Service Provision Through Public-Private Partnerships: An Ethnography of Service Delivery to Homeless Teenagers
Description:
This research examines a service delivery system for homeless youths that was created by a public-private partnership between the business community, nonprofit service providers and governmental entities. The article opens with a brief introduction to homelessness, a review of the literature on the material lives of the poor, and a discussion of public-private alliances. A description of the ethnographic method employed in this study follows, with a concentration on the locally appropriate roles assumed by the researcher. The results examine the genesis of this public-private initiative and the development of the service delivery model, its implementation, and its first system-wide review. The final section closes with lessons learned from this particular alliance that may have implications for the development of other public-private partnerships.
Type of Resource:
Journal
Publication Date:
2002
Volume:
4
Issue:
4
Pages:
278-289
Location:
Thousand Oaks