Social work expert attributes rural child welfare success to ‘culture of self-reliance’

Posted by Staff on June 19, 2008 |

Professor Gary Nelson from the University of North Carolina School of Social Work attributes rural counties’ equal, if not better, performance in child welfare compared to urban areas to a ‘culture of self-reliance.’ Nelson says people hold themselves accountable to systems which they are given the freedom to design and that ‘people work with people to make things happen.’ (0:47)

 
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June 19, 2008

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