New Routes to Human Services

This revised edition of the 1988 book on Information and Referral Networks: Doorways to Human Services has been designed to present an updated report on the continuous and dramatic expansion of Information and Referral (I&R) services that has occurred since its early beginnings in the 1960s, The current revised edition recognizes the enormous impact of information technology that has literally opened up new routes to the human services, thereby providing unprecedented opportunities for facilitating access to the complex systems of health and social services, jointly referred to as the human services.