'What can I do'? Child welfare workers' perceptions of what they can do to address poverty
In: Journal of children and poverty, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 161-176
ISSN: 1079-6126, 1469-9389
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In: Journal of children and poverty, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 161-176
ISSN: 1079-6126, 1469-9389
In: Journal of children and poverty, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 41-56
ISSN: 1079-6126, 1469-9389
In: Affilia: journal of women and social work, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 144-145
ISSN: 1552-3020
In: Journal of sociology & social welfare, Band 40, Heft 2
ISSN: 1949-7652
In: Journal of family violence, Band 33, Heft 7, S. 457-468
ISSN: 1573-2851
In: Journal of sociology & social welfare, Band 49, Heft 4
ISSN: 1949-7652
In: Journal of social work education: JSWE, Band 52, Heft 3, S. 269-282
ISSN: 2163-5811
In: Social work: a journal of the National Association of Social Workers, Band 65, Heft 4, S. 325-334
ISSN: 1545-6846
Abstract
The social work grand challenge to ensure healthy youth development necessarily involves a focus on violence prevention, including the prevention of sexual and dating violence during adolescence. The experience of sexual and dating violence is associated with numerous and often long-lasting detrimental mental, physical, and social outcomes, many of which this grand challenge seeks to prevent. Although evidence shows that gender is a critical axis of identity to consider in violence prevention research and practice efforts, gender is not a central lens applied in the field's approach to such issues within this grand challenge. First, this article articulates a rationale for infusing a gender analysis into understanding sexual and dating violence and conceptualizing effective violence prevention strategies. Second, authors describe gender-transformative (GT) approaches to sexual and dating violence prevention, a promising practice for both ensuring the healthy development of youths and reducing violence perpetration by focusing on engaging boys and young men. Third, authors discuss the potential for GT strategies to be used in prevention efforts targeting adolescent social issues more broadly. Last, authors call for practitioners and researchers focused on healthy youth development to apply a gender analysis in their efforts and articulate concrete ways to do so.
In: Journal of sociology & social welfare, Band 42, Heft 4
ISSN: 1949-7652
In: Journal of family violence, Band 35, Heft 8, S. 889-898
ISSN: 1573-2851
In: Global social welfare: research, policy, & practice, Band 6, Heft 4, S. 215-218
ISSN: 2196-8799
In: Men and masculinities, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 294-316
ISSN: 1552-6828
Data from an international sample of 392 men who had attended gender-based violence (GBV) prevention events were used to examine motivations for involvement in GBV prevention work. Participants responded to an online survey (available in English, French, and Spanish). The most commonly reported reasons for involvement included concern for related social justice issues (87 percent), exposure to the issue of violence through work (70 percent), hearing a moving story about domestic or sexual violence (59 percent), and disclosure of abuse from someone close to the participant (55 percent). Using a latent class analysis, we identified four profiles of men's motivations: low personal connection (22 percent), empathetic connection (26 percent), violence exposed connection (23 percent), and high personal and empathetic connection (29 percent). Participants classified into these profiles did not differ in length of movement involvement but some differences on key ally variables and by global region did emerge. Implications for engagement strategies and future research are discussed.
In: Global social welfare: research, policy, & practice, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 91-103
ISSN: 2196-8799
In: Journal of family violence, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 509-521
ISSN: 1573-2851
Abstract
Purpose
Firm evidence exists on the co-existence of child maltreatment and domestic violence (DV). This study examines the barriers to service delivery for families experiencing DV who are child welfare (CW) system involved from the perspectives of two key groups: parents with lived experience of DV and CW and multi-sector professionals.
Methods
A thematic content analysis was conducted of data from 16 in-person and remote listening sessions of 140 participants including families and DV/CW professionals across the U.S.
Results
Findings suggest that for parent participants communication, inadequate services, lack of trust, and providers not serving families well were some of the challenges that impact accessing and receiving services and resources. Professional participants described the limited availability of services, systemic challenges, and collaboration as barriers impacting the access to and provision of resources to families experiencing DV and involved within the CW system.
Conclusions
Discussion points reflect on the synergies and divergencies in the participant groups' identified barriers. Study implications emphasize the need to address the challenges encountered by CW and DV systems at the individual, systemic and educational levels.
In: Men and masculinities, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 228-251
ISSN: 1552-6828
As gender-based violence prevention programs around the world increasingly include efforts to engage men and boys as antiviolence allies, both the profound benefits and the inherent complexities of these efforts are emerging. Acknowledging and exploring tensions associated with engaging men is an important element of thoughtfully fostering men's antiviolence ally movements so as to both respectfully invite men into antiviolence work and create effective, gender-equitable prevention programming. To this end, this study presents descriptive findings regarding challenges associated with men's engagement programming from in-depth interviews with twenty-nine representatives of organizations that engage men and boys in preventing violence against women and girls in Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and North and South America. Programs reported negotiating complex issues related to gender, the intersectional nature of men's identities, and establishing legitimacy and sustainability within communities while maintaining ideological focus and consistency. Additionally, programs reported that these tensions manifest across ecological layers of analysis, and impact both the participation of individual men and the programs' experiences in community and national contexts.