Neighborhood Resource Center

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Sol M. Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Resource Center ◽  
To Come ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Service Agencies ◽  
Neighborhood Resource

The Library Partnership is a jointly operated facility that offers area residents full public library services and access to approximately thirty (30) social service agencies. The collaboration provides a unique environment for clients to receive counseling and advice from social service agencies and the resources, assistance, and services to address their needs from the public library all in one location . Clients are often referred to the library for a variety of eGovernment and other services. The presence of a public library allows potential and scheduled clients to come to the facility without the stigma often attached to entering a social service assistance center.

Social Reality of the Drug Problem: New York's Lower East Side

1971 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-391
Author(s):  
Clayton Hartjen ◽  
Richard Quinney
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
East Side ◽  
Drug Problem ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Reality Construction ◽  
Service Agencies

The scope and nature of social problems are frequently a creation of the various organizations and agencies established to deal with some aspect of community concern. The "educational" and other activities of these groups can be seen as attempts at reality construction. Regarding these efforts, this study examined the kind and effectiveness of drug addiction programs sponsored by social service agencies in New York City's Lower East Side and found them to be wanting. The absence of drug programs and the inability of these agencies to effectively carry out projects of this (and any other) kind appears to be a consequence of the funding structure and the existence of conflict between agencies. It is argued, however, that these agencies can serve as a principal base from which community control over and ultimately any just solution to the drug problem may be initiated.

scholarly journals Designing Public Library of Binjai City by Metaphorical Architecture

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-240
Author(s):  
Imam Faisal Pane ◽  
Febrina
Keyword(s):  
Public Library ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Concept Design ◽  
Visual Form ◽  
The Public ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Reading Interest

The lack of public reading interest makes people rarely come to visit the public library. The public library of The Binjai city as a media to increase people's knowledge, in fact, that still using traditional planning and structuring and has a less comfortable atmosphere. The Binjai city public library requires to improve its facilities and infrastructures related to the standards of a public library, so that possible to increase people's interest in visiting the library. The designer can make several alternative approaches to design an object, one of that is a metaphorical approach. Choosing of metaphor theme is a theme approachment by taking the book as a visual form that applicated to an element of the building. The strong Malay culture of Binjai city as a local heritage can be applicated in designing the public library of Binjai City. The concept design of the Binjai City Public Library is applied to accommodate library services and activities. By taking a representation physical form of the book as part of the building construction, giving all facilities and services can be functioned to attract more people's attention to visit the library.

Building capacity in social service agencies to employ peer providers.

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren B. Gates ◽  
James M. Mandiberg ◽  
Sheila H. Akabas
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Service Agencies

Developing self-help books on prescription schemes

2010 ◽  
pp. 209-216
Author(s):  
Paul Farrand ◽  
Joanne Woodford
Keyword(s):  
Public Library ◽  
The Self ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Written Materials

Chapter 19 describes a practical way for CBT self-help resources to be made more widely available. Book prescription schemes offer an attractive solution to funders. Potentially access to CBT self-help can be rolled out widely through the public library services. The chapter presents an overview of the development of this approach, highlighting some novel aspects of the scheme, such as the prescription element in which, as is the case with medication, self-help books are ‘prescribed’ by the LI practitioner. Anecdotally, this element of the scheme seems to help legitimize the use of the written materials and increases patient expectancies around the self-help approach. However, there are also distinct challenges associated with such schemes, not least the difficulties in ensuring that the self-help books recommended and ‘prescribed’ on the scheme are evidence-based and are not likely to do harm.

Increasing Staff Sensitivity to the Black Client

1983 ◽  
Vol 64 (7) ◽  
pp. 419-425
Author(s):  
Richard L. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Staff Development ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Black Culture ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Service Agencies

Many human service practitioners working with black families lack a knowledge of black culture. Social service agencies must address this deficiency through the provision of staff development programs. Such programs, to be sound, need to be developed with an awareness of critical issues and principles.

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