Human service organisations, like small businesses tend to be run under a managerial approach in order to gain effective results in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible. The youth independence association is a non-government, human service organisation established to provide community living skills for young individuals with intellectual disabilities. However, the association suffers from a lack of funding and faces the challenge of finding new strategies in order to run the program efficiently. This essay will critically analyse the issue of efficiency, effectiveness, equity, excellence and expansion facing the Youth Independence Association and offer recommendations to put forward at the meeting in accordance to a more productive way of running the association.
The Youth Independence Association rents two houses in the inner suburbs of the city for young people accepted into the program to live, where they will be taught to live independently with three to four other individuals. During this period the participants in the program will learn intensively about themselves individually, how to deal with separation anxieties’, and how to run a household successfully. In short, they will experience the things that majority of other people in the community experience. Workers will take on a supportive role for the young people and are involved in assisting the young people to move out of the houses into fully independent housing within the wider community. The association is currently funded under the Commonwealth Government’s Disability Services Act as a three year demonstration project. At the end of the three year period the organisations activities will be evaluated. The government currently provides 90 percent of the organisations funding, whereas ...