Social Welfare & Social Services

This series of six picture books guides children through a range of issues relating to fostering and adoption by focusing on the experiences of a f...

This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began ...

Bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson tells the shocking and deeply moving true story of a young girl with severe behavioural problems. ...

At eleven o' clock one night in 1997, four hungry, damaged young children arrive on foster carers Trisha and Mike Merry's doorstep. Two social work...

The book''''s premise is that not only do children and youth in foster care comprise a population very much at risk for school failure but also tha...

The fourth title from Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Eight-year-old Spencer takes himself to social services and demands t...

Parents have the legal responsibility to protect and care for their children. However, recent media reports have illuminated a practice involving u...

Im going to love my baby and give her lots of attention, Jade said. Ill show my mum shes wrong. Jade, 17, is pregnant, homeless and alone...

Meaningful discussion about intercountry adoption (the adoption of a child from one country by a family from another country) necessitates an under...

Many people say being a parent is the toughest job there is. John DeGarmo, foster and adoptive parent, tells us just how tough it can be, having pa...

Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she...

Imtiaz Sooliman, a medical doctor practising in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, visited a Shaikh in Istanbul in 1992. The Sufi teacher gave him a m...

Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term str...

With $812 billion in benefit outlays in 2013, Social Security is the largest program in the federal budget. It provides monthly cash benefits to re...

The Medicaid program marked its 50th anniversary on July 30, 2015. The joint federal-state program has grown to be one of the largest sources of he...

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant helps states fund, among other benefits and services, cash assistance for needy fami...

The Social Security program pays benefits to retired and disabled workers and their family members, and to family members of deceased workers. The ...

Even as life expectancy in many countries has continued to increase, social security and similar government programs can provide strong incentives ...

Introduction and conclusion available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deployin...