Social Services category: 2206 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
In this singular collection, indigenous experts describe the social welfare systems of fifteen East Asian and Pacific Island nations and locales. Vastly understudied, these lands offer key insight into the successes and failures of Western and native approaches to social work, suggesting new directions...
Family Social Welfare
Helping Troubled Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Our changing cultural environment and societal attitudes are subtly but unmistakably altering the personality development of the individual and the functioning of the family. The increasing complexity of the emotional and social problems of their clients is requiring social workers to understand and...
Community Practice
Theories and Skills for Social Workers
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
For almost two decades, Community Practice has been a definitive text for social workers, community practitioners, and students eager to help individuals contribute to and use community resources or work to change oppressive community structures. In this third edition, a wealth of new charts and cases...
Social Policy
Theories, Concepts and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2005
The Third Edition of this widely adopted textbook has been thoroughly revised and offers an authoritative and up-to-date coverage of the key theories, concepts and issues in social policy. The lively and readable text has been designed to provide students with the essential tools to gain a clear understanding...
Common Purpose
Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
In her previous book, Within Our Reach, renowned Harvard social analyst Lisbeth Schorr examined pilot social programs that were successful in helping disadvantaged youth and families. But as those cutting-edge programs were expanded, the very qualities that had made them initially successful were...
by Lewis D. Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
America's elderly population is soaring, presenting numerous challenges for policymakers in the United States. Other developed nations with aging populations face similar problems. There will be fewer workers relative to retirees in coming decades and the elderly are also expected to live longer....
The Social Fund 20 Years On
Historical and Policy Aspects of Loaning Social Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In 2008 the Social Fund had been in operation for 20 years. This has provided a timely opportunity to not only critically reflect upon its introduction in 1988 and its operation in the past two decades, but also to place it within its historical context. There is a particular need to engage with the...
Social Security Works!
Why Social Security Isnt Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
A growing chorus of prominent voices in Congress and elsewhere are calling for the expansion of our Social Security system-people who know that Social Security will not go broke” and does not add a penny to the national debt. Social Security Works! will amplify these voices and offer a powerful...
A sharing economy
How social wealth funds can reduce inequality and help balance the books
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Britain is a society increasingly divided between the super-affluent and the impoverished. A Sharing Economy proposes radical new ways to close the growing income gap and spread social opportunities. Drawing on overseas examples, Stewart Lansley argues that mobilising the huge financial potential...
by Michael J. Prince, James J. Rice
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2000
No one is content with the state of health and social programs in Canada today. The Right thinks that there is too much government involvement, and the Left thinks there is not enough. In Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy James Rice and Michael Prince track the history of the welfare state...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
The Handbook of Social Policy is an attempt to document the now substantial body of knowledge about government social policies that has been accumulated since the study of social policy first emerged as an organized field of academic endeavor about 50 years ago. The Second Edition offers a more streamlined...
The Fiscalization of Social Policy
How Taxpayers Trumped Children in the Fight Against Child Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
In 1970, a single mother with two children working full-time at the federal minimum wage in the US received no direct cash benefits from the federal government. Today, after a period of austerity, that same mother would receive $7,572 in federal cash benefits. This money does not come from social...
Guidance Note
Poverty and Social Dimensions in Urban Projects
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Urbanization will become one of the defining trends of Asia's transformation in the coming decades. Investments in urban areas have a strong potential to contribute to inclusive growth, reduce urban poverty, and strengthen social resilience. The Guidance Note on Poverty and Social Dimensions in Urban...
by John J. Rodger, Jo Campling
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2000
The welfare state is being subjected to fundamental reappraisal. It is now
commonly argued that modern Western societies require a new 'moral economy', whether one of rediscovered charity and family values and increased welfare pluralism, or of rebuilt communities and a welfare system which provides...