scholarly journals Planning for the Return of Separated Children Seeking Asylum: An Inter-Country Social Service Perspective

Refuge ◽  
2002 ◽  
pp. 68-72
Author(s):  
Sarah Crowe
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
International Community ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
Family Home ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Service Perspective ◽  
International Social

A variety of circumstances contribute to an increasingly large number of minors who leave family, home, and country to seek asylum on foreign soil. They present special challenges to state and local authorities, to relevant non-governmental agencies, and to the international community. This paper considers the planning needs for these minors for whom asylum is denied and for whom return to country of origin needs to be arranged. The paper highlights the need for a social service perspective, such as provided by International Social Service, to be included in the planning process.

scholarly journals Early Responses to Climate Change: An Analysis of Seven U.S. State and Local Climate Adaptation Planning Initiatives

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Andrew Poyar ◽  
Nancy Beller-Simms
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Climate Impact ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Adaptation Planning ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Climate Adaptation Planning

Abstract State and local governments in the United States manage a wide array of natural and human resources that are particularly sensitive to climate variability and change. Recent revelations of the extent of the current and potential climate impact in this realm such as with the quality of water, the structure of the coasts, and the potential and witnessed impact on the built infrastructure give these political authorities impetus to minimize their vulnerability and plan for the future. In fact, a growing number of subnational government bodies in the United States have initiated climate adaptation planning efforts; these initiatives emphasize an array of climate impacts, but at different scales, scopes, and levels of sophistication. Meanwhile, the current body of climate adaptation literature has not taken a comprehensive look at these plans nor have they questioned what prompts local adaptation planning, at what scope and scale action is being taken, or what prioritizes certain policy responses over others. This paper presents a case-based analysis of seven urban climate adaptation planning initiatives, drawing from a review of publicly available planning documents and interviews with stakeholders directly involved in the planning process to provide a preliminary understanding of these issues. The paper also offers insight into the state of implementation of adaptation strategies, highlighting the role of low upfront costs and cobenefits with issues already on the local agenda in prompting anticipatory adaptation.

Using the Turning Point Model State Public Health Law

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (S4) ◽  
pp. 88-89
Author(s):  
Lawrence O. Gostin ◽  
Glen Safford ◽  
Deborah Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
National Level ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Point Model ◽  
Public Health Systems ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Local Levels

The Turning Point Initiative is an initiative for which the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) and W.K. Kellogg foundations partnered in order to fund a group of states and a number of communities within each of those states to work through a planning process to look at ways to strengthen their public health systems at the state and local levels. Out of that process, the states and communities would come together at the national level to talk about what they had been learning and what the issues were. There were a number of issues that resonated with all of the states.

Removal of Nonresident State-Poor by State and Local Authorities

1934 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-301
Author(s):  
Carl A. Heisterman
Keyword(s):  
Local Authorities ◽  
State And Local

Challenges for the disaster workforce during a compound hurricane–pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
Jennifer Marshall, PhD, MPH, CPH ◽  
Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, PhD ◽  
Elizabeth Dunn, MPH, CPH ◽  
Kelsey Merlo, PhD ◽  
Joshua G. Behr, PhD ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Support Strategies ◽  
Emergency Management Planning ◽  
State And Local

The COVID-19 pandemic has created new workforce considerations for emergency management community in addressing cumulative and cascading disasters. This research identifies how emergency management planning for both the changing dynamics of COVID-19 and the upcoming hurricane season may change under a compound threat. Many jurisdictions have faced challenges in providing adequate staffing of shelters before the pandemic. Now, fatigue among staff further exacerbates these challenges as resources are stretched thin. Six workshops, involving 265 national, state, and local leaders, staff, experts, and advocates from 22 states, and a range of disciplines (disaster planning, public health, social services, academia, and healthcare), were convened to identify concerns and potential strategies to address staffing, training, logistics, and support. Strategies proposed to increase the number and skill set of staff available involve increased reliance upon volunteers and nonprofit organizations. Mental health resources, personal protective equipment, sanitation supplies, and defining roles within emergency shelters were recommended to reduce fatigue and redistribute responsibilities. Findings illuminate additional research avenues regarding assessing the underlying stressors contributing to the planning process and effective means of implementing these interventions to bolster emergency management shelter operations during a prolonged pandemic and in the future.

