January 24, 2019; New York Times
“Can social service agencies…shift from a focus on isolated needs—safety, housing, health, or employment—in favor of a broad view that supports human well-being?” This is a central question that David Bornstein in the New York Times poses in an article that profiles a nonprofit called the Full Frame Initiative. The group works with social service agencies to help them push against bureaucratic boundaries and cooperate with each other to achieve better outcomes for the people they serve.
The nonprofit, Bornstein explains, currently works in the states of Missouri and Massachusetts and employs a five-part framework that focuses on getting public agencies to address core issues of safety, mastery, stability, social connectedness, and meaningful access to relevant resources in their social service programs.
Of course, Full Frame hardly invented the idea of focusing on overall well-being. As Bornstein noted in the Times earlier this month, the well-being framework employed by the Full Frame Initiative is one that has been used around the globe, including in such countries as Bhutan, Great Britain, and New Zealand.
[For more on this story by STEVE DUBB, go to https://nonprofitquarterly.org...entered-approaches/?]
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