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Provides aid to depressed areas with economic development and a variety of other revitalization issues
Community Development Block Grants
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OEO’s Showcase Program
Helps to prepare disadvantaged children for school
Results show investment must be accompanied by continuation, improvement and expansion of other services
Head Start
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Government’s most expensive training program for youth
- Services provided mostly in residential setting
- Includes intensive basic education, vocational training, etc. Uniform across the nation
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Name three of the four part of the no child left behind act.
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-Helping disadvantaged students in reading and math, testing all students in 3-8th grade.
- -Parents in poor performing schools can select from supplemental services their child may need
- -Use of scientifically based teaching techniques
- -Expands parental options to move students that fail to meet goals
- Gives states and school districts that meet goals greater flexibility in how they use federal funding
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What is the minimum wage here?
$7.25
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Who has th most power over minimum wage?
The federal gov. If the federal gov has a higher requirement than the state it overides the state.
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Provides various options for Americans 18 and over to earn money for college or vocational training in exchange for service within the US
AmeriCorps
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5 Types of Social Services-
- Public Agencies
- Private not-for-Profit Private Profit-Making
- Self-help groups
- Religious Organization
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established by law and operated by federal, states or local government (Ex: Dep. of Health and Human Services)
Public Agencies
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also called voluntary agencies, are governed by board of directors or trustees
Private not-for profit
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also called proprietary agencies. Provide child care, nursing, MH but generally charge their clients at the current market rate.
Private Profit-Making
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Provide social services but do not rely on government funding. Less formal structure
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is is best known group (only requirement is desire to stop drinking)
Self-help groups
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What does it mean to baker act someone?
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allows for involuntary examination (what some call emergency or involuntary commitment). It can be initiated by judges, law enforcement officials, physicians or mental health professionals.
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What evidence does someone need to baker act someone?
Have a mental illness, is a harm to self, harm to tohers, or self neglectful.
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Provide alternative to incarceration through extensive supervision and drug treatment
Drug Court
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Key components:
Identify treatment needs & Immediately make referrals after arrest Drug testing & monitoring
Maintaining court interaction with participants
Evaluating participants outcomes
Drug Court
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Name 3 of the Options to Remedy Gender Inequalities
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1) Earnings sharing option-divide a couple’s earnings equally between the husband and wife each year they are married
- 2) Give women at least minimal Social Security earnings credits for each year they stay at home to raise children
- 3) Double-Decker Plan-everyone would be eligible for a basic benefit, whether or not they had worked for pay. Individuals with paid work experience would receive a payment in addition to the basic benefit
- 4) The Privatization of Social Security-have higher annual return of 3-4% compared to 2%
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Differences for the Wage Gap- 2002
Women’s earnings were 78% of mens
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Men and women who do the same work are supposed to be paid equally
Equal Pay Act of 1963
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workers should be paid when they do different types of work that require the same level of responsibility, effort, knowledge and skill
Comparable Worth
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The two types of sexual Harassment
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quid pro quo-sexual favors are demanded or required as a basis for employment decisions
hostile environment type-sexual conduct unreasonably interferes with work performance
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5th and 14th Amendments guaranteeing personal liberties were said to extend to childbearing decisions -poor pregnant women were able to obtain federally funded abortions under Medicaid program
Roe vs. Wade & Doe vs. Bolton-
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- prohibited federal government from paying for abortions except where mothers life was in danger
Hyde Amendment
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1) Creating, organizing & staffing agencies to carry out a new policies or assigning new responsibilities to existing organizations
2) Issuing directives, rules, guidelines, etc. to translate policies into specific courses of actions
3) Directing & Coordinating personal & expenditures towards policy objectives
4) Monitoring the activities used to carry out the policy
4 Parts of Implementing a Policy
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Obstacles to Policy Implementation
- Communications
- Resources
- Attitudes
- Bureaucratic Structure
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is the objectives, systematic examination of the effects on-going policies & programs have on their target in terms of the goals they are meant to achieve
Policy Evaluation
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1983-help 5th and 6th grade students recognize and resist peer pressure with alcohol and drugs
DARE Program
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