caa a22 4500 39758265X CHVBK 20180308164911.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199609 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/sw/41.5.521 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/sw/41.5.521 Freeman Edith M. Welfare Reforms and Services for Children and Families: Setting a New Practice, Research, and Policy Agenda [Elektronische Daten] [Edith M. Freeman] This article addresses barriers to family and community self-sufficiency. Many of these barriers have resulted from policymakers' biased definitions of self-sufficiency and related social program reforms. Social workers need to understand the worldviews and values that underlie political definitions of self-sufficiency to have a greater influence on social policy. This article describes a more appropriate definition of self-sufficiency and illustrates its usefulness with an example of community research conducted to identify social support needs. The author recommends changes in social work practice and education that can enable the profession to have a stronger influence on social policy. Finally, to achieve this social justice goal and integrate policy development into clinical and community practice, the author proposes new research and policy agendas for the profession. Copyright © 1996 by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc. community building nationallicence policy development nationallicence policy practice nationallicence self-sufficiency nationallicence welfare reform nationallicence Social Work Oxford University Press 41/5(1996-09), 521-532 0037-8046 41:5<521 1996 41 sw https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/41.5.521 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/41.5.521 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Freeman Edith M. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Work Oxford University Press 41/5(1996-09), 521-532 0037-8046 41:5<521 1996 41 sw Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford