Greater Phoenix Forward
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Greater Phoenix Forward, a new report by ASU’s College of Public Programs and the Morrison Institute for Public Policy, offers community and policy leaders and human services practitioners the latest data and new perspectives for understanding the Valley’s human services infrastructure and Greater Phoenix Forward seeks to help guide public policy decisions based on sound research, objective analyses, and public discourse. It contains: • Data describing human services structures and functions in Maricopa County • Trends for the populations who provide and use these services • Analyses of how to sustain the present level and quality of human services • A glimpse of how current service trends could play out by 2012 • A presentation of critical policy challenges for the future |
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Greater Phoenix Forward Content
INTRODUCTION |
Greater Phoenix Forward: Measuring and Meeting Our Human-Services Needs
Rob Melnick, Ph.D., Director, Morrison Institute for Public Policy, and Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, Global Institute of Sustainability
CHAPTER 1 | Greater Phoenix: Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics
By ASU Research Staff with Tom Rex, Associate Director, Center for Competitiveness and Prosperity Research, W.P. Carey School of Business
CHAPTER 2 | Human-Services Infrastructure of Greater Phoenix
By John Hall, Ph.D., Professor, School of Public Affairs
CHAPTER 3 | Nonprofits: Delivering Human Services
By Robert Ashcraft, Ph.D., Director, Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation, and
Associate Professor, School of Community Resources & Development
CHAPTER 4 | Untreated Mental Disorders: The Hidden Burden in Greater Phoenix
By José Ashford, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Director, School of Social Work
CHAPTER 5 | Supporting Children and Families: A Child-Welfare Perspective
By Nora Gustavsson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Social Work
CHAPTER 6 | From Human Services to Human Development: A Resilience Perspective
By John Hall, Ph.D., Professor, School of Public Affairs
CHAPTER 7 | Aging: The Changing Human-Services Needs of the Third Age
By Teri K. Kennedy, Ph.D., MSW, Academic Coordinator, Tucson BSW Program, and Principal Investigator, Undergraduate Child Welfare
Training Program, School of Social Work
CHAPTER 8 | Substance-Abuse Prevention and Treatment: Challenges and Opportunities
By Flavio F. Marsiglia, Ph.D., ASU Distinguished Foundation Professor, and Director, Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC);
Tanya Nieri, Ph.D., Coordinator of Research, SIRC, School of Social Work; and David Becerra, Ph.D., Research Associate, SIRC
CHAPTER 9 | Latinos in Greater Phoenix: A Growing Stakeholder Community
By Barbara Robles, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Social Work
CHAPTER 10 | Poverty: The Valley’s Economic Divide
By Elizabeth A. Segal, Ph.D., Professor, School of Social Work
CHAPTER 11 | Human Services for Arizona’s “Second Population”
By Timothy Tyrrell, Ph.D., Professor, School of Community Resources & Development, and Director, Megapolitan Tourism Research Center
CHAPTER 12 | Parks and Recreation Opportunities in an Era of Growth
By Randy J. Virden, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Community Resources & Development
CHAPTER 13 | Arts and Culture in Greater Phoenix
By Nancy Welch, Associate Director, Morrison Institute for Public Policy
Conclusions and Policy Implications
By Debra Friedman, Ph.D., University Vice President and Dean, College of Public Programs; and
Rob Melnick, Ph.D., Director, Morrison Institute for Public Policy, and Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, Global Institute of Sustainability
