The purpose of the research is to estimate the number of drug users among students of the universities from Iasi, to identify students' behavior towards the use of drugs, drug purchase offer, solutions to reduce the use of drugs. Research using mix methods for estimating the number of drug users...

The theory-based evaluation is one of the most used directions in evaluation, having the capacity to identify the program elements and their coherence. Beyond its variations, the applicability of theory-based evaluation renders it to remain attractive for specialists due to its approach...

In this research was realized a secondary data analysis obtained from the research "Analysis of practical purposes of supervision", research that was developed under the theme "Analysis of Occupational Standard for the Supervisor Occupation". Analysis carried out after the successive inductions...

The practice of social work focuses mainly on solving problems, on reducing dysfunctions, on diminishing deficiencies etc. More often then not, allocating resources for providing problem-centred social services does not solve the problems for which the services were designed. Our initiative...

The article explores the ways in which language is a factor in the generation of social realities. Having as a foundation social constructionism, the appreciative inquiry is a form of intervention in the organisational environment that can produce a rapid change in the way an organisation’s...

The article presents some of the results of a secondary analysis performed on the data collected during an evaluation carried out as part of the Family Strengthening Program run by SOS Children’s Villages in district 1 of Bucharest. The secondary analysis had other objectives than those set...

Appreciative perspective applied in social work changes the modalities by witch the intervention is built, explained and managed. However, research shows that the results are significantly more relevant within appreciative intervention paradigm, involving the beneficiary's own change management....

The initiative of developing a nation-wide strategy for parenting education in Romania belongs to the Holt Romania organisation, one of the national providers of such programmes, as well as to UNICEF, which in the past ten years has constantly supported and encouraged the establishment of pilot...

The evaluation aimed at measuring the impact that the Family Strengthening Program run by SOS Children’s Villages in district 1 of Bucharest had on children, families and communities. In order to do this, 125 beneficiaries’ files (86 closed cases and 39 working cases) were analysed. In order...

During the past 20 years, social economy became a subject of interest because its organisations had to assume an increasing role in the production and supply of social goods and services of public interest. In Romania, although forms of social economy existed for a very long time in society, we...