Dear colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to a new set of papers concerning the
organization and financing of child welfare systems. Some of the final
work of the National Quality Improvement Center on the Privatization of
Child Welfare Services involved the development of the National Survey of
Private Child and Family Service Agencies. The technical report
summarizing main results was published in 2012 and I would be pleased to
forward you a copy.
Children and Youth Services Review published in March (volume 38, pp. 83-
149) a symposium reporting on deeper analyses of these national survey
data: Symposium on the Organizational and Managerial Context of Private
Child Welfare Agencies. While focused on the child welfare sector, the
papers broadly concern the structure and functioning of private human
service organizations and managerial efforts to enhance organizational
performance. Coedited by Crystal Collins-Camargo and myself, the symposium
includes the following papers:
• New directions for research on the organizational and
institutional context of child welfare agencies: Introduction to the
symposium on “The Organizational and Managerial Context of Private Child
Welfare Agencies”
• Trends in local public child welfare agencies 1999-2009
• An empirical typology of private child and family serving agencies
• Collaboration, competition, and co-opetition: Interorganizational
dynamics between private child welfare agencies and child serving sectors
• Organizational responsiveness to children and families: Findings
from a national survey of nonprofit child welfare agencies
• Private child welfare agency managers’ perceptions of the
effectiveness of different performance management strategies
• Private child and family serving agencies: Implications of
national survey results for policy and managerial practice
Please let me know if you have difficulty accessing full-text versions of
the papers. I welcome your feedback on the symposium at
mcbeath@pdx.edu.
Sincerely,
Bowen McBeath
Associate Professor
Portland State University