Human services integration / Michael J. Austin, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Austin, Michael J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human services--United States.

Human services.

Social service--United States.

Social service.

Community organization--United States.

Community organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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

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

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

Notes:

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

First published by the Haworth Press, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 24, 2014).

ISBN:

1-138-97212-6

1-317-94880-7

1-315-86247-6

1-317-94881-5

9781315862477

OCLC:

872681912