The Department of Youth Service program is a good example. It is wrong for a provider of youth services to lose sight of a client when he graduates from the program. You are asking for the wrong price, or the wrong program. And provider organizations need to be supportive of each other. It is a shared responsibility.
Providers own the cure, the prevention, or the assistance to a client.
The state does not have the cure, it has the money. The state compounds the problem by not systematically looking at its various programs. Joe's book is exciting but also a bit depressing. Many of the problems that we wrestled with ten years ago are the same, they have only been magnified by the fact that we are not dealing with change in effective and creative ways. We all have a responsibility.