Developing Partnerships to Meet Clients' Needs in Changing Government Organizations: A Consultative Process

✍ Scribed by WILLIAM A. BORGEN

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 916 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-0787
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-1920.2000.tb00830.x

✦ Synopsis

The article outlines the development of partnerships across 3 employment‐related government ministries, in a context of organizational restructuring and downsizing. The article describes a consultation process conducted with workers from 2 provincial ministries and 1 federal government ministry regarding effective collaboration to assess unemployed clients' employability needs. In individual and focus group meetings, the workers developed a process that involved the cooperation and involvement of those from all 3 ministries in offering and monitoring the effectiveness of a needs assessment program.