Description |
1 online resource (187 pages) |
Contents |
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 |
Summary |
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 |
Notes |
Applications of Boundary Theory to the Concept of Service Integration in the Human ServicesIndex |
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Subject |
Human services -- United States.
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Social service -- United States.
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Community organization -- United States
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Community organization
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Human services
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Social service
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United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781317948810 |
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1317948815 |
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