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"When he graduated from Harvard Medical School, Jim O'Connell was asked by the medical school Dean to spend one year setting up a program to care for the homeless population in Boston. It became Jim O'Connell's life calling, to help people known as "rough sleepers." For the past three decades, Dr. O'Connell has run the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, which he helped to create. Affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, the program...
4) Diagnostic study of the Massachusetts children in need of services program: final report AAI 78-74
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The Committee
Pub. Date
[1979]
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vi, 193 p. : graphs ; 28 cm.
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English
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Harper One
Pub. Date
c2011
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1st ed.
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191 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Public service is a way of life for Americans; giving is a part of our national character. But compassionate instincts and generous spirits aren't enough, says veteran urban activist Robert D. Lupton. In this groundbreaking guide, he reveals the disturbing truth about charity: all too much of it has become toxic, devastating to the very people it's meant to help. In his four decades of urban ministry, Lupton has experienced firsthand how our good...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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First American edition.
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205 pages : map ; 22 cm
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English
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"Situated more than one hundred miles off Italy's southern coast, the rocky island of Lampedusa has hit world headlines in recent years as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees fleeing civil war and terrorism and hoping to make a new life in Europe. Dr. Pietro Bartolo, who runs the lone medical clinic on the island, has been caring for many of them--both the living and the dead--for a quarter century....
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Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2017.
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First edition.
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309 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Lacy Marie Crocker has settled into a comfortable groove back home in New Orleans, and with Valentine's Day right around the corner, she's busier than ever running a thriving pet boutique, helping her mother organize the upcoming National Pet Pageant, and untangling her complicated love life. But when delivering a king-sized order of dreidel-shaped doggy biscuits for a Saint Berdoodle's bark-mitzvah, Lacy stumbles into yet another murder scene--and...
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The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps, and cash benefits in three years-because a new computer system interprets any mistake as "failure to cooperate." In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to predict...
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Omnigraphics
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English
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Includes facts about risk factors, warning signs, and forms of physical, sexual, mental, emotional, and financial abuse in women, men, adolescents, imigrants, elders, and other specific populations. Also facts about digital dating abuse and cyberbullying, victims and abusers, strategies for preventing and intervening in abusive situations, interventions through workplaces and faith communities, tips regarding legal protections, a glossary of related...
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Basic Books
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English
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Insane takes journalist Alisa Roth deep inside our prisons and jails to show how and why they have become warehouses for people with mental illness, institutions rife with improper treatment and outright abuse. She brings readers from the overwhelmed mental health units of the Los Angeles County Jail to a women's prison in Oklahoma with one of the fastest-growing populations of people with mental illness in the country. Roth provides the first comprehensive...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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xii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Living Recovery provides critical information for practitioners and educators in mental health services about the self-described needs of young people diagnosed with mental illness. It portrays the stages of living with mental illness through the recovery model ELAR-emergence, loss, adaptation, and recovery.
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American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
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xiv, 296 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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English
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"Over 20 million American women and girls have some form of disability, and this number will only increase in the years to come. At the same time, women with disabilities often have difficulty accessing health care services, and the quality of the health care they do receive is often worse than the care received by women without disabilities and men with disabilities. The consequences of these disparities include increased prevalence of secondary...
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Voya Press
Pub. Date
[2014].
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x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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English
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The tween scene : a year of programs for 10-to-14 year olds is a treasure chest of programs, tips and ideas for serving the tweens coming to your library...The authors tell you how to get started, how to publicize to tweens, and provide ice breakers to get tweens talking. Included are four programs for each month of the year. Each program description offers advertisement ideas, a guide for preparation, forms, room set-up suggestions, a complete...
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