Exploring Attitudes of Four Groups of Stakeholders Toward Family Childcare and Recommending Best Practices to Promote Positive Experiences

This research aimed to increase the awareness of licensed family childcare programs and use the viewpoints of four stakeholder groups to construct recommended best practices. These best practices are crucial for supporting effective business practices and providing high-quality services to their stakeholders. Online surveys and virtual interviews were used to acquire the stakeholders\u27 perspectives. The collected data revealed three principal thematic codes: family childcare provider, family childcare business, and family childcare environment. Within these three codes, the family childcare program\u27s areas of improvement, inconsistencies, and strengths were identified and evaluated to construct recommended professional and business best practices. Some of the categories of recommended best practices included professional development, professional identity, marketing, and business techniques, all valuable in supporting high-quality, licensed family childhood programs

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Irregular Victims:Investigating the Immigration Status Decisions of Post-NRM Victims of Human Trafficking, the Availability of Eligible Benefits and the Related Impact on Victims of Trafficking

Human trafficking is connected to migration as it often involves crossing international borders. This article argues that by failing to view the issue of human trafficking through the lens of migration, the current framework for assisting victims of human trafficking fails to ensure the protection of the individuals concerned. This article offers an innovative perspective by analysing the specific legal position of victims of human trafficking in the context of UK domestic law and international agreements, and tracing this to survivor experiences. The extent to which non-UK national survivors of human trafficking are able to access the rights that they are entitled to in the UK is explored, as well as what factors influence the accessibility of these rights. Utilising an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing scholarship of law and politics, this article inks a review of the current legal landscape relating to immigration status for trafficking victims with empirical work exploring the experiences of non-UK national trafficking. survivors

Transition to adult services for children and young people with palliative care needs : a systematic review

Objective: To evaluate the evidence on the transition process from child to adult services for young people with palliative care needs. Design: Systematic review Setting: Child and adult services and interface between healthcare providers. Patients: Young people aged 13 to 24 years with palliative care conditions in the process of transition. Main outcome measures: Young people and their families’ experiences of transition, the process of transition between services and its impact on continuity of care, and models of good practice. Results: 92 studies included. Papers on transition services were of variable quality when applied to palliative care contexts. Most focused on common life threatening and life limiting conditions. No standardised transition programme identified and most guidelines used to develop transition services were not evidence based. Most studies on transition programmes were predominantly condition-specific (e.g. cystic fibrosis, cancer) services. Cystic fibrosis services offered high quality transition with the most robust empirical evaluation. There were differing condition-dependent viewpoints on when transition should occur but agreement on major principles guiding transition planning and probable barriers. There was evidence of poor continuity between child and adult providers with most originating from within child settings. Conclusions: Palliative care was not, in itself, a useful concept for locating transition-related evidence. It is not possible to evaluate the merits of the various transition models for palliative care contexts, or their effects on continuity of care, as there are no long-term outcome data to measure their effectiveness. Use of validated outcome measures would facilitate research and service development

Better Together: How Evaluator Collaborations Can Strengthen Philanthropy and Increase Collective Knowledge

Partnerships between evaluation firms have many benefits for both funders and evaluators. The benefits can include increased quality of evaluation and collaboration, greater equity for all stakeholders, and stronger field capacity for learning at scale.Over the last six months, we assembled a work team of seven funders and 11 evaluators to explore how more formal partnerships between evaluation firms can increase collective knowledge within the field and ultimately strengthen philanthropy.Our group identified key rationales for establishing such partnerships as well as emergent best practices in creating and maintaining successful partnerships, analyzed barriers that impede funders and evaluators from pursuing partnerships more frequently, and articulated some field-level strategy to counteract those barriers. In this brief, we share some of our most valuable insights, and a working draft of a best practice guide and decision tool that could, if further developed, aid the field in establishing stronger collaborations between evaluation firms

Guided self-help cognitive behavioural therapy for depression in primary care : a randomised controlled trial

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Liquid air as an energy storage:A review

With the increasing demand for energy due to rapid industrialisation and the environmental concerns due to the usage of fossil fuels as the main energy source, there is a shift towards renewable energy. However, the intermittent nature of renewable energy requires energy produced during off-peak hours to be stored. This paper explores the use of liquefied air as an energy storage, the plausibility and the integration of liquefied air into existing framework, the role of liquefied air as an energy storage in addressing the Grand Challenges for Engineering as well as its employability in Malaysia

The challenges experienced by staff in managing substance-induced psychotic patients in the emergency department of a district hospital in the Western Cape

Magister Artium - MAStaff members of a district hospital experience various challenges in managing psychotic patients in the emergency department. Psychosis can result from the use of illicit drugs. Persons presenting in a psychotic state due to use of illicit substances are common at emergency departments of district hospitals. In terms of the South African legislation, mental health services are accessible at general district hospitals with the 72-hour observation period being mandatory. Emergency departments are the first area where behaviourally disturbed and psychotic persons are assessed and managed in terms of the Mental Health Care Act of South Africa (Act No. 17 of 2002). Emergency staff members render a 24-hour service to all public users requiring emergency services, and should have the skills, training and resources necessary to manage any public user presenting for emergency services. A large proportion of the patients presenting with psychosis at the hospital where the study was done, were reported as using illicit substances. This study sought to discover and understand: What are the challenges experienced by staff members in managing substance-induced psychotic patients in the emergency department of a district hospital? In an attempt to answer the research question, the aim of this study was to explore and describe the challenges experienced by emergency department staff members in managing substance-induced psychotic patients in a district hospital in the Western Cape. An explorative and descriptive research design was used, grounded in the qualitative research approach. Ten staff members managing or assisting with managing substance-induced psychotic patients in the emergency department were purposefully sampled. This sample comprised doctors, nurses, and other support staff members, such as security guards, porters and general workers. An interview schedule guided the face-toface semi-structured interviews as the method of data collection. The digitally recorded data from these interviews were transcribed verbatim, and analysed into six themes as well as sub-themes. Data were analysed according to Tesch, as cited in Creswell (2009). Measures to ensure trustworthiness were adhered to, such as neutrality, consistency, truth value, and applicability. Ethical considerations were closely followed, such as obtaining permission from the Senate Higher Degrees of the University of the Western Cape and the Provincial Health Ethics Committee, participants’ gave voluntary written consent to partake in the study, aware of the right to withdraw at any time, and of their anonymity and confidentiality being maintained through the use of pseudo names. The findings of the study were that the emergency department was inappropriate for the managing of acutely psychotic or behaviourally disturbed patients such as these, particularly if these staff members were not adequately trained, and where there were staff shortages. Though there was recognition of these patients’ rights to obtain medical care, fear and resentment accompanied by stress on the part of staff presented throughout the themes. The study yielded recommendations such as the need for training and debriefing of staff members and support by hospital management, as well as services such as groupwork and supportive services to patients and family. Recommendations were also made for a review of staffing, infrastructure, facilities and legislation. These recommendations are considered important to assist in the planning, and implementation of healthcare services to mental healthcare users, with specific reference to substance-induced psychotic patients