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Serving the Urban Poor The urban poor suffer many problems beyond pressing financial concerns, including those involving housing, health, and family relationships. This book investigates the services needed by the poor. It also examines the cognitive and emotional states which the clients bring as they seek help. Full description
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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. "Serving the Urban Poor", based on the author's close and extensive collaboration with New York's Lower East Family Union, afffords a substantive, insightful, and practically effective approach not only to defining the services needed but also to the delivery thereof. It examines too, 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 offers informed hope that the awful conditions of the urban poor can be ameliorated through better planned and effective service delivery, and caring interventions.About the Author
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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- PublisherPraeger
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0275940756
- ISBN 13 9780275940751
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages368
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