Policy makers and social administrators of the ineffective provinces across Canada may find benefit in selecting one of the effective provinces as a benchmark for improving their own performance based on similar size and structure of population, size of the budget for social programs, and traditions with administering particular types of social programs.
According to the Social Services law (adopted in 2005), the Social Administrators are also mandated to provide and coordinate social care services at municipal and communal level, but their actual role in social care provision (other than material assistance) is very limited.
The offices have at least one specialist appointed as Social Administrator.
The frustrations of doctors, nurses, mental health care professionals, social workers, administrators and patients continue to be voiced in meetings of organizations like the Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care.
But on Tuesday, for the first time in the 25-odd years since they formed, the group -- which includes academics, journalists, social agency administrators, a former parks commissioner (Henry Stern), and a political consultant (Sid Davidoff) -- convened at City College itself.
(We have not really heard much about which of those workers he wants to see go. Social Security administrators? Park rangers? I'm putting my money on bank regulators and Securities and Exchange Commission enforcers).
Some county social service administrators, meanwhile, called the new requirement redundant, one that would create extra work for caseworkers who have already been meeting with clients reaching their time limits.
A federal judge has granted New York City's top two social services administrators permission to keep their testimony about contested welfare-to-work contracts secret, responding to arguments by their lawyers that the testimony might be used against them in separate criminal investigations.
Recommendations are made that can be useful to stakeholders, including policy makers and social service administrators that would facilitate the implementation of evaluations of this sort.
Speakers explored ways in which activists could influence educators, legislators, social service administrators, religious leaders, and others to move toward greater understanding and acceptance.
An advisory committee comprised of regional experts (i.e., senior health and social services administrators for homeless service organizations), as well as existing relationships with homeless service organizations in Ottawa and Toronto, helped us to identify key informants in those cities.
