"This book takes up the challenge of the failure of most initiatives in community-based service delivery to address the significant philosophical shift that is necessary to create, implement, and evaluate appropriately these sorts of projects. Challenging the tendency to focus e…
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"Through compelling ethnography, Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors reveals the creative and ambitious methods that social service providers use to house their clients despite the conflictual conditions posed by the policies and institutions that go…
"Through compelling ethnography, Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors reveals the creative and ambitious methods that social service providers use to house their clients despite the conflictual conditions posed by the policies and institutions that go…
"Through compelling ethnography, Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors reveals the creative and ambitious methods that social service providers use to house their clients despite the conflictual conditions posed by the policies and institutions that go…
This book is geared toward the study of social work, social policy, and social justice, with an emphasis on policies set in place during the Great Recession.
This book is a response to the felt need of social work practitioners for professional supervision. Reflecting on the social work profession in the context of contemporary socio-economic and political challenges and wide-ranging organizational and practice settings, the book pro…
Larry Watson and Richard Hoefer explore core managerial competencies tailored to the unique environment of human service organisations, including administrative responsibilities, values and ethics, organisational theories, leadership, boards of directors, fundraising, supervisio…
Developing Nonprofit and Human Service Leaders comprehensively prepares students with the skills to successfully manage human service organizations. Authors Larry D. Watson and Richard Hoefer explore core managerial competencies tailored to the unique environment of these organi…
This title comprehensively prepares students with the skills to successfully manage human service organizations. Authors Larry D. Watson and Richard Hoefer explore core managerial competencies tailored to the unique environment of these organizations, including administrative re…
Larry Watson and Richard Hoefer explore core managerial competencies tailored to the unique environment of human service organisations, including administrative responsibilities, values and ethics, organisational theories, leadership, boards of directors, fundraising, supervisio…
This volume spotlights recent advances in the worldwide use of quantitative performance measures in the public sector, especially approaches that incorporate program evaluation techniques. Chapters include single-country case studies, multi-country comparisons, and thoughtful es…
This is a book of hope at a time when just about everyone but Marvin Olasky has lost hope. The topic is poverty and the underclass. The profound truth that Marvin Olasky forces us to confront is that the problems of the underclass are not caused by poverty. Some of them are exac…
"Can a man be content with a piece of bread and some change tossed his way from a passerby?" "Today's modern welfare state expects he can. Those who control the money in our society think that giving a dollar at the train station and then appropriating a billion dollars for fede…
This is a book of hope at a time when just about everyone but Marvin Olasky has lost hope. The topic is poverty and the underclass. The profound truth that Marvin Olasky forces us to confront is that the problems of the underclass are not caused by poverty. Some of them are exac…
Bill Mckitterick explores the ways that strong self-leadership can help social workers refocus their attention on efforts that can achieve positive change. He also identifies tactics and strategies for providing leadership within a team and in senior positions.
This book explores how, through strong self-leadership, social workers can both explain and demonstrate how social work can achieve positive change.