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The Development Of Community Action Programs And Their Influence On Social Welfare Policies
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Book Synopsis The Development of Community Action Programs and Their Influence on Social Welfare Policies by : Philip Edward Irons
Download or read book The Development of Community Action Programs and Their Influence on Social Welfare Policies written by Philip Edward Irons and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :0309452961 Total Pages :583 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (94 download)
Book Synopsis Communities in Action by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Book Synopsis Dilemmas of Social Reform by : Peter Marris
Download or read book Dilemmas of Social Reform written by Peter Marris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is a classic work on social reform. It is an account of the origins and development of community action from its beginnings in the Ford Foundation Gray Area Programs and the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency, through the rise and decline of the War on Poverty and the Model Cities program. In the ruthlessly impartial examination of various poverty programs, two social scientists one British, one American--explain why programs of such size and complexity have only a minimal chance of success. They describe the realities of reform and point up how the conservatism of bureaucracy, the rivalries among political and administrative jurisdictions, and the apathy of the poor have often hindered national and local efforts. On the other hand, they show how these obstacles can be overcome by an imaginative combination of leadership, democratic participation, and scientific analysis. This second edition also contains a new chapter that was not included in the first edition. This new chapter, tries to set the study in a broader context: first, by interpreting the political motives and constraints that led to the adoption of community action as a principal strategy of a nationwide war on poverty and second, by discussing the underlying weaknesses of democracy that community action implied and sought to tackle. Distinguished by an analysis of the major critics of community action, the book provides a balanced perspective of the movement against its many foes. It is important reading for anyone engaged in planning or community action, whether as organizer, consultant, official, or politician.
Book Synopsis Community Action Against Poverty by : Mobilization for Youth
Download or read book Community Action Against Poverty written by Mobilization for Youth and published by New Haven : College & University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Handbook of Social Policy by : James Midgley
Download or read book The Handbook of Social Policy written by James Midgley and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social policy is a continuously evolving field requiring constant review, documentation, and analysis. The Handbook of Social Policy is an attempt to document the now substantial body of knowledge about government social policies that has been accumulated since the study of social policy first emerged as an organized field of academic endeavor about 50 years ago. The Second Edition offers a more streamlined format to make the book more consistent with the way most instructors teach their courses. This text is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to a vast field of endeavor that has, over the years, made a significant difference to the lives and the well-being of the people of the United States. New to the Second Edition Provides up-to-date policies and references to include the latest information on social policy Offers a state of the art account of American social policy at the beginning of the 21st century Presents contributions, including more case studies and examples, from leading experts in their respective areas challenge the norm in thinking about social welfare policy Focuses more attention on diverse populations and international issues Includes added content to reflect the areas that have received increased attention such as advocacy, policy practice, immigration issues, discrimination, and more Intended Audience This is excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as History of Social Policy, Education and Social Policy, and International Social Policy in the fields of social policy, public policy and administration, and social work.
Book Synopsis Social Welfare in Western Society by : Gerald Handel
Download or read book Social Welfare in Western Society written by Gerald Handel and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social welfare has a three-thousand-year history in Western society. This book offers a sociological framework that provides conceptual order to the countless details of that history, while highlighting its essentials. Social welfare in all its forms is based on one central concept--help. But there are many versions of help and multiple debates about those versions. The outcomes of some debates have led to withholding help, and these outcomes are an inescapable part of this domain, in the past and in the present. The major versions, their development, and the debates are carefully examined in this volume. Social Welfare in Western Society argues that in history five basic concepts of help have emerged. These five, explored and developed are: charity, based on a relationship between private donors and recipients; public welfare, based on a relationship between the state and its recipients; social insurance, based on a relationship between the state and beneficiaries of its programs; social service, based on people skilled in interaction providing skill-based time to their clients; mutual aid groups (sometimes misleadingly called self-help groups), whose members are simultaneously helpers and those helped. There are multiple versions of each of these five concepts now usually referred to as social policy issues. There are fierce disagreements about what is helpful and which supposed forms of help are harmful to the wider society. The book concludes that major debates have centered and continue to center around these major issues: Should the poor be helped or punished? Who is to blame? Do the poor have the same rights as other people? Who should pay? Who should decide? What is the effect of receiving welfare on incentive to work? Who should be helped? This is a masterful text designed for professional and public reading. Gerald Handel is professor emeritus of sociology at The City College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Making a Life in Yorkville: Experience and Meaning in the Life Course Narrative of an Urban Working-Class Man, editor of Childhood Socialization, and co-editor of The Psychosocial Interior of the Family, all published by Transaction Publishers.
