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Article Archive: Operational Research
Disruptive Forces: Driving a Human Services Revolution
Available for download after completing a short form, this report strives to:
- Create a vision for the nonprofit human services sector during the next three to five years
- Identify disruptive forces that will fundamentally change and transform the nonprofit human services sector
- Spotlight actions required to preserve quality services within the boundaries of anticipated fiscal and other challenges
Details progress toward the three goals of the Alliance for Children and Families’ New Age of Aging initiative: to increase the number of professionals trained in gerontology and aging issues, reframe human service organizations’ perceptions of aging services, and move Alliance member organizations to the next appropriate level of capacity and skill in serving older adults.
Human services provide a critical safety net for Americans most in need, but more attention is needed to how these services are financed. To explore and examine how human services financing might be transformed, Deloitte LLP, the Alliance, and Alliance member Hillside Family of Agencies convened a group of leaders to create a blueprint for lawmakers to stimulate change. The report reviews a basic outline for transformation.
Help organizations understand why current practices that gather feedback from primary constituents are often unhelpful. Provides a framework for determining if comparative data could be utilized to improve feedback efforts. Recommends reforms.
Explores how recent discoveries in neuroscience-related technology, particularly neuroimaging, could be used in behavioral health care, as well as what costs would be involved.
Summarizes and interprets the implications of neuroscience advancements on nonprofit human service providers based on research, surveys, interviews, and focus groups.
Defines the specific neuroscience advancements most likely to impact nonprofits in the next decade and the implications of those advancements.
Details findings and recommendations from a planning process to develop the Alliance New Age of Aging initiative.
Summarizes results from five regional scenario planning sessions attended by nonprofit human service organization executives, as well as representatives from the business, education, philanthropy, health care, and technology sectors.
Samples the world in which nonprofit human service organizations operate today and provides information that local, regional, and national planning groups can use to explore the central question, “What will the sector look like in 10 years?”
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