Sue Pearlmutter
Biographic Data
| ID | 5940388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sue Pearlmutter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sue |
| FAMILY NAME | Pearlmutter |
| SIGNATURE | PEARLMUTTER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Career readiness programming for youth in foster care
Coming Out of the Closet: Opening Agencies to Gay and Lesbian Adoptive Parents
Gay men and lesbians often encounter barriers when they pursue adoption. Adoption workers are expected to make decisions regarding child placement using the best interest standard. However, this decision-making model does not adequately consider intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational factors that affect the use of the standard. This article examines the best interest standard and makes practice recommendations to increase the accessibil…
Achieving Political Practice: Integrating Individual Need and Social Action
Social work faces significant challenges to define its role in the current political climate in the United States. The federal government has retreated from its position of guarantor of assistance to those who are most in need. States and local jurisdictions now set the rules and the tone for helping. Social workers can position themselves to help individuals, families, and communities. They can also continue the tradition in the profession for b…
Supporting the Move From Welfare to Work: What Women Say
This article presents a focus group study of the perceptions of welfare participants in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and Los Angeles County, California, of various aspects of welfare, subsidized child care, jobs with living wages, the counties' employment programs, and the participants' relationships with welfare workers. The results suggest that participants are not receiving the support they need to obtain and retain jobs that will lead to self-susta…
Workfare or Fair Work: Women, Welfare, and Government Work Programs . Nancy E. Rose
Economic Self-Sufficiency: It's Not Just Money
Definitions of economic self-sufficiency that are used by public programs fail to recognize the reality and experiences of low-income women. An analysis of data on economic self-sufficiency, gathered from 244 low-income women at the Women's Employment Network in Kansas City, Missouri, resulted in the discovery of four factors underlying this concept: (1) autonomy and self-determination, (2) financial security and responsibility, (3) family and se…
Economic Self-Sufficiency: It's Not Just Money
Definitions of economic self-sufficiency that are used by public programs fail to recognize the reality and experiences of low-income women. An analysis of data on economic self-sufficiency, gathered from 244 low-income women at the Women's Employment Network in Kansas City, Missouri, resulted in the discovery of four factors underlying this concept: (1) autonomy and self-determination, (2) financial security and responsibility, (3) family and se…
Coming Out of the Closet: Opening Agencies to Gay and Lesbian Adoptive Parents
Gay men and lesbians often encounter barriers when they pursue adoption. Adoption workers are expected to make decisions regarding child placement using the best interest standard. However, this decision-making model does not adequately consider intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational factors that affect the use of the standard. This article examines the best interest standard and makes practice recommendations to increase the accessibil…
Supporting the Move From Welfare to Work: What Women Say
This article presents a focus group study of the perceptions of welfare participants in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and Los Angeles County, California, of various aspects of welfare, subsidized child care, jobs with living wages, the counties' employment programs, and the participants' relationships with welfare workers. The results suggest that participants are not receiving the support they need to obtain and retain jobs that will lead to self-susta…
Career readiness programming for youth in foster care
Achieving Political Practice: Integrating Individual Need and Social Action
Social work faces significant challenges to define its role in the current political climate in the United States. The federal government has retreated from its position of guarantor of assistance to those who are most in need. States and local jurisdictions now set the rules and the tone for helping. Social workers can position themselves to help individuals, families, and communities. They can also continue the tradition in the profession for b…
Economic Self-Sufficiency: It's Not Just Money
Definitions of economic self-sufficiency that are used by public programs fail to recognize the reality and experiences of low-income women. An analysis of data on economic self-sufficiency, gathered from 244 low-income women at the Women's Employment Network in Kansas City, Missouri, resulted in the discovery of four factors underlying this concept: (1) autonomy and self-determination, (2) financial security and responsibility, (3) family and se…
Workfare or Fair Work: Women, Welfare, and Government Work Programs . Nancy E. Rose
Supporting the Move From Welfare to Work: What Women Say
This article presents a focus group study of the perceptions of welfare participants in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and Los Angeles County, California, of various aspects of welfare, subsidized child care, jobs with living wages, the counties' employment programs, and the participants' relationships with welfare workers. The results suggest that participants are not receiving the support they need to obtain and retain jobs that will lead to self-susta…
Achieving Political Practice: Integrating Individual Need and Social Action
Social work faces significant challenges to define its role in the current political climate in the United States. The federal government has retreated from its position of guarantor of assistance to those who are most in need. States and local jurisdictions now set the rules and the tone for helping. Social workers can position themselves to help individuals, families, and communities. They can also continue the tradition in the profession for b…
Coming Out of the Closet: Opening Agencies to Gay and Lesbian Adoptive Parents
Gay men and lesbians often encounter barriers when they pursue adoption. Adoption workers are expected to make decisions regarding child placement using the best interest standard. However, this decision-making model does not adequately consider intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational factors that affect the use of the standard. This article examines the best interest standard and makes practice recommendations to increase the accessibil…
Career readiness programming for youth in foster care
Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Work (physics (3 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (2 works)