Product Description: In Research Strategies for Community Practice, you’ll discover how you can more effectively work together with other practitioners and researchers in the interests of knowledge development and practice assessment. You’ll also gain access to the conceptual rationale, research design process, and research utilization process necessary for success in the context of community organizing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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: This volume of New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising offers sound advice on how nonprofits can make their message heard and become more savvy in their efforts to attract donors, participants, and ultimately, greater revenue to support the programs that fulfill their mission...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work from the "Personal Social Services Research Unit" looks back to the early stages of community care, comparing them with today's emerging policy with a view to improving community care still further. The book describes the first stages of the local development of the community care policy reforms laid out in the 1989 Caring for People white paper and the subsequent 1990 NHS and Community Care Act...read more

Product Description: Addressing the multiple meanings of service integration, Human Services Integration analyzes how motivations and expectations for social service integration differ significantly among different players in the service system. In a period of major budget cutbacks and welfare reform, however, it is important that service providers collaborate to reduce or eliminate boundaries between categorically defined and provided services...read more

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)

This book realizes the current crisis in counseling fields resulting from the very culture of therapy and from funding directives in the past two decades. The ideas and practical examples of work it provides builds upon postmodern goals of creating new alternatives to rigid thinking by unearthing or using the valuable experience of those who have not been in the 'mainstream,' in power positions in which they could write about or lecture from their own life experiences and traditions. Here, the author has assembled groups of people, from her twenty-nine years of clinical experience, who have not been in academic or teaching positions. The author has convened nine groups, in various small town to large urban settings, and videotaped the discussions, reproducing closely in six of the book's chapters the language and flow of the original conversations, as well as the content. The book offers alternatives to the current deadlock in therapy fields by offering the thinking of new players and presenting ideas as group phenomena. It then places these concrete examples of clinical work in the context of the cultural and community traditions which nurtured them, rather than creating yet another 'school' or 'model' of therapy which does not do justice to our North American diversity. The stories which are told here are valuable and accessible to both the beginning and the advanced practitioner, especially to those who intend to work or are working in the public sector.

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

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Product Description: Community Practice: Models in Action stresses the value of using research to examine, develop, and update community practice models. By raising questions about traditional models and identifying contextual and environmental issues that are vital to the study of community practice, this book helps you understand the relationship between theory and action...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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From the founder of Share Our Strength comes a new vision for revitalizing our communities and simple, powerful ways to encourage social change through personal contributions of talent, skill, and time. Reprint. LJ.

Product Description: What effects do community care services have on the people who use them? Detailed attempts to measure impacts on service users and their carers have been largely confined to research exercises designed to compare different forms of social care provision...read more

Tells the story of a social activist who was raised in an orphanage and overcame poverty and drug addiction

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

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: 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

Product Description: This work deals with the community revolution in disability services that has been occuring in the USA, which involves a fundamental change in the way professionals and agencies relate to individuals with disabilities and their families...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 is a study of an evaluation project which sets out to assess care environments. In particular, the North Wales Resettlement Programme is evaluated. Other aspects covered include psychiatric and behavioural outcomes; social networks; community placement; and involving users.