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Standards for Agency Management and Service Delivery, rev ed.


Standards For Agency Management and Service Delivery.

The Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children, 520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 2202B, New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, NY 10018. $50 in print form ($40 for 10 or more or for members of Council sponsor organizations) and $60 ($50, members) on IBM-compatible disks.

This revised edition offers social service and mental health agencies a comprehensive guide to the principles essential to excellence in the delivery of human services. In addition to generic organizational and service delivery requirements The stipulation that requires that an item of materiel must be delivered in the total quantity required by the date required. , the publication details specialized requirements in more than 40 types of organized care settings.

The standards were compiled through a process of consensus building among practitioners, researchers, academics, managers and representatives of national organizations and help to identify strengths and areas for improvement and serve as an objective reference for developing a long-range strategic plan.

The standards contain a glossary A term used by Microsoft Word and adopted by other word processors for the list of shorthand, keyboard macros created by a particular user. See glossaries in this publication and The Computer Glossary.  of the most commonly used professional terms, plus a comprehensive index for locating references to primary concepts.

The publication could be an invaluable resource for social service and mental health administrators, public health officials, foundation staff, persons representing corporate and federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories.  giving programs, and client and advocacy groups.

The Council on Accreditation is a national, nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive.

Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law.
 accrediting body which provides an independent, objective process of agency review in the field of mental health and human services Noun 1. Health and Human Services - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979
Department of Health and Human Services, HHS
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