ABSTRACT
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the United States federal government funded a number of demonstration projects that attempted to stimulate the creation of new programs for various clients and encourage cooperation between agencies. There was considerable concern about case coordination and following clients through the largely fragmented system of health and welfare found in most local communities. Many of these demonstration projects foundered on problems of agency competition and inadequate funding, and most demonstrated considerable amounts of conflict over who should do what to which clients and for what reasons.
