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The Community-Based Service Continuum

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Programming Effective Human Services

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Continuing problems in implementation and linkage of treatments and recent changes in national economy and policy have presented serious challenges to the deinstitutionalization of several populations. This chapter focuses on issues and suggests strategies that concern system designers and administrators in community-based service continua.

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    Bruce L. Bird

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  2. Kansas Department of Mental Health and Retardation Services, Topeka, Kansas, USA

    Gerald T. Hannah

  3. Behavioral Learning Laboratory, Camarillo State Hospital, Camarillo, California, USA

    T. J. Glahn

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Bird, B.L. (1984). The Community-Based Service Continuum. In: Christian, W.P., Hannah, G.T., Glahn, T.J. (eds) Programming Effective Human Services. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2707-3_6

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