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Time for a Plan

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…

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.

Arizona's Future Past

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…

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.”

Domestic violence housing

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…

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.

Child Neglect in Arizona: analysis

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…

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.