Privatization of child welfare services: Lessons learned from experienced states regarding site readiness assessment and planning

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 809-820

  Flaherty, Chris ^a   Collins Camargo, Crystal ^a   Lee, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b MA Planning and Learning Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Child welfare privatization; Knowledge development; Public private partnership; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649174506     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2007.12.009     Document Type: Article

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