Integrating Services for Children and Families - Understanding the Past to Shape the Future

In this comprehensive synthesis of the history, theory, and practice of services integration, Sharon Lynn Kagan, with Peter R. Neville, explores why past efforts to reform the human services system have had only isolated triumphs and marginal impact in improving the quality of life for children and families. Tracing the history of human services in America from the colonial period to the present, Kagan analyzes the underlying assumptions, barriers, and strategies that have characterized the services integration movement and offers new directions for future social service reform. Zusammenfassung An historical survey of government involvement in US human services. The work traces the development and integration of service agencies and suggests that future social service reform must unify goals and eliminate the overlap among a number of organizations.

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• Authors: Sharon Kagan, Sharon Lynn Kagan, Sharon Lynn Neville Kagan, Peter Neville
• Assisted by: Sharon Kagan (Editor), Sharon Lynn Kagan (Editor), Kagan Sharon Lynn (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.1994
• EAN: 9780300058710
• ISBN: 978-0-300-05871-0
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems