Community Resources: A Guide for Human Service Workers

Counselors often refer their clients to particular human-services agencies to deal with specific problems outside their organization’s area of expertise. How do they find out which outside agencies can help their clients? What limitations exist? What new helping organizations have been developed and programmed, and what existing programs have been enhanced? What has new legislation funded? This comprehensive and authoritative volume provides the answers human-service professionals need to assist and guide their clients. Written by credentialed practitioners, the book provides detailed explanations and descriptions of the most prominent and beneficial human-service agencies. Also included is information on agency personnel, as well as specific organizational certifications, licensing, or accreditation. An invaluable aid to professional counselors for investigating the agencies and/or service(s) for client referral. Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Bibb, Rose's Story, Revised Edition (ISBN 9781577666622) and Carter-Van Andel, Therapeutic Recreation: A Practical Approach, Fourth Edition (ISBN 9781577666448).