Serving the Urban Poor - Couverture rigide

Fanshel, David; Finch, Stephen J.; Grundy, John F.

 
9780275940751: Serving the Urban Poor
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0275940756 ISBN 13 : 9780275940751
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1992

Synopsis

The urban poor suffer many problems beyond pressing financial concerns, including those involving housing, health, and family relationships. Social welfare agencies struggle to cope with the enormity of need presented by individuals and families. The providers frequently lack a framework to guide their priorities and the delivery of services. This volume, based on the authors' close and extensive collaboration with New York's Lower East Family Union, affords a substantive, insightful, and effective approach not only to defining the services needed but also to the delivery thereof. It also examines the cognitive and emotional states which the clients bring as they seek help. Means are provided for establishing priority of needs, assessing the value of preventive services, and formulating family-specific service responses. Potential family dissolution and implicit child welfare concerns are viewed as especially critical and receives extensive constructive discussion.

Stressed, poverty-level families often approach helping agencies in a nearly exhausted condition. The needs of such clients can only be answered, and the last straw avoided, if the agencies are structured to identify the most immediate needs and to supply the understanding, supportive relationship, and the requisite practical assistance. This book, with its extensive base of experience, guides the process wisely. It offers informed hope that the awful conditions of the urban poor can be ameliorated through better planned and effective service delivery, and caring interventions.

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À propos de l'auteur

DAVID FANSHEL is Professor in the Columbia University School of Social Work.

STEPHEN J. FINCH is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the State University of New York at Stonybrook.

JOHN F. GRUNDY served as a senior research associate at Columbia University of Social Work at the time of this study.

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0275940756
ISBN 13 
9780275940751
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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