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| author |
Cassidy C. Conklin
| | title |
Barriers and Promoters of Using Social Services: Applying demographic, practical, and psychological predictors through a partnership with a real-world service provider
| | abstract |
Social service programs provide in-need community members with valuable services
including assistance with housing, food security, childcare, income, and more. This project
explores the factors that serve as barriers and promoters of seeking and using social services and
applies those insights to a real-life community organization. An integrative literature review
details the demographic, practical, and socio-psychological factors that lead people to use or not
use social services. The main objective of this project is to understand how the literature is
relevant to a specific, real-world community partner: The Morristown Neighborhood House, a
community organization that primarily serves low-income community members and provides
numerous services, including daycare, pre-school, aftercare, English-language learning, and
much more. After reviewing the relevant literature and the needs of The Morristown
Neighborhood House, I crafted a theoretically and practically informed intake form that the
Neighborhood House may use to better understand why people do or do not use its services.
| | school |
The College of Liberal Arts, Drew University
| | degree |
B.A. (2022)
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| advisor |
Scott Morgan
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| full text | CConklin.pdf |
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