Human Service Organizations and the Production of Moral Categories

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A Participatory Model for Evaluating Social Programs

Describes the participatory approach to evaluation, which emphasizes client participation in the design and implementation process

The Logic of Sanctioning Welfare Recipients: An Empirical Assessment

The 1996 welfare reform legislation expanded the use of sanctions under the assumption that welfare recipients can comply with work requirements and that they can calculate the costs and benefits of compliance. This research tests the validity of these assumptions through a record- and survey-based study of California welfare recipients. The article questions the validity of the assumptions, finding that, compared to nonsanctioned recipients, sanctioned recipients face greater barriers to meeting the work requirements. A significant proportion say that they were not informed about the sanctioning rules. Almost half of sanctioned recipients were not aware that they were sanctioned

Program and Provider Diversity: Bureaucratic-Client Encounters in the United States

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51048/1/278.pd

Community Mental Health Centers as Human Service Organizations

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67333/2/10.1177_000276428502800506.pd

People Processing Organizations And Client Careers: A Study Of Four Anti-poverty Organizations.

PhDWelfareUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/180076/2/7104628.pd

Human Service Organization:a book of readings

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Understanding Multi-purpose Hybrid Voluntary Organizations: The Contributions of Theories on Civil Society, Social Movements and Non-profit Organizations

ABSTRACT The paper offers a theoretical framework to study the conditions that lead to the emergence of multi-purpose hybrid voluntary organizations and the factors that influence their ability to mobilize resources and enlist commitment. These organizations are characterized by four interrelated attributes: (a) they set out as their mission to uphold and promote cultural values that are typically at variant with dominant and institutionalized values; (b) they offer services to members and the public that express their distinct values, using the services as a model and catalyst for social change; (c) in addition to their instrumental goals, they aim to meet the expressive and social identity needs of their members by promoting a collective identity; and (d) they evolve into hybrid organizations by having multiple purposes-combining to various degrees goals of value change, service provision and mutual-aid. Because they deliberately combine features of volunteer-run associations, social movements and non-profit service organizations, we articulate a theoretical framework that melds concepts and propositions from the various theoretical perspectives used to study each of these organizational forms. We argue that the expanded theoretical framework offers a more comprehensive and dynamic view of civil society and a better perspective to the study of third sector organizations

Human Service Organizations

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