Creating Confidence: How to Do Social Work Without Destroying People's Souls - Softcover

Willman, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984636870 ISBN 13: 9780984636877

Publisher: Bravado Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Forty years ago a handful of renegade social workers in the small conservative rural town of Roseburg, Oregon, started meeting with their welfare mom clients in the local bars for gripe sessions about the welfare system. Together they developed a radical new concept they called “People Planned Delivery” and a program for women called the Confidence Clinic. Their history includes brilliant successes and stunning betrayals. It is a messy story that begins with a lot of loud yelling and name calling and goes on to a proliferation of services, all designed and, to a great degree, operated by the people who were to benefit from them. This book tells their story and provides a clear guide to following their lead in helping women to empower themselves and transform their lives. “It only takes one women to change the world, but a group of women can change anything.” Maxine Gish, Confidence Clinic graduate “The Confidence Clinic...is what I call a psychic family – a group committed to mutual help...for women who have been isolated, despairing, and dependent.” Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within

About this title

About the Author:

Anna Willman was Director of the Confidence Clinic for fourteen of the eighteen years tat she worked there. Although she has two master's degrees in political science and history, she has never taken a curse in social work practice. Her expertise is based solely on her understanding that she is not an expert on anything other than her on life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bravado Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0984636870
• ISBN 13: 9780984636877
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 664