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Demissie, Zewditu; Brener, Nancy – Journal of School Health, 2017
Background: Mental health conditions among youth are a major concern. Schools can play an important role in supporting students affected by these conditions. This study examined district-level school health policies related to mental health and social services to determine if they varied by district demographic characteristics. Methods: The School…
Descriptors: Demography, School Districts, Educational Policy, School Policy
Marshall, Jennifer; Hume, Emma; Prieto, Concha; Ade, Cedrick; Delva, Jennifer; Geffrard, Carlene; Dias, Emanuelle; Elger, Rafaella Stein – Infants and Young Children, 2023
Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) grants help states and communities improve early childhood systems to support child development, equitable access to quality services and supports, and family well-being. Truly interdisciplinary, ECCS promotes cross-sector systems change initiatives that focus on integrating health care, mental health,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Infants
Gray, Ben; Kerridge, Tom – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2023
Background: People with learning disabilities are often left behind and ostracised in life, education, employment and in research. This article describes the importance and value that people with learning disabilities can bring when participating in co-production and lived experience research. The article reports on the inequalities and barriers…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Experience, Access to Health Care, Barriers
Edgley, Alison; Stickley, Theodore; Timmons, Stephen; Meal, Andy – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2016
This article defines the "critical realist review", a literature-based methodological approach to critical analysis of health care studies (or any discipline charged with social interventions) that is robust, insightful and essential for the complexities of twenty-first century evidence-based health and social care. We argue that this…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Critical Theory, Criticism, Health Services
Kim, Hyun Seung; Lee, Chung Eun; Kim, Kyung Mee – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Background: Single-parent families with children with disabilities need greater attention given the notable increase in their number and their additional difficulties. Single parents in East Asian countries, especially, may face greater risks than their peers elsewhere, given the region's unique cultural background. Method: The study used a mixed…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, Child Rearing, Asians, Risk Assessment
Boswell, Naomi; Woods, Kevin – Educational & Child Psychology, 2021
Aim: This systematic review of research studies published between 2014 and 2019 explores facilitators and barriers to successful co-production and its application to practice. Rationale: Through legislation, 'co-production' underpins practice to promote social justice for children and young people (CYP) with Special Educational Needs and…
Descriptors: Barriers, Social Justice, Children, Adolescents
Laitinen, Ilpo; Stenvall, Jari – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2016
This article discusses what kinds of organisational and change processes take place when shifting to customer-oriented service concept, here called "third generation services". Our interest lies in the learning process that produces the development of services in cities and regions in new ways and how to develop services in practice so…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Services, Health Services, Organizational Change
Woodall, James; Coan, Susan; Stanley, Michelle – Health Education Journal, 2023
Objective: This paper reports on a programme which sought to engage individuals and groups who are underrepresented in the UK labour market. The programme aimed to improve access to employment opportunities and provide practical support in job applications. The focus was on encouraging people to seek employment in the health and social care…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Disproportionate Representation, Employment Opportunities
Andrews, Nick; Gabbay, John; Le-May, Andreé; Miller, Emma; Petch, Alison; O'Neill, Martin – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2020
Background: Evidence-based practice in social care and health is widely promoted. Making it a reality remains challenging, partly because practitioners generally see practice-based knowledge as more relevant than empirical research. A further challenge regarding the creative, contextual use of research and other evidence including lived experience…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Policy Formation, Research Utilization, Social Services
Dearbhaile Slane; Alison Montgomery – Child Care in Practice, 2024
The involvement of people with lived experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of services has grown significantly in recent years. In parallel, the evidence base for best practice in peer research, as this approach is described, is also expanding. Sharing two practice examples, the authors reflect on key learning emerging from their…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Researchers, Participatory Research, Action Research
Thompson, Elizabeth; Kaufman, Joan – Abell Foundation, 2019
Traditionally defined, Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs, include experiences of child maltreatment and other family problems such as domestic violence and parental incarceration. These ACEs are common, frequently co-occur, and are associated with a whole host of negative social outcomes, health risk behaviors, psychiatric and substance use…
Descriptors: Prevention, Intervention, Educational Policy, Children
Nyström, Monica Elisabeth; Hansson, Johan; Garvare, Rickard; Andersson-Bäck, Monica – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2015
This article investigates the role of locally based research and development units (R&Ds) focusing on health and social services. Nearly 300 local R&Ds are funded by the Swedish government with the intention to facilitate knowledge transfer and development of high quality and effective health and social care organisations. Based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Social Services, Older Adults
Cottica, Alberto; Hassoun, Amelia; Manca, Marco; Vallet, Jason; Melançon, Guy – Field Methods, 2020
We propose a mixed methods approach to digital ethnographic research. Treating online conversational environments as communities that ethnographers engage with as in traditional fieldwork, we represent those conversations and the codes made by researchers thereon in network form. We call these networks "semantic social networks" (SSNs),…
Descriptors: Semantics, Social Networks, Ethnography, Computer Mediated Communication
Ius, Marco – Child Care in Practice, 2020
The Program of Intervention for Prevention of Institutionalization (P.I.P.P.I.) is a programme that integrates research, training, and intervention in working with families living in vulnerable situations. It is funded by the Italian Ministry of Welfare and, since 2011, has cumulatively involved roughly 8000 professionals from Social and Health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Services, Intervention, Holistic Approach
Levin, Stephanie; Espinoza, Daniel; Griffith, Michael – Learning Policy Institute, 2022
Approximately 1.3 million K-12 public school students across the United States were identified as experiencing homelessness in 2019-20. In all cases, the stress, instability, trauma, and school mobility created by homelessness increase risks to physical, social, and emotional health and to educational engagement and achievement. Districts play an…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, At Risk Students