Pocket Guide to Essential Human Services

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.

Until 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.

Organized 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.

SPECIAL FEATURES IN EACH SECTION:
Overview of specific issue
Available services or programs
Typical benefits and services
Typical eligibility criteria
Sponsors and contact information
Useful tips and information sources.

At 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!

Also available:

Finding Help for Struggling Teens: A Guide for Parents And the Professionals Who Work With Them - ISBN 0871013738
Social Work Speaks, Eighth Edition: NASW Policy Statements, 2009-20012 - ISBN 0871013843

NASW Press

NASW 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.

Known for attracting expert authors, the NASW Press delivers professional information to hundreds of thousands of readers through its scholarly journals, books, and reference works.

Some of the areas we publish in include:

-Social work in the field of aging
-Models of social work
-Social work with children and adolescents
-Ethics in social work
-Community organization
-Professional development

Frederic G. Reamer is a professor in the School of Social Work at Rhode Island College. He is the author of "Social Work Values and Ethics, Social Work Malpractice and Liability, The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work, and Ethical Dilemmas in Social Service;" co-author of "Rehabilitating Juvenile Justice;" and editor of "AIDS and Ethics and The Foundations of Social Work Knowledge," (all published by Columbia). He is also the author of the recently published "Ethical Standards in Social Work: Commentary on the NASW Code of Ethics."