Combining Lay and Professional Resources to Promote Human Welfare: Prospects and Tensions

摘要: I am grateful to the Programming Board for Research into Social Services inviting me this international forum and allowing opportunity express my ideas about role of social support informal helping arrangements in promotion human welfare. was particularly receptive invitation two reasons. First, eager compare our North American policies experiments involving natural systems service delivery with experienced other continents cultures. Second, one phrase conference sub-title — “fact or fiction” suggests that is an occasion will permit not only celebrate contributions ordinary citizens are making on another’s society’s behalf, but also underscore limits, abuses, fragile character resources lay people invest rendering care another.