reference @article{ author={Marjorie L. Devault}, year={2006}, title={Introduction: What Is Institutional Ethnography?}, journal={Social Problems}, volume={53}, number={3}, pages={294-298}, note={http://www.jstor.org/stable/4488168?origin=pubexport}, keywords={SOCIOLOGY}, isbn={0037-7791}, language={English}, } } @article{ author={Gerald A J de Montigny}, year={2003}, title={Textual Regulation of Child Welfare: A Critique of the Ontario Risk Assessment Model}, journal={Canadian Review of Social Policy}, number={52}, pages={33}, note={http://gw2jh3xr2c.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/summon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Textual+Regulation+of+Child+Welfare%3A+A+Critique+of+the+Ontario+Risk+Assessment+Model&rft.jtitle=Canadian+Review+of+Social+Policy&rft.au=Gerald+A+J+de+Montigny&rft.date=2003-10-01&rft.issn=0836-303X&rft.issue=52&rft.spage=33&rft.externalDBID=CRSP&rft.externalDocID=820998711}, isbn={0836-303X}, language={English}, } } @misc{ author={Khoo,Evelyn G.}, year={2004}, title={Protecting Our Children : A comparative study of the dynamics of structure, intervention and their interplay in Swedish child welfare and Canadian child protection}, note={http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-193}, abstract={This dissertation is a case study of how two agencies in Umeå, Sweden and Barrie, Canada protect children found in need of child welfare services. The project's purposes are to describe how children are protected from harm in these two contexts, to illuminate the similarities and differences in the child welfare systems reflected at the local level, and explicate the significance of uncovered similarities and differences. The research project is grounded in three complementary theoretical approaches: i) social constructionism, ii) critical program evaluation theory, and iii) institutional ethnography. Using a model I developed to guide cross-national comaprisons, the research project explores three dimensions in the organization and delivery of services: i)Structure (service contexts and features), ii) Intervention (intervention process, and documentation and gatekeeping as two central aspects of intervention), and iii) the interplay between structure and intervention. The project combines methods including focus groups, qualitative application of the vignette technique, and analyses of assessment summaries extracted from case files at each agency. Finding from this investgation are reported in four papers. We identified differences in gatekeeping, use of social work skills, identification of clients, decision-making, and use of compulsory measures and the availability of other measures for clients. The documentation study showed that in Canada documentation is increasingly structured whereas in Sweden documentation is systematically varied but with narrative forms dominating. The different documentation trajectories in these nations are coupled to the paths they have taken with regard to the care and protection of children. We then focus on the "best interests of the child" principle. In Canada, the best interests principle is paramount but intimately connected to "need of protection" and risk assessment. In Sweden, the best interests principle is contibutory to the Social Service Act's emphasis on a solidaristic response to need. When data from this study are taken in context with other research in the field, it appears to give meaning to description of two models of state service for children in need because of abuse or neglect. Umeå is representative of some of the key elements in Swedish child welfare whereas Barrie is representative of some of the key elements in Canadian child protection.}, keywords={social services; social work; cross-national; comparative; Social service; Socialt arbete; child welfare; child protection}, language={English}, } } @article{ author={Nichols,NE}, year={2008}, title={Gimme shelter! Investigating the social service interface from the standpoint of youth}, journal={JOURNAL OF YOUTH STUDIES}, volume={11}, number={6}, pages={685-699}, note={http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/detail?accno=EJ821061}, abstract={Using institutional ethnography, I demonstrate how one young man's efforts to find housing are shaped in relation to a complex institutional maze through which the immigration, child welfare, social assistance, and sheltering systems are linked. My goal is to show how a particular person's narrative can be used to illuminate the general organisation of the bureaucratic world. In this article, I explain how youth homelessness occurs against a complex backdrop of relations - relations that are obscured from the standpoint of a young person who simply lacks a secure place to sleep.}, keywords={OUTCOMES; INDEPENDENT LIVING PROGRAM; SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY; immigration; homelessness; social assistance; young adulthood; child welfare}, isbn={1367-6261}, language={English}, } } @misc{ author={Jackson,Vivian H.}, year={2008}, title={An Exploratory Study of the Meaning of Culture in Family Preservation and Kinship Care Services: An Africentric Translation}, note={http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1195303638}, abstract={The disproportionality of African American children in stranger foster care is of ongoing concern. Systemic factors contribute to this disproportionality, but the lack of cultural fit for some service interventions may explain some of the problems. Even though, program initiatives such as family preservation and kinship care are designed to preclude the need for stranger foster care, there is still an overrepresentation of African American children in this type of placement. Perhaps an Africentric approach to service delivery would improve the likelihood of achieving the child welfare goals of safety, permanence and well-being within the child’s own family system. