Study support is a key component of strategies to overcome child poverty, and recent progress has been made in the collaboration between social welfare and educational organizations. This paper considers examples from a study support project for children from impoverished families and analyzes the collaboration between social welfare and educational organizations by interviewing related stakeholders. While the study support project was initiated from the perspective of social welfare, collaboration between the fields of social welfare and educational organizations has recently begun to grow due to increased social awareness of the problem of poverty with respect to “equal opportunity for education” and “the poverty overcoming act”. On the other hand, urgent problems have arisen in collaboration between social welfare and educational organizations resulting from lack of shared information, different strategies in practical applications, insufficient approaches for children in need, and lack of personnel. This paper further addresses the need and importance of strengthening collaboration between the two with a common understanding of these problems in order to support “self-independence” and to assure the “opportunity for learning” and effective implementation of child poverty strategies.

This study verified the intentionality (concerns about clients) of professionals working together to protect children, and attempted to clarify how to reinforce their intentionality. For this validation, hypotheses were formed by making references to philosophy, with a focus on the passive aspect of intentionality. Intentionality was verified using quantitative data. Furthermore, because child protection emphasizes measures toward systematic efforts, this study compared three agencies that deal with child protection. The outcomes of multiple regression analysis revealed that the factors that affected the intentionality differed among the agencies. On the other hand, all the surveyed agencies shared the common result that the intentionality was positively affected by the experiences of the professionals working together. This finding is compatible with the theoretical idea that intentionality functions as a “connector of worlds.” Thus, if we enable the intentionality of professionals working together, we will find that we need to accept each other's differences, and ascertain each other's interactions in collaborative work.

This study conducted through interviews of 9 caregivers working in a special nursing home. The author investigated the problems faced by terminal caregiving staff in their work and considered solutions for these problems. A qualitative data analysis was carried out and the following problems were identified: “Overload due to the start of terminal care”, “Feeling of a physical burden and mental burden when providing medical services”, “Difficulty of confirming the elderly patients' needs and intentions”, and “Mental burden”. Considering the results in relation to the requirement for additional terminal care, there is a high possibility that current staffing levels lead to overload due to the start of terminal care. And in the on-call system, it may be difficult to respond to medical needs. The families of the elderly patients are placed in a situation that no longer has its principal intention, but nursing staff did not have solutions. For good quality terminal care in special nursing homes, consideration must be given to ways to reduce anxiety and the burden of care staff.

The purpose of this study was to visualize older mothers' behaviors and perceptions, and the factors contributing to them, in their experiences about the independence of their sons or daughters with intellectual disabilities as they moved from their parental homes to group homes. In the study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 mothers aged more than 60 years when their children gained independence. Analysis of their answers was conducted using the Trajectory Equifinality Model (TEM).

Mothers' experiences began by “noticing a strange feeling”. Moving between “an unspoken connection that cannot be logically explained” and “successful experiences of separation between children and parents,” mothers who sent their children to group homes felt they were driven to this decision by the mothers' agitation. The mothers' experiences about their children's independence continued after this, falling into two types: “feeling relieved of a burden” and “continuing to experience difficulty in this dual existence”.

The study revealed that this prompted mothers to rethink their future. The results indicate the need to provide: (1) opportunities and information for mothers to envision their children's future, (2) well-timed support that raises awareness around self-reliance, and (3) continuous support for mothers and children after the children's independence is achieved.

This study aimed at clarifying the “recovery” process of domestic violence (DV) survivors from their DV experiences and how they gave meaning to those experiences. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with DV survivors and were analyzed using the Modified Grounded Theory Approach.

The survivors reported that their final goal was to neither separate themselves from their abusers nor reconstruct their daily lives. Rather, they felt “something is different, something is missing,” and they tried to live by “grasping the rudder of their lives again.” While they “were overwhelmed by their wounds,” they gradually gained composure and they could feel that they were all right by “nurturing themselves in their own way,” “actively finding a place in society,” and “being reinforced about the meaning of life.” They sought not to return to who they were before experiencing DV but to develop a “new self.” The results revealed that DV survivors experienced post-traumatic growth (PTG) through their “recovery” process when they struggled to overcome their vulnerability and gain strength.

This study examined the meaning of donation in Community Chest drives in the framework of “Social Work (Shakaijigyo)” from the period after World War II to the mid-1960s. Previous research studies took the idea that Community Chest drives were an obligation, but we focused on how people interested in social work have understood these fund-raising drives.

Contemporary research papers discussed voluntary participation in the donation and the requirement to visit from door to door, which are contradictions, and the socialization of mutual aid.

We found that people interested in social work pursued the ideal of socialization of mutual aid, and offering mutual aid was a fad in the mid-1960s. In other words, people's behavior towards Community Chest drives was an adverse consequence to their intention to attach great importance to voluntarism. Voluntarism was the socialization of mutual aid having a spirit of cooperation and participation in making a donation. The Community Chest drives became universal and became very far apart from being motivated by a pure heart. Finally, we found that people of the day thought that the meaning of a donation was different from the pure idea of Community Chest drives.

This study, by analyzing the achievements and challenges of Korea's Social Enterprise Promotion Act, aims at presenting implications for Japanese social enterprise supporting methods. As a research method, a literature review was conducted to identify the current situations of social enterprises through business survey data and relevant materials. In addition, an interview survey was conducted with executives of social enterprises.

As a result of the study, the following four big categories were derived as achievements of the act: i) raising awareness on social enterprises; ii) energizing support measures offered by local governments; iii) having job creating effects on socially disadvantaged groups; and iv) expanding cooperation and support in the private sectors. Meanwhile, regarding the challenges of the act, the following six big categories were derived: i) confusion about the concept of social enterprises; ii) quality of jobs; iii) sustainability of management; iv) infringement on the autonomy of management associated with public assistance; v) market confusion; and vi) supervision problems of system management.