Book Synopsis Social Welfare by : Louise C. Johnson
Download or read book Social Welfare written by Louise C. Johnson and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 1997 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-respected book includes relevant historical information on the development of social welfare, social work, and social policy. This book offers information on the development of social welfare policy, a framework for policy analysis, and a unique chapter on social change (Chapter 2). It also includes extensive information on social welfare resources, and information on the practice of social work at the individual, family, group and community level. In addition, the book provides coverage of the most recent proposals for welfare reform. For professionals working in the field of social work.
Author :United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Library Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :72 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Community Planning for Health, Education, and Welfare by : United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Library
Download or read book Community Planning for Health, Education, and Welfare written by United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Library and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Community Action Programs by : Community Action Program (U.S.)
Download or read book Community Action Programs written by Community Action Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States by : Philip R. Popple
Download or read book Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States written by Philip R. Popple and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Social welfare in the new nation, 1776-1865 -- America confronts poverty, 1776-1860 -- Modern America, modern problems: 1860-1900 -- Scientific charity, 1850-1900 -- Progress in social welfare, 1895-1929 -- The birth of a profession: 1898-1930 -- Crises: the great depression and World War II -- The Depression: a crisis for the new profession, 1930-1945 -- America's welfare state experiment: 1945-1974 -- Social work practice, 1945-1974 -- Ending welfare as we know it -- Social work in the conservative 21st century welfare state
Book Synopsis Planning for Community Action by : Community Action Program (U.S.)
Download or read book Planning for Community Action written by Community Action Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Social Action with Children and Families by : Crescy Cannan
Download or read book Social Action with Children and Families written by Crescy Cannan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that meeting the needs of children requires a rediscovery and modernization of the social action and community development traditions of social work and aims to help those working in this field find a new, more positive sense of direction.
Book Synopsis The Development of Community Action Agencies in Wisconsin and the Implementation of Federal Social Policy by : Craig Marshall Harris
Download or read book The Development of Community Action Agencies in Wisconsin and the Implementation of Federal Social Policy written by Craig Marshall Harris and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Social Policy for Effective Practice by : Rosemary Kennedy Chapin
Download or read book Social Policy for Effective Practice written by Rosemary Kennedy Chapin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use as a text in foundations generalist social policy courses, either at the baccalaureate or master’s level, this book examines the process of defining need, analyzing social policy, and developing new policy. A clear philosophical base and a common theoretical framework underlie the discussion of each component of the policy process. Each chapter builds on the knowledge foundation provided in previous chapters to equip students with skills necessary for effective policy practice. Four themes are interwoven throughout the book: the importance of thinking critically about social policy, the benefits of using the strengths perspective in policy analysis and development, the critical role social policy plays in all areas of practice, and the absolute responsibility of every social worker to engage in policy practice. Routledgesw.com now contains 6 cases; the Sanchez Case has been revised to include much more policy content. Instructor materials include extra readings, PowerPoints, test questions, annotated links, syllabi, and EPAS guidelines. As with the third edition, instructors can choose chapters relevant to their course and custom publish them at www.routledge.customgateway.com
Book Synopsis The Community Action Program and the Transformation of American Social Policy, 1964-present by : Ryan LaRochelle
