Dayton-Montgomery County Partnership Project: Research Findings and Year III Implementation Strategy

摘要

The City of Dayton, Ohio, Montgomery County, Ohio, the United Way of the Dayton Area, and the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission joined together to sponsor a research effort through HEW's partnership to improve the delivery of services program. Project goals were (1) to enhance the analytical capacity of decisionmakers at the city, county, and regional levels to plan for and manage human service delivery; and (2) to amend the current intergovernmental structure to promote more effective delivery of human services to the residents of Montgomery County. This report presents a detailed description of the 2 - year research effort conducted by the Dayton - Montgomery County Partnership Project. The material is divided into three sections -- a detailed presentation of the data, a description of the proposed joint planning and problemsolving process, and the research methodology. Data from the individual agency profiles are presented in a series of figures and tables which graphically depict the current structure of the publicly funded human services system in Montgomery County. The description of the development of the joint human service planning and problemsolving process includes a discussion of the structure and anticipated activities of the core planning group and an evaluation plan devised to test the effectiveness of the process. A brief statement of the project's status at the close of the first quarter of year 3 is provided. A section describes the boundaries of the study, the objectives established for year 1 and year 2, the methodologies used to collect and analyze the data, and an explanation of the problems encountered in collecting the data. The appendices include service category definitions, a sample agency profile, and a sample questionnaire. (Author Abstract Modified).