DEVELOPING AND SUSTAINING GROUP WORK SERVICES - A SYSTEMIC AND SYSTEMATIC VIEW

This paper identifies eleven interrelated elements that need to be con sidered in organizing and sustaining group services in an agency. An a pproach to building group services is seen as needing to be both syste mic and systematic-i.e., every element of the agency system must be an alyzed and assessment and implementation must be systematically done. The paper presents a set of interrelated contextual and programmatic f actors and an approach to analyzing their individual, reciprocal, and collective effect on building group services in a range of agency sett ings.