Chapter 12. Conclusion-Looking Ahead

Abstract

Attention is drawn to important themes thought likely to influence the continuing development of group care services for children and young people in the decade ahead. These include a poorly educated workforce, autonomous training, multi-disciplinary approaches, centres of excellence, diversified programs, new trends and issues shaping the future, and group care practice and the law.     

The Development of a Parent Support Group as a Means of Initiating Family Involvement in a Residential Program

SUMMARY

Working with the families of children in residential care is critical to the success of the placement. For a variety of reasons, parents of adolescents in one residential setting were not receiving adequate services during placement. A parent support and education group was designed and implemented to provide opportunities for parents to access support, learn new parenting skills and, ultimately, optimize their relationships with their children. The responses of both parents and staff to this program were favorable. The group is now a regular component of the organization's range of services, and served as a springboard to enhance family involvement in other program areas.     

Chapter 13: Group Therapy for Birth Parents of Children in Foster Care

Psychological impairments render many biological parents of children placed in treatment foster care incompetent to meet child-rearing tasks. Service agreements identify and address critical areas of dysfunctioning but do not engage parents in a broader inventory of their parental functioning and dysfuntioning. A group method provides mutual support, exploration, and a positive child-rearing model. A clinical assessment of parenting that highlights ongoing developmental needs of nurturance and empathy, limit setting, structure, role modeling, reality testing, and separation and individuation is used to promote progress. Parents gain insight into their own overall impairments, origin of impairments, and compensatory techniques. Parents recognize broader responsibility for parenthood enhancing reunification efforts.     

Chapter 17: The Community as an Advocate for Youth:

State treatment foster care programs established by the National Youth Advocate Program are described in terms of youth served, homes established, treatment program, implementation problems, and evaluation procedures.     

Portable Voter Registration

I find that statewide registration portability—permitting registrants who move anywhere within a state to transfer their registration and vote on Election Day at their new polling place—increases turnout rates among movers by 2.4% points. The effect is similar among movers living in EDR states, suggesting that about a quarter of the beneficial turnout effect of EDR is realized by recent movers. Yet, movers are still less likely to vote even where these policies are present. These findings further challenge existing literature that finds that reregistering is the primary impediment of voting among movers.

关于建立“流动农民工”社会保障管理模式的思考

由于对＂流动农民工＂的概念没有明确的界定,因而针对＂流动农民工＂而建立的社会保障管理模式尤为匮乏。现阶段,急需建立适合＂流动农民工＂特点的社会保障管理模式,以保障其基本权益和享受公平的待遇。本文在明确认识＂流动农民工＂的特点并分析＂流动农民工＂社保权益缺失问题的基础上,提出了建立＂流动农民工＂社会保障管理模式的建议。     

论住宅小区物业管理

物业是业主购房过程中比较关心的环节,物业的完善与否对于居住在其中的业主意义甚大,近年来,随着商品经济的发展及住房改革的深入,新开发的楼盘越来越多,依附于社区的物业服务也成为开发商宣传地卖点。然而,很多购房者对于物业尤其是住宅小区物业管理依然比较模糊,因此,本文将对住宅小区物业管理展开论述,探讨其特点、原则及目标。     

Border formations: security and subjectivity at the border

This paper offers a normative argument for reconfiguring borders that rests on a critique of intersecting logics bearing on security, incorporation, agency, subjectivity, encounter, and citizenship. Especially important to my critique is the mutually reinforcing relationship between border security and prevalent assimilationist and integrationist forms of incorporation associated with the dominant single-citizenship model. I offer instead an alternative framing of incorporation I call enfoldment, which is anchored in the contingent and negotiated agency and subjectivity of mobile persons and a multiversal understanding of societies. As I argue, one avenue for opening the possibilities of migrant agency and subjectivity is via what I term ‘mediated passage’. It entails shielding migrants and travellers from the direct control of movement by states at borders, allowing for passage across borders mediated by civil society organizations possessing independent power and authority.     

浅析商品房交付中的几个法律问题

交付在商品房买卖合同中具有重要的法律意义,它不仅与房屋所有权的变动和风险责任的承担有着密切的关系,同时也是确定保修期限、办理房产证的起算日的依据等。商品房的交付必须具备法律规定的条件,只有经竣工验收合格并取得《建设工程竣工验收备案表》的商品房方可进入房地产市场流通。