human services

Shows how state and local governments and their private industry partners profit from the social safety net, turning the poor of the nation into revenue streams. Offers a plan for reforms to realign human services agencies with their intended purpose to aid the poor.

Explores careers involving helping people.

Reviews the history of law enforcement and public safety, and provides information for people interested in related careers, discussing wages, trends, and key jobs, and looking at how to establish a professional reputation and plan a career path. Includes directories of resources.

This book presents service learning with examples of how students can use it to get to know and learn from veterans while also giving back to them.

This volume examines the various service-learning projects available to those who wish to positively impact immigrant and migrant communities.

This book explains how students can establish and develop service-learning projects that address the persistent problem of intolerance.

This innovative resource introduces service learning and why it can be such a helpful tool for students, the elderly, and the larger community.

Students desiring to design and participate in a service learning project will find vital inspiration and expert guidance in this information-packed resource. Real-life examples of students engaged in special needs and disability-centered service learning projects provide readers reader with first-hand information about what a service learning project is, what is expected of them throughout the experience, and what they should expect to get out of the experience. Readers will also see beyond the educational and resume-enhancing benefits of a service learning project to recognize the often life-changing impact it can have on all involved.

Readers of this book will learn about ways that service learning can help people suffering from hunger and homelessness.

Text and photographs look at people who help others in the community.