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Connecting Policy to Practice in the Human Services - Softcover

Brad McKenzie

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9780199011063: Connecting Policy to Practice in the Human Services
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199011060 ISBN 13: 9780199011063
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2015

Synopsis

The fourth edition of Connecting Policy to Practice carefully examines how policies are developed and implemented, and offers future practitioners and policy-makers the knowledge and tools they need to begin building more inclusive models of policy-making - models that will empower front-line service workers and lead to improved outcomes for service users.

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About the Author

Brad McKenzie is professor emeritus of social work at the University of Manitoba. He has held administrative positions as the acting associate dean, the first director of the Winnipeg Education Centre's Social Work Program (1981-1987), coordinator of field instruction, and chair of the graduate program committee. His primary teaching areas have been social policy analysis, program evaluation, and child and family welfare. Between 1999 and 2003 he was the director of a $2.3 million CIDA-funded international project in Lviv, Ukraine that led to the development of a new school of social work and a consumer-directed resource centre serving people with disabilities. The late Brian Wharf was professor emeritus of social work in the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria. During his long career at the University of Victoria, Brian was the director of the School of Social Work; dean of the Faculty of Human and Social Development; and acting director of the School of Public Administration. He published a number of books with Oxford, including two earlier editions of Connecting Policy to Practice in the Human Services, as well as Community Organizing: Canadian Experiences (1997) and Rethinking Child Welfare in Canada (1993). He passed away in 2011.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199011060
ISBN 13 
9780199011063
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
4
Number of pages
304
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