The Report focuses on how welfare recipients now receive employment-related services, and identifies different approaches to coordination and some factors that promote or impede it.
Coordination can occur under a variety of formal organizational approaches.
Hence, local service systems need to have the flexibility to fit local conditions. Some desired service delivery outcomes can be accomplished in other ways, without a fully integrated system. These findings broadly corroborate earlier NGA Center for Best Practices work on how states were implementing the Workforce Investment Act. That study suggested states already understand the limitations of formal arrangements. The full text can be downloaded as a PDF file from here .