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Title IV-E of the Social Security Act provides federal support for foster care and adoption assistance programs. Since 2008, 5 tribes have been approved to operate their own title IV-E foster care programs, although more than 80 tribes initially expressed an interest in doing so. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides development grants and technical assistance to tribes interested in establishing a title IV-E program. This book examines obstacles facing tribes interested in directly operating a title IV-E program; and the assistance HHS has provided. Under title IV-E, stat

Introduction: representing rural women / Margaret Thomas-Evans and Whitney Womack Smith -- Representations of rural women in literature and film -- "Gone country" : literary depictions of the new woman in rurality / Adam Nemmers -- Reassessing the American migration experience : the dollmaker's Gertie nevels as an American working-class heroine / Laurie Cella -- A quiet, debilitating ailment : racial isolation and rural America in Willa Cather and Zora Neale Hurston's experimental fiction / Jericho Williams -- Ginseng-gathering women : the underground economy in five appalachian novels / Jimmy Dean Smith -- The potential to reform rural fingerbone : Sylvie's new western revolution in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping / Amanda Zastrow -- Rural spaces and (in)disposable bodies in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones / Jim Coby -- Codes of kinship : rural poverty and female resilience in Winter's Bone / H. Louise Davis and Whitney Womack Smith -- Rural trans girlhoods in young adult fiction / Barbara Pini and Wendy Keys -- Rural women's self-representations -- Poetic representations of Mormon women in late nineteenth-century frontier America / Amy Easton-Flake -- Lightning strikes, burned bread & chipmunks : women lookouts in the American West / Nancy Cook -- A life in the country : lesbians and feminists living on the land / Agatha Beins and Julie Enszer -- On rural transgender visibility / Eli Erlick -- Visual and digital representations of Canadian rural women's organizations / Margaret Thomas-Evans -- "Pining for high fashion" : rural women writing on fashion online / Holly Kent -- Fantasies and phobias : de-mythologizing contemporary and historical depictions of rural women / Elizabeth Thompson -- Index -- About the editors -- About the contributors.

This article presents the results of a study that examined 24 ethnically diverse older adults' autobiographical memories of critical life events involving discrimination and oppression. Narrative interviews reveal the impact that such experiences have on individual, family, and societal resilience. The study contributes to the growing body of research literature that allows for a deeper understanding of how a client's particular life story and personal experiences interplay with collective histories. It also discusses how clinicians, including physicians, nurses, and social workers, can benefit from conversations that mutually construct personal narratives that reveal circumstances pertinent to intervention strategies (Cohler & Cole, 1996; Gergen, 1996).

The Crux of Refugee Resettlement reenvisions third-country resettlement. Each contributor uses ethnography to highlight refugee voices and experiences. This collection showcases the ways in which community-based solutions rebuild social networks and counteract the alienating conditions of resettlement.

Representing Rural Women examines representations of the lives and experiences of rural women in North American literature, popular culture, and print, visual, and digital media. It highlights the complexity and diversity of rural women by considering intersecting issues of region, class, race and ethnicity, sexuality, and gender identity.