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Free Download Family Consequences of Children's Disabilities By Denis P. Hogan; Denis P Hogan
2012 | 132 Pages | ISBN: 0871544571 | PDF | 1 MB
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other national policies are designed to ensure the greatest possible inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of American life. But as a matter of national policy we still place the lion's share of responsibility for raising children with disabilities on their families. While this strategy largely works, sociologist Dennis Hogan maintains, the reality is that family financial security, the parents' relationship, and the needs of other children in the home all can be stretched to the limit. In Family Consequences of Children's Disabilities Hogan delves inside the experiences of these families and examines the financial and emotional costs of raising a child with a disability. The book examines the challenges families of children with disabilities encounter and how these challenges impact family life. The first comprehensive account of the families of children with disabilities, Family Consequences of Children's Disabilities employs data culled from seven national surveys and interviews with twenty-four mothers of children with disabilities, asking them questions about their family life, social supports, and how other children in the home were faring. Not surprisingly, Hogan finds that couples who are together when their child is born have a higher likelihood of divorcing than other parents do. The potential for financial insecurity contributes to this anxiety, especially as many parents must strike a careful balance between employment and caregiving. Mothers are less likely to have paid employment, and the financial burden on single parents can be devastating. One-third of children with disabilities live in single-parent households, and nearly 30 percent of families raising a child with a disability live in poverty. Because of the high levels of stress these families incur, support networks are crucial. Grandparents are often a source of support. Siblings can also assist with personal care and, consequently, tend to develop more helpful attitudes, be more inclusive of others, and be more tolerant. But these siblings are at risk for their own health problems: they are three times more likely to experience poor health than children in homes where there is no child with a disability. Yet this book also shows that raising a child with a disability includes unexpected rewards--the families tend to be closer, and they engage in more shared activities such as games, television, and meals. Family Consequences of Children's Disabilities offers access to a world many never see or prefer to ignore. The book provides vital information on effective treatment, rehabilitation, and enablement to medical professionals, educators, social workers, and lawmakers. This compelling book demonstrates that every mirror has two faces: raising a child with a disability can be difficult, but it can also offer expanded understanding. A Volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology

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Free Download Faith, Hope, and Jobs : Welfare-To-Work in Los Angeles By Stephen V. Monsma; J. Christopher Soper
2006 | 241 Pages | ISBN: 1589011104 | PDF | 1 MB
A front-burner issue on the public policy agenda today is the increased use of partnerships between government and nongovernmental entities, including faith-based social service organizations. In the wake of President Bush's faith-based initiative, many are still wondering about the effectiveness of these faith-based organizations in providing services to those in need, and whether they provide better outcomes than more traditional government, secular nonprofit, and for-profit organizations. In Faith, Hope, and Jobs, Stephen V. Monsma and J. Christopher Soper study the effectiveness of 17 different welfare-to-work programs in Los Angeles County--a county in which the U.S. government spends 14% of its entire welfare budget--and offer groundbreaking insight into understanding what works and what doesn't. Monsma and Soper examine client assessment of the programs, their progress in developing attitudes and resources important for finding self-supporting employment, and their experience in finding actual employment. The study reveals that the clients of the more explicitly faith-based programs did best in gaining in social capital and were highly positive in evaluating the religious components of their programs. For-profit programs tended to do the best in terms of their clients finding employment. Overall, the religiously active respondents tended to experience better outcomes than those who were not religiously active but surprisingly, the religiously active and non-active tended to do equally well in faith-based programs. Faith, Hope, and Jobs concludes with three sets of concrete recommendations for public policymakers, social service program managers, and researchers.

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Free Download Faculty of Color Navigating Higher Education By Karen Harris Brown; Patricia Alvarez McHatton; Michelle Frazier Trotman Scott
2016 | 135 Pages | ISBN: 1475823509 | EPUB | 1 MB
What are the experiences of faculty of color at traditionally white institutions (TWIs) of higher education (IHE)? In what ways do faculty of color at TWIs of IHE cope with/handle struggles/defeats and successes in the workplace? In what ways can college/university administrators and colleagues support and retain faculty of color? This book seeks to answer these questions and address issues of recruitment, retention, and support of faculty members of color. Additionally, the editors hope to provide insight into the higher education experiences of faculty of color to their colleagues and administrators. It is our hope that renewed understanding of these experiences will positively influence levels and quality of support.

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Free Download Facts of Matter and Light: Ten Physics Experiments that Shaped Our Understanding of Nature by Christian Maes
English | July 21, 2023 | ISBN: 3031333330 | 188 pages | MOBI | 9.64 Mb
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Free Download Face Your Fears: 7 Steps to Conquering Phobias & Anxiety by Christopher Paul Jones
English | June 11, 2024 | ISBN: 1789295327 | 288 pages | PDF | 3.00 Mb
Overcome your fears, phobias and anxieties with this simple, innovative and effective 7-step method.

