Services Conference Research Articles

A cloud-based data-sharing and analysis cyberinfrastructure for neuroinformatics

A cloud-based data-sharing and analysis cyberinfrastructure for neuroinformatics

Treating the Transgender Homeless Population: Experiences During Residency Training

Trainees in psychiatry receive little or no training in the specific mental health needs of transgender persons, even though they constitute a significant number in our population. According to estimates by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation in 2007, 0.25–1% of the U.S. population is transgender. Transgender individuals are especially vulnerable to rejection by loved ones and domestic violence. They are often ostracized by society, and a significant number of transgender persons become homeless. One in five transgender persons are at risk of needing homeless shelter services. This is one article in a series in this issue of the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health documenting the proceedings from the workshop “The Psychiatric Needs of the Transgender Homeless Population” at the 2009 American Psychiatric Association's Institute on Psychiatric Services Conference in New York City. In this article, we will present three cases seen by psychiatry residents during their community psychiatry rotation in a women's drop in center in New York City.

Shelter and Transitional Housing for Transgender Youth

This is one article in a three part series in this issue of The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health documenting the proceedings from the workshop “The Psychiatric Needs of the Transgender Homeless Population” at the 2009 American Psychiatric Association's Institute on Psychiatric Services Conference in New York City. In the United States, transgender youth are overrepresented among the homeless. The stigma and discrimination that causes and maintains homelessness among transgender people is also prevalent in the streets and at programs that serve homeless people. This makes life for transgender people in foster care, at shelters, and in transitional housing difficult and even dangerous. Shelter policies have been created and adopted to address safety concerns of transgender people. In addition, transitional housing and other services exclusively serving sexual/gender minorities have also been developed to provide safe shelter for this population.

Healthcare Needs of the Transgender Homeless Population

This is the first of three articles in this issue of The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health documenting the proceedings of the workshop “The Psychiatric Needs of the Transgender Homeless Population” at the 2009 American Psychiatric Association's Institute on Psychiatric Services Conference in New York City. This article describes some of the healthcare needs of the transgender homeless population and potential ways of addressing these needs. Homelessness disproportionately affects the transgender population for many reasons. Transgender persons are often rejected by their families and peers, and marginalized in our society, leading to increased risks of unemployment and homelessness. They are frequently not engaged in necessary mental health and medical care due to barriers arising from both their gender minority status and the barriers associated with homelessness. In order for this population to gain access to necessary mental health and medical care, all providers interfacing with them need to identify and assess their individual needs as well as have a basic understanding of this population's public health concerns.

News From the Field: Access Services Conference 2009

The November 2009 Access Services Conference in Atlanta attracted more than 100 attendees. This article summarizes the conference activities.

Commentary on the Child-Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Conference—Nashville, TN, September 2009

Commentary on the Child-Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Conference—Nashville, TN, September 2009

E-service quality: an internal, multichannel and pure service perspective

This article contributes to the emerging e-service quality literature by adopting a different approach to the dominant focus in previous research. The work centres on the internal perspective of organisation, studies the pure service sector and subjects the personal sales channel and the Internet channel to joint examination. A new conceptual framework is proposed via an adaptation of the service pyramid model [Parasuraman, A. (1996). Understanding and leveraging the role of customer service in external interactive and internal marketing. Paper presented at the 1996 Frontiers in Services Conference, Nashville, TN], and employee-orientated internal marketing and technology-orientated internal marketing are analysed as integrated drivers of commercial performance, within the context of retail banking in Spain. The results suggest that both marketing activities constitute part of a coherent strategy that is geared towards making and meeting service promises, within a multichannel perspective, and is associated with high commercial performance.

Interaction of Architecture and Society: Public Procurement as Tool to Improve Local Economy and Architecture

Abstract One of the main tasks of public authorities is to find ways how, in the course of the development of urban architecture, to manage and create assumptions for the public to become a new-type, active and cooperative civic society taking part in urban development processes. The research of these problems is important seeking to ensure sustainability in natural, economic-social environment and urban architecture. Assessing the features for application of democratic principles in planning in Lithuania the main objective of this paper is to try to reveal the problems of quality in the development of urban architecture in the context of public procurement of services and to assess the efficiency of procedures defined by legal acts from the viewpoint of architectural quality. Interdisciplinary, comparative analysis methods are used to achieve this objective by revealing the particularity of momentary events. The paper is prepared on the basis of URBACT/LCS (Leveraging City Services) conference of Novembe...

The Twelfth Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings

The Twelfth Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings

The Logic of Community, Ignorance, and the Presumption of Moral Equality: A Soldier's Story

In January 2006, Roger Wertheimer, Jeff McMahan, and I presented our arguments about the moral equality (or inequality, as McMahan prefers) of combatants at the Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics (the conference name has since changed to International Symposium for Military Ethics). The essays that grew out of that discussion are presented in this issue of JME. I argue that combatants on any side of a conflict are moral equals. Two fundamental perspectives inform my argument, the first having to do with social contract theory and the second having to do with the ignorance of combatants with respect to the justice of their nations’ wars. Individuals give over to the sovereign their right to use force: they may not seek vengeance in the domestic arena nor are they permitted to wage private wars. As such, it seems inconsistent to demand that the soldier relinquish to the state the authority and responsibility to use violence, and at the same time to condemn her for doing so. It also seems extraordinarily unreasonable to expect combatants really to know, in the relevant sense, the justice of the war. If, as is the case with the current war in Iraq, the so-called cognoscenti disagree about the morality of the war, then it would be almost indecent to suggest that combatants could have the sort of knowledge that would render them morally culpable.

