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Integrating services for children and families : understanding the past to shape the future /

As the state of America's children and families continues to degenerate, the human services system struggles to render the support it was designed to provide. Despite such efforts, American families have difficulty accessing services; they are forced to navigate an incomprehensible system where...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kagan, Sharon Lynn
Corporate Author: National Center for Service Integration
Other Authors: Neville, Peter R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1993]
Subjects:
Social service > United States.
Social work administration > United States.
Welfare services > Policies > Of > Government
United States
Service social > États-Unis.
Service social > Gestion > États-Unis.
Familienfürsorge.
Kinderfürsorge.
USA.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Service Integration in Historical Perspective. 1. Sociopolitical Antecedents. 2. Federal Approaches: Research and Demonstration. 3. Federal Approaches: Legislation. 4. The Categorical Approach to Service Integration
  • Pt. II. The Theoretical Context for Service Integration. 5. Evolving Definitions. 6. Multiple Theories
  • Pt. III. Practical Realities: Implementing Service Integration. 7. Action Frameworks. 8. Barriers and Incentives. 9. Strategies
  • Pt. IV. Putting the Past to Work for the Future. 10. Implications: Understanding the Past. 11. Recommendations: Looking to the Future.