Moving into Adulthood: Implementation Findings from the Youth Villages Transitional Living Evaluation

The Youth Villages Transitional Living program is intended to help youth who were formerly in foster care or juvenile justice custody, or who are otherwise unprepared for adult life, to make the transition to independent living. Youth Villages, which serves emotionally and behaviorally troubled young people, operates a number of programs in addition to Transitional Living.All of its programs are based on a set of core principles that emphasize treatment planning, systematic assessment of participating youth, and delivery of only evidence-informed practices within a highly structured supervisory system. Transitional Living clients receive intensive, individualized, and clinically focused and communnity-based case management, support, and counseling from staff who carry caseloads of about eight clients each. Youth eligibility is determined through an extensive recruitment and assessment process. Once youth are enrolled, Transitional Living staff continue to assess them to identify needs and work with them to develop goals, which become the basis of required weekly meetings. Over nine months, on average, program participants get support for education, housing, mental or physical health, employment, and life skills. This support is provided in a variety of forms, including action-oriented activities that involve completing a specific task during a weekly session or through more traditional counseling techniques.The Transitional Living Evaluation is focused exclusively on the program in Tennessee, although Youth Villages also has Transitional Living programs in six other states

Toward a theory of organizational elements

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 71).Businesses are complex organizations with seemingly limitless interconnectedness and functionality. Organizational Charts are the limit to which many organizations consider their internal structure, while others build workflow models to identify and codify every keystroke and communique. In order to provide a middle ground between superficial Organizational Charts and elaborate workflow models, this thesis develops a simple and broadly applicable method of modeling organizations. In particular, ideas from computer program structuring are transplanted into organizational design. Initially, a theory of Organizational Elements is defined. Then characteristics common to the elements of the framework are explored and a small set of example elements is identified and developed. Finally, the framework is applied to two example organizations and recommendations for further work are presented.by Alson Remington Kemp, III.S.M

Efficiency test of a General Electric Co. variable speed Form M induction motor

Citation: Cheney, James Hamilton. Uranalysis as a means of diagnosis in veterinary diseases. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1907.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: At the present day the high cost of copper makes it imperative that the line construction for the transmission of power should be such as to require a minimum amount of copper. This condition is obtained by raising the voltage at which the power is transmitted. Since alternating current is the most adaptable for this work, it is being used more and more. For this reason alternating current motors have become one of the largest problems in the electrical industry. There are at the present time two general classes of alternating current motors, the synchronous motor and the induction motor. The synchronous motor does very well in sub-stations and power houses where it may be readily started. It gives a constant speed and by its use the power factor of a line may be improved, but the disadvantages due to requirements of an exciter and a means of starting, prohibit its installation in small units or in isolated places

Stress Among Public School Teachers

This study measured different stressors experienced by teachers in a public national high school and their coping mechanisms. The study is anchored on the Person-Environment Fit or Mis-fit Model (PEFM) (Astroff & Yunjie, 2011; Caplan, 1987) and the Conceptualization of Emotions in coping with stress (Lazarus, 2005). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the work-related, emotional, and personal stressors and coping mechanisms of teachers. The teachers experienced stress that was brought on by hazardous working conditions, a lack of materials, and resources to do their tasks effectively. There was a feeling of excessive monitoring and demands for outputs from the administration. This was sometimes compounded by conflicting instructions. Personal stress was usually triggered by simply being exhausted at the end of the day, sometimes overtly manifested through emotional outbursts. Although stress cuts-through gender and age barriers, each individual devised their own cognitive (thinking-centered) strategies to coping with stress

Physical properties of fertilizer materials

Thesis (M.S.