Social Services and Youth & Families

Robert Little & the Kinship Fostercare Program in NYC (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

When the "crack" cocaine epidemic of the mid- and late 1980s leads to vast increases in the numbers of abandoned and neglected children, New York City officials move to create a new program to provide foster care. Rather than using only...

Robert Little & the Kinship Fostercare Program in NYC

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

When the "crack" cocaine epidemic of the mid- and late-1980s leads to vast increases in the numbers of abandoned and neglected children, New York City officials move to create a new program to provide foster care. Rather than using only...

The Ladder and the Scale: Commitment and Accountability at Project Match

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

Located in one of the most troubled housing projects in Chicago, the job training program known as Project Match has an unusual approach to the task of bringing welfare recipients into the world of work. Rather than trying to broker a simple job...

The Treuhandanstalt: Taking a Nation Private

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

The dramatic merger of the former East and West Germanys led to an historic mission for a new agency: the sale to private buyers of the vast assets of the former East Germany. The agency created for the purpose was the Treuhandanstalt, conceived...

The Electronic Benefit System in Ramsey County, Minnesota

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When banks in Ramsey County (Saint Paul), Minnesota decide to stop cashing welfare checks, the county faces a crisis. It must continue to provide a way for welfare recipients to receive their benefits. Yet it has exhausted the standard means of...

The Electronic Benefits System in Ramsey County, Minnesota (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When banks in Ramsey County (Saint Paul), Minnesota decide to stop cashing welfare checks, the county faces a crisis. It must continue to provide a way for welfare recipients to receive their benefits. Yet it has exhausted the standard means of...

Providing Obstetrical Care to Indigent Women in Montgomery County, Maryland (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This is a 6-page sequel to HKS Case 1077.0. When obstetricians at the sole hospital in affluent Montgomery County, Maryland, treating poor women decide the financial risks of such service outweigh its benefits, the county confronts a health care...

Providing Obstetrical Care to Indigent Women in Montgomery County, Maryland

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When obstetricians at the sole hospital in affluent Montgomery County, Maryland, treating poor women decide the financial risks of such service outweigh its benefits, the county confronts a health care crisis. The group of women most in need of...

Cocaine Mothers

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

Early in 1989, prosecutors in Florida charged a woman with child abuse after she gave birth to her second baby born with signs of cocaine dependency. This case briefly summarizes the problem of cocaine use, the effects of prenatal exposure, and...

Taking Charge: Rose Washington and Spofford Juvenile Detention Center

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

The latest in a long string of directors of New York City's toughest juvenile detention facility confronts a staff which is both demoralized and resentful of authority. As the jail's first black director, she must cope with a predominantly black...

Finding Black Parents: One Church, One Child (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In 1980, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services faced a crisis. Over 700 black children in Cook County, including 69 infants, waited for adoption while the agency was unable to find black parents. Director Gregory L. Color, with...

Jean Ekins and the Family Learning Center (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

During the 1978-79 school year, the state of Michigan turned down Jean Ekins' application for model-site designation of her Leslie, Michigan Family Learning Center. Ekins had started the program four years earlier within the Leslie public school...