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Information-Seeking Behaviors of Rural Community-Based Hospice Social Workers during a Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities

Description: When it comes to hospice care, patients and their families residing in rural counties need competent rural community-based hospice social workers on their team. The study of information seeking behaviors of rural community-based hospice social workers during the global COVID-19 pandemic is significant as there is a need to fill gaps regarding how this specific medical discipline performs their job responsibilities when duties become more complicated due to evolving infection control protocols, … more
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Date: May 2023
Creator: Alvarado, Angela
Partner: UNT Libraries
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TWU-UNT Joint Master of Social Work Academic Program Review

Description: This report summarizes an evaluation of the UNT Libraries' Social Work-related resources and materials to determine if the collection is adequately serving patron needs. It was generated as part of the UNT Libraries’ contributions to the university’s Academic Program Reviews, which are conducted by the Accreditation office in the Division of Planning. The UNT Libraries’ Collection Assessment Department evaluated collections’ ability to meet the curricular and research needs of the academic prog… more
Date: October 14, 2022
Creator: Harker, Karen
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Former Wards of the State: Characteristics of Enrollment and Persistence in Undergraduate Education

Description: Foster care alumni are a unique subset of college students who enter post-secondary education having faced significant socio-economic challenges and emotional trauma. These students often understand how attending post-secondary education can help create a more stable life. However, the graduation of this population is extremely low. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand formerly fostered youths' perspectives of the needs and stressors students face while attending post-seconda… more
Date: August 2021
Creator: McWilliams, Victoria C
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Growing National Service

Description: Fact sheet describing ways to expand volunteer opportunities such as AmeriCorps, Youth Build, Senior Corps, and Peace Corps to support larger numbers of Americans in service.
Date: March 2020
Creator: United States. National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Dr. Paul Leung and B. D. Wong together on stage]

Description: A photograph of RSWA professor Dr. Paul Leung and actor B. D. Wong during the Equity and Diversity Conference at UNT. Leung is standing behind a podium and Wong is sitting on a stool with his legs crossed under him. They are both looking out to the audience.
Date: February 23, 2006
Creator: University of North Texas. Multicultural Center.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Dr. Paul Leung and B. D. Wong on stage]

Description: A photograph of RSWA professor Dr. Paul Leung and actor B. D. Wong during the Equity and Diversity Conference at UNT. Leung is standing behind a podium and Wong is sitting on a stool with his legs crossed under him. They are both looking out to the audience.
Date: February 23, 2006
Creator: University of North Texas. Multicultural Center.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Resettled: How Refugees Experience Employment and Unemployment in the United States

Description: Research on immigration in the United States has commonly studied the employment experiences of refugees. Few studies on refugees have focused on both, refugees' employment and unemployment experiences in the United States. This article draws on twenty in-depth interviews with refugees, along with ethnographic observation at a local refugee resettlement agency, to investigate how refugees make sense of their employment and unemployment experiences in the United States. I find that refugee men a… more
Date: August 2020
Creator: Mumtaz, Mehr
Partner: UNT Libraries

[RHAB gathered at Tea on Tuesday meeting 2]

Description: A photograph of people gathered during UNT's Tea on Tuesday event. They are standing together for a photograph and one of them is holding a framed Certificate of Recognition that was given to the Department of Rehabilitation, Social Work, and Addiction.
Date: March 17, 2012
Creator: University of North Texas. Multicultural Center.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[RHAB gathered at Tea on Tuesday meeting 1]

Description: A photograph of people gathered during UNT's Tea on Tuesday event. They are standing together for a photograph and one of them is holding a framed Certificate of Recognition that was given to the Department of Rehabilitation, Social Work, and Addiction.
Date: March 17, 2012
Creator: University of North Texas. Multicultural Center.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Stepparent-Child Relationship Quality and Young Adult Outcomes

Description: This study set out to test the effects of relationship quality with a stepfather on other familial relationships, romantic relationships, and usual outcome measures for products of parental divorce. OLS regression tests were conducted using responses from over a thousand participants from the New Family Structures Study (N=1,696). Respondents were organized by self-reported level of relationship quality with their stepfathers. Various qualities of stepfather families were then regressed agai… more
Date: May 2020
Creator: Underhill, Marissa M
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[Oral history interview with Betty King]

Description: Oral history interview with Betty King, born Betty Warren. She discusses her upbringing in a small, non-diverse town in Illinois, her educational and professional history, and her involvement with Gayline, the Resource Center, and the Coalition for Aging, LGBT.
Date: June 30, 2019
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Testa, Nino
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Vulnerable Youth: Background and Policies

Description: This report first provides an overview of the youth population and the increasing complexity of transitioning to adulthood for all adolescents. It also provides a separate discussion of the concept of "disconnectedness," as well as the protective factors youth can develop during childhood and adolescence that can mitigate poor outcomes. Further, the report describes the evolution of federal youth policy, focusing on three time periods, and provides a brief overview of current federal programs t… more
Date: January 30, 2018
Creator: Fernandes-Alcantara, Adrienne L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Divorce]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: March 10, 1977, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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