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In addition, Andrew Natsios examines the relationship of disaster response to U.S. foreign policy and national interest, and makes suggestions for improving both relief strategies and systems for designing those strategies.

To these issues Natsios brings his first-hand experience in numerous key positions.

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Exposes the broken Veterans Administration (VA) system that goes from the Washington boardroom to local treatment rooms to detail how all concerned - from the VA doctors to the vets themselves - compromise the VA system of medical care delivery and what needs to be done to make the necessary repairs.

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This book crosses international boundaries to explore contemporary child and family welfare practices. It traces the major changes and challenges in Western practice over the past decade, looks at evidence-informed practice, and focuses on the generic phases of the statutory process, including assessing risk and finding safe solutions.

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Although many scholars have emphasized the shortcomings of federal housing programs, few have examined their successes and failures on a case-by-case empirical basis.

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This book addresses the urgent need for adequate shelter and services for the urban poor in developing countries. To enhance the practicality of this excellent source, there are ten original case studies of urban projects, eighteen country papers, and concept papers from the United Nations Centre for Regional Development.

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This book deals with four types of abuse: neglect, emotional abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. For each type of abuse, selected works of fiction, literary, and professional perspectives are juxtaposed along with applications for utilizing the stories in a hypothetical therapy setting.

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Each of the 50 states offers benefit programs to its veteran residents, but many veterans and their families are not aware of the various options. Despite the wide variation in the benefits programs from one state to another, veterans can generally find programs that specifically address their needs in their resident state.

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This work argues that there are features of police culture which foster abuse of the right to use violence. The text makes positive suggestions about institutional changes that might alleviate the problems bedevilling what the philosopher Thomas Hobbes called ""the right of the sword"".

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A comprehensive and original overview of evidence about the patterns and impacts of volunteering. A rigorous, novel and realistic assessment of the contributions of voluntary action to British society, and of the scope for expanding them.

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This volume explores how the language of vulnerability transforms social policy and national security programmes, through case studies drawn from Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East.

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A pioneering contribution to the literature, this book studies welfare dependence among families eligible for assistance under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the most controversial income-maintenance program in the nation.

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Employing the conceptual framework elaborated by Pierre Bourdieu, this text provides a discussion of social welfare institutions and practices in Ireland. It examines the actions and approaches taken by various "actors" involved in policy-making, including the Catholic Church.

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In this collection of essays by experts on welfare policy, the major issues of personal responsibility versus dependence, child development, and federal versus state, local, and private responsibility are examined in the light of the 1996 Act.

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Schorr provides an informed examination of the sources of welfare reform, its successes and considerable failures, and the economic and social forces that shaped the 1996 welfare reform. In the process, Schorr underscores why welfare recipients are not a population distinct from the working poor population;

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Schorr provides an informed examination of the sources of welfare reform, its successes and considerable failures, and the economic and social forces that shaped the 1996 welfare reform. In the process, Schorr underscores why welfare recipients are not a population distinct from the working poor population;

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The book provides specific analyses of the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills program under the Family Support Act, job training and employment programs under the Job Training Partnership Act, programs for youth-at-risk, and particular efforts to integrate the delivery of services to public assistance recipients.

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This book is about these new American & Chinese families that are being formed through the mechanism of international adoption.

The first survey of bicultural Chinese-American children, based on personal experience and rigorous research, both documents these adoptions and examines their implications for American society.

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This book is about these new American & Chinese families that are being formed through the mechanism of international adoption.

The first survey of bicultural Chinese-American children, based on personal experience and rigorous research, both documents these adoptions and examines their implications for American society.

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Accounts for the origins of Social Security as we know it. This book tells the story of the Townsend Plan - a political organization that sought to alleviate poverty and end the Great Depression through a government-provided retirement stipend of $200 a month for every American over the age of sixty.

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Increasing numbers of the old and disabled depend on paid workers to care for them in their own homes. This book documents the conditions in the home care industry and asks what can be done to improve job satisfaction, reduce staff turnover and ultimately build a more professional workforce.

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Surprising proof that conservatives really are more compassionate--and more generous--than liberals