Fair housing in Boston: a role for private organizations.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1966. M.C.P.
Participation of Residents in Neighborhood Community Action Programs
There are different kinds of occupations that vary from day to day, getting more complex and requiring new knowledge and skills in this modern world. Economic developments and the rapidly changing needs of members of the public encourage schools to frame the outcomes which are oriented towards responding to the exclusive competences depending on nowadays. The social workers who provide assistance to the client (person or group) take an important role in this period of change. Social worker activities are focused on activation and empowerment of the client, so in order to provide with adequate and effective assistance, the specialist must be able not only advise costumers on how they can get help from various social institutions, but also to provide coaching. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the theoretical assumptions of development opportunities of coaching competence in social worker training. Coaching is understood as the motivation and help in achieving specific goals, and is also self-directed learning based on cooperation. The importance of coaching as an innovative approach to social worker education is displayed in supervision during which people learn how to solve problems together. The study found that the coaching competence in social worker practice is one of the essential skills, developing leadership, management skills in social work and enabling clients to strengthen their power in solving personal problems. Coaching competence development and in-depth training of social workers is one of the most important phenomenons in social work practice, by encouraging clients to solve independently their own problems, to adapt to the changing conditions of society and to integrate into the labor market.
Noctilucent cloud observations over Greenland by a Rayleigh lidar
We report on the detection of noctilucent clouds (NLCs) by a Rayleigh lidar system located on the west coast of Greenland during operations in July and August 1994. The lidar detected NLCs in the zenith on three nights (July 28–29, July 31–August 1, and August 4). The lidar measurements are presented at temporal (1 minute) and spatial (192 meter) resolutions exceeding previously reported lidar measurements of NLCs and reveal significantly more structure in the clouds. Unique cloud features are observed for each night NLCs were detected. Because of the large backscatter ratio associated with NLCs, the volume backscatter coefficient for the cloud particles can be determined more accurately from the lidar signal than the backscatter ratio as the upper mesospheric molecular number density is negligible in the volume backscatter coefficient calculation. The volume backscatter coefficient values determined from the three nights of NLC observations would be classified by current models as moderate to extreme. The extreme backscatter from NLC measurements on August 4 tests the assumptions used in existing models.