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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
Table des matières
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
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Benjamin Higgins
Résumé
Dissatisfaction with a human services system that is unresponsive, stigmatizing, and ineffective has led to a ferment of experimentation in recent years
