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Book Human Services Contracting

Download or read book Human Services Contracting written by Robert A. Shick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last 35 years, governments around the globe have increasingly contracted with nonprofit and for-profit entities designed to provide a portion of the public sector’s portfolio of goods and services. This trend can be traced to a variety of factors, including perceived or actual economic efficiencies in outsourcing goods and services, values concerning the role and size of government in society, and the financial and organizational constraints of many government entities. In the United States, child welfare services adopted a pro-contracting approach early, and a variety of other human services have followed suit, including mental health care, job training, homeless services and others. Although there is strong evidence to suggest that human service contracting is growing over time, scholarship continues to lag on topics related to human service contract management, policy implementation and innovation, performance-based contracting and evaluation. This new volume in the Public Solutions Handbook series is the first volume-length treatment of human services contracting issues, integrating both policy and practice, and exploring a broad range of issues that includes the fields of history, growth, innovations, results and outcomes, best practices and the future of government human service contracting. Chapters in this book examine specific human service contracts, both in the U.S. and abroad, geared to practitioners in the public sector—from local government service contractors to municipal employees—as well as MPA students and those enrolled in courses on intergovernmental relations and nonprofit management.

Book Contracting Out for Human Services

Download or read book Contracting Out for Human Services written by Ruth H. De Hoog and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1985-06-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contracting out for services has become a popular technique in government's perennial quest to cut spending. Yet seldom has the practice been examined from any but the public choice approach. This book explores contracting out in the important area of human services, covering the critical conditions of contracting and the vital points of politics, procedures, service quality, and effectiveness. In doing so, DeHoog uses three theoretical perspectives drawn from social science traditions: the economic perspective of market imperfections, the political perspective of cooptation, and the interdisciplinary perspective of organizational decision-making. To evaluate the perspectives and their predictions in the human services, DeHoog has examined contracting in social services (Title XX) and employment and training programs, (CETA), primarily through in-depth interviews with participants.

Book Journal of Human Services Abstracts

Download or read book Journal of Human Services Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Privatization of Human Services

Download or read book The Privatization of Human Services written by Harold W. Demone and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No reader of professional journals, agency reports, or the daily press needs to be told that Professors Gibelman and Demone have assembled a vol ume of contributions to a very lively debate. The two words highlighted, "privatization" and "contracting," sum up the prescriptions of many for social service reform and the anxieties of others who question the new strategies. The pace and scale of developments over the past 2 decades sometimes allows us to forget that the subject has a long history. Privatization may be thought of as involving public turnover to the private sector of responsi bility for services it has been delivering. Or it may be the public sector arranging for the private sector to take on new services that the public wishes to encourage or for which it accepts responsibility. The transaction usually involves public funds. The historical story, however, is not one of public temporal primacy.

Book Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care

Download or read book Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation's Health was released in September 2019, before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March 2020. Improving social conditions remains critical to improving health outcomes, and integrating social care into health care delivery is more relevant than ever in the context of the pandemic and increased strains placed on the U.S. health care system. The report and its related products ultimately aim to help improve health and health equity, during COVID-19 and beyond. The consistent and compelling evidence on how social determinants shape health has led to a growing recognition throughout the health care sector that improving health and health equity is likely to depend â€" at least in part â€" on mitigating adverse social determinants. This recognition has been bolstered by a shift in the health care sector towards value-based payment, which incentivizes improved health outcomes for persons and populations rather than service delivery alone. The combined result of these changes has been a growing emphasis on health care systems addressing patients' social risk factors and social needs with the aim of improving health outcomes. This may involve health care systems linking individual patients with government and community social services, but important questions need to be answered about when and how health care systems should integrate social care into their practices and what kinds of infrastructure are required to facilitate such activities. Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation's Health examines the potential for integrating services addressing social needs and the social determinants of health into the delivery of health care to achieve better health outcomes. This report assesses approaches to social care integration currently being taken by health care providers and systems, and new or emerging approaches and opportunities; current roles in such integration by different disciplines and organizations, and new or emerging roles and types of providers; and current and emerging efforts to design health care systems to improve the nation's health and reduce health inequities.

Book DHHS Project Officers  Contracting Handbook

Download or read book DHHS Project Officers Contracting Handbook written by United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Procurement and Logistics Policy and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Grants  Etc

Download or read book Grants Etc written by Armand Lauffer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-04-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this complete revision of his earlier book on grant seeking, Lauffer provides readers with a wealth of new material. Grants, Etc. includes a step-by-step checklist of project design essentials, as well as a new section on internet access filled with key website links and information on creating your own web page. The wide range of examples provided make this book an invaluable guide for fund seekers of all kinds - non-profit organizations in the social services, health care, education and the arts, as well as for profit, proprietary firms who depend on grants and contracts for their survival and growth.

Book Serving the People

Download or read book Serving the People written by Ann Withorn and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving deftly among literary and visual arts, as well as the modern critical canon, Christopher Prendergast's book explores the meaning and value of representation as both a philosophical challenge (What does it mean to create an image that "stands for" something absent?) and a political issue (Who has the right to represent whom?). The Triangle of Representation raises a range of theoretical, historical, and aesthetic questions, and offers subtle readings of such cultural critics as Raymond Williams, Paul de Man, Edward Said, Walter Benjamin, and Hélène Cixous, in addition to penetrating investigations of visual artists like Gros, Ingres, and Matisse and significant insights into Proust and the onus of translating him. Above all, Prendergast's work is a striking display of how a firm grounding in theory is essential for the exploration of art and literature.

Book Social Services Contracting in the Bay Area

Download or read book Social Services Contracting in the Bay Area written by Ralph M. Kramer and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of Human Services Abstracts

Download or read book Journal of Human Services Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nonprofit Sector in International Perspective

Download or read book The Nonprofit Sector in International Perspective written by Estelle James and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book Services for Sale

Download or read book Services for Sale written by Harold W. Demone and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of Receipts and Expenditures

Download or read book Report of Receipts and Expenditures written by Chicago (Ill.). Board of Trustees of the Sanitary District and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Delivering Human Services

Download or read book Delivering Human Services written by Michael J. Austin and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1986 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Work Case Management

Download or read book Social Work Case Management written by Betsy Vourlekis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new practice text provides a series of readings focusing on case management in a number of fields and in a variety of settings with different client populations. Each chapter examines a major component of case management practice by presenting information about an innovative program from a different location around the country. In conjunction, these readings provide a road map to social work case management.In addition to offering up-to-date practice approaches and examining the functions and skills of case management in depth, the authors provide the policy information needed for putting this traditional form of social work practice into today's service delivery context.