What Is Missing In Pay-For-Success In Children’s Services?

The advent of pay-for-performance initiatives, such as social impact bonds (SIB), has given many in the children’s services field opportunities for innovation that, from my perspective, have been lacking. This was the focus of the recent article by my colleague Howard Shiffman, The Shifting Target For Pay-For-Success – Child Services.

An important piece of that article that caught my attention was the reference to the analysis, Social Impact Bonds: Lessons Learned So Far, work from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The analysis confirmed what many of us know – that many organizations . . .