Social Services category: 2206 books
by Ann Dill
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The point of departure for Managing to Care is widespread concern that the present delivery of health and social welfare services is fragmented, uncoordinated, inefficient, costly, wasteful, and ultimately detrimental to clients' health and wellbeing. Dill traces the evolution of case management from...
Faith In Action
Guiding Principles of The Salvation Army Social Services Ministries
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
THIS GUIDE CONNECTS THE SALVATION ARMY’S HISTORY, THEOLOGY, AND VALUES WITH A DISTINCT SET OF SOCIAL WORK PRACTICES THAT AFFIRM ITS MISSION. If you’re seeking to increase your understanding of The Salvation Army’s holistic approach to social services, you will find FAITH IN ACTION to be a hands-on...
Dealing with welfare conditionality
Implementation and effects
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
This edited collection considers how conditional welfare policies and services are implemented and experienced by a diverse range of welfare service users across a range of UK policy domains including social security, homelessness, migration and criminal justice. The book showcases the insights and...
Family Group Conferencing
New Directions in Community-Centered Child and Family Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Family Group Conferencing indicates a large-scale shift in assumptions about the way child welfare services are planned and delivered - away from models that emphasize pathology, and toward those seeking an ecological understanding of the families and social networks involved. The contributors also...
Catching a Case
Inequality and Fear in New York City's Child Welfare System
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Influenced by news reports of young children brutalized by their parents, most of us see the role of child services as the prevention of severe physical abuse. But as Tina Lee shows in Catching a Case, most child welfare cases revolve around often ill-founded charges of neglect, and the parents swept...
Assessing the Support Needs of Adopted Children and Their Families
Building Secure New Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Written in consultation with a range of experts, clinicians and practitioners as well as adoptive children, families and birth relatives, this book gives helpful guidance on making evidence-based assessments and planning successful adoption support. Key features include:
a discussion of the main...
by Mayo, Marjorie
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Access to justice for all, regardless of the ability to pay, has been a core democratic value. But this basic human right has come under threat through wider processes of restructuring, with an increasingly market-led approach to the provision of welfare. Professionals and volunteers in Law Centres...
The War Between the State and the Family
How Government Divides and Impoverishes
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Patricia Morgan's core assumption is that the family is an extremely effective vehicle for raising the welfare of its members. If this is correct it is quite possible that the state can best support the family by doing very little--by not taxing the family heavily and by minimizing the subsidization...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
This is a complete reproduction of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, Public Law 93-288 (Stafford Act). This Act constitutes the statutory authority for most Federal disaster response activities especially as they pertain to FEMA and FEMA programs.
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Social policy 3e
Theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Social Policy: Theory and practice is a fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook, extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. The book lays out the architecture of social policy as a field of study, binding the discussion...
Responding to the Youth Crisis
Developing Capacity to Improve Youth Services: A Case Study from the Marshall Islands
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The Republic of the Marshall Islands is a relatively new nation, with half of its population under the age of 18 years. This study tells the story of how the Government of the Marshall Islands, with assistance from the Asian Development Bank, set out to strengthen domestic capacity to improve services...
The Social Worker Speaks
A History of Social Workers Through the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The Social Worker Speaks charts the motivations, work activities and attitudes of social workers across the country from 1904 to 1989. The book is about workers in the public sector (from Poor Law to Social Services Departments), probation and workers in the voluntary field (including early century...
by Kathleen Heery, MS RN CCM
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
After many years in the health care and insurance industries, author Kathleen Heery MS, RN, CCM was struck by the reality that health care services could better align with health and that the chaos and expense in receiving these services could be better coordinated. The Affordable Care Act, also called...
Critical Reflections on Health Services Development in India
The Teleology of Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
The book undertakes a critical examination of health service development in India and provides an explanation of its underdevelopment. It analyzes the trajectory of health services development in India and dissects the roles of various actors which shape that process viz. the State, civil society,...