetry.
Bone Dance is a major anthology of her work, comprising selections
from her previous collections along with new poems. The 56
selections move from observation of the earth to a searc for one's
place and identity on it. They convey a sense of travel and
inquiry, whether based on actual journeys on intellectual search.
Through them we sense the dynamic tension experienced by Native
peoples when they struggle to retain their traditional ways. In an
introduction written for this anthology, Rose comments on the place
each past collection had in her development as a poet. "Around the
age of eighteen, " she reflects, "I thought that I had to be strong
so that the fragile, old knowledge would be protected. At
forty-five, I see things a little differently. It is the old way
that is strong. The people like me are the ones who have always
been in danger. I learned that my true job is simply to be who I am
and keep listening."
|
The Developing World of the Child (Paperback)
Anna Gupta; Edited by Wendy Rose; Contributions by Gillian Schofield, David Quinton; Edited by David P.H. Jones; Contributions by …
|
R799
Discovery Miles 7 990
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
Written as part of a training pack for practitioners working in
child care and child protection, and bringing together leading
figures from a range of disciplines, this important text shows how
the latest child development theories can be applied to
professionals' working practice. Considering theories of
development throughout the lifespan from the early years through to
adolescence, and transitions to adulthood, this resource is
essential reading for a range of professionals including social
workers, teachers, and health and mental health professionals. The
authors build up an integrated picture of the developing world of
the child, looking at genetic and biological influences alongside
individual psychological, interpersonal, familial, educational and
wider community domains. The final part of the book looks
specifically at issues for practice, including chapters on
communicating with children exercising professional judgment, and
planning, interventions and outcomes in child care.
Services for families and children are rightfully the focus of
intense scrutiny and debate, and there is a clear need to establish
a knowledge of which services work well. This volume provides a
comprehensive overview of research evidence from the UK and USA on
the effectiveness of selected child welfare interventions. It
addresses the challenges of measuring effectiveness in child
welfare and explains the policy context for child welfare service
delivery. Leading international contributors summarize the evidence
of effectiveness in each core area, and consider the impact on
children's development, parenting capacity and the wider community.
Critically, the book also draws out the implications of the
evidence for policy, practice and service delivery as well as for
future research. This book is essential reading for policy makers,
practitioners and commissioners of services in child welfare as
well as students and researchers.
This book deals with the daily life of a hidden group. Revealing
the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese
Americans, this book places the children and families of early
Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of
exclusion and segregation. Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions
of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families
- and particularly children - played important roles in its daily
life. She explores the wide-ranging images of Chinatown's youth
created by competing interests with their own agendas - from
anti-immigrant depictions of Chinese children as filthy and
culturally inferior to exotic and Orientalized images that catered
to the tourist's ideal of Chinatown. All of these representations,
Jorae notes, tended to further isolate Chinatown at a time when
American-born Chinese children were attempting to define themselves
as Chinese American. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion,
cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and
violence, Chinese American children attempted to build a world for
themselves on the margins of two cultures. Their story is part of
the larger American story of the struggle to overcome racism and
realize the ideal of equality.
Among Native American writers of mixed-blood heritage, few have
expressed their concerns with personal identity with as much
passion as Wendy Rose. A mainstay among American Indian poets whose
work addresses these issues, she is a writer with whom readers of
diverse ethnic backgrounds have consistently identified. In her
latest work, Rose returns to these major motifs while exploring a
new dimension: using poetry as a tool to delve into the buried
secrets of family history--and all of American history as well.
Confronting questions of personal history that itch like crazy--the
irritations that drive human existence--she acknowledges and pays
tribute to her Indian and European ancestors without hiding her
anger with American society. Rose's poems are strong political and
social statements that have a distinctly narrative flavor. Here are
Europeans who first set foot on America's shores while Taino
Indians greeted them as if they were visiting neighbors; Hopi and
Miwok "Clan Mothers, grand-daughters, all those the missionaries
erased"; and European forebears who as settlers pushed their way
relentlessly west. Through her vivid imagery, she speaks to and for
these ancestors with a sense of loss and an itching caused by the
biases provoked by ethnic chauvinism. "Itch Like Crazy" is a finely
crafted literary work that is also a manifesto addressing contacts
and conflicts in the history of Indian-white relations. By
presenting another view of U.S. history and its impact on the
Native Americans who are her ancestors, it offers a new
appreciation of the issue of "tribal identity" that too often faces
Native peoples of the Americas--and is too often misunderstood by
Euro-American society.
Examining the assessment of need in children's services this book
addresses the full spectrum of practice, policy and research
developments in the field. The contributors include leading
academics, policy makers and senior practitioners who generate a
broad-based holistic approach to the assessment of children in
need. They show how needs assessment in children's services can be
used to tackle problems such as low achievement, mental ill-health
and social exclusion at both individual and strategic levels.
Approaches to the Assessment of Need in Children's Services will
enable service managers and practitioners to respond effectively to
the increasing pressure to monitor outcomes and effectiveness in
child care work, and to improve and coordinate children's welfare
service provision at individual and community levels and provides
an indispensable overview and analysis for anyone working or
studying in child welfare and social care.
|
You may like...
Tenet
John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, …
DVD
R53
Discovery Miles 530
|