Costs are defined
in a
variety of ways and under a
variety of assumptions that affect their value ► Cost types include: ► administrative costs
of planning, management, monitoring, audits, accounting, reporting, clerical activities, etc. associated with a project or program; ► damage costs to ecosystems, economies and people due to negative effects from climate change; ► implementation costs
of changing existing rules and regulation,
capacity building
efforts, information, training and education, etc. to put a policy into place; ► private costs are carried by individuals, companies or other private entities that undertake the action, where ► social costs include additionally the external costs on the environment and on society as a whole.
Strength Focused Practice Research from a
variety of settings emphasizes that families do better
in changing behaviors that caused children to be unsafe and maintaining those changes when the
efforts of the various people involved
in the family's life are focused on building on the strengths and protective
capacities that already exist within the family.