Right to Resources or Competency?

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
Carol A. Westphal
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Managed Care ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Human Service Agencies ◽  
Service Agencies

As public funding for human service agencies shrinks, privatization of service delivery becomes more prevalent, and efficiency is prioritized. A review of the literature identifies the response during the 1980s cutbacks in funding as an increase in the use of lay resources. This article will address the relevance and concerns this response might invoke for service providers today as privatization moves us into private, nonprofit, and more extensive managed care service delivery. Interviews were conducted with professionals and students of social work regarding use of lay resources and incorporated into the discussion and recommendation portions of the article.

State Efforts to Support the Engagement of Nonresident Fathers in the Lives of Their Children

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-408
Author(s):  
Jessica Pearson ◽  
Jay Fagan
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Nonresident Fathers ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Block Grant ◽  
Human Service Agencies ◽  
Service Agencies ◽  
Temporary Assistance

Few states invest in programs to help nonresident fathers engage in the financial and emotional lives of their children. The present study examines 12 exemplary states that promote, fund, and evaluate nonresident fatherhood engagement through an array of state agencies, policies, and fatherhood programs. Our study finds that states with substantial fatherhood initiatives share some common characteristics, including strong leadership from executives of state human service agencies, funding from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant and/or child support, multiagency collaborations for service delivery, and documentation of program benefits and return on investment.

scholarly journals The Changing and Challenging Environment of Nonprofit Human Services: Implications for Governance and Program Implementation

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Rathgeb Smith ◽  
Susan D. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Order Effects ◽  
Human Service Agencies ◽  
Service Agencies

AbstractNonprofit human service agencies are an essential part of the social safety net and their role in many policy fields such as community care, workforce development, and disability services is growing. The funding, delivery and entire configuration of human services systems is in transition in the US, as in many other countries, albeit with great variation depending upon local and regional circumstances. Consequently, nonprofit human service agencies need to develop sustainable program and business models that are also responsive to the heightened expectations on transparency and accountability. In addition, policymakers and government officials will need to work closely with nonprofit human service agencies in order to ensure effective and efficient service delivery. Drawing on evidence from the policy and nonprofit literatures, this brief offers a set of hypotheses about the implications, and possible paradoxes, for the nonprofit sector that are likely to emerge from the increasingly competitive environment among service providers and corresponding pressure by public and private funders for more collaboration among agencies. We explore both public policy for nonprofits in human services and strategic responses by this sector, considering the first order effects designed to enable nonprofits to adapt to a reconfigured model, and the second order effects in which governments and nonprofits address the consequences of the first round. These effects are likely to vary by organizational size and by service field, resulting in quite different outcomes and relationships with government for large multi-service agencies and those in highly regulated fields such as child protection versus small nonprofits, particularly in fields such as community care with closer connections to the informal sector.

Baccalaureate Social Work Licensure: Its Effects on Salary and Use of Job Titles

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alonzo Cavazos
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Human Service Agencies ◽  
Job Titles ◽  
Future Viability ◽  
Social Work Licensure ◽  
Work Education ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Service Agencies

Texas' social work licensure statute limits the use of social work titles to licensed social workers. Yet the statute provides a loophole that allows human service agencies to employ unlicensed social workers, provided that those individuals do not use licensed titles. This study, which explored the relationship between social work licensure, job titles, and employment salary in an accredited undergraduate program, found that only half of the 1991 and 1996 graduates were licensed. Additionally, survey respondents (whether licensed or not) received comparable salaries, and the majority were assigned generic job titles including caseworker, casemanager, and other nonlicensed titles. Licensure exemptions at the baccalaureate level in Texas and elsewhere may pose a threat to the future viability of baccalaureate social work education.

Client Empowerment in the Human Services: Personal and Professional Agenda

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeheskel Hasenfeld ◽  
Mark A. Chesler
Keyword(s):  
Human Service ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Human Service Providers ◽  
Human Service Agencies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Action Researcher ◽  
Autobiographical Accounts

The authors juxtapose autobiographical accounts of their personal and professional lives to examine the interplay of their personas and work in the social sciences. Chesler is an action researcher and change agent who focuses primarily on young people and their parents and on those providing them human services. Hasenfeld is an academic who focuses primarily on relations between clients and human service providers and on the systemic changes needed to improve these relations. They share domain assumptions, particularly a belief in the “good” society based on justice, social equality, and respect for diversity, are committed to improving the life chances of the oppressed and disadvantaged, and believe that empowering the clients of human service agencies is crucial to improving the effectiveness and responsiveness of such organizations.

Cultural Competence in Three Human Service Agencies

1998 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Dana
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Baseline Data ◽  
Minority Populations ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Human Service Agencies ◽  
Service Agencies

This paper summarizes findings from applications of the Agency Cultural Competence Checklist in three human service agencies. This checklist was developed on the basis of published literature and culture-specific agencies were chosen to document checklist findings in settings known to be culturally competent. As anticipated, all three agencies were culturally competent in attitudes, although the range of services differed. This paper provides some baseline data for using the checklist in mainstream agencies in which predominantly Euro-American providers serve minority populations.

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