Product Description: In American Foundations, Mark Dowie argues that organized philanthropy is on the verge of an evolutionary shift that will transform America's nearly 50,000 foundations from covert arbiters of knowledge and culture to overt mediators of public policy and aggressive creators of new orthodoxy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text examines community work, analyzing its varying theoretical base and practical application. After discussing the development of community work, the author considers a number of contemporary themes and issues. He draws on a range of key concepts and on the experiences of emerging social movements...read more

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Product Description: This is the complete history of the alleged mob activity in Newport, Kentucky, and the magnificent Beverly Hills Supper Club, where 169 people died and the lives of thousands were changed in an instant. Unlike other publications, however, this is the true untold story of what led to Kentucky’s worst tragedy—a story of greed, corruption, deceit, Mafia rule, government cover-ups, kidnapping, and even murder...read more

Product Description: This text-book examines the policy and organizational context for community care, and consists of interviews and case studies, showing how community care is (or is not) working within the areas of care for the elderly, learning disabilities, mental health and physical disabilities...read more

Product Description: This text looks at a project which began in 1989, to integrate people with learning disabilities into the community. It covers the outcomes and effectiveness of the project, the costs, staffing and how care in the community can be developed further.

Product Description: This text looks at a project which began in 1989, to integrate people with learning disabilities into the community. It covers the outcomes and effectiveness of the project, the costs, staffing and how care in the community can be developed further.

This text addresses care management and health care of older people. It discusses the outcome of care for clients, the experience of carers, the costs of care, and other issues. The Darlington Community Care Project serves as a model. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Critically examines the new agenda of welfare and assesses the implications for change for policy makers, formal and informal carers, and consumers. The book should be of interest to policy makers, health, local authority and voluntary sector managers and their staff, teachers and students, and others concerned with the development of community care...read more

Product Description: Examines the organizational and practice issues involved in implementing a policy of community care for people with mental health problems. It analyzes the process of moving an overall service away from a parent hospital and developing new forms of support in a particular local area...read more

Product Description: In his inaugural address in 1993, President Clinton said: "I challenge a new generation of young Americans to a season of service—to act on your idealism by helping troubled children, keeping company with those in need, reconnecting our torn communities...read more

Product Description: An exploration of how people from different professions and agencies work together to meet the health and social needs of people in a community. It is about making the most of different skills to meet people's needs and creating satisfying and supportive working groups...read more

A renowned sociologist at Harvard offers examples of private and public organizations that are successfully restoring troubled inner-city neighborhoods and communities and explores the reasons for their ability to improve the lives of children in need. Reprint.

Product Description: Shows how to create a comprehensive, community-wide prevention program to effectively confront the serious drug and alcohol problems threatening our youth. Shows how to employ community mobilization, educational strategies, volunteerism, and mass media to achieve significant reductions in adolescent drug use...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This text is intended to contribute to an understanding of human behavior in the social environment by providing social work students with an introduction to American communities. The primary focus is on local communities of place. Attention is also given to the communities of interest and identification that are intertwined with geographic communities. Ecological systems and social systems perspectives serve as conceptual and practical frameworks for examining the multiple communities in which people have membership, social identity, and social interaction. This edition begins with an exposition of the societal context of communities. American society is recognized as part of a global community and then examined as a social system, a community of communities, a multicultural society, and a civil society. The book emphasizes the way that discrimination, economic deprivation, and oppression affect populations at risk and demonstrates the role communities play in the pursuit of individual and collective social and economic justice.

Product Description: This book presents adaptations of the therapeutic community (TC) model and method for special populations of substance abusers, and implementation in a variety of institutions and human service settings. Included are pregnant adult addicts and their children, adolescents, prison inmates and parolees, the homeless, and chronically ill clients in methadone treatment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A new perspective on the role of social work professionals and government institutions in the ’90s, the pieces presented here examine the possible collaborative roles available to social work professionals who wish to promote personal autonomy and community self-reliance...read more