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Self-Help Clearinghouses: Promoting Collaboration Between Professionals and Volunteers
Abstract
A study of nine U.S. self-help clearinghouses reveals the wide range of services offered to self-help groups, professionals, individual consumers, and the community-at-large. The important roles played by volunteers in the performance of clearinghouse activities is highlighted, as is the role of the clearinghouse in fostering positive collaboration between professionals and self-help group volunteers. Clearinghouse similarities and differences are discussed, as well as variations in administrative functioning Given the extensive number of self-help groups/chapters known to the clearinghouses and the wide array of technical assistance available, clearinghouses provides an important vehicle for community volunteers and professionals seeking to expand the human service delivery system.
Journal
(1986)
vol15
no2
pages64-76
Categories
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Nonprofit Service Sectors
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Self-help Organizations
