Social Services


Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker – A Groundbreaking Investigation of Systemic Racism in Foster Care and Black Families
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
Junkyard Boys
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Hope Meadows: Real Life Stories of Healing and Caring from an Inspiring Community
Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk
Damaged
The Bad Room: Held Captive and Abused by My Evil Carer. A True Story of Survival.
The Way Things Are
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change
Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them
The Explosive Child: A New Approach For Understanding And Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy: The Special Education Survival Guide by Peter W. D. Wright and Pamela Darr Wright, Harbor House Law Press, Inc.
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
#SayHerName by Kimberlé Williams CrenshawFracking by Kathryn   Hulick#SayHerName by Kimberlé Williams CrenshawUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement by Cynthia Kennedy HenzelOPENAI Oakland's Seat at the Table by Carol Denise Mitchell
Special Reports series
48 books — 12 voters
The End of the Line by Angela CerritoThe Shoebox Kid by Judith Lawrence OuttenStanding Too Close by Kate LarkindaleWhat I Carry by Jennifer LongoWish by Barbara O'Connor
Kids in the system
77 books — 13 voters

Joseph E. Stiglitz
A number of years ago, 1944, Friedrich Hayek wrote this very influential book, The Road to Serfdom. He worried that the creation of the welfare state, a strong government helping individuals would lead to authoritarianism. We now know that he was wrong. If we look around the world, populism, authoritarianism is associated not with government doing too much, but doing too little. By doing too little, it has given rise to discontent that threatens our democracy and threatens our ability to respon ...more
Joseph Stiglitz

Eskay Teel
Big girls do cry.
Eskay Teel, Alice in Worcestershire

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Social Services Book Club! Social Services is starting a Book Club! When we read, not only are we improving memory and emp…more
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