Advanced Theory for Social Work Practice:Social Policy
Social Administration and Policy
Housing Policy
Social Policy Analysis
Poverty and Anti Poverty Policies
Research Interests:
History of the Welfare State in Canada
Social administration, particularly the administration of social assistance
Federal/Provincial relations and social welfare
Aboriginal peoples and social welfare
Poverty
Publications:
“The Federal Government and the Dream of Home Ownership for Low Income Households: the Assisted Home Ownership Program,” with Andree Germain, in Wealth and Well-Being, Ownership and Opportunity: New Directions in Social Policy for Canada, Edited by Jennifer Robson and Peter Nares, Social and Enterprise Development Innovations, 2006, 102-118.
“Disability Supports and Service in the Social Union,” Federalism and the Social Union eds. Harvey Lazar and Allan Puttee, School of Policy Studies, Queens University, 2003. With Roy Hanes.
Recent Briefs and Presentations to Government Committees and Commissions:
Brief to the City of Ottawa Task Force on Housing and Homelessness, Ottawa, March, 2006
Other Publications:
“Trends in United Way Revenues and Expenditures, 1995-2001,” Co author of a Discussion Paper on The United Way/Centraide in Ottawa, Prepared for the Network of United Way Community Partners, 2001.
“From the Council of Social Agencies to the Social Planning Council: Seventy-Five Years of Social Planning in Ottawa,” Social Planning Council of Ottawa, June 2003.
Positions Held:
Canadian Review of Social Policy, (CRSP/RCPS) Member of the Editorial Board, 2006-07, 2007-08.
Chair of the Organizing Committee, for a national conference on Poverty in the Jewish Communities of Canada, held in Ottawa, November 2005. Close to 100 participants from across Canada.
Chair, Association of Jewish Family and Child Agencies, Canadian Branch, 2004-05, 2005-06, Member of the Executive, 2006 – Founding chair of the Canadian Branch.
Member, Executive Committee, and Member, Board of Directors, AJFCA, (North America.), 2004-06.
Jewish Federation of Ottawa, Member of the Board of Directors, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-2006, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09
Jewish Federation of Ottawa, Chair, Planning and Allocations Committee, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08 Development and implementation of a new system of allocations of community funds.
United Way Community Agencies, Member of Steering Committee, 2001-02.
United Way, Nominations Committee, Member, Spring, 2001, 2003, 2004
Social Planning Council of Ottawa-Carleton, Member of Board of Directors, June 2000- 2004; Chair, Research Committee, 2001- 05
Selection of Recent Presentations:
“Workfare in Ontario,” Presentation to the JDC-Myers_Brookdale Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, March 2007
“Poverty and Welfare in Ontario,” Presentation for the 1st Year Experience Office, Carleton University, November 2006.
“The Conservatives and First Nations in Canada,” Presentation to Groups of representatives of Quebec First Nations, First Nations Education Centre, Quebec, June and August, 2006.
“Poverty in the Jewish Communities of Canada,” Chair and Copresenter of a Session at the AJFCA Conference, San Jose, California, April 2006
“Report of the Allocations Committee, “ Presentation to the Officers of the Jewish Community Council of Ottawa, and to the Executive of the Jewish Community Council of Ottawa, April 2006, May 2008.
“Poverty in the Canadian Jewish Community,” Presented at a Panel on Poverty at the First meeting of the Association of Jewish Family and Child Agencies –Canadian Branch, November 2005
“The Demographics of the Ottawa Jewish Community,” Presented to a public meeting of the Ottawa Jewish Federation, November 2005
“The Anti-Poverty Program of Jewish Family Services,” Workshop Presentation, Calgary Jewish Community Centre, September 2004.
“Poverty in the Calgary Jewish Community and some lessons from Ottawa,” Calgary Jewish Family Services, September, 2004
“The Anti-Poverty Program of Jewish Family Services,” Workshop Presentation, at the Association of Jewish Family and Child Agencies, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, April 2004.
Share: Twitter, Facebook
Short URL:
https://carleton.ca/socialwork/?p=178
