Collaborative Helping outlines a principle-based practice framework for helping efforts across many different contexts.  While applicable to all helping efforts, it is particularly designed for helpers working in home and community based settings.  Drawing from numerous interviews with frontline helpers and people seeking help, the book uses these stories to introduce and illustrate core ideas and practices.  It highlights new ways of approaching the work and helps us re-think previous conceptualizations of problems and strengths.  It examines some of the common dilemmas of working with and advocating for the people we serve in home and community based settings and includes concrete suggestions for building institutional structures and organizational cultures that support Collaborative Helping.