1st Edition
Reinventing Human Services Community- and Family-Centered Practice
By Benjamin Higgins
Copyright 1995
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
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Dissatisfaction with a human services system that is unresponsive, stigmatizing, and ineffective has led to a ferment of experimentation in recent years. Reinventing Human Services examines the historical and economic context of current efforts to reinvent human services, showing the urgency and the difficulty of the task. It draws on successful examples in Britain, Canada, and the United States... Read more
Introduction; I: The Context of Community- and Family-Centered Practice; 1: Neighborhood-Based Services in Low-Income Neighborhoods: A Brief History; 2: The Economic Context of Community-Centered Practice: Markets, Communities, and Social Policy; 3: Integrating Community and Individual Practice: A New Paradigm for Practice; II: Creating Community- and Family-Centered Practice: Examples from the Social Services, Education, and Policing; 4: Working with Families and Communities: The Patch Approach; 5: Family-Centered Social Services: Moving Toward System Change; 6: Self-Employment Training and Family Development: An Integrated Strategy for Family Empowerment; 7: School-Based Comprehensive Services: An Example of Interagency Collaboration; 8: Linking Schools with Family- and Community-Centered Services; 9: Community Policing: The Police as a Community Resource; 10: Young People as Community Resources: New Forms of Participation; III: Changing Practice to Include Families and Communities; 11: Understanding and Constructing Community: A Communication Approach; 12: Professional Understandings of Community: At a Loss for Words?; 13: Expanding the Focus of Intervention: The Importance of Family/Community Relations; 14: Strengthening Partnerships between Families and Service Providers
Biography
Benjamin Higgins
