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Partnership Development Among Mental Health Organizations, Alicia C. Bunger
Partnership Development Among Mental Health Organizations, Alicia C. Bunger
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Mental health organizations can play a key role in enhancing youths' access to care by working together to bridge gaps in service delivery systems. This dissertation study examines partnerships among a network of children's behavioral health organizations. The specific aims are to (1) describe and understand the network of partnerships among members of the Children's Services Coalition, (2) assess the capacity of the system to provide coordinated service delivery, and (3) test how patterns of organizational characteristics influence conditions that facilitate and inhibit partnerships among the Children's Service Coalition organizations.
This dissertation is a predominantly quantitative cross-sectional network study of …