Social Services category: 2206 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
This edited volume analyzes the different degrees of discrimination meted out to women by the country's inheritance laws and the corresponding customary practices in tribal societies. It also exposes the current socio-legal structure in the country, which systematically denies women the accessibility...
National Service and Volunteerism
Achieving Impact in Our Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national...
Everything on the Line:
Calming & De-escalation of Aggressive & Mentally Ill Individuals on the Phone - A Comprehensive Guidebook for Emergency Dispatch (9-1-1) Centers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Although call-takers at an Emergency Dispatch Center are under no immediate physical threat, they are often the focus of intense verbal violence. In this comprehensive guidebook, Ellis Amdur, with the assistance of consultants whose cumulative experience in emergency call-taking and emergency dispatch...
by June Goulding
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
'I promised that I would one day write a book and tell the world about the home for unmarried mothers. I have at last kept my promise.'
In Ireland, 1951, the young June Goulding took up a position as midwife in a home for unmarried mothers run by the Sacred Heart nuns. What she witnessed there...
Citizens in Europe
Essays on Democracy, Constitutionalism and European Integration
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This interdisciplinary collection of essays by a constitutionalist and a political sociologist examines how fragmented societies can be held together by appropriate and effective constitutional arrangements providing for bonds of democratic citizenship. Exploring the political order dilemmas of capitalist...
Parents Who Misuse Drugs and Alcohol
Effective Interventions in Social Work and Child Protection
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
This book presents original research outlining the key elements in responding to parental misuse of drugs and alcohol.
Offers a definition of “misuse” and “addiction” and the factors that influence the nature of misuse or addiction
Reviews extensively the nature and impact of parental...
Go home?
The politics of immigration controversies
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In July 2013, the UK government arranged for a van to drive through parts of London carrying the message 'In the UK illegally? GO HOME or face arrest.' This book tells the story of what happened next.
The vans were short-lived, but they were part of an ongoing trend in government-sponsored...
White working-class voices
Multiculturalism, community-building and change
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Popular views of white working-class communities are common but knowledge of their views on multiculturalism and change less so. This important book provides the first substantial analysis of white working-class perspectives on themes of multiculturalism and change in the UK, creating an opportunity...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
An integrated national identification (ID) system offers a means to fast-track the development process by providing the most efficient way to identify people in developing countries. This report seeks to help governments assess the maturity of a country's ID system and integrate it with development...
by Grosh Margaret E.; Del Ninno Carlo; Tesliuc Emil; Ouerghi Azedine
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2008
Safety nets are noncontributory transfer programs targeted to the poor or vulnerable. They play important roles in social policy. Safety nets redistribute income, thereby immediately reducing poverty and inequality; they enable households to invest in the human capital of their children and in the livelihoods...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This handbook presents a cost-effective and reliable data collection strategy for measuring and analyzing informal employment and the informal sector. The cornerstone of this methodology is a version of the mixed survey that is anchored to the Labor Force Survey conducted regularly by developing countries....
Gender Tool Kit
Transport
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This tool kit assists staff and consultants of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and partner governments in conceptualizing and designing gender-responsive programs and projects in transport sector operations. It aims to help users identify gender equality issues and to develop practical design elements...
The Unmaking of Man
Disability and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The Unmaking of Man is a series of four essays by Dr Simon Duffy exploring the lessons of the Holocaust for people with disabilities. Few people know that people with disabilities not only made up a large number of the victims of the Holocaust but they were the first victims, marked out for destruction...
Animal Cruelty and Freedom of Speech
When Worlds Collide
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
A collaboration between an attorney and an animal protection advocate, this work utilizes the extremely controversial and high-profile "crush video" case, US v. Stevens, to explore how American society attempts to balance the protection of free speech and the prevention of animal cruelty....