The Community Attention Home, The Dalles, Oregon, provides services to those children, who, due to dependency, delinquent behavior, or family disruption, cannot remain within their present environment. The Home provides short-term shelter care with staff emphasis on proper diagnostic assessment for subsequent placement. Placement of children in the Home provides social service agencies time to plan for further care and/or treatment. The project presents itself in essentially four major areas. They are: a descriptive presentation of data already available at the Home; a determination of what additional data needs to be gathered for further evaluation of the Home’s effectiveness; development of a system for collecting such data as are considered necessary for a further evaluation; and, a description of the statistical methods for the analysis of these data. The information gathered and evaluated as a result of this study will be used by Attention Home staff for both program evaluation and development. This is the third in a series of studies which the Community Attention Home has sponsored for such evaluative and developmental purposes.

Prior to the opening of the Attention Home in August of 1971, a survey was conducted by David Clitheroe and Garrett Long to determine what specific attitudes local groups in the community had about the Attention Home. Their study represented the first part of a two part study. It established the baseline data on the community attitudes toward the Attention Home prior to the opening of the home. These attitudes will be compared with the attitudes after one year’s operation of the home in order to assess what attitudinal changes, if any, have taken place between the first and second surveys.

This study concerns one fifteen year old boy in residential treatment in the State of Oregon. He is a diabetic, has been called emotionally disturbed and for nine years and eight months has been a ward of the Children's Services Division.

The topic of the dissertation is the research of the assumptions for employment of people who spent part or all of their childhood and adolescence in children's homes. The thesis is divided into theoretical and empirical parts. The theoretical part is devoted to the analysis of competences that are currently important prerequisites for employment in the labour market, integration of young people from institutional education into professional life, the problems of institutional education and the developmental period of adolescence, in which young people from institutions usually enter the labour market. The methods used in this section include theoretical analysis and interpretation of key concepts and findings presented in the literature, implemented research and other sources in order to provide a basis for the focus and design of the research and relevant data for the discussion of its results. In the empirical part, a mixed- methods research design is presented. The main aim is to find out whether subjective ratings of selected general skills and soft competences important for employment differ between young people from children's homes and young people growing up in families. The investigation is based on a methodological triangulation of qualitative and quantitative research techniques and is...

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The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between the tested intelligence of children in a public children’s shelter and the length of time these children had been institutionalized.

The intent of my project is to recognize the importance of the residential care home administrator by providing him or her with a training curriculum in order to have additional knowledge upon which to base program planning. Perhaps, someday, a unique type of care outside as well as inside California.

[pt] Esta dissertação tem por objetivo analisar se a instituição de acolhimento pode exercer as funções de proteção social a mães adolescentes que não encontraram essas possibilidades em sua família de origem. Para tanto, partimos da descrição da própria experiência profissional e de relatos de profissionais e jovens envolvidos no processo de acolhimento, e com inspiração nas contribuições de Edgar Morin e Urie Bronfenbrenner, pelas quais introduzimos a ideia de práticas cotidianas contextualizadas e descontextualizadas para analisar a complexidade em acolher jovens mães com seus filhos. A pesquisa é desenvolvida tendo como campo de estudo a única instituição de acolhimento que, na época, recebia mães adolescentes com seus filhos, na cidade do Rio de janeiro. O pesquisador utiliza metodologia qualitativa de observação participante, como uma experiência ecológica e de entrevistas semiestruturadas para analisar o contexto psicossocial das acolhidas; as concepções dos profissionais em relação à reinserção sociofamiliar e as principais práticas cotidianas. Esta dissertação articula o tema, de grande relevância acadêmica, com o debate em políticas públicas, buscando contribuir para ampliar a visibilidade e a compreensão sobre os problemas enfrentados pelas mães adolescentes acolhidas, superar as práticas que não valorizam suas histórias de vulnerabilidade e destacar possibilidades de efetivação de seus direitos em meio a tantas violações. / [en] This dissertation aims to analyze whether the residential care institution can exercise the functions of social protection for adolescent mothers who did not receive these social protection facilities in their origin families. Therefore, we have started from our own professional experience description and reports from professionals and young people involved in the hosting process, and were also inspired by the contribution of Edgar Morin and Urie Bronfenbrenner, in which we have introduced the idea of contextualized and decontextualized everyday practices, to analyze the complexity of hosting young mothers with their children. The survey is developed having as a field studies, the only residential care institution that at that time was hosting adolescent mothers with their children in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The researcher resorts the qualitative methodology of participant observation as ecological experience, also semi-structured interviews to analyze the psychosocial context of the accepted people; the conceptions of the professional regarding to socio-family reintegration and the main daily practices. This dissertation articulates such a great relevant academic theme with public politics debates intending to collaborate to expand the visibility and the understanding of the problems faced by hosted adolescent mothers, overcome the practices that do not value vulnerability stories, and highlight the effect possibilities for their rights once they suffer several violations.