Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the development of the Northlake Homeless Coalition, a collaborative network among homeless serving agencies in southeastern Louisiana. These collaboratives are required for obtaining government funds for housing programs in the USA....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the problem of management systems in human services dealing with children and young people not supporting efficient resource utilization, as well as how to deal with this problem. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on six years...