Identification and Tracking
of
Children's Interagency Projects and Initiatives

Literature Review

References and Summary of Facilitators and Barriers to Effective Interagency Collaboration

One component of the Identification and Tracking of Children's Interagency Projects and Initiatives project consisted of a review of the research literature to identify articles that examined factors that facilitate or inhibit successful interagency collaboration, cooperation, and communication. The references for these articles are listed below.

The references are followed by at table that provides a brief summary of facilitators and barriers that were identified in these articles.

  1. Abbott, B., Jordan, P., & Murtaza, N. (1995). Interagency collaboration for children's mental health services: The San Mateo County model for managed care. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 22, 301-313. DOI: 10.1007/BF02106885.
  2. Adelman, H. S., & Taylor, L. (1999). Mental health in schools and system restructuring. Clinical Psychology Review, 19, 137-163.
  3. Alter, C., & Hage, J. (1993). Organizations working together (Vol. 191). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
  4. Bai, Y., Wells, R., & Hillemeier, M. M. (2009). Coordination between child welfare agencies and mental health service providers, children's service use, and outcomes. Child Abuse & Neglect, 33, 372-381.
  5. Charles, M., & Horwath, J. (2009). Investing in interagency training to safeguard children: An act of faith or an act of reason?. Children & Society, 23, 364-376.
  6. Chuang, E., & Wells, R. (2010). The role of inter-agency collaboration in facilitating receipt of behavioral health services for youth involved with child welfare and juvenile justice. Children and Youth Services Review, 32, 1814-1822.
  7. Conger, D., & Ross, T. (2006). Project Confirm An Outcome Evaluation of a Program for Children in the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 4, 97-115.
  8. Darlington, Y., Feeney, J. A., & Rixon, K. (2004). Complexity, conflict and uncertainty: Issues in collaboration between child protection and mental health services. Children and Youth Services Review, 26, 1175-1192.
  9. Department of Health, Home Office and Department for Education and Employment. (1999). Working Together to Safeguard Children: A Guide to Inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
  10. Easen, P., Atkins, M., & Dyson, A. (2000). Inter?professional collaboration and conceptualisations of practice. Children & Society, 14, 355-367. DOI: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2000.tb00190.x.
  11. Foster-Fishman, P. G., Salem, D. A., Allen, N. E., & Fahrbach, K. (1999). Ecological factor impacting provider attitudes towards human service delivery reform. American Journal of Community Psychology, 27, 785-816.
  12. Friedman, S. R., Reynolds, J., Quan, M. A., Call, S., Crusto, C. A., & Kaufman, J. S. (2007). Measuring changes in interagency collaboration: An examination of the Bridgeport Safe Start Initiative. Evaluation and Program Planning, 30, 294-306.
  13. Glisson, C. (1994). The effect of services coordination teams on outcomes for children in state custody. Administration in Social Work, 18(4), 1-23.
  14. Hamblin, B., Keep, J., & Ask, K. (2001). Organisational change and development. Financial Times. Prentice Hall, Harlow.
  15. Horwath, J., & Morrison, T. (2007). Collaboration, integration and change in children's services: critical issues and key ingredients. Child abuse & neglect, 31(1), 55-69.
  16. Hurlburt, M. S., Leslie, L. K., Landsverk, J., Barth, R. P., Burns, B. J., Gibbons, R. D., ... & Zhang, J. (2004). Contextual predictors of mental health service use among children open to child welfare. Archives of General Psychiatry, 61, 1217.
  17. Johnson, L. J., Zorn, D., Yung Tam, B. K., Lamontagne, M., & Johnson, S. A. (2003). Stakeholders' views of factors that impact successful interagency collaboration. Exceptional Children, 69, 195-209.
  18. Jonson-Reid, M. (2000). Understanding confidentiality in school-based interagency projects. Children & Schools, 22, 33-45.
  19. Lester, H. (2005). Shared care for people with mental illness: a GP's perspective. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 11, 133-139.
  20. Lewandowski, C. A., & GlenMaye, L. F. (2002). Teams in child welfare settings: Interprofessional and collaborative processes. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 83, 245-256.
  21. Marrett, C. B. (1971). On the specification of interorganizational dimensions. Sociology and Social Research, 56(1), 83-99.
  22. McLean, S. (2012). Barriers to collaboration on behalf of children with challenging behaviours: large qualitative study of five constituent groups. Child & Family Social Work, 17, 478-486.
  23. Miller, C., & Ahmad, Y. (2000). Collaboration and partnership: an effective response to complexity and fragmentation or solution built on sand?. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 20, 1-38.
  24. Morrison, T. (1996). Partnership and collaboration: rhetoric and reality. Child Abuse & Neglect, 20, 127-140.
  25. Noyes, P. (1991). Child abuse: a study of inquiry reports 1980-1989. London: Department of Health.
  26. Papin, T., & Houck, T. (2005). All It Takes Is Leadership. Child Welfare, 84, 299.
  27. Pumariega, A. J., Winters, N. C., & Huffine, C. (2003). The evolution of systems of care for children's mental health: Forty years of community child and adolescent psychiatry. Community Mental Health Journal, 39, 399-425.
  28. Ranade, W. (1998). Making sense of multi-agency working. Sustainable Cities Research Institute.
  29. Salmon, G. (2004). Multi?agency collaboration: the challenges for CAMHS. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 9, 156-161.
  30. Sedlak, A. J., Schultz, D., Wells, S. J., Lyons, P., Doueck, H. J., & Gragg, F. (2006). Child protection and justice systems processing of serious child abuse and neglect cases. Child Abuse & Neglect, 30(6), 657-677. DOI:10.1016/j.chiabu.2005.11.010.
  31. Shane, P. (1982). Special analysis: Interagency coordination. San Francisco: GH White.
  32. Skaff, L. F. (1988). Child maltreatment coordinating committees for effective service delivery. Child Welfare, 67, 217-30.
  33. Spath, R., Werrbach, G. B., & Pine, B. A. (2008). Sharing the baton, not passing it: Collaboration between public and private child welfare agencies to reunify families. Journal of Community Practice, 16, 481-507. DOI: 10.1080/10705420802473766.
  34. Stegelin, D. A., & Dove Jones, S. (1991). Components of early childhood interagency collaboration: Results of a statewide study. Early Education and Development, 2, 54-67. DOI: 10.1207/s15566935eed0201_4.
  35. Waxman, R. P., Weist, M. D., & Benson, D. M. (1999). Toward collaboration in the growing education-mental health interface. Clinical Psychology Review, 19, 239-253. DOI:10.1016/S0272-7358(98)00072-5.
  36. Wimpfheimer, R., Bloom, M., & Kramer, M. (1991). Inter-agency collaboration: Some working principles. Administration in Social Work, 14, 89-102. DOI: 10.1300/J147v14n04_07.
  37. Worrall, L., Cooper, C., & Campbell, F. (2001). The pathology of organisational change: A study of UK managers' experiences. In B. Hamblin, J. Keep, & K. Ask (Eds.), Organisational change and development (pp. 61-80). Harlow: Financial Times. Prentice Hall.
  38. Worrall-Davies, A., & Cottrell, D. (2009). Outcome research and interagency work with children: What does it tell us about what the CAMHS contribution should look like? Children & Society, 23, 336-346.DOI: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2009.00241.x