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Phone home
- Author:
- SADLER Catharine
- Journal article citation:
- Community Practitioner, 72(2), February 1999, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association
Reports on a new telephone helpline set up by the homeless charity Shelter which is designed to offer fast assistance to the thousands of people facing housing problems.
Needs of homeless people coping with psychiatric problems: findings from an innovative advocacy project
- Authors:
- MOXLEY David P., FREDDOLINO Paul P.
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 16(1), February 1991, pp.19-33.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Describes a needs assessment instrument and discusses implications of the results for social work practice.
Housing homeless people with high care needs
- Author:
- CHAR
- Publisher:
- CHAR
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 22p., diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on a conference which addressed growing concern at the high care needs of users of DSS Resettlement Units.
Services for the chronically mentally ill: new approaches for mental health professionals: volume 1
- Editor:
- BOWKER Joan P.
- Publisher:
- Council on Social Work Education
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 134p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
Chapters - Living with mental illness: examining personal experience; Helping families cope with a mentally ill relative; Advocacy for the chronically mentally ill; Practice models for serving the homeless mentally ill in community shelter programmes.
Changing experiences of youth
- Editors:
- GARRATT Daren, ROCHE Jeremy, TUCKER Stanley
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 165p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Anthology looking at the diverse experiences of young people in a multi-cultural society and of those who work with them. Contains chapters on: dyslexia; space, respect and support; young parents; racism and respect; incest survivors; eating disorders; AIDS; homelessness; young carers; school exclusion; community service; Saturday school; peer education about drugs; advocacy; bullying; crime; mental health; acting as an appropriate adult; fostering young people; and sexual health. Also contains papers from a teacher, youth worker, probation officer, residential social worker and GP's point of view. Aimed at all those training to work with young people as well as those already doing so.