Social Welfare

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Dear Alcohol From: About Face View Breakwater Books	On Alcohol. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these …	Michael Parsons	4	2019	$0.40 Add
From NEW! Disability Rights in Canada From: About Canada: Disability Rights View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter four thoroughly explains disability rights, particularly the rights to education, employment, transportation, telecommunications and healthcare. Each of these key aspects of inclusion …	Deborah Stienstra	48	2020	$4.80 Add
From Discussions of Welfare Fraud in the Canadian News Media From: Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty View Fernwood Publishing		Kiran Mirchandani; Wendy Chan	23	2005	$2.30 Add
Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice Social Justice Social Work	This updated third edition of the immensely popular Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice introduces students to anti-oppressive social work, its historical and theoretical roots and the specific …		381		View
From Dragon Presence From: Rock Paper Sex View Breakwater Books	The firsthand account of a dancer in St. John’s Newfoundland named Chelsea. A discussion of the challenges sex workers face in maintaining their mental health, as well as accounts of the …	Keri Cull	22	2017	$2.20 Add
From "Each Year I Feel Better" – Christopher Brown and Growing Veterans From: Field Excercises View New Society Publishers	Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. This reading recalls the …	Stephanie Westlund	13	2014	$1.30 Add
From Education Bringing Us Home From: Crip Kinship View Arsenal Pulp Press	Topics discussed include education, communal awakening, reclaiming one’s own autonomy and history, education as a way towards justice and freedom, oppressive frameworks, creative workshops …	Shayda Kafai	12	2021	$1.20 Add
From Enough of the Party Drugs From: About Face View Breakwater Books	On Narcotics. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these …	Casey Dalton	4	2019	$0.40 Add
From Epilogue From: Crip Kinship View Arsenal Pulp Press	Epilogue: "Why All This Matters."	Shayda Kafai	6	2021	$0.60 Add
From Every Single Penny From: Rock Paper Sex View Breakwater Books	The firsthand account of a bartender in a strip club in St. John’s Newfoundland. A discussion of the culture of stripping and erotic dance, as well as an individual’s account of the …	Keri Cull	7	2017	$0.70 Add
From Everyone is Scamming From: Rock Paper Sex View Breakwater Books	The firsthand account of a sex worker in St. John’s Newfoundland named Matt. A discussion about the experience of being a disabled sex worker. Topics include safety, pay rates, and legal …	Keri Cull	9	2017	$0.90 Add
Field Excercises How Veterans are Healing Themselves Through Farming and Outdoor Activities New Society Publishers	There are nearly 25 million veterans and active-duty soldiers in North America. Some experts estimate that more than one quarter of these men and women suffer from post-traumatic distress, and …	Stephanie Westlund	242	2014	View
Fight to Win Inside Poor People’s Organizing	AJ Withers draws on their own experiences as an organizer, extensive interviews with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) activists and Toronto bureaucrats, and freedom of information …		305		View
From Fighting for Roofs and Beds Housing First From: Fight to Win View Fernwood Publishing	In this chapter the author describes the efficacy and short-comings of a Housing First model for addressing homelessness. Given the background of neoliberalism, the author concludes that programs …	A. J. Withers	30	2021	$3.00 Add
From Fighting to Win Power and Poor People’s Organizing From: Fight to Win View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter introduces Ontario Coalition Against Poverty’s mass mobilization strategies and individual casework as organizing principles. The role of casework as a dual activist strategy …	A. J. Withers	22	2021	$2.20 Add
From NEW! Foreword From: Inside Out View New Society Publishers	Forward from Leticia Nieto, Psychotherapist, Anti-Oppression Trainer, Socionomist, and Professor at St. Martin’s University, Lacey, Washington.	Caprice D. Hollins	3	2022	$0.30 Add