About this journal

Human Service Organizations is a leading, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to current research and practice in nonprofit and public sector human service organizations. Since 1977, it has provided timely and relevant research for human service managers, researchers, and educators (originally established as Administration in Social Work). Building on a history of social service management, social policy implementation, and organizational research, the journal seeks manuscripts related to contemporary management, leadership, and governance issues facing human service organizations.

Reflecting its status as the only journal dedicated specifically to the field of human service organizations, authors have contributed to an expanding knowledge base related to organizational adaptation to policies and fiscal demands, interorganizational dynamics, program development and implementation, managing human resources, diversity in organizational staff and service users, promoting and monitoring service quality and outcome measurement, and sharing new knowledge related to promising evidence-informed practices. The journal encourages authors to address emerging topics related to: managing and leading organizational innovations; the role of leaders in organizational change processes; collaboration and competition across public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors; strengthening organizational-environment relations that promote community involvement in human service organizations; and methods for promoting the involvement of service users and other critical stakeholders in management and governance. The journal also seeks proposals for Special Issues that feature emerging issues related to redesigned workplaces, cloud-based information systems, financing human service organizations, leadership diversity, role of social media, and international contributions to the knowledge base of human service organizations.

Peer Review Policy: All articles in this journal have undergone editorial screening and double-anonymous peer review.

Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

KAREN HOPKINS
Professor, School of Social Work
University of Maryland, USA

BOWEN MCBEATH
Professor, School of Social Work
Portland State University, USA

MANAGING EDITOR

AMANDA MOSBY - University of Maryland, USA

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

BECCI AKIN - Professor and Ph.D. Program Director, School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas, USA

MICHAL ALMOG-BAR - Head of the Center for the Study of Civil Society and Philanthropy in Israel, Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

THERESA ANASTI - Associate Professor of Social Work, Brown School at Washington University at St. Louis, USA

ODESSA GONZALEZ BENSON - Assistant Professor, School of Social Work and Detroit School of Urban Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

STEPHANIE BERZIN - Vice Provost, Simmons University, USA

KIM BRIMHALL - Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, College of Community and Public Affairs, Binghamton University, USA

ALICIA C. BUNGER - Professor, College of Social Work, Ohio State University, USA

SARAH CARNOCHAN - Director, Bay Area Social Services Consortium, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, USA

JUAN CHEN - Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

EMMELINE CHUANG - Associate Professor and Mack Distinguished Professor, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, USA

RAM A. CNAAN - Professor and Director, Program for Religion and Social Policy Research, Faculty Director, The Goldring Reentry Initiative, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania, USA

CRYSTAL COLLINS-CARMAGO - Professor, Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville, USA

BRIDGETTE DAVIS - Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

NINA ESAKI - Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Springfield College, USA

KERRI EVANS - Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, University
of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

LAURI GOLDKIND - Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University, USA

GEETHA GOPALAN - Associate Professor, Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, The City University of New York, USA

ERICK G. GUERRERO - Research Director and Faculty, i-Lead Institute at REHD Corporation, USA

TRAVIS HALES - Assistant Professor and MSW Program Director, University of North Carolina at Charlotte School of Social Work, USA

ANNA HALEY - Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Rutgers University, USA

FEMIDA HANDY - Professor and Ph.D. Program Director, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania, USA

ELIZABETH HARLOW - Professor, Social Work, University of Chester, England

CHERYL HYDE - Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Temple University, USA

KRISTINA JASKYTE -  Professor, School of Social Work, University of Georgia, USA

HAEJUNG KIM -  Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy and Civic Engagement, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea

MIRIAM J. LANDSMAN - Associate Professor and Director, School of Social Work, Executive Director, National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice; Co-Director, Iowa Consortium for Substance Abuse Research & Evaluation, University of Iowa, USA

DEIRDRE LANESSKOG - Associate Professor, California State University, San Bernardino, USA

SAMUEL B. LITTLE - Associate Dean for Field Education, University of Maryland Baltimore School of Social Work, USA

ERICA L. LIZANO - Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, California State University, Fullerton, USA

JAMES M. MANDIBERG - Associate Professor, Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, The City University of New York, USA

PAULA MCFADDEN -  Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Magee Campus, Ulster University, United Kingdom

MICHALLE E. MOR BARAK - Dean Endowed Professor of Social Work & Business, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and USC Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, USA

JENNIFER E. MOSLEY - Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice, The University of Chicago, USA

MONICA NANDAN - Director of Strategic Partnerships and Social Impact & Professor of Social Work and Human Services, WellStar College of Health and Human Services, Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA

SUNGGEUN (ETHAN) PARK - Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Michigan, USA

JACLYN PIATAK - Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

KRISTEN GILMORE POWELL - Associate Research Professor, School of Social Work, Rutgers University, USA

MELISSA RADEY -  Agnes Flaherty Stoops Professor in Child Welfare, College of Social Work, Florida State University, Florida, USA

HILLEL SCHMID - Professor, The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

MICHEAL L. SHIER - Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Canada

KARUN K. SINGH - Professor of Teaching, School of Social Work, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

BRENDA D. SMITH - Professor, School of Social Work, University of Alabama, USA

MATTHEW SPITZMUELLER - Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Syracuse University, USA

ROSEMARY VITO - Associate Professor, School of Social Work, King's University College, Canada

MARIA V. WATHEN - Associate Professor of Social Work, Loyola University Chicago, USA

DINA WILKE – Professor, College of Social Work, Florida State University, USA

CATHLEEN E. WILLGING - Senior Research Scientist, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest, USA

BIN XU - Associate Professor, Associate Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

RONG ZHAO -  Assistant Professor, Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, The City University of New York, USA

ALLISON ZIPPAY - Professor and Ph.D. Program Director, School of Social Work, Rutgers University, USA

News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

• Burt Gummer Award (Literature Reviews)
• Mary Parker Follett Award
• Slavin-Patti Award