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Pollack, Gail R. – 1981
This paper describes strategies for successful management information system (MIS) development, and an application of these strategies to the Benjamin Rose Institute, a community agency serving the frail elderly in Cleveland, Ohio. A definition of MIS is followed by a list of symptoms of systems which indicate a need to review current methods of…
Descriptors: Human Services, Information Needs, Management Information Systems, Methods
Peer reviewedPancer, S. Mark; Westhues, Anne – Evaluation Review, 1989
Evaluation research, if appropriately matched to a human service program's stage of development, can help inform the decision making at each step. The developmental stages of a program, questions to be answered at each stage, and kinds of research activities pertinent to such questions are discussed. (TJH)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research
Center for Human Services, Washington, DC. – 1981
The contract for the Haitian American Training Institute was awarded to the Center for Human Services of Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1981. By June 1981, the institute had an enrollment of over 1,200 Haitian refugees in 45 classes with 50 instructors. The unprecedented rapid start-up of this human services program and the success of the project…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Day Care, Educational Facilities, Haitians
Austin, Carol D. – 1981
Case management as implemented in programs for the elderly, has focused on interactions between the client and case manager in the areas of assessment, care planning, service plan implementation, and follow-up. Variation in these case management tasks suggests that no single model can be implemented in all local delivery systems. This emphasis on…
Descriptors: Administration, Agency Cooperation, Centralization, Community Services
Peer reviewedFleischman, John A.; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1992
Issues that arose in attempting to survey people with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) are described. Questions of confidentiality, nonimplementation, and slow accrual of information are considered for an initial sample of 2,731 cases. Comparison with a database concerning 1,313 clinic clients indicates overrepresentation of compliant…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Confidentiality, Databases
Witkin, Belle Ruth – 1979
A partnership project to develop and demonstrate a model for interagency cooperation between school districts and city governments operated for slightly over a year in Emeryville (California). Successful results of the project included collection of needs assessment data, completion of a social services resource guide, reopening of school…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, City Government, Cooperative Planning, Day Care Centers
