Cities, Counties, Kids, and Families

The Essential Role of Local Government

Sidney L. Gardner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2005
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-3094-8 (ISBN)

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Cities, Counties, Kids, and Families outlines a model for developing strategic policy for responding to children and family issues in local governments. It also discusses fifteen strategic roles that local government can play-most of which do not require direct funding, but depends upon the scarce resource of leadership. The book describes policy and analytical tools used by cities and counties, and makes a case for using these tools more strategically. It calls for strategic policy to respond to the four critical forces affecting children and family policy: families; race and culture; communities and neighborhoods; and regionalism. Finally, the book reviews policy in four critical areas affecting local governments: education and school readiness; substance abuse; youth development; and family support programs. It concludes with predictions of issues that will affect cities and counties in the future.

Sidney L. Gardner serves as President of Children and Family Futures, a non-profit firm based in Irvine, California, which provides planning, evaluation and consulting services to government agencies, community-based organizations, and schools. Mr. Gardner served as Director of California State University, Fullerton's Center for Collaboration for Children, a consultant to the White House Domestic Council, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Director of the Hartford Private Industry Council, and an elected member of the City Council in Hartford, Connecticut. He graduated from Occidental College and was awarded a Master's degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University and a Master's degree in Religious Studies from Hartford Seminary.

Chapter 1 List of Figures
Chapter 2 Frequently Used Abbreviations and Acronyms
Chapter 3 List of Tables
Chapter 4 A Personal Preface
Chapter 5 Acknowledgments
Chapter 6 Introduction
Chapter 7 Strategy and Realities
Chapter 8 Introduction to Section Two
Chapter 9 Missing from Theory and Practice: The Role of Local Government
Chapter 10 Still Fragmented, After All These Years
Chapter 11 Strategic Policy: Moving the Bar Up
Chapter 12 Making Better Policy through Two Sets of Tools: Using Information and Shaping Values
Chapter 13 Reframing Ethical Issues in Services to Children, Youth, and Families
Chapter 14 The Budget is the Policy
Chapter 15 The Intergovernmental Stew: Cities and Counties; States and the Feds
Chapter 16 Introduction to Section Three: The Four Forces
Chapter 17 Families and Generations: The Connections Across Policies
Chapter 18 Race, Culture, and Religion as Children and Family Issues
Chapter 19 Community and Neighborhood Roles in Children and Family Policy
Chapter 20 Regionalism and a Family Agenda
Chapter 21 Introduction to Section Four
Chapter 22 Education and Learning-The Inescapable Priorities
Chapter 23 Abuse of Alcohol and Other Drugs as a Children and Family Issue
Chapter 24 Family Support Programs and Family Income Support: The Future of FRCs as a Policy Choice for Local Government
Chapter 25 Youth Development as a Function of Local Governments
Chapter 26 The Role of Local Government in the Future
Chapter 27 Putting It All Together: The Challenge of Leadership in Local Government
Chapter 28 Author Biographical Sketch

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.4.2005
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 230 mm
Gewicht	372 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7618-3094-4 / 0761830944
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-3094-8 / 9780761830948
Zustand	Neuware