This guide was prepared to help administrators, educators, researchers, and professional practitioners in rehabilitation, social services, education, and the health and welfare fields learn and use those information services and systems relevant to them. The 156 organizations are listed as either primary or secondary information services depending…

A discussion of the various approaches to social services for runaway youths. (BRT)

The problem of setting rates for third-party purchase of voluntary agency services is complex and the approach taken affects agency efficienty, agency expenditures, reimbursement rates, and private donations. (Author/SE)

The United Way is one of Atlanta's major charitable organizations. In this paper the operation of the organization is analyzed, and its financial and programmatic relationships to Atlanta's increasing black populace are examined. (Author/GC)

Investigation of the nature of professional practice is the focus of this article. It employs the method of reflexive examination in the portrayal of an analytic theoretical framework through which concepts of practice can be more clearly understood. The framework identifies four distinctive dimensions of practice: customary practice, instrumental…

Sponsors of social welfare agencies in the United States have historically justified their work on three general grounds: religious, constitutional, and legal. A historical survey of these doctrines and their relationships suggest that social workers should emphasize the first two rather than the third. (Author)

Although services for the mentally retarded have grown tremendously in the past decade, many practical problems remain. These problems, which confront either the client and his family or the professional, must be examined carefully if both groups are to work together to provide needed services for the retarded. (Author)

The author contends that the pervasive crisis in the professions is one expression of the deep social crisis in our national life. While activism has brought a keen awareness of the necessity for change, the social worker must reiterate how the profession deals with people as individuals, groups, or families. (Author)

Effective social work can provide a service in the schools for malfunctioning children. It is the responsibility of the principal to make certain that this service is used to the fullest extent. (CK)

This article presents a very brief history of a former community agency in New York, along with favorable comments on its activities. (CJ)

This paper is based on a presentation at the CWLA Eastern Regional Conference at Baltimore in 1969 (MG)

Describes the mission of home economics as enabling families to function on their own strength. Considers alternatives for the provision of basic survival needs for all: governments, corporate sector, institutions, charitable organizations, families, and individuals. (SK)

Reviews programs and services available to the elderly, including descriptions of their organizational and agency sponsorship and arguments used to justify or refute their usefulness. Suggests that the discipline of social gerontology can play an important applied role in assessing the needs of and suggesting appropriate services for the elderly.…

Religious organizations bring seven assets to community partnerships for social services: a service mission, volunteer pool, usable space, fund raising/grant making, political strength, moral authority, and creativity and experimentation. (SK)

Discusses the issue of justice in family therapy interventions and shares several strategies and ways of thinking about the therapy of foster care. Illustrates a case study and the interventions used to restore justice to a family caught up in the "system." (GCP)