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A PROFILE OF ADOLESCENTS IN HOUSEHOLDS INFECTED WITH, OR AFFECTED BY, HIV AND AIDS
Get PDFThis article will focus on a profile of adolescents’ households infected with, or affected by,HIV and AIDS. A comprehensive needs assessment by way of a structured schedule wascompleted by means of in-depth interviewing. Interviews were conducted with 169 householdsin two provinces of South Africa and included two black ethnic groups and a coloured group.To draw up the profile issues such as demographic data, number of members of households,main caregiver, child-headed household, school attendance, health and wellbeing, employment,receiving of grants, total household income, death of parents and family members, andbereavement counselling were covere
SUBSTANCE ABUSE AT THE WORK PLACE: THE PROBLEM AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
Get PDFPersonal problems, including substance abuse, often impinge on employees’ job performanceand therefore productivity. This paper discusses substance abuse as an example of anemployee problem at the workplace that can be addressed through services such as employeeassistance programmes (EAPs). The use and abuse of substances occur for a number ofreasons, including misguided ones, such as a person trying to “forget problems” at home,socially or at work. In relation to work, the effects are enormous, such as employeeabsenteeism, workplace injuries, as well as damage to expensive workplace equipment andproperty. Aspects discussed in the paper include factors that help “enable” the abuse of suchsubstances within the work environment, factors that indicate deteriorating employee workperformance, as well as possible ways to deal with the problem at the workplace. The paperconcludes with a discussion of possible workplace policies and programmatic solutions onhow to deal with the problem
TIENERMOEDERSKAP IN ’N ARM WES-KAAPSE GEMEENSKAP: NARRATIEWE OOR ONDERSTEUNING
Get PDFTienermoederskap word in die meeste gemeenskappe gesien as sosiale probleem wat verskeidenheid negatiewe gevolge vir die tienerma, haar kind, haar gesin van oorsprong en diegemeenskap in die breë inhou (Cunningham, 2001; Macleod, 2004; Ribar, 1999; Strobino,1992). Die negatiewe gevolge sluit in maatskaplike agterstande betreffende opvoeding,behuising, en werksgeleenthede. Deur tienermoederskap egter slegs as misstap met baienegatiewe gevolge te beskou, word die kompleksiteit en uniekheid van elke jong vrou seervaring ten opsigte van swangerskap en ouerskap ontken (Flanagan, 1998)
A PLACE IN SOCIETY? STRENGTHENING LIVELIHOOD OPPORTUNITIES FOR STREET CHILDREN – A RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH
Get PDFMost peoples’ encounter with street children is at a robot or walking along the pavement, wherethey try and avoid neglected-looking young boys or girls sleeping, begging or walkingunsteadily while sniffing on plastic bottles filled with cobbler’s glue. We know little of theirlives as our interactions are often brief and withdrawn. Whether we think of them as homeless,desperate, “victims of harsh circumstances” or a nuisance in need of care and rehabilitation, weswiftly delete their presence from our minds and move on. As Glauser (cited in Van Beers,1996:195) suggests, “in the eyes of a large proportion of society, including policy makers andimplementers, street children disrupt the tranquillity, stability and normality of society”.Because of this public perception, children of the street are often convenient culprits and atarget of blame for our own sense of insecurity, fear and inadequacy in a competitive world thatdemands ever more
EXPERIENCES OF STUDENTS, SERVICE DELIVERY ORGANISATIONS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS OF SERVICE DELIVERY TO A DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY BY SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS
Get PDFThis research is part of a more extensive research project in which the Departments of SocialWork, Nursing and Communication collaborated to investigate the experiences of seniorstudents’ health care service delivery to a disadvantaged community, and to makerecommendations to enhance quality multi-disciplinary health care service delivery to adisadvantaged community by the students of the University as part of their experientiallearning
DIE EFFEKTIWITEIT VAN ’N STRESBESTUURSPROGRAM AAN ’N TERSIÊRE OPLEIDINGSINSTELLING
Get PDFStevens (2004:5) merk tereg op dat “employees are essentially corporate athletes and we haveto keep them healthy and in peak performance on the playing field of the workplace”. Stevensbeklemtoon die belangrikheid van gesonde en stresvrye werknemers as belegging in dietoekoms en sukses van enige organisasie
’N ONDERSOEK NA OPLEIDINGSGELEENTHEDE VIR SPESIALISASIE IN FORENSIESE MAATSKAPLIKE WERK
Get PDFGedurende die afgelope tien jaar het verskeie spesialiseringsterreine in maatskaplike werkontstaan. Sake is al hoe meer kompleks en maatskaplike werkers word ook in die media in ’nnegatiewe lig gestel. In privaat praktyke het Maatskaplike werkers in die forensiese veld beginoptree
FACTORS THAT HINDER THE UTILISATION OF THE EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
Get PDFIn 1999 the Department of Public Service and Administration developed and implemented anEmployee Assistance Programme (EAP) within the public service. This reaffirmed thegovernment’s commitment to intensify the programme to fight, inter alia, HIV and AIDS, andto deal with the traumas of everyday life, experiences of discrimination, cultural alienation andstress. A change in the programme focus has clearly occurred, to a certain extent, in response tothe major transformation in South African governmental and non-governmental organisations.This change occurred as a result of the introduction of worker-related regulations such as theBasic Conditions of Employment Act 75 of 1997, the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995, theEmployment Equity Act 58 of 1998 and the Unfair Discrimination Act 4 of 2000, and made itnecessary for the employer to investigate, assess and assist employees with problems relating tosubstance abuse or incapacity. These acts formed a solid basis for implementing the EAP.The Department of Labour (DOL) responded promptly to the implementation of the EAP in2001, yet the programme remains under-utilised and is seen both by management andemployees of the Department as a social responsibility programme rather than a sound businessstrategy
OUTCOMES-BASED ASSESSMENT: NECESSARY EVIL OR TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL
No full textSocial work educational providers at higher educational institutions (HEIs) in South Africa have been obliged since 2008 to engage with the South African Qualifications Authority’s (SAQA’s) qualification of the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW), which was registered in June 2003 in the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). In February 2004 the South African Social Service Professions Council (SACSSP) wrote a letter to all social work educational providers requesting them to benchmark their current curriculum against the new minimum standard requirements of the BSW on a template. Furthermore, providers of social work education and training had to indicate how they would change their current learning programmes to accommodate the minimum standards, which encompass 27 exit-level outcomes and their associated assessment criteria. Providers had until June 2006 to comply with the requirements of the new BSW qualification and had to start implementation of the learning programme in January 2007
FAITH-BASED ORGANISATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA: TOWARDS A CONCEPTUALISATION
Get PDFIn South Africa the state strongly expects the religious sector – or more specifically thecollectivity of faith-based organisations constituting this sector – to make a meaningfulcontribution towards the country’s struggle against poverty and HIV and AIDS (Koegelenberg,2001, 2007; Swart, 2008). The debate on the role and contribution of faith-based organisations(hereafter FBOs) in social welfare and social development is not unique to South Africa,however, and has been conducted in other parts of the world for the last decade or more(Cameron, 2004; Cnaan, Farnell, 2001; Jeavons, 2004; Netting, 1984; Netting, Thibault &Ellor, 1990:17; Smith, 2002; Wineburg & Boddie, 1999; Yeung, 2003). Although the debatehas been going on for quite some time, generally speaking the terms “religious sector” and“faith-based organisations” are still used in a vague and unfocused sense in the literature and nowidely accepted definition can be found. This causes confusion about exactly what kinds oforganisation are being referred to (Netting, 2004:136; Sider & Unruh, 2004:109)