Despite emerging evidence of contracting for evidence-based practices (EBP), little research
has studied how managers lead contract-based human service delivery. A 2015 survey of …

Public-nonprofit contracting for human services is complicated by the difficulty of fully
specifying contracts in the face of complex human service delivery issues. To understand …

The complexity of human service delivery means that contracts are often incomplete or
contingent. When contracted services or products are complex, relational contracting can …

Government contracts and grants constitute the largest funding source for the majority of
nonprofit organizations. Contracts for complex services, such as those involved in delivering …

Sustainment of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) in human services depends on the
inner context of community-based organizations (CBOs) that provide services and the outer …

Background Bridging factors are relational ties (eg partnerships), formal arrangements (eg
contracts or polices) and processes (eg data sharing agreements) linking outer and inner …

In recent years, state governments have begun contracting out behavioral health care to
large managed for-profit organizations. This approach to mental health service delivery has …

This article analyzes the use and limitations of nonmonetary contract incentives in managing
third-party accountability in human services. In-depth case studies of residential care homes …

This column describes lessons learned by US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
researchers and clinical operations managers while they were engaged in a unique …

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 …