Background
Stoner, Madeleine Ruskin was born on September 13, 1937 in New York City. Daughter of Morris and Mae (Stetsky) Ruskin.
(This challenging book calls attention to the alarming fac...)
This challenging book calls attention to the alarming fact that homelessness in America is increasing at the rate of 20 to 25 percent each year, despite the growing number of services developed to help homeless people. The major position in this book is that emergency responses such as shelters, soup kitchens, and turkeys at Thanksgiving and Christmas must shift to emphases on preventing homelessness in the first place. Dr. Stoner relates the social problem of homelessness to broader issues in society and recommends a series of preventive strategies to keep people at work, with their families, on decent welfare benefits, in affordable housing, or in mental health settings. All of these measures can keep people within the circle of housing.
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Collaborative initiatives between the human service and legal professions are spreading in social service delivery systems and on university campuses in response to the complexity and interre-latedness of social problems. Stoner's new book, embodying such collaboration in legal advocacy for the homeless, reminds us that the judiciary remains the potent source of social change that it had been in the earlier civil rights movement. In surveying over 1,000 class action lawsuits tried on behalf of homeless people during the past decade, Stoner demonstrates that legal remedies offer direction for advocates in the face of legislative and public resistance, as well as overt hostility. Her book adds substantive insight into the role of the social worker in advocacy by identifying the legal aspects of social work practice. Opposing a climate of pessimism, her discussion of the restoration and preservation of rights to housing, minimum standards of health and welfare, education, family preservation, and voting—along with constitutional protection of personal freedom—offers encouragement to advocates for homeless clients. The Civil Rights of Homeless People identifies the legal issues in all social policy arenas, so that it can serve as a social policy text for teaching policy formulation and implementation. Goal oriented, it includes legal issues and strategies for effective collaboration in support of rights of homeless clients.
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Stoner, Madeleine Ruskin was born on September 13, 1937 in New York City. Daughter of Morris and Mae (Stetsky) Ruskin.
Bachelor, Sarah Lawrence College, New York City, 1960. Master of Social Service, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, 1979.
Director, Urban League of Philadelphia, 1969-1971; chairman admissions, Bryn Mawr College School Social Week and Social Research, 1971-1974; ass.t deputy director, National Council Social Svc., London, 1977-1980; assistant dean school social work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1980-1985; associate professor school social work, University of Southern California, since 1980.
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(This challenging book calls attention to the alarming fac...)
Board of directors Women's Political Committee, Los Angeles, since 1989, Los Angeles Free Clinic, 1980-1987. Trustee Hood College, 1972-1976. Commissioner Santa Monica Commision on Status of Women.
Member Council on Social Work Education, National Association Social Workers.
Married Bartine A. Stoner Junior, December 21, 1977 (divorced 1990). Children: Alan Harrison, Katherine Anne Stoner Cushman.