Human Services Contracting A Public Solutions Handbook

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Introduction Robert A. Shick & Lawrence L. Martin

1. A Brief History of Human Serviced Contracting Robert A. Shick & Lawrence L. Martin

2. Performance-Based Contracting Lawrence L. Martin

3. Pay-for-Success Contracting Tamara Dimitrijevska-Markoski & Lawrence L. Martin

4. Contracting for Child Welfare Services Crystal Collins-Camargo & Bowen McBeth

5. Contracting for Mental Health Services Melissa Hirschi & Sarah Bachman

6. Contracting for Employment and Training Programs Burt Barnow & Shayne Spaulding

7. Contracting for Human Services in New York City James Krauskopf

8. Contracting For Children & Youth Mental Health Services in Ontario, Canada Using a Modified Lead Agency Approach Rosemary Vito

9. Results-Based Funding for Youth Care in the Netherlands: From Conditions and Challenges to the Outlines of a System M. S. deVries

10. Where Has Human Services Contracting Been & Where is it Going Robert A. Shick & Lawrence L. Martin

Biography

Robert A. Shick is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at John Jay College for Criminal Justice and an Affiliated Faculty member at Rutgers-Newark School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA).  At SPAA, he was the Director of the Executive Master’s in Public Administration Program.  Dr. Shick has extensive experience as a senior manager in New York City government in the contracting of government services. He is the editor of Government Contracting, (Routledge, 2015), a volume that provides a foundation for all aspects of government contracting. Dr. Shick served on the Editorial Board of the Journal for Health and Human Services Administration for 15 years, until December 31, 2018.

Lawrence L. Martin is Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Central Florida, USA.  Dr. Martin also taught at the Columbia University School of Social Work, where he directed the specialization in social work administration. He has published 42 books and major monographs and more than 100 professional articles and book chapters.

The federal government has been dependent on the nonprofit sector to provide human service delivery for decades. This relationship or transactional activity has become a complicated proposition for policymakers, taxpayers, and service providers at the state and local levels, as the funding for health and human services continued to grow despite economic declines. This book lays out the challenges and opportunities to better understand how to assess human services delivery and judge the appropriate rate of return on public investment for good & services delivered. This text should be required in all fiscal management courses for human service professionals.　　

David Rudder, Springfield College, USA

Co-editors Robert Shick and Lawrence Martin have made a seminal contribution to the literature on human services contracting in terms of its history, current state, and future evolution. The range of innovative contracting policy and practice examples utilized by various chapter authors is national (e.g., Colorado, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Utah), as well as international (e.g., Canada and the Netherlands) in scope. Moreover, in-depth case examples of contracting for specialized human services such as child welfare, mental health, and work force development services, helps to make the challenges and rewards of contracting accessible, informative, and thought-provoking.

Karun K. Singh, Rutgers University, USA