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National Center for Alcohol Education, Arlington, VA. – 1979
This training program, designed to assist treatment programs decision-makers in planning, implementing, and monitoring practices and services for alcoholic women, provides participants the opportunity to: (1) measure the current state of their agency programs; (2) select priorities for change; and (3) develop an action plan for change. The program…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Change Strategies, Delivery Systems, Evaluation Methods
Geoglio, Gerald R. – 1980
As caseloads and reports of child abuse and neglect increase, social service agencies have developed new and varied approaches to effectively serve troubled families. Increasingly, the volunteer and the paid paraprofessional are being used to maintain needed services and to stretch limited dollars. The New Jersey Division of Youth and Family…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Delivery Systems, Family Counseling
Spottheim, David; Wilson, George R. – 1991
The logic and methodology applied in a management science approach to performance and staff utilization in the Client Benefits (CBA) and Community Service (CSA) divisions of the Suffolk County (New York) Department of Social Services (SCDSS) are described. Using a blend of classical organization theory and management science techniques, the CBA…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Delivery Systems, Government Employees, Local Government
National Center for Alcohol Education, Arlington, VA. – 1979
This training program, designed to assist treatment program decision-makers in planning, implementing, and monitoring practices and services for alcoholic women, provides participants the opportunity to measure the current state of their agency programs, select priorities for change, and develop an action plan for change. The program sessions, led…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Annotated Bibliographies, Change Strategies, Delivery Systems
Brown, Harry T., Jr. – 1993
Three objectives were developed to help school districts deliver effective educational services to homeless children at two suburban elementary schools in Pinellas County, Florida. The strategies included an individualized tutorial approach to increase daily school attendance among targeted homeless children, a teacher inservice training program…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Attendance, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems
Tazioli, Pam; And Others – 1987
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…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Cooperative Planning
Ragan, Mark – 2003
Service integration attempts to provide coordinated service delivery systems for the uncoordinated mix of programs such as income support programs (food stamps, Medicaid, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) and employment, child care, child welfare, and training programs that exist at the local level throughout the United States by…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Employment Programs
Waldman, Risa J.; And Others – 1983
Ten parallel human service agencies (five urban and five rural) were compared to identify variations in the service delivery system and to compare the costs of service provision. The agencies responded to approximately 36 questions covering eight major areas and were compared and contrasted, urban versus rural, according to the type of agency. All…
Descriptors: Adults, Advertising, Agency Cooperation, Budgets
Grossman, Jean Baldwin; Furano, Kathryn – 2002
An examination of hundreds of studies on the use of volunteers in mentoring programs, service programs, and local community change initiatives highlight the importance of screening, training, and volunteer management. Each year, more than 90 million Americans contribute more than 20 billion volunteer hours. Personal benefits of volunteering…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Churches, Citizen Participation