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Cet article porte sur un projet communautaire de protection de la jeunesse mis sur pied par le Conseil de la communauté noire du Québec en 1988. Il s'agit d'un projet pilote qui s'adresse directement aux familles noires anglophones de Montréal pour répondre de façon concrète aux conséquences du racisme sur la vie familiale des Noirs. L'article brosse le tableau de l'immigration noire au Canada ainsi que des problèmes sociaux qui en ont résulté et fournit une description des services offerts dans le cadre de ce projet - le Black Family Support Project. L'article se termine par une discussion sur le rapport entre ce projet communautaire et la lutte plus globale contre le racisme.

This article explores challenges to understanding mothering under difficult and unusual circumstances—that is, in the context of a shelter for battered women and their children. Drawing on participant observation and interviews with staff at a local battered woman's shelter, the authors suggest that mothering is largely invisible and subject to idealized constructions. When mothers are rendered visible in the shelter, they are observed through a lens of heightened sensitivity to abusive relations that are marked by unacceptable use of power and control. This lens is distorted in relation to mothering, and an understanding of the emotional complexities and challenges of everyday mothering is a prerequisite for practice with women with children. The article concludes with a discussion of implications for theory and practice that center on the concepts of power and maternal subjectivity in relation to battered women as mothers in shelters.

Recent recognition of the effects of domestic violence on children has given rise to calls for collaborative interventions between the arenas of child protection and domestic violence. Amidst this flurry of activity, little serious consideration has been given to the subjectivity of mothers who are simultaneously involved with child protection agencies and battered women's shelters. Without explicit engagement of mothers as subjects in their own right, collaboration has the potential to exacerbate their already trying circumstances. Our paper reviews the child protection context in which women as mothers are simultaneously relegated to the periphery of concern and called upon to act as 'mother protectors' in response to children at risk. We then explore mothering in the context of domestic violence and their relative invisibility in shelter settings. We conclude with a call to render women's experiences of domestic violence and mothering both visible and supported in these collaborative efforts.

This article critically analyzes feminist practice in shelters for battered women, with particular attention to the extent to which, and how, issues of motheringar e addressed. Drawingon participant observations and interviews with staff and residents at a local shelter in Canada, it appears that practice in this arena remains immune to feminist analyses of mothering. An articulation of some of the consequences of the invisibility of women as mothers in shelter settings and suggested implications for shelter practice are presented.

The authors conducted exploratory interviews with eight older single mothers. Results suggested that current media representations of "single mothers by choice" may oversimplify the experiences of many women by ignoring the context of gender relations within which both women and men's decisions regarding contraception, pregnancy, and parenthood "produce" single motherhood.

Culture is not static and technological innovations have greatly changed culture throughout history, no more so than in recent years. Modern culture is very much influenced and defined by recent technology and media use, primarily through social media applications such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Snapchat and Twitter. Although use and impact vary around the world, globalization brings this cultural change into wider and faster channels. Social media has transformed the way people interact and learn in local, national and international terms as well as evolving new social practices. Echo chambers, filter bubbles, and fake news dominate the internet and people's lives, determining and even limiting the content of learning that people are exposed to on social media platforms. This, in itself, channels cultural practice into homogenized tranches creating a cyclical influence which feeds back into evolving technology. This article sets out to discuss the current cultural impact of social media, its limitation on learning and surface the ethical issues surrounding its use.

Objectives: The Council of the European Union (EU) has recommended that action should be taken to increase influenza vaccination in the elderly population. The aims were to systematically review and critically appraise economic evaluations for influenza vaccination in the elderly population in the EU. Methods: Electronic searches of the NHS Economic Evaluation, Health Technology Assessment, MEDLINE and Embase databases were run to identify full economic evaluations. Two levels of screening were used, with explicit inclusion criteria applied by two independent reviewers at each stage. Pre-specified data extraction and critical appraisal were performed on identified studies. Results were summarised qualitatively. Results: Of the 326 search results, screening identified 8 relevant studies. Results varied widely, with the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio ranging from being both more effective and cheaper than no intervention to costing €459,350 per life-year gained. Cost-effectiveness was most sensitive to variations in influenza strain, vaccination type and strategy, population and modelling characteristics. Conclusions: Most studies suggest that vaccination is cost-effective (7/8 studies identified at least one cost-effective scenario). All but one study used economic models to synthesise data from different sources. The results are uncertain due to the methods used and the relevance and robustness of the data used. Sensitivity analysis to explore these aspects was limited. Integrated, controlled prospective clinical and economic evaluations and surveillance data are needed to improve the evidence base. This would allow more advanced modelling techniques to characterise the epidemiology of influenza more accurately and improve the robustness of cost-effectiveness estimates.

The "Open Air Laboratories" (OPAL) is a large, England-wide environmental public engagement (PE) project based on the "citizen science" model. It is designed to involve people of all backgrounds and abilities in the production of environmental science and in the process to educate and raise awareness and enthusiasm about nature and its importance. This article draws on a series of interviews with scientists and science communicators involved in the project to explore their motivations and aims for the project and what they see as the goals of public engagement generally. We find a varied and nuanced array of motivations and aims that interviewees cite for taking part in the project, pointing toward a reevaluation of traditional ways of understanding the value of public engagement, policy relevance, and dialogue within public engagement. Especially relevant in relation to thinking about the policy relevance of PE is our conclusion that there are many different ways of thinking about the value of PE, characterized in this article as "the neglected middle."

This comparative case study of 3 services for teen mothers demonstrates how social service agencies engage in social problems work not only by drawing on and reproducing public representations of social problems, but also by mediating, interpreting, and even contesting these representations in their routine practices for dealing with clients. The authors' analysis demonstrates how 3 agencies dealing with the same social problem enacted 2 public discourses about teen mothers by addressing their young clients variously as mothers, problem teenagers/problem mothers, and potential social activists. The authors conclude by suggesting that agencies reflect critically on the margin of maneuver they may actually have in defining their clients and addressing the complexity of their clients' concerns.