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Free Download FOOD FROM OUR ANCESTORS: The Ultimate MEXICAN SUNDAY DINNER Cookbook by Liz Della Croce, Raul Velasco
English | December 13, 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01NBKPE07 | 44 pages | EPUB | 1.83 Mb
The Ultimate Mexican Sunday Dinner is the second edition of the Food From Our Ancestors eCookbooks series. Featuring recipes like Enchiladas Verdes, Posole Rojo, Mexican Rice, Salsa Roja and more, each authentic Mexican recipe has been passed down over the generations.

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Free Download Extreme Teaming : Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership By Amy C. Edmondson; Jean-François Harvey; Henry W. Chesbrough
2017 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1786354500 | EPUB | 1 MB
Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teamingprovides new insights into the world of complex, cross industry projects and the ways they must be managed. Leading experts Amy Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands of cross-boundary collaboration on management, and inform our understanding of teams. Containing powerful insights and practical guidelines that allow managers to bridge professional divides and organizational boundaries in order to work together effectively, this is a new exploration of the challenges involved in today's global enterprises. The authors demonstrate that the work done in the modern organization is less and less about looking inward and creating strong teams inside the company, and more about teaming across boundaries - that often are in flux. Extreme Teamingis a must-read book for all courses related to leading open innovation; teamwork and collaboration; project management; and cross-boundary work.

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Free Download Extreme Curriculum Makeover : A Hands-On Guide for a Learner-Centered Pedagogy By Gabriel F. Rshaid
2016 | 233 Pages | ISBN: 1475830580 | EPUB | 1 MB
At a time where the tipping point for education seems to be a perpetually delayed expectation, despite widespread consensus and shared awareness to reform school practice for a completely new paradigm, change can actually be initiated in the real life school setting, by means of strategic curriculum interventions that target exposing students directly to the principles of the school of the future. Extreme Curriculum Makeover: A Hands-On Guide for a Learner-Centered Pedagogy explores how to develop a learner-centered pedagogy through specific strategies that can be implemented in any classroom, at any grade level, and that can transform the traditional learning environment into one where the students themselves acquire the tools, the skills, and, more importantly, the motivation to become lifelong learners.

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Free Download Externe Unternehmensberichterstattung über digitale Transformation: Anforderungen potenzieller Stakeholder, regulatorische Vorgaben und Berichterstattungspraxis (German Edition) by Clemens Pelster
German | August 7, 2024 | ISBN: 3658451653 | 436 pages | PDF | 18 Mb
In diesem Open Access-Buch wird auf Grundlage der Anforderungen potenzieller Stakeholder, der bestehenden regulatorischen Vorgaben und des Status quo der externen Unternehmensberichterstattung über digitale Transformation ein innovatives Berichtskonzept entwickelt, welches Berichterstellern eine Hilfestellung bietet, die Entscheidungsnützlichkeit ihrer externen Unternehmensberichterstattung zu erhöhen. Digitale Transformation ist eines der Megathemen unserer heutigen Zeit und kann entscheidend für den Erfolg und Fortbestand von Unternehmen sein. Dementsprechend ist i. S. d. Stakeholder- und der Agency-Theorie davon auszugehen, dass sowohl die externen Stakeholder als auch das Management eines Unternehmens ein Interesse an der Veröffentlichung diesbezüglicher Informationen haben, um die Erreichung ihrer persönlichen Ziele beurteilen zu können und schließlich den Fortbestand des Unternehmens zu sichern. Explizite Vorgaben oder Empfehlungen zur externen Unternehmensberichterstattung über digitale Transformation gab es bisher nicht. Die bis dato unerforschten Anforderungen von Stakeholdern an eine solche Berichterstattung sowie die nur unzureichend erforschte Berichterstattungspraxis stellten Unternehmen darüber hinaus vor die Herausforderung, diesbezüglich entscheidungsnützliche Informationen zu berichten.

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Free Download Extending Work Life : Can Employers Adapt When Employees Want to Delay Retirement? By Robert Clark; Melinda Sandler Morrill
2011 | 88 Pages | ISBN: 0880995289 | PDF | 1 MB
Aging men and women are increasingly remaining in the labor force. Most often the reason for this is that they need to work additional years in order to be able to support an increasing number of years in retirement. This leaves employers scrambling for ways to adapt to a growing number of retirement-aged workers. Clark and Morrill provide a thorough assessment of the costs and benefits of accommodating later retirement ages, and they describe options employers may use to create some new form of employment contract with aging workers.

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