Behind from the Start: How America's War on the Poor Is Harming Our Most Vulnerable Children - Hardcover

Azzi-Lessing, Lenette

 
9780190459031: Behind from the Start: How America's War on the Poor Is Harming Our Most Vulnerable Children
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0190459034 ISBN 13: 9780190459031
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Examines the link between America's shaming, blaming, and marginalizing of poor parents, and our punitive welfare policies that jeopardize the life chances of vulnerable young children, thereby maintaining the cycle of chronic poverty.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lenette Azzi-Lessing, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Division of Social Work, Leadership, and Public Policy at Wheelock College, Boston. She is the founder and director of Wheelock's Graduate Certificate Program in Early Childhood Mental Health and faculty leader of the college's South Africa Partnership for Early Childhood Development. She joined the faculty after more than 25 years as a front-line social worker, CEO, and policy advocate. Dr. Azzi-Lessing founded one of the nation's first programs for drug- and alcohol-affected families in the child welfare system, and was twice awarded the Commissioner's Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Verlag
OXFORD UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0190459034
ISBN 13 
9780190459031
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
250
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