Download or read book The Community Action Program and the Transformation of American Social Policy, 1964-present written by Ryan LaRochelle and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines transformations in the governance of American social policy since the 1960s through a case study of the Community Action Program (CAP), one of the central programs of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. The CAP bypassed state and local governments and delivered federal funds directly to newly established nonprofit organizations known as community action agencies (CAAs). This ultimately led to the emergence of an increasingly vast nonprofit sector that has become deeply woven into the fabric of the modern American welfare state. CAAs originally provided diverse groups of low-income citizens with opportunities to actively participate in policy design and administration. The program emphasized the importance of local initiative and drew upon American ideals of self-help, self-sufficiency, and personal resourcefulness. The CAP never established a firm base of support, and has thus been subject to retrenchment and dismantlement since the mid-1960s. Over the past fifty years, policy makers with diverse motives and objectives have sought to decentralize and defund the antipoverty program. The CAP has persisted, but it Congress and conservative presidents have significantly reformed and reoriented it. Drawing on insights from the scholarship on American political development, policy history, and public policy, this dissertation shows how policies can develop in disjointed, uneven ways over time. Policies can simultaneously produce both self-reinforcing and self-undermining feedback effects. The CAP’s architects argued that the War on Poverty needed to be fought primarily by local communities with help from the federal government. By highlighting the importance of communities’ own understanding of the poverty problem, the CAP paradoxically aligned with conservative efforts to delegate social policy making authority to the states in the 1970s and 80s. The CAP’s political and administrative history provides new insights into the rise of the “hollow” state, the increasing role of the states in social policy delivery, the federal government’s increasing reliance on delegation and nonprofits in the administration of social policy, and broader processes of policy development and policy feedback. I argue that changes to the CAP and the wider system of U.S. social provision dramatically alter the relationship between low-income citizens and the state, which has important consequences for civic engagement and democratic participation in modern America.
Book Synopsis The Color of Welfare by : Jill Quadagno
Download or read book The Color of Welfare written by Jill Quadagno and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support. Some critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing our tradition of individual freedom and libertarian values, while others point to weaknesses within the working class. In The Color of Welfare, Jill Quadagno takes exception to these claims, placing race at the center of the "American Dilemma," as Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal did half a century ago. The "American creed" of liberty, justice, and equality clashed with a history of active racial discrimination, says Quadagno. It is racism that has undermined the War on Poverty, and America must come to terms with this history if there is to be any hope of addressing welfare reform today. From Reconstruction to Lyndon Johnson and beyond, Quadagno reveals how American social policy has continually foundered on issues of race. Drawing on extensive primary research, Quadagno shows, for instance, how Roosevelt, in need of support from southern congressmen, excluded African Americans from the core programs of the Social Security Act. Turning to Lyndon Johnson's "unconditional war on poverty," she contends that though anti-poverty programs for job training, community action, health care, housing, and education have accomplished much, they have not been fully realized because they became inextricably intertwined with the civil rights movement of the 1960s, which triggered a white backlash. Job training programs, for instance, became affirmative action programs, programs to improve housing became programs to integrate housing, programs that began as community action to upgrade the quality of life in the cities were taken over by local civil rights groups. This shift of emphasis eventually alienated white, working-class Americans, who had some of the same needs--for health care, subsidized housing, and job training opportunities--but who got very little from these programs. At the same time, affirmative action clashed openly with organized labor, and equal housing raised protests from the white suburban middle-class, who didn't want their neighborhoods integrated. Quadagno shows that Nixon, who initially supported many of Johnson's programs, eventually caught on that the white middle class was disenchanted. He realized that his grand plan for welfare reform, the Family Assistance Plan, threatened to undermine wages in the South and alienate the Republican party's new constituency--white, southern Democrats--and therefore dropped it. In the 1960s, the United States embarked on a journey to resolve the "American dilemma." Yet instead of finally instituting full democratic rights for all its citizens, the policies enacted in that turbulent decade failed dismally. The Color of Welfare reveals the root cause of this failure--the inability to address racial inequality.
Book Synopsis Children and Their Families in Big Cities by :
Download or read book Children and Their Families in Big Cities written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
