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• &Quot;administer the Trust": An Historical Case Study of Organizational Transformation at the Cunningham Children's Home of Urbana, Illinois 

  Carney, Mary Bernice (1993)

  This historical case study of organizational transformation at the Cunningham Children's Home of Urbana, Illinois (CCH/or the Home) used the framework of organizational transformation theory to understand how CCH changed ...

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• Chemically-Dependent Women in Treatment: A Study of the Experiences in and Responses to Different Treatment Models 

  Burman, Sondra (1993)

  The research investigated how chemically-dependent women experience and respond to treatment in different models (all-women's/mixed-gender; inpatient/outpatient). Clients and staff members were interviewed, group therapy ...

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• It's No Bed of Roses: Working in Child Welfare 

  McMahon, Anthony Patrick (1993)

  This study explored the working lives of public agency child welfare workers in an inner city office in Chicago, Illinois. Eight workers at "City Office" gave access to their understanding of child welfare and ...

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• Lifting the Shadow: An Analysis of Demographic Characteristics of Maltreating Parents and Heads-of-Households With Children in Care 

  Massat, Carol Rippey (1992)

  Parents of children in foster care were studied. A literature review examined social, psychological and interactive effects on parents of children in foster care. Social influences were investigated through analysis of ...

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• Child Maltreatment in the Social Context: The Relationship of Socioeconomic and Demographic Environmental Variables to Reported Child Maltreatment in Illinois 

  Yu, Hon-Yei Annie (1988)

  According to the American Humane Association, more than 1.9 million American children were reported as victims of abuse and/or neglect in 1985--a reporting rate of 30.6 alleged victims per 1,000 U.S. child population. How ...

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