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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453423203321

Titolo

Human services integration / / Michael J. Austin, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-138-97212-6

1-317-94880-7

1-315-86247-6

1-317-94881-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AustinMichael J

Disciplina

361.973

Soggetti

Human services - United States

Social service - United States

Community organization - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

". has also been published as Administration in social work, Volume 21, Numbers 3/4 1997."

First published by the Haworth Press, 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Service Integration: Introduction; Service Integration: Something Old and Something New; Marking Progress Toward Service Integration: Learning to Use Evaluation to Overcome Barriers; Reclaiming Community: An Integrative Approach to Human Services; Collaboration: A Study of a Children's Initiative; Launching a Family-Centered, Neighborhood-Based Human Services System: Lessons from Working the Hallways and Street Corners; Assessing a Family-Centered Neighborhood Service Agency: The Del Paso Heights Model

Applications of Boundary Theory to the Concept of Service Integration in the Human ServicesIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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. This book tells you about the efforts being made to provide existing services more efficiently while avoiding duplication and waste. As you will quickly see, developing co

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789809403321

Autore

Williams Joan <1952->

Titolo

Reshaping the work-family debate [[electronic resource] ] : why men and class matter / / Joan C. Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-674-26836-9

0-674-05883-6

Descrizione fisica

293 p. : ill

Collana

William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization ; ; 2008

Disciplina

306.3/6

Soggetti

Work and family - United States

Working mothers - United States

Dual-career families - United States

Sex role - United States

Social classes - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the William E. Massey Sr. lectures in the history of American Civilization.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Opt out or pushed out? -- One sick child away from being fired -- Masculine norms at work -- Reconstructive feminism and feminist theory -- The class culture gap -- Culture wars as class conflict.

Sommario/riassunto

The United States has the most family-hostile public policy in the developed world. Contesting the idea that women need to negotiate better within the family, and redefining the notion of success in the workplace, Joan C. Williams reinvigorates the work-family debate and offers the first steps to making life manageable for all American families.