To improve services for sexual assault victims, many communities have adopted coordinated models of service delivery, often called Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs). Uniting law enforcement officers, rape crisis advocates, and health care professionals, SARTs frequently aim to create a seamless and compassionate experience ...

Tested and effective approaches are available to prevent mental, emotional, and behavioral problems in youth, but they are underutilized. Communities That Care (CTC) is a coalition-based strategy that creates a local infrastructure for prevention service delivery that facilitates the community-wide adoption of a scientific ...

This study explores how King County nonprofits providing safety net services have responded to the recent economic recession. Overall, the study's findings suggest that although these organizations have suffered dramatic funding shifts over the past five years, most have continued to meet client needs despite increases in ...

Historically, adolescent gang membership has had pervasive effects on society, with even greater effects falling on specific communities of color. There has been a significant amount of research aimed at attempting to understand why youth join gangs; however, there seems to be a disconnect between the literature on predictive ...

Objective: To investigate the relationship between experiencing child maltreatment and later involvement in an abusive dating relationship during adolescence and young adulthood (under the age of 25) and to examine possible moderators, including gender and maltreatment type. Method: This study was a meta-analysis comparing ...

ABSTRACT: While much literature exists on processes of social workers' ethical decision making, the literature lacks consideration of whether social workers or social work students are consistent with their ethical decisions regardless of the context in which the dilemmas present themselves. The following study examined the ...

Purpose: This dissertation examines the professional identity narratives of hospital social workers in a way that is conceptually grounded and relevant to efforts to engage with interprofessional collaborative practice. Although significant literature exists to describe the roles and contributions of hospital social workers, ...

Social mobility has stalled or declined in most advanced welfare states in an era of rising inequality, implying that socioeconomic disadvantages persist across generations and questioning the permeable class structure premised by a capitalist democracy. Welfare state policies aim to enhance upward social mobility for the ...

Poverty is a persistent problem in serious mental illness (SMI) with adult unemployment rates consistently hovering around 80%. A psychiatric paradigm shift toward early intervention for first-episode psychosis (FEP) has shown promise in supporting employment and education in early stages of treatment, but with mixed outcomes. ...

Anti-Black racism is a social toxin that not only violently affects people’s individual and collective access to resources, but significantly impacts the quality of life of those who are targeted, including the onset and maintenance of adverse psychological and physical health outcomes, such as depression and binge eating. ...