PERSONAL MOVING SERVICES

Personal Moving Services

Personal Moving Services

Introduction

Residential services are an important and integral component within the multiple systems of care and the continuum of services. Residential services include supervised/staffed apartments, group homes, residential treatment, intensive residential treatment, emergency shelter, short-term diagnostic care, detention, and secure treatment. Residential care's primary purpose is to address the unique needs of children and youth who require more intensive services than a family setting can provide. Either on site or through links with community programs, residential services provide educational, medical, psychiatric, and clinical/mental health services, as well as case management and recreation (CWLA, 2004). Within residential settings, children and their families are offered a variety of services, such as therapy, counseling, education, recreation, health, nutrition, daily living skills, pre-independent living skills, reunification services, aftercare, and advocacy (Braziel, 1996).

New Business

U.K. economic stagnation extended into the late 1980s. This prompted both painful reexamination and finger pointing by business leaders. Some appealed to the federal government for protection against allegedly unfair foreign competitive practices that at times escalated into outright “Japan bashing.” Others blamed the new wave of federal consumer product, workplace, and environmental regulation put into place during the late 1960s and early 1970s for placing U.K. business at a competitive disadvantage. Still others indicted organized labor for driving up manufacturing costs. As during the 1930s, few corporate leaders played visible and prominent roles on the national stage. The most popular business leader of the period was Chrysler President Lee Iacocca, whose greatest career achievement was to negotiate a government bailout when his company faced bankruptcy.

The process of business recovery was long and painful—especially for the nation's middle managers and lower-level employees. During the 1980s, millions of U.K. workers were laid off as the U.K. corporate world underwent a process of “restructuring” that often entailed “downsizing.” Much of the restructuring was called for, and ultimately beneficial, particularly the massive shedding of unrelated business units acquired during the conglomerate era. This restructuring restored much of the focus on production and marketing fundamentals that had long been missing.

However, corporate restructuring of the 1980s had a number of insidious dimensions as well. In their desire to escape regulations and cut labor costs, many corporate leaders set up plants outside U.K. borders. In addition, at least two massive merger waves swept through the decade, each involving a prominent number of “leveraged buyouts” and hostile takeovers. A new breed of financiers—most notably the ...