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In the last 35 years, governments around the globe have
increasingly contracted with nonprofit and for-profit entities
designed to provide a portion of the public sector's portfolio of
goods and services. This trend can be traced to a variety of
factors, including perceived or actual economic efficiencies in
outsourcing goods and services, values concerning the role and size
of government in society, and the financial and organizational
constraints of many government entities. In the United States,
child welfare services adopted a pro-contracting approach early,
and a variety of other human services have followed suit, including
mental health care, job training, homeless services and others.
Although there is strong evidence to suggest that human service
contracting is growing over time, scholarship continues to lag on
topics related to human service contract management, policy
implementation and innovation, performance-based contracting and
evaluation. This new volume in the Public Solutions Handbook series
is the first volume-length treatment of human services contracting
issues, integrating both policy and practice, and exploring a broad
range of issues that includes the fields of history, growth,
innovations, results and outcomes, best practices and the future of
government human service contracting. Chapters in this book examine
specific human service contracts, both in the U.S. and abroad,
geared to practitioners in the public sector-from local government
service contractors to municipal employees-as well as MPA students
and those enrolled in courses on intergovernmental relations and
nonprofit management.
In the last 35 years, governments around the globe have
increasingly contracted with nonprofit and for-profit entities
designed to provide a portion of the public sector's portfolio of
goods and services. This trend can be traced to a variety of
factors, including perceived or actual economic efficiencies in
outsourcing goods and services, values concerning the role and size
of government in society, and the financial and organizational
constraints of many government entities. In the United States,
child welfare services adopted a pro-contracting approach early,
and a variety of other human services have followed suit, including
mental health care, job training, homeless services and others.
Although there is strong evidence to suggest that human service
contracting is growing over time, scholarship continues to lag on
topics related to human service contract management, policy
implementation and innovation, performance-based contracting and
evaluation. This new volume in the Public Solutions Handbook series
is the first volume-length treatment of human services contracting
issues, integrating both policy and practice, and exploring a broad
range of issues that includes the fields of history, growth,
innovations, results and outcomes, best practices and the future of
government human service contracting. Chapters in this book examine
specific human service contracts, both in the U.S. and abroad,
geared to practitioners in the public sector-from local government
service contractors to municipal employees-as well as MPA students
and those enrolled in courses on intergovernmental relations and
nonprofit management.
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