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to expand the understanding of Africentric practice. It offers a portrait of Africentric practice and describes an implementation process for this values and principles-based service approach. The second purpose of this study is to discern the meaning that is attached to receipt of these services by those who receive the service. The research study used a qualitative case study approach using methods in institutional ethnography and an analytic framework based on symbolic interaction theory. The family preservation and kinship care programs of an agency that presents itself as an Africentric agency were studied in depth. Participant observation, document review and semi-structured interviews of organizational leaders, direct service providers, and family members were the sources of data. The findings identified strategies designed to create an Africentric organizational culture from which Africentric practice was launched and nurtured. This approach acknowledged the need to help the workforce address the influence of oppression and the role of Eurocentric values and principles in their own lives and in their approach to service provision. The success of these strategies was tempered by the external challenges imposed on the agency by the larger Eurocentric society. The study raised questions about the difference between evidence-based practice and values-based practice and the role of personal values and beliefs in implementation. Of the many Africentric values and principles, the family members consistently expressed the importance of authentic relationship. Implications for further research on culture and practice, Africentric practice, and implementation research are discussed.}, keywords={Africentrism; Family Preservation; Institutional Ethnography; Implementation Research; African Americans; Child Welfare; Kinship Care}, language={English}, } } @article{ author={Khoo,Evelyn G. and Hyvönen,Ulf and Nygren,Lennart}, year={2002}, title={Child Welfare or Child Protection: Uncovering Swedish and Canadian Orientations to Social Intervention in Child Maltreatment}, journal={Qualitative Social Work}, volume={1}, number={4}, pages={451-471}, note={http://gw2jh3xr2c.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/summon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Child+Welfare+or+Child+Protection&rft.jtitle=Qualitative+Social+Work&rft.au=Nygren%2C+Lennart&rft.au=Hyv%C3%B6nen%2C+Ulf&rft.au=Khoo%2C+Evelyn+G&rft.date=2002-12-01&rft.pub=Sage+Publications&rft.issn=1473-3250&rft.volume=1&rft.issue=4&rft.spage=451&rft.epage=471&rft_id=info:doi/10.1177%2F14733250260620865&rft.externalDBID=n%2Fa&rft.externalDocID=10.1177%2F14733250260620865}, abstract={This article details our findings from focus groups with social workers in Sweden and Canada illuminating similarities and differences in the process of social intervention in child mal-treatment. We identified six categories that form the bases for hypothesizing different orientations of child welfare and child protection: Gate Keeping; Skills in Context; Client Identity; Decision Points; Compulsion; and Measures. We analysed participants' descriptions and uncovered how these descriptions of social intervention in child maltreatment connect to model orientations in both countries. In Swedish child welfare, there is a greater readiness to intervene with more resources and measures, intervention is assessment driven and focuses on family preservation. In Canadian child protection, only the most needy children are eligible for a limited range of services, intervention is structure driven and more narrowly focused on protection and permanency planning. The implications of these findings to social work are discussed.}, keywords={abuse; cross-national; Canada; child welfare; child protection; Sweden}, isbn={1473-3250}, language={English}, } } @misc{ author={Khoo,Evelyn G.}, year={2004}, title={Protecting Our Children : A comparative study of the dynamics of structure, intervention and their interplay in Swedish child welfare and Canadian child protection}, note={http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-193}, abstract={This dissertation is a case study of how two agencies in Umeå, Sweden and Barrie, Canada protect children found in need of child welfare services. The project's purposes are to describe how children are protected from harm in these two contexts, to illuminate the similarities and differences in the child welfare systems reflected at the local level, and explicate the significance of uncovered similarities and differences. The research project is grounded in three complementary theoretical approaches: i) social constructionism, ii) critical program evaluation theory, and iii) institutional ethnography. Using a model I developed to guide cross-national comaprisons, the research project explores three dimensions in the organization and delivery of services: i)Structure (service contexts and features), ii) Intervention (intervention process, and documentation and gatekeeping as two central aspects of intervention), and iii) the interplay between structure and intervention. The project combines methods including focus groups, qualitative application of the vignette technique, and analyses of assessment summaries extracted from case files at each agency. Finding from this investgation are reported in four papers. We identified differences in gatekeeping, use of social work skills, identification of clients, decision-making, and use of compulsory measures and the availability of other measures for clients. The documentation study showed that in Canada documentation is increasingly structured whereas in Sweden documentation is systematically varied but with narrative forms dominating. The different documentation trajectories in these nations are coupled to the paths they have taken with regard to the care and protection of children. We then focus on the "best interests of the child" principle. In Canada, the best interests principle is paramount but intimately connected to "need of protection" and risk assessment. In Sweden, the best interests principle is contibutory to the Social Service Act's emphasis on a solidaristic response to need. When data from this study are taken in context with other research in the field, it appears to give meaning to description of two models of state service for children in need because of abuse or neglect. Umeå is representative of some of the key elements in Swedish child welfare whereas Barrie is representative of some of the key elements in Canadian child protection.}, keywords={social services; social work; cross-national; comparative; Social service; Socialt arbete; child welfare; child protection}, language={English}, } } totalReturned7totalHits7style151