A national computer services network simulation model was used in a 3-day gaming exercise involving 16 institutional teams who made decisions about their likely long-term network participation. Participants were able to react to others' decisions and actions, and to critical overriding political, economical, and organizational issues. (CMV)

The purpose of this study is to document some of the major sources of interorganizational tension and conflict that developed between a large state university and a state department of welfare while they attempted to collaborate on a series of projects. (Author)

The author presents results from a networking needs survey of 692 leaders involved in vocational education, special education, rehabilitation, and other related programs. Findings indicate that networking does currently take place in the area of vocational/special education. Recommendations on how to increase participation are given. (CH)

The A-95 review is a procedure for coordinating federally assisted programs and projects with each other and with state, regional, and local plans and programs. This article describes the Project Notification Review System that New York state has implemented in order to comply with the federal A-95 requirements. (Author/IRT)

The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) was created as an umbrella agency, to bring together state human service programs, so that people could get comprehensive assistance with many, often interrelated needs. Efforts were made to co-locate various service program offices to make access to various services easier.…

A demonstration program of a system coordinating the wide variety of services provided for neglected and abused children in a metropolitan area has produced many gains in the handling of such cases: notably, avoidance of institutionalization. (Author/CS)

Collaboration of a public social service department and a public adoption department demonstrated that it was possible to find permanent adoptive homes for many children who were in foster care. (Editor)

Comments on A. Harvey's Belitsky's book entitled Private Vocational Schools and Their Students." (EB)

An expectancy-value procedure is developed for delineating the nature of interagency relationships during the operation of a youth-serving agency. Advantages of this approach are presented. (Author/GK)

Identifies the elements of refugee resettlement efforts undertaken by government and voluntary agencies and the distribution of responsibility for their accomplishment. Focuses on the Southeast Asian refugee movement to the United States to illustrate current and evolving relationships among agencies. (Author/MK)

A member of the National Evaluation Policy Group discusses the dynamics of the national evaluation of extension education, and the national expectations, issues, and impact of the process. (SK)

This paper discusses eight factors considered the requisites of interagency coordination: items to exchange, mutual benefit, awareness, mutual respect, communication, similarity or complementarity of goals, opportunity, and commitment. (CT)

Terms used in the interagency process component of community education are defined and examples of linking mechanisms and factors that encourage collaboration are listed. (MLF)

Politics and political action will remain the fundamental business of community education in terms of working with people toward the development of collaboration and interdependence. (Author/MLF)

Argues for the need to incorporate both the exchange and the power-dependency approaches of interorganizational relations into a single framework. (Author)