Homelessness and Housing Advocacy

"Through compelling ethnography, Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors reveals the creative and ambitious methods that social service providers use to house their clients despite the conflictual conditions posed by the policies and institutions that govern the housing process. Combining in-depth interviews, extensive fieldwork and the authors own professional experience, this book considers the perspective of social service providers who work with the homeless and chronicles the steps they take to navigate the housing process. With assertive methods of worker-client advocacy at the center of its focus, the book beckons attention to the many variables that affect professional attempts to house homeless populations. It conveys the challenges that social service providers encounter while fitting their clients into the criteria for housing eligibility, the opposition they receive, and the innovative approaches they ultimately take to optimize housing placements for their clients who are, or were formerly, experiencing homelessness. Weaving as it does between issues of poverty, social inequality, and social policy, Homelessness and Housing Advocacy will appeal to courses in social work, sociology, and public policy and fill a void for early-career professionals in housing and community services"--

Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors

Politics & Social Sciences

SMITH, CURTIS

Social Sciences

Routledge

Through compelling ethnography, Homelessness and Housing Advocacy: The Role of Red-Tape Warriors reveals the creative and ambitious methods that social service providers use to house their clients despite the conflictual conditions posed by the policies and institutions that govern the housing process. 
Combining in-depth interviews, extensive fieldwork, and the author’s own professional experience, this book considers the perspective of social service providers who work with people experiencing homelessness and chronicles the steps they take to navigate the housing process. With assertive methods of worker-client advocacy at the center of its focus, this book beckons attention to the many variables that affect professional attempts to house homeless populations. It conveys the challenges that social service providers encounter while fitting their clients into the criteria for housing eligibility, the opposition they receive, and the innovative approaches they ultimately take to optimize housing placements for their clients who are, or were formerly, experiencing homelessness. 
Weaving as it does between issues of poverty, social inequality, and social policy, Homelessness and Housing Advocacy will appeal to courses in social work, sociology, and public policy and fill a void for early-career professionals in housing and community services.

This step-by-step tutorial shows readers how to program with Visual Basic in a set amount of time.
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<li>Presented in a daily format with each week focusing on a different area of database development</li>
<li>Written by a Microsoft Certified Visual Basic Professional</li>
<li>CD-ROM includes chapter examples, Function Libraries, Microsoft ACCESS/JET 2.5 compatibility layer, and the WHAT6 Help Authoring Tool</li>
</ul>

Teach Yourself Database Programming With Visual Basic 4 in 21 Days

Computers & Technology

Amundsen, Michael

Programming

Sams.

A tutorial for novice users explores the database management program and offers instruction in securing databases, programing interfaces to remote databases, and implementing data-bound controls

Teach Yourself Database Programming With Visual Basic 5 in 21 Days

Sams Teach Yourself Database Programming with Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days is a tutorial that allows you to learn about working with databases in a set amount of time. The book presents you with a step-by-step approach to learning what can be a critical topic for developing applications. Each week will focus on a different aspect of database programming with Visual Basic. Some of the topics covered are data controls, programming with the Microsoft Jet Engine, and programming with the ODBC Interface and SQL.

Sams Teach Yourself Database Programming with Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days

Amundsen, Michael C.

This package includes SAMS Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days, SAMS Teach Yourself More Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days and SAMS Teach Yourself Database Programming with Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days. The bonus CD-ROM includes a special version of VB Advantage for Visual Basic 6.

Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 Megabundle (Teach Yourself...in 21 Days Series)

Perry, Greg M.

Amundsen, Mike

Mauer, Lowell

The reader's choices determine the outcome of a young samurai student's battle with ninja warriors

Test of the Ninja (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Gamebook, 5)

Children's Books

Wizards of the Coast

When a traitor to the empire is revealed, His Excellency calls loyal and heroic citizens to follow the trail of deception. The scale of the treachery is grand - it seems that an entire army has turned its back on its rightful liege! The trail leads through trackless (or seemingly trackless) mountains, into peaceful (or seemingly peaceful) valleys. The emperor has promised great rewards to heroes who can solve his mystery, but as the journey progresses the heroes find their own reasons for continuing. As a sinister suspicion grow in the minds, the adventure reaches its climax in the ruins of an ancient civilization. Finally, our heroes are faced with an ultimate choice - between success and failure, loyalty and betrayal, even good and evil. On their choice rests the future of nations. 96 pages, plus two fold-out maps.

Ronin Challenge (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons/Forgotten Realms/Oriental Adventures Module OA6)

Humor & Entertainment

Swan, Rick

Puzzles & Games

TSR Hobbies

Buy Yourself a Minute: The Byam Method of Self-Defence (Your Protection Against Assault)

Debiaso, Richard A.

A.G. Halldin Pub. Co

Aaron Burch, editor of Hobart says, "There are elements in these stories we recognize-- the vacation story, the murder mystery, Godzilla, geometry-- and their brilliance is how Curtis Smith takes these expectations and plays with and against them, twisting, pulling, bringing us along wherever he goes. There are surprises, plot twists, playful language and form, shifts in emotion that catch you off guard. Most importantly, Smith infuses these stories with humor. He surprises you with it; he alleyoops comedic setups then grabs you and breaks your heart, leaving you wondering what just happened."

The Species Crown

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Press 53

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