Your Home Inspection Guide
Author: William L Ventolo
You may be able to detect hidden costs and potential safety hazards before buying your home - one of the most expensive purchases of your lifetime. Now you too can take advantage of the inspection tactics used by the most successful professional home inspectors. Here's your proven step-by-step guide, interactive forms, tips, illustrations, documents, checklists and even a video tutorial by the author - in short, everything you need to make a sound judgment about the building merits (and defects!) of a piece of property. Use this multimedia kit to identify safe and effective electrical and plumbing systems; keep track of potential repairs with the touch of a button; identify preferences for location, landscaping and house styles using the easy point-and-click screens; chart your progress with the interactive home inspection comparison forms; oversee the more than 349 points of a thorough inspection using the automated Master Inspection Checklist; and get expert answers to your home inspection questions.
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A Dream and a Plan: A Woman's Path to Leadership in Human Services, Vol. 1
Author: Lorrie Greenhouse Greenhouse Gardella
"A Dream and a Plan is not simply a book. It is an experience that all of us can share. It's about dreams and disappointments, role models and demons, being turned away and then creating and taking advantage of opportunities. It's about race, class, culture, sexual orientation, gender. It's about the joy of being part of the community of women and the challenges of surviving and thriving within the larger community."
Ruth W. Mayden, MSWDirector, Program for Families with Young ChildrenThe Annie E. Casey Foundation
Successful women leaders in the human services recognize and value their own significance as well as that of others. The helping professions are rich with women who have the imagination and aspiration to be such leaders, but lack confidence or opportunity. Written from an inclusive, multicultural perspective, A Dream and a Plan: A Woman's Path to Leadership in Human Services provides tools for women who are breaking through the glass ceiling as well as those who are trying to unlock the door.
Authors Gardella and Haynes have written a dynamic, empowering book on women in leadership that offers practical guidance on pursuing career advancement, overcoming barriers, and cultivating mentorship. Extensive research was drawn from women leaders in public service and private agencies and reveals the challenges, resources, and obstacles faced by women from different racial, ethnic, and social backgrounds. Examining closely the potential of women leaders to promote diversity and equity in human services organizations, the authors provide a conceptual framework for understanding and resisting prejudice, discrimination, and social injustice.
A Dream and a Plan is a pragmatic and motivating text for students, social workers, and human services providers, as well as for experienced managers. Social work, human services, women's studies, and management educators will find this uniquely structured text a useful teaching tool with suggestions for assignments, experiences and recommended readings.
Special Features:
- Succinct, reader-friendly text filled with case examples and illustrations.
- Special "Notes from Karen's Diary" segments that illustrate the evolution and experiences of an outstanding social work leader.
- Theory and research implications from social work, management, women's studies, ethnic studies, and other fields.
- Real life scenarios for women leaders or for women contemplating leadership positions.
Table of Contents:
| Foreword | ix | |
| Preface | xi | |
| Acknowledgments | xxi | |
| Part I | Paths to Leadership | |
| 1 | How Did You Get There? | 3 |
| 2 | What Did You Expect? | 15 |
| 3 | What Barriers Did You Face? | 35 |
| 4 | What Choices Did You Make? | 55 |
| 5 | Where Did You Find Support? | 77 |
| Part II | Leading from an Inclusive Perspective | |
| 6 | How Do You Change the World? | 99 |
| 7 | How Are You Leading Human Services? | 121 |
| Postscript to Educators | 141 | |
| Appendix | Focus Group Questions | 151 |
| Notes | 153 | |
| Bibliography | 169 | |
| About the Authors | 195 |
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