title: Assessing a family-centered neighborhood service agency: the Del Paso Heights model.
abstract: The author describes the Del Paso Model, a neighborhood-based integrated services effort underway in Sacramento County, California. Del Paso Heights is a community made up of African American, Asian, and white families on the northern side of the City of Sacramento. The County of Sacramento selected Del Paso Heights as a location to pilot a new family-centered holistic way to serve families under county human services programs in a Neighborhood Services Agency. The Del Paso Heights model demonstrates the power of the neighborhood as a focal point of integration of services and how the neighborhood can be used as a concept to overcome bureaucratic turf. Like many other community initiatives, measuring the outcomes of the Del Paso Heights Model remains an elusive goal.
authors.affiliation: Minicucci Associates, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Minicucci
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003256:Community Participation; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005006:Ethnicity; D005190:Family; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D007324:Institutional Management Teams; D007857:Leadership; D017146:Models, Organizational; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010865:Pilot Projects; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018511:Systems Integration