• AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorIntroductionChapter 1: Understanding the Complexities, Costs, and Benefits Surrounding Immigration Policy: Tough Decisions for Families and Policy MakersChapter 2: Community Organizing Concepts and Principles: Rebuilding Holyoke From the Ground UpChapter 3: Achieving Racial Equality: Education, Housing, Health, and Justice . . . A Long Way to GoChapter 4: End-of-Life Care, Costs, Concerns, and Conflict: Too Much of the Wrong Kind of Care?Chapter 5: Mental Illness: Community Supports and Community DilemmasChapter 6: Perplexing Challenges in Child Protective Services: Life on the Front LineChapter 7: Society’s Evolving Understanding of Chemical Addiction and the Subsequent Changes in Policy and Treatment Approaches: The Struggle to Stay CleanChapter 8: Understanding the Draw of Gangs, Consequences for Neighborhoods, and Determining an Effective Response: The North Side CrewChapter 9: Eminent Domain, Urban Renewal, and NIMBY: Is There a Win-Win Solution?Chapter 10: Homelessness and the Housing First Debate: Wrestling With the IssuesChapter 11: Examining the Elementary and Secondary Education System in the United States and One Family’s Dilemma: Fight or Flight

Social Workers as Game Changers by Laura Lewis is outstanding – I had high expectations and it exceeded all of them. The cases are current and very well developed. I will definitely be using it through all of my Practice courses.