The ability to think in terms of a system is critical to achieving common direction, alignment, and commitment in highly distributed health systems. In Canada, provincial and territorial ministries of health provide leadership on the direction of health reform while leadership to align system levels is determined by a far more distributed group of…

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)

"Vision for the Nineties...A Plan of Action" (1991) noted that, to achieve excellence in schools, school-based coordinated services needed to be enhanced by improving interdependent and interagency coordination. It was further noted that school jurisdictions needed assistance to improve the availability of a range of coordinated,…

Since World War I, efforts have been made to coordinate the activities of community agencies involved in adult education. Two basic approaches may be identified: community organization (stressing administration) and community development (stressing process). There are comparatively few studies which deal directly with community organization for…

Examines the composition, case characteristics, team utilization, and growth and development of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Child Protection Team. (BF/JH)

A speech to a community forum reviews the organization, functions, and programs of Community Progress, Inc. (CPI) in New Haven, Connecticut. CPI is concerned with raising the resources for a massive attack on poverty, with coordinating that effort, and with working cooperatively with like-minded community institutions. The major thrust of the…

The regulatory programs of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs have been improved by close cooperation with other federal organizations and private groups or agencies interested in training, employment, and equal opportunity. (RLV)

In the investigation of flood risk management in four New York State counties damaged by Tropical Storm Agnes, 71 persons who had engaged in flood management and related planning were interviewed. Results indicated that the organizations involved in planning in the area were not well connected with other such actors. Regarding four measures of…

The mechanisms and sub-processes of forced coordination and their effects on interorganizational relationships and on services delivered to elderly and disabled clients in a rural community were examined. Participant observations gathered over 18 months and buttressed with information available from historical and case records from the…

The Suffolk County Coordinated Manpower Program in New York is a pilot project whose purpose is to eliminate duplication in employer contacts and services delivered. Agencies at the Federal, State, and local levels work together for a common goal. Definitive results await data analysis, but developments are encouraging. (Author/AJ)

This series of articles is devoted to a discussion of the relationships that exist between agricultural education and other agencies, including community organizations, cooperative extension, other vocational programs, international education agencies, and colleges of agriculture. (SK)

A health education coordinating council can help all those involved in health education in a given geographic area to coordinate, supplement, and intensify their efforts. (MB)

As Jewish leadership began to study the numerous facets of the Jewish poverty problem, it became evident that a cooperative, coordinated communal activity was essential. With an initial grant of 40,000 dollars from the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, the Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty became a…

The development of alternatives to institutionally based long-term care requires the creation of greater interdependence among community based agencies and the provision of appropriate interdependence as the foundation for coordinated service delivery. Theoretical models of interorganizational interdependence are examined and assessed for their…