Social Services category: 2206 books
Towards Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare
International Comparisons of Child Protection, Family Service, and Community Caring Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2006
The need for services that respond to the ‘maltreatment’ of children and to the struggles of families is at the core of social service systems in all developed nations. While these child and family welfare systems confront similar problems and incorporate common elements, there are substantial...
Six Steps to Successful Child Advocacy
Changing the World for Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Six Steps to Successful Child Advocacy: Changing the World for Children (by Amy Conley Wright and Kenneth J. Jaffe) offers an interdisciplinary approach to child advocacy, nurturing key skills through a proven six-step process that has been used to train child advocates and create social change around...
by Elizabeth Kath
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
For Cuba's supporters, health is the most commonly cited evidence of the socialist system's success. Even critics often concede that this is the country's saving grace. Cuba's health statistics are indeed extraordinary. This small island outperforms virtually all of its neighboring countries and all...
Something for Nothing
The All-Consuming Desire that Turns the American Dream into a Social Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2005
America's greatness comes from people working hard to fulfill their dreams. But today that greatness is being undermined by people using the government to steal other people's dreams (and money). Rather than participate and innovate in the marketplace, generating goods and services that benefit society,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Innovative Approaches to Mental Health Evaluation is a collection of papers that provides a broad range of ideas, methods, and techniques in program administration and evaluation in the field of mental health.
The book is organized into 2 sections. Part I, consisting of 8 chapters, presents the necessary...
Australia's Welfare Wars
The Players, the Politics and the Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia.
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth
Developing Evidence-Based International Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support.
Featuring contributions from distinguished international contributors, it critically examines...
Should We Tax the Rich More?
The Munk Debate on Economic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2013
As middle-class incomes stagnate in advanced economies while the rich experience record income gains, the eleventh semi-annual Munk Debate pits wealth redistribution supporters Paul Krugman and George Papandreou against Newt Gingrich and Arthur Laffer to debate taxation — should the rich pay more?
For...
American Hunger
The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Washington Post Series
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow traveled across the country over the course of a year—from Florida and Texas to Rhode Island and Tennessee—to examine the personal and political implications...
by Richard C. Box
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Public service values are too rarely discussed in public administration courses and scholarship, despite recent research demonstrating the importance of these values in the daily decision making processes of public service professionals. A discussion of these very tenets and their relevance to...
Raising Government Children
A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized...
Strengthening Public Pension Systems in Asia
Proceedings of the 2015 ADB–PPI Conference on Public Pension Systems in Asia, Focus: Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Viet Nam, and Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Asia’s population is aging and old-age income support and social services is an emerging challenge. Strengthening pension systems in Asia is therefore a key concern for inclusive development in the region. In many Asian countries, pension systems are still inadequate in terms of both coverage and...
Faith Based
Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare—an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly. Through case studies of gospel rescue missions, Habitat...
From Welfare to Workfare
The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945-1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
In 1996, Democratic president Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress "ended welfare as we know it" and trumpeted "workfare" as a dramatic break from the past. But, in fact, workfare was not new. Jennifer Mittelstadt locates the roots of the 1996 welfare reform many decades in the past,...