scholarly journals Frontline Professionals Performing Collaborative Work with Low-Income Families: Challenges across Organizational Boundaries

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-85
Author(s):  
Torunn Alise Ask ◽  
Solveig Sagatun
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Interagency Collaboration ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
Parental Obligations ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The Individual

This article discusses certain challenges relating to interagency collaboration between the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) and Child Welfare Services (CWS). We have asked what obstacles to holistic work with low-income families who receive measures from NAV and CWS simultaneously can be identified. The departure point is collaboration on a local project at the municipal level. The differences between the views of the individual services (and the mandates based on these views) with regard to parental obligations have proved challenging. Using the theory of institutional logic, we have explored how different logics have influenced these services’ approaches to parenthood and the significance of these influences for interagency collaboration. We have also investigated how caseworkers in the two services have managed to create reflective spaces for negotiating and bridging various understandings to create new ways of working together. In addition to collecting and analysing data, our task as researchers has been to facilitate joint working processes in the project. The article is based on interviews with caseworkers from both services, discussions during two workshops, and a subsequent dialogue seminar with employees from the two services.  

scholarly journals Legal aspects of technical assistance in urban landholding regularization provided for in the Brazilian Law 11888/2008 and its impact in the state of Paraíba, Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-32
Author(s):  
George Baracuhy Cruz Viana ◽  
Edson Ricardo Saleme
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
The State ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

This paper analyzes the role of the state in its mission of ensuring the existence of sustainable cities with adequate housing and meeting the standards set by current legal dictates. For this purpose, firstly, the right to housing guaranteed by the current Constitution, in its article 6 caput, is assessed as one of the most basic needs of the individual, considered a fundamental right since 1948 by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This paper also investigates the guarantee of decent housing for the citizen is effective, as provided for in the City Statute, Law No. 10257, 2001, especially with the publication of Law n. 11.888 /2008, which guarantees free public assistance in the project and construction of social housing for low-income families. This rule regulates the hiring of professionals who, while preserving their urban legislation, ensure compliance with an adequately sustainable environment. This article will use the hypothetical-deductive method and the bibliographic research methodology.  

scholarly journals Impacting Environmental and Public Health through the Use of Dual Targeted and Tailored Asthma Educational Interventions

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genny Carrillo ◽  
Daikwon Han ◽  
Rose L. Lucio ◽  
Yoon-Ho Seol ◽  
Betty Chong-Menard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Behavior Changes ◽  
Asthmatic Children ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Asthma Triggers

Home-based asthma environmental education for parents of asthmatic children is needed since many health professionals lack the time to offer it. However, developing targeted and tailored education is important in order to address the individual needs of participants. This nonrandomized longitudinal study examined knowledge on asthma with an Asthma and Healthy Homes educational intervention training offered to parents of children from low income families who reside in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Eighty-nine parents received the training and pre- and posttest surveys were used to measure knowledge outcomes. A standardized assessment on asthma triggers was used to identify the different triggers each child was exposed to, and a follow-up survey was conducted 6 months after the educational intervention to identify how many parents reported household and behavior changes as a result of the training. Results showed significant changes in behavior by participants as a result of the training received. This study suggests that these behavioral changes are attributed to the dual “targeted” and “tailored” educational interventions delivered to parents which resulted in a greater understanding of how to manage asthma by eliminating asthma triggers in their respective homes.

Growth Patterns in Incremental Self-Build Housing in Chile

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 18-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo García Alvarado ◽  
Dirk Donath ◽  
Luis Felipe González Böhme
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Qualitative Reasoning ◽  
Growth Patterns ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The Individual

Over the past three decades, a small community of eighty-four Chilean low-income families has built and improved their home incrementally, without any technical assistance, showing an impressive performance. A six square meters bathroom on a serviced plot of land with individual connection to potable water, sewerage, electricity and access roads, worked as a starting point back in 1974. However particular their rationale may seem, the individual history of their housing process reveals some general regularities in occurrence and duration of self-build activities, as well as size and allocation of the domestic spaces. A small random sample of fifteen households was selected to tell the story and explain the whys, hows, and whens of an ever-evolving housing process. Semi-structured interviews and building surveys were both combined to reconstruct the sequence of states of each housing process, with the awareness of the characteristic imprecision of oral information transfer. Alternative states were explored by constraint programming methods and spatial qualitative reasoning. Considering the hard constraints over the site morphology and services allocation, the results of the exploration stress how extraordinary lucid and intuitive the surveyed families are when making their design decisions. The article exposes a reconstructive case study on spontaneous growth patterns underlying an unassisted, incremental self-build housing dynamics.

