{"product_id":"pocket-guide-to-essential-human-services","title":"Pocket Guide to Essential Human Services","description":"Human services professionals and volunteers are often the first points of contact when individuals find themselves needing basic health care, housing assistance, food, employment, counseling, emergency funds, or other type of assistance. They must understand the full range of resources available. Equally important, they must understand the factors to consider when making a referral. This is no easy task.\nUntil now! The brand new Pocket Guide to Essential Human Services is a handy, concise introduction and guide to essential human services, a first-of-its-kind, information-packed guidebook that makes the complex search for critical information and resources as easy as turning a page.\nOrganized efficiently in sections according to types of needs that arise during a lifespan, the Pocket Guide provides a user-friendly, thorough look at a broad range of issues, including income support, housing, food, clothing, energy, and transportation assistance, health care services, mental health services, addictions, sexual orientation, family life education, children and adolescents, abuse and neglect, military personnel and veterans, immigrants and refugees, education and literacy, employment assistance, aging and retirement, and legal services and dispute resolution.\nSPECIAL FEATURES IN EACH SECTION:\nOverview of specific issue\nAvailable services or programs\nTypical benefits and services\nTypical eligibility criteria\nSponsors and contact information\nUseful tips and information sources.\nAt last, the struggle for finding help at a time of crisis is over. The Pocket Guide to Essential Human Services is a wealth of diverse resources compiled into a user-friendly, comprehensive guidebook, destined to become an indispensable tool for social workers, mental health counselors, health care professionals, clergy, law enforcement personnel, lawyers, students at all degree levels in the human services, volunteers, and consumers!\nAlso available:\nFinding Help for Struggling Teens: A Guide for Parents And the Professionals Who Work With Them - ISBN 0871013738\nSocial Work Speaks, Eighth Edition: NASW Policy Statements, 2009-20012 - ISBN 0871013843\nNASW Press\n\nNASW Press, a division of National Association of Social Workers (NASW), is a leading scholarly press in the social sciences. We serve faculty, practitioners, agencies, libraries, clinicians, and researchers throughout the United States and abroad.\nKnown for attracting expert authors, the NASW Press delivers professional information to hundreds of thousands of readers through its scholarly journals, books, and reference works.\nSome of the areas we publish in include:\n-Social work in the field of aging\n-Models of social work\n-Social work with children and adolescents\n-Ethics in social work\n-Community organization\n-Professional development\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0871013657\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0871013657.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Frederic G. Reamer\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Spiral_bound\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43335076511805,"sku":"BVV.0871013657.G","price":499.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0871013657-0.jpg?v=1783716889","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/pocket-guide-to-essential-human-services","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}