Connecting Policy to Practice in the Human Services - Softcover

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Brad McKenzie is a Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Manitoba. He has held administrative positions as the Acting Associate Dean, the first Director of the Winnipeg Education Centre's Social Work Program (1981-1987), Coordinator of Field Instruction and Chair of the Graduate Program Committee. Over the past ten years he has been the primary advisor to more than 35 graduate social work students. His primary teaching areas are Social Policy Analysis, Program Evaluation and Child and Family Welfare. Between 1999 and 2003 he was the Director of a $2.3 million CIDA funded international project in Lviv, Ukraine that led to the development of a new School of Social Work and a consumer directed resource centre serving people with disabilities. The late Brian Wharf was formerly Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria. During his long career at the University of Victoria, Brian was the Director of the School of Social Work; Dean of the Faculty of Human and Social Development; and Acting Director of the School of Public Administration. He published a number of books with Oxford including two earlier editions of Connecting Policy to Practice, as well as Community Organizing: Canadian Experiences (1997) and Rethinking Child Welfare in Canada (1993). He passed away in 2011.