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Miles, Susie; Fefoame, Gertrude Oforiwa; Mulligan, Diane; Haque, Zakia – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
This article examines the role networking has played, at local and national levels, in facilitating communication between key actors involved in challenging the marginalisation of disabled people from education and from wider Bangladeshi society. Efforts to promote awareness of the importance of including disabled children in their local schools…
Descriptors: Self Help Programs, Rural Areas, Nongovernmental Organizations, Foreign Countries
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Humphreys, Keith – Social Policy, 1998
Discusses the potential of self-help/mutual-aid groups as a way to reduce the demand for professional substance-abuse treatment and proposes a model that combines the two approaches for cost-effective and therapeutically effective networks of services. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Counselors, Drug Addiction, Health Services
Bui, Diana D.; And Others – 1981
The results of an informal survey of the characteristics, composition, capacity building needs and future directions of sixty Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese Mutual Assistance Associations (MAAs) are documented in this report. Included among the survey findings are the purposes, current achievements, and future goals of the associations,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Asian Americans, Community Role, Cultural Background