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“In fact, it is arguable that the growing influence of private practitioners within the profession has contributed to the tendency of the profession over the past twenty years to use more of its political clout to push for licensure and vendorship privileges for clinicians than for services to the needy or for better working conditions for public agency social workers. A study by Timothy Lause of the number-one legislative priorities of NASW state chapters during the late 1970s indicates that twothirds of these priorities concerned licensure or third-party payments, while only one-third had to do with social problemsolving policies and services.”
― Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission
― Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission
“community-based system of social care will be universal—that is, available to everyone; comprehensive—providing on one site, all of the kinds of social services required by an urban community; accessible—easily reached by all people in the area designated as the service area; and accountable—with community residents having a prominent role in making policy for the service and overseeing its implementation.1 Social services organized in this way have been referred to by different names;2 we will designate them community service centers.”
― Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission
― Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission
“a modern community, social services are offered to everyone, not only the poor. There was a time in our not-too-distant past when universal public school education, playgrounds, and public health measures were considered to be radical ideas, and these programs were only for poor people. Better-off people purchased these services on their own. But over time, it was discovered that these services were good for the entire community. Public school education in the twentieth century has served as the major institution for integrating the great masses of immigrants into American society, providing opportunities for upward social mobility never before known, and as an enormous force for democratizing the American community.”
― Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission
― Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission
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