To promote children's healthy development and give them opportunities to flourish, families need a wide range of support services. These services are often disconnected from each other. Early care and education (ECE) has a particularly fragmented system (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2018). Systems with myriad processes…

The development of alternatives to institutionally based long-term care requires the creation of greater interdependence among community based agencies and the provision of appropriate interdependence as the foundation for coordinated service delivery. Theoretical models of interorganizational interdependence are examined and assessed for their…

This manual describes a regional linkage model developed to bridge the mildly handicapped student's school and post-school job training by using a consortium of local professional personnel (vocational and special educators), representatives of business and industry, and representatives of public and private agencies concerned with work placement…

Children with disabilities and their families tend to interact with numerous human services agencies, but often no formal mechanisms exist to coordinate the agencies' services. The Concurrent Services Model was developed and pilot tested to meet this need. Strategies are offered to ensure that interactions among agencies become more efficient and…

In 1981, the Governor's Commission on Migratory and Seasonal Farm Labor began an initiative to develop and enhance communication and coordination linkages among migrant labor service providers. The Commission serves as a forum for farm laborers to share information and concerns, monitors programs, conducts inspections, promotes coordination, and…

The second part of a three-part assessment of community education research needs, this report attempted to formulate research questions and identify research needs related to interagency partnerships in community education. It begins with a glossary and statement of the historical basis for interagency relationships. The types of agencies…

This report addresses the research and development (R&D) organizations and the decision-making processes that the Federal Government needs to enable it to work toward national and global environmental objectives. It is essential that these programs be well organized, adequately funded, and closely linked with the policy-making process. The…

The author summarizes developments affecting current efforts in developing collaborative service systems for the handicapped; identifies basic processes essential to current efforts; summarizes interorganizational models relevant to interagency planning; provides an illustrative planning model; suggests basic problems associated with interagency…

One of four volumes regarding the CARE (Children's Agencies, Resources, Etc.) Linkages Project in Tennessee, this document contains (1) a review of literature concerning collaboration among social agencies; (2) an annotated bibliography of publications gathered during the literature review; and (3) a summary of the results of telephone surveys…

Noting some of the reasons for the slow adoption of coordinated services among rural social workers, this article emphasizes models which call for client involvement and use of detailed written plans describing goals, objectives, and intervention strategies that spell out the service responsibility of each provider. (JC)

The purpose of this paper is to assess the utility of a conceptual model of factors involved in early childhood policy development. The assessed model provides a framework which focuses on the interactive nature of decision-making. Basic parameters are identified and applied to an instance of successful participation in the development of policies…

Three programs that have been successful in facilitating the reenrollment of students from exiting juvenile detention facilities are described: the Lake County, IL, Youth Advocate Liaison Program; the Lake County, Florida, Multiagency/Special Education Program; and the Rock Island, Illinois, Coalition High School Model. (CL)

In 1980-1981, extended funding from the Kellogg Foundation and a total budget of $561,316 allowed the Partnership for Rural Improvement (PRI) to add to its program while continuing to emphasize project development, organizational development, interorganizational coordination, and training and education. PRI began to use task forces as a method of…

A project was designed to identify barriers which preclude cooperation or coordination among agencies (particularly the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Environmental Protection Agency) in the discharge of their manpower responsibilities and to develop techniques for overcoming the barriers…

A reasonably precise and measureable definition of coordination is that coordination is the exchange of needed resources between two organizations. The Early Childhood Development Division in Texas evaluated how and why coordination begins and is maintained over time in groups of two organizations and in networks of many organizations. In studying…