Creating an Environment for Sustainable Leadership at Public HBCUs

2017 ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
Sharron Y. Herron-Williams ◽  
Alecia D. Hoffman ◽  
Sidney L. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Succession Planning ◽  
Revolving Door ◽  
Sustainable Leadership ◽  
High Turnover ◽  
Attrition Rates ◽  
Educational Preparation ◽  
Fiscal Management ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The Individual

There is a leadership conundrum at HBCUs. There has been a revolving door in the administrative ranks. According to Nichols (2004), “since the Civil War, presidents of HBCUs have struggled with students who are underprepared, inadequate management, dwindling financial resources including low endowments, competition for students and faculty members, an alumni base with not much wealth and students from low-income families who may be unable to pay ever increasing tuition.” At one point, in 2012, there were 19 HBCU presidencies vacant. This causes one to question the reasons for such high turnover/attrition rates. Some would argue it is because in most cases the individual chosen was not a good “fit” for the institution. There are also those who would say they would rather have someone who is familiar with the institution. That is code for alumni. For the purpose of this chapter, we contend there are five important factors which have contributed to the rising number of vacancies in the administrative ranks: 1) lack of succession planning; 2) lack of leadership training in areas such as fiscal management for universities, board relations, alumni relations and academic integrity/student success; 3) lack of professional educational preparation prior to the attainment of a presidency; 4) the power play (the recycling of HBCU presidents); 5) lack of adherence to institutional mission and goals.

In the Threshold

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa A. Mazzei ◽  
Alecia Y. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Individual ◽  
A Site

In this paper, we describe our encounters in and passes through the figuration of the threshold as producing writing between-the-two: or, loss of the individual subject. We describe how in the threshold, we meet in that in-between space, a space of shared deterritorialization in which we constitute one another. Also, we describe writing between-the-two in the threshold as a site of embodiment, of affect. In thinking of how to articulate our way of thinking and writing together as between-the-two and as different than a collaborative project where two “I”s contribute pieces both with and independent of the other, we take our cue from Ken Gale and Jonathan Wyatt's (2009) Between the Two. In this book, they articulate a way of thinking and writing inspired by Deleuze and Guattari's collaborative work as that which is not a working together, but a working in the gap “between the two” (Deleuze & Parnet, 1987/2002, p. 13). This spark of creativity in the gap is both like and unlike what we will explain in this article. Like Gale and Wyatt, we lean on figurations and concepts in the writings of Deleuze and Guattari as a referent; however, our between-the-two is pursued more deliberately through a materialist knowing in being that produces our becoming with and in a digital threshold.

Demonstrating Nutrient Cost Gradients: A Brooklyn Case Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 84 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 244-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Karp ◽  
Gary Wong ◽  
Marguerite Orsi
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Energy Content ◽  
Food Selection ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Micronutrient Deficiencies ◽  
Caloric Density ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. Introduction: Foods dense in micronutrients are generally more expensive than those with higher energy content. These cost-differentials may put low-income families at risk of diminished micronutrient intake. Objectives: We sought to determine differences in the cost for iron, folate, and choline in foods available for purchase in a low-income community when assessed for energy content and serving size. Methods: Sixty-nine foods listed in the menu plans provided by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for low-income families were considered, in 10 domains. The cost and micronutrient content for-energy and per-serving of these foods were determined for the three micronutrients. Exact Kruskal-Wallis tests were used for comparisons of energy costs; Spearman rho tests for comparisons of micronutrient content. Ninety families were interviewed in a pediatric clinic to assess the impact of food cost on food selection. Results: Significant differences between domains were shown for energy density with both cost-for-energy (p < 0.001) and cost-per-serving (p < 0.05) comparisons. All three micronutrient contents were significantly correlated with cost-for-energy (p < 0.01). Both iron and choline contents were significantly correlated with cost-per-serving (p < 0.05). Of the 90 families, 38 (42 %) worried about food costs; 40 (44 %) had chosen foods of high caloric density in response to that fear, and 29 of 40 families experiencing both worry and making such food selection. Conclusion: Adjustments to USDA meal plans using cost-for-energy analysis showed differentials for both energy and micronutrients. These differentials were reduced using cost-per-serving analysis, but were not eliminated. A substantial proportion of low-income families are vulnerable to micronutrient deficiencies.

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