The Eleventh Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings (review)

Reviewed by: The Eleventh Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings Nancy J. Burich The Eleventh Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings, ed. Patrick B. Mahoney. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Information Press, 2004. 574p. $49.95 (ISBN 0-7890-2785-2) Co-published simultaneously as Journal of Library Administration 41, no. 1/2 and 3/4, 2004 This collection of papers represents research that was presented at the Eleventh Off-Campus Library Services Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona in 2004. Though other conferences are offered on various aspects of distance learning, including teaching, the use of new technologies, and digital resources, this conference concentrates on topics of interest to librarians who are providing services to nontraditional faculty and students who do not have access to a traditional academic library. The conference, sponsored by Central Michigan University, has a British counterpart in the Libraries Without Walls Conference hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University. The conference program advisory board employs a juried abstracts process to review the papers submitted for consideration. Researchers who presented at the conference are well known in the field and come from institutions across the United States, Canada, and the West Indies. Several contributors discuss various forms of collaboration to enhance distance information services. Especially relevant is the article by Robin Lockerby et al. that describes working with faculty who are remote from campus. The paper by Anne Marie Casey et al. describes the collaboration between a librarian, a faculty member, and a technician to develop a Web-based research readiness assessment tool. Another theme of the papers addresses the importance of needs assessment, especially in serving various types of students (for example, non-affiliated, the disabled, Native American, and those enrolled in off-campus programs). These papers describe the obstacles faced by various groups of students and suggest solutions that may serve as models for others to follow. Two articles focus on questionnaire design. The first is by Lynn M. McMain and Judy Ann Jerabek, and the second is by Evadne McLean and Stephen H. Dew. This is a subject of great importance to librarians who may have a limited knowledge about developing effective assessment tools. Various administrative issues, including strategic planning, marketing, and institutional issues are the topics of several papers. Marianne A. Buehler's article about inserting the library into course management software is especially important for distance learners because such a link may provide the only a gateway to library services and collections for these users. [End Page 109] Articles about student support services provide practical approaches to the services that are important to distant learners: electronic books, electronic reserves, document delivery, instruction, and virtual reference or chat. Naturally, these same articles describe how technologies (especially CD-ROM, Web, multimedia, and videoconferencing) are used to provide services and to raise awareness of their availability. For example, Tina Adams talks about educating educators to the importance of library services and resources for their distance learning students. This is a very useful publication for anyone interested in innovative solutions to current problems in distance learning library services. The contributors' index provides a list of active researchers for others who may be seeking research partners. The index provides a list of topics and the institutions where the research was undertaken. The exclusion of Siva Vaidhyanathan's keynote address, "Copyright as an Instrument of Censorship," is regretted. It would have been a valuable addition to the proceedings because of widespread interest in copyright issues across the academy. An excellent complement for locating related current and historical research is Alexander L. Slade's standard work, Library Services for Distance Learning: The Fourth Bibliography, http://uviclib.uvic.ca/dls/bibliography4.html. Nancy J. Burich University of Kansas <nburich@ku.edu> Copyright © 2006 The Johns Hopkins University Press

Distance Learning Library Services: The 10th Off‐Campus Library Services Conference (Proceedings)

Distance Learning Library Services: The 10th Off‐Campus Library Services Conference (Proceedings)

Developing support service for victims of hate crime

This article describes the nature and development of Victim Support?s services to victims of hate crime in England and Wales. It provides definitions of hate crime, information about its extent, and considers why services for victims of some forms of hate crime have developed faster than others. It concludes with a summary of points made during a discussion at the 2004 European Forum for Victim Services conference about whether or not services to victims of hate crime should be provided by mainstream victim services or specialist agencies.

Joint Services Conference on the Uses of History for Analysis and Military Planning (JCHAMP)

Joint Services Conference on the Uses of History for Analysis and Military Planning (JCHAMP)

11th The Mental Health Services (TheMHS) Conference

11th The Mental Health Services (TheMHS) Conference

9th Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings

9th Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings

Whose Dreams? Whose Realities? A Brief Report on the 9th Annual The Mental Health Services Conference of Australia and New Zealand September 1999

There was much to intrigue and inspire psychiatrists at this years TheMHS Conference held in Melbourne in September. Larry Davidson, a keynote speaker, spoke about the dream of many people with mental illness, simply to be let in. Davidson's model emphasised the restoration of social agency and mutuality in relationships as cornerstones of the recovery process. This inspirational talk underpinned the aims of the conference where all people involved in mental health services, whether provider or consumer, are able to meet and work together as a community.

Targeting Employment Services Conference

Targeting Employment Services Conference

Middle East Strategy to the Year 2011: Conference Report of the Twelfth Arab Press Services (APS) Conference

Middle East Strategy to the Year 2011: Conference Report of the Twelfth Arab Press Services (APS) Conference

CONFERENCE CIRCUIT: The Eighth Off-Campus Library Services Conference: A look at one of the major growth areas in academic libraries

CONFERENCE CIRCUIT: The Eighth Off-Campus Library Services Conference: A look at one of the major growth areas in academic libraries