Chauncey A. Alexander

Implications of the NASW Standards for Social Service Manpower

Abstract This paper presents the history and background that led up to the publication in 1973 of the document Standards for Social Service Manpower by the National Association of Social Workers. It provides an overview of the intent of the publication, which currently constitutes the universal standard or model for differential classification of social services manpower. It outlines the six-level classification plan and the objectives set forth, and then studies in detail the implications for social agencies, education, the public, and the profession.

A different approach to health and social services for youth.

HE status of health and social services for youth in the United States confirms a question of basic economic assumptions raised by the UNICEF Secretariat Study, Children and Adolescents: Goals and Priorities for the Second Development Decade, but contradicts the proposed strategy. By outlining some of the major points within this UNICEF study, then tracing the development of health services for youth in the United States and citing the present status of the health of children and youth together with a close look at the non-system of delivery of health services in the U.S. this paper will demonstrate that a different approach needs to be considered if the UNICEF goals and priorities for the Second Development Decade are to be realized.