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Accreditation Program Manual: Standards for Excellence

This Accreditation Program Manual contains the standards for accreditation for family counselling agencies in Canada. The standards are organized into the following modules or sections:
	Governance (G)*
	Administration (A)*
	General Program (GP)*
	Family Counselling (FC)
	Family Life Education (FLE)
	Community Support Services (CSS)
	Employee Assistance (EAP)***
	Credit Counselling (CC)**
	Families and Schools Together (F&ST)

*	mandatory for all agencies
**	mandatory for agencies operating that program
***	mandatory for Family Service EAP member agencies

The Manual also includes general information respecting the accreditation process, including:
	eligibility for accreditation
	application process
	preparation of Self-Study
	on-site review
	accreditation decision process
	accreditation costs.

	Pricing: $110.00 for Hard Copy + Shipping and Handling
	Pricing: $75.00 for CD + Shipping and Handling

Best Practice Guidelines for Family Counselling Services

This state-of-the-art manual, first published by FSO in 2000, has been completely rewritten by a panel of expert clinicians. It is an easy-to-read, comprehensive guide for all professional counsellors. It contains more than 30 recommended forms that can be adapted to meet an agency's or private practitioner's needs.
The manual has been reviewed by expert legal counsel to ensure its consistency with current legislation. Topics include:
	Providing information about your service to clients
	Confidentiality of client information
	Maintaining, accessing and releasing client information
	Developing service plans, ending service and follow-up
	Risk management, including counselling minors, children of separation and divorce, domestic violence, suicide risk and dealing with challenging clients
	Research protocols
	Service evaluation
	Electronic communication, including system security and web-based counselling

	Pricing: $89.95 (FSO members) + Shipping and Handling
	Pricing: $109.95 (non-members) + Shipping and Handling

A Legal Guide for Social Workers (Second Edition)
by Professor R. Solomon

Professionals in any field should be familiar with the legal aspects of their profession. In today's litigious society, social workers need to be duly informed in order to best serve their clients. This clearly written and comprehensive manual is an important resource for all social workers, and others in the helping professions, in understanding relevant legal issues.

	In addition to defining key terms and concepts, the Guide includes chapters on:

	Consent to counselling and care
	Liability in negligence
	Record-keeping and related issues
	Confidentiality and privilege
	Disclosure, reporting obligations and duty to warn.
The Guide concludes with up to date information on important statutes that affect social work practice.
	Co-published by Family Service Ontario and the Ontario Association of Social Workers in 2009

	Pricing: $60.00 (FSO members) + Shipping and Handling
	Pricing: $75.00 (non-members) + Shipping and Handling

How to Select an Agency Executive Director
A Practical Guide

This Guide, written in 2005 by Stephen Goldstein, a recognized expert in the field of human resources, is a step by step guide to hiring the right CEO for any not-for-profit agency. A very practical tool, it contains a sample job description, newspaper ad, employment letter and much more. This Guide will help any Board through the process of hiring the best possible candidate from setting up the search committee to orienting the new CEO.

	Pricing: $75.00 (FSO member) + Shipping and Handling
	Pricing: $100.00 (non-members) + Shipping and Handling