Connecting Policy to Practice in the Human Services. This item is unavailable.Connecting Policy to Practice in the Human Services

Authors Brian Wharf and Brad McKanzie argue that, as currently developed, policy seldom responds to the needs of service users. This book attempts to come to grips with this unsatisfactory state of affairs. The first section describes the policy making process and the second section outlines new and more inclusive approaches to policy making.

Brian Wharf is currently Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria. He received his B.A. and M.S.W. from the University of British Columbia, and was employed as a social worker and probation officer before receiving his Ph.D. from Brandeis University. Dr. Wharf taught at Brandeis University and McMaster University before joining the School of Social Work at the University of Victoria as Professor and Dean in 1975. His numerous publications include Community Organizing: Canadian Experiences (with Micheal Clague, OUP, 1997), Rethinking Child Welfare in Canada (with Marilyn Callahan and Ewan MacIntyre, OUP, 1993), Communities and Social Policy in Canada (OUP, 1992), and Social Work and Social Change (OUP, 1990). Brad McKenzie is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba, where he teaches in child welfare, social policy, and program evaluation. He has completed extensive research and evaluation in child welfare, particularly in relation to First Nations child and family services. He is currently involved in several studies, including an educational program for separating and divorcing parents and the Canadian National Innocence Study on Child Abuse and Neglect. He was Anglophone Editor of the Canadian Social Work Review from 1996 to 1998. Recent publications include articles on the development of community-based child welfare standards in First Nations communities and the 1994 book Current Perspectives on Foster Family Care for Children and Youth.