Libraries and Homelessness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Libraries and Homelessness write by Julie Ann Winkelstein. This book was released on 2021-07-06. Libraries and Homelessness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Advocating a strategic approach, this book shows how to form a plan, secure funding and support, and create effective programs for adults, children, and youth who are experiencing homelessness. You'll find guidance for creating partnerships, training staff, and advocating. Taking a holistic approach that will help you to better understand the experience of homelessness within the context of your library community, this book offers new strategies and tools for addressing the challenge of meeting the needs of the entire community, including those who are unstably housed. With basic facts, statistics, and conversations about homelessness, the author makes a case for why libraries should provide support, explains exactly which needs they may be able (or unable) to meet, and shows how this support can be a natural part of the library services you already provide. Topics discussed include trauma-informed care, harm reduction, and mental and physical health challenges; brief stories and concrete examples illustrate the principles and guidelines discussed. Citing innovative services such as Dallas Public Library's "coffee and conversation" program and San Francisco Public Library's social worker program, the book offers both food for thought and tools for action as public librarians strive to understand and meet the needs of a population that has traditionally been stereotyped and excluded.
The Librarian's Guide to Homelessness
The Librarian's Guide to Homelessness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Librarian's Guide to Homelessness write by Ryan Dowd. This book was released on 2018. The Librarian's Guide to Homelessness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Homelessness is a perennial topic of concern at libraries. In fact, staff at public libraries interact with almost as many homeless individuals as staff at shelters do. In this book Dowd, executive director of a homeless shelter, spotlights best practices drawn from his own shelter's policies and training materials" --
Breakfast at Sally's
Breakfast at Sally's - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Breakfast at Sally's write by Richard LeMieux. This book was released on 2008-10-17. Breakfast at Sally's available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One day, Richard LeMieux had a happy marriage, a palatial home, and took $40,000 Greek vacations. The next, he was living out of a van with only his dog, Willow, for company. This astonishingly frank memoir tells the story of one man's resilience in the face of economic disaster. Penniless, a failed suicide, estranged from his family, and living "the vehicular lifestyle" in Washington state, LeMieux chronicles his journey from the Salvation Army kitchens to his days with "C"—a philosopher in a homeless man's clothing—to his run-ins with Pastor Bob and other characters he meets on the streets. Along the way, he finds time to haunt public libraries and discover his desire to write. LeMieux's quiet determination and his almost pious willingness to live with his situation are only a part of this politically and socially charged memoir. The real story of an all-too-common American condition, this is a heartfelt and stirring read.
Library Services to the Incarcerated
Library Services to the Incarcerated - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Library Services to the Incarcerated write by Sheila Clark. This book was released on 2006. Library Services to the Incarcerated available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A guide for librarians whose responsibilities include serving the incarcerated, either as full-time jail or prison librarians, or as public librarians who provide outreach services to correctional facilities. The authors show how you can apply the public library model to inmate populations, and discuss facilities and equipment, collection development, services and programming; computers and the Internet; managing human resources, including volunteers and inmate workers; budgeting and funding; and advocacy within the facility and in the community.
Freedom Libraries
Freedom Libraries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freedom Libraries write by Mike Selby. This book was released on 2019-10-01. Freedom Libraries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book delves into how Freedom Libraries were at the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, and the remarkable courage of the people who used them. As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, numerous libraries were desegregated on paper only, and there was another virtually unheard of struggle— the right to read.