Naval Shipyard Base Realignment and Closure: The Environmental Remediation Effort

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 189-193
Author(s):  
Rodney K. Pieper
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Remediation ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Major Element ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Military Base Closure ◽  
Remediation Effort ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Base Closure ◽  
Turn Over

Mare Island Naval Shipyard was placed on the "Fast Track" toward military base closure as of October 1993. All ship projects will end by April 1995. The base will close in April 1996. This paper discussesthe cooperative efforts of the Federal, state and local authorities, and the shipyard, to quickly turn over the yard for effective civilian reuse; andthe shipyard effort to train and utilize the existing workforce as a major element in the environmental remediation effort—to both prepare the facility for reuse and to prepare the workforce for reemployment.

Introduction

Gone Home ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Karida L. Brown
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Great Migration ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Federal Laws ◽  
State And Local

Every mass movement can be traced through the particular conditions under which the migrant self is formed and transformed. This introduction outlines the struggle of black Americans once slavery was outlawed by asking a key question: were they subjects or citizens? Though federal laws gave the now former slaves all the rights of citizens, state and local authorities allowed and enforced segregationist policies. These, in conjunction with various economic pressures, culminated in the African American Great Migration of 1910-1970. Brown, who positions herself as a third-generation descendent of a black Kentucky population that took part in this migration, claims that the collective memory of Appalachian blacks that undertook this stepwise migration deserves more attention.

International Social Service: Addressing the Need for Intercountry Casework

2011 ◽  
pp. 95-101
Author(s):  
Felicity Northcott ◽  
Julie Gilbert Rosicky ◽  
Andy Elvin ◽  
Jean Ayoub ◽  
Christine Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
International Social

scholarly journals COVID-19 Models for Hospital Surge Capacity Planning: A Systematic Review

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Michael G. Klein ◽  
Carolynn J. Cheng ◽  
Evonne Lii ◽  
Keying Mao ◽  
Hamza Mesbahi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Patient Flow ◽  
Hospital Administrators ◽  
Hospital Capacity ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
Patient Pathways ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Google Search ◽  
Second Wave

ABSTRACT Objective: Health system preparedness for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) includes projecting the number and timing of cases requiring various types of treatment. Several tools were developed to assist in this planning process. This review highlights models that project both caseload and hospital capacity requirements over time. Methods: We systematically reviewed the medical and engineering literature according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. We completed searches using PubMed, EMBASE, ISI Web of Science, Google Scholar, and the Google search engine. Results: The search strategy identified 690 articles. For a detailed review, we selected 6 models that met our predefined criteria. Half of the models did not include age-stratified parameters, and only 1 included the option to represent a second wave. Hospital patient flow was simplified in all models; however, some considered more complex patient pathways. One model included fatality ratios with length of stay (LOS) adjustments for survivors versus those who die, and accommodated different LOS for critical care patients with or without a ventilator. Conclusion: The results of our study provide information to physicians, hospital administrators, emergency response personnel, and governmental agencies on available models for preparing scenario-based plans for responding to the COVID-19 or similar type of outbreak.

Finanzausgleichsbedingte Einheitslasten der Länder – eine empirische Schätzung am Beispiel Nordrhein-Westfalens

2012 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Döring ◽  
Lorenz Blume
Keyword(s):  
Burden Sharing ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Excess Burden ◽  
Economic Concept ◽  
Time Period ◽  
German States ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Other Regarding ◽  
Fiscal Equalization System

AbstractIn Germany there exists a political consensus that the economic and fiscal burden of the German reunification should be shared by all three jurisdictional levels of the federal system. According to existing law the burden sharing between the state and local authorities has to be confined to the excess burden which follows from the financing of the German Unity Fund as well as the integration of the eastern German states into the fiscal equalisation system. Thereby, state and local authorities are in conflict with each other regarding an appropriate economic estimation of the excess burden to be caused by the fiscal equalization system. Against this background the paper explains and illustrates the economic concept of burden in terms of opportunity costs. Taking North Rhine-Westphalia as a case study the quantity of the excess burden is empirically estimated for the time period 1995 - 2009 by applying a multivariate data analysis.

Intergovernmental Relations and Energy Policy: What We Know and What We Still Need to Learn

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-212
Author(s):  
Luke Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Energy Policy ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Intergovernmental Relations ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Energy Policies ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
National State ◽  
State And Local

Although energy has become a key political issue in recent decades, a comprehensive national policy is lacking, and state and local governments are playing increasingly important and diverse roles. This essay reviews what we know about intergovernmental relations in energy policy, including overlaps between national, state, and local authorities; the character of intergovernmental interactions; and interstate variations. In sum, this essay illustrates why intergovernmental issues in energy policies are an interesting and important area of inquiry, reviews current scholarship in key areas, and suggests possible future avenues for research on this topic.

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