Responses to Social Services among the Urban Unemployed

In an urban environment the individual is unable to function independent of other people. To fill even basic needs for food, shelter, and clothing, he must successfully become a part of the social system. To assist people in obtaining these, programs have developed in the areas of employment, housing, health, and welfare as well as other areas related to man\u27s life in Ln urbah environment. The provision of these programs does not automatically insure that needs will be met. The individual still must make a positive response before a service can be delivered. A review of the literature shows that little is known about the factors which determine whether a person in need of assistance will use an agency designed to provide that service. This article attempts to narrow that gap by exploring several factors which possibly influence use of a social service agency

Modifications par rapport à la connaissance et aux attitudes chez les étudiants du collége qui sont exposés au programme de la Vie Familiale et l’Education sur le VIH dans l’Etat de Lagos, Nigéria

To address the needs of young people in Lagos State, Nigeria, for information about family life and HIV, the Lagos State Ministry of Education, in collaboration with Action Health Incorporated, began to offer the Family Life and HIV Education Curriculum in government junior secondary schools in 2003. Knowledge and attitudes were measured in a sample of 1,366 students in Lagos State, Nigeria, in November 2004, at the beginning of the school year, and again in July 2005 after receiving a year of the Family Life and HIV Education Curriculum. Students exposed to the curriculum significantly increased knowledge of sexuality and HIV, support for abstinence, and gender role equality (Afr J Reprod Health 2009; 13[3]:37-46).Afin de s’occuper des besoins des jeunes gens dans l’Etat de Lagos, Nigéria, pour l’information sur la vie familiale et le VIH, le ministère de l’éducation de l’Etat de Lagos, en collaboration avec Action Health Incorporated a commencé à assurer, dès 2003, le programme de la Vie Familiale et du VIH dans les collèges appartenant au gouvernement. A partir d’un échantillon de 1366 étudiants à Lagos on a mesuré la connaissance et les attitudes au mois de novembre 2004 au commencement de l’année scolaire et encore en juillet 2005 après avoir eu du progamme de l’Education sur la Vie Familiale et le VIH. La connaissance par rapport à la sexualité au VIH, l’appui pour l’abstinence et la qualité du rôle des sexes chez les étudiants qui ont été exposeés au programme a augmenté de manière significative (Afr J Reprod Health 2009; 13[3]:37-46)

Too Few Tomorrows

Between the 1940s and 1970s, approxiately three million people left the Appalachian mountains in search of jobs in Midwest urban areas, such as Cincinnati, Chicago, and Detroit. Unfortunately, about a third of these people were forced into a life of long-term underclass dwellers. Struggling with questions of identity, rootlessness, and cultural negation, these people were given the name of “urban Appalachians.” Published in 1987, Too Few Tomorrows addresses some of the pressing questions regarding urban Appalachians and their story of migration to city life

The Invisible Minority: Urban Appalachians

Since 1950 more than three million people have left their homes in Appalachia in search of better jobs and a better life in the cities of the Midwest and Southeast. Today they constitute one of the largest minorities in many of those cities. Yet they have been largely overlooked as a social group and ignored as a potential political force, partly because so little has been written about them. This important book is the first to explore the Appalachian migration and its impact on the cities, on Appalachia, and on the migrants themselves, from the perspectives of sociology, economics, geography, and social planning. Eleven contributors offer new insights into the complex patterns of migration streams, the numbers of Appalachians in specific urban areas, their residential and occupational patterns in the cities, their adjustments to urban life and work, and the enormous social and economic impact of this mass movement. William W. Philliber is associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Clyde B. McCoy is associate professor of sociology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Miami.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_appalachian_studies/1011/thumbnail.jp

The Invisible Minority Urban Appalachians

Since 1950 more than three million people have left their homes in Appalachia in search of better jobs and a better life in the cities of the Midwest and Southeast. Today they constitute one of the largest minorities in many of those cities. Yet they have been largely overlooked as a social group and ignored as a potential political force, partly because so little has been written about them.This important book is the first to explore the Appalachian migration and its impact on the cities, on Appalachia, and on the migrants themselves, from the perspectives of sociology, economics, geography