Morrison Institute for Public Policy Publications Archives
Morrison Institute for Public Policy is a leader in examining critical Arizona and regional issues, and is a catalyst for public dialogue. An Arizona State University resource, Morrison Institute is an independent center that uses nonpartisan research and communication outreach to help improve the state's quality of life.
Morrison Institute is part of the College of Public Programs in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. Additional publications are available at the Morrison Institute for Public Policy. Date range of repository publications is 1992 – 2015.
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ContributorsMcFadden, Erica S. (Contributor) / Morrison Institute of Public Policy (Contributor)
Created2016-01-01
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Arizona has one of the nation’s highest rates of people with I/DD living with caregivers aged 60-plus. And with almost one in five Arizonans 60 years old and older, we wanted to know how – and if – these growing numbers of lifetime caregiving families and aging adults with I/DD were planning ahead. The recent report “Time for a Plan: The Urgency for Families of Older Adults with Individual and Developmental Disabilities, shares what we learned from 40 adults with I/DD ages 40 and older and their family caregivers. Commissioned by the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council, the study included focus groups conducted across Arizona with families involved in different stages of the planning process.
Contributors Hunting, Dan (Contributor) / Morrison Institute of Public Policy (Contributor)
Created2017-10-01
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Phoenix Union High School District (PUHSD) has its roots in Territorial Arizona and has served generations of residents as Phoenix evolved from a dusty agricultural town into the fifth-largest city in the nation.
For decades, Phoenix Union High School was the lone high school in Phoenix. As the city expanded beyond the boundaries of PUHSD into ever-growing suburbs, the district began a transformation. As middle- and upper-class families began locating to areas outside of the district, PUHSD acquired many characteristics of an inner-city school district, with a high percentage of minority and low-income students. Both enrollment numbers and the tax base began to decline and new strategies were needed to cope with the changing demography, economy and political landscape of central Phoenix.
PUHSD has stabilized and has graduation and dropout rates better than the state average. The district now faces a new series of challenges and questions as the city continues to transform. This report examines several aspects of PUHSD and provides a framework to illuminate the path forward for the district and the city as a whole.
ContributorsBerman, David (Contributor) / Morrison Institute of Public Policy (Contributor)
Created2017-10-01
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This paper seeks to go beyond images and impressions to draw upon theories about Arizona’s political culture and the forces that appear to drive politics and policy making. The concern is not so much with what has been unique about Arizona, but with the important values, beliefs and behavioral patterns that have been reflected in its political life over the years. Political culture helps account for continuity in the life of a polity. It reflects the basic idea that “governments, even revolutionary ones, do not spring full-grown from the air like rabbits from a magician’s hat. On the contrary, every government has a past that goes far to explain its present and to set bounds of probability to its future development.”
ContributorsSchlinkert, David (Contributor) / Morrison Institute of Public Policy (Contributor)
Created2017-10-01
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Arizona is in critical need of emergency and affordable housing for domestic violence victims. Our state ranks eighth nationally for the number of calls to the National Domestic Violence Hotline and 41 percent of those calls are from Phoenix. Approximately 15 percent, or 4,953 individuals, who entered into homeless shelters in Arizona in 2014 did so because of DV, This briefing looks at ways more abuse victims can find safe homes via incentives and other programs for landlords.
ContributorsQuintana, Erica (Contributor) / Sun, Jade (Contributor) / Whitsett, Andrea (Contributor) / Hunting, Dan (Contributor) / Vagi, Robert (Contributor) / Garcia, Joseph (Contributor) / Kovacs, Melissa (Contributor) / Morton, Thomas D. (Contributor) / Morrison Institute of Public Policy (Contributor)
Created2017-10-01
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This is the third in a series of briefs in which Morrison Institute for Public Policy will report on selected aspects of Arizona’s child welfare system.
Spotlight on Arizona’s Kids is intended to help state leaders, child advocates, and others develop the most effective prevention strategies.
Morrison Institute’s first white paper discussed the less visible but more common side of child maltreatment: neglect. Our second white paper discussed family conditions that can influence a family’s subtle “drift” towards unsafe situations that often correlate with neglect and examined how the different types of prevention might help interrupt the “drift into failure.”
This paper analyzes Arizona Department of Child Safety data to identify the prevalence of various types of neglect in Arizona reports. Future papers will research, analyze and discuss prevention services in Arizona and elsewhere, with an emphasis on best practices.
These collective efforts are intended to help state leaders, child advocates and others discuss and identify the most-effective child abuse and neglect prevention strategies.
Spotlight on Arizona’s Kids is funded by the Arizona Community Foundation.