STAFFING IN AIDS SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS: THE VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTION

This article reports results from a survey of AIDS service organizations (ASOs) that provide medical and social services to people with AIDS in the Oakland, California, area. The survey was designed to assess organizational and staffing characteristics of ASOs. Forty-two of sixty-seven (62.7% respon...

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Published in:Journal of health and human services administration 1995, Vol.18 (2), p.190-204
Main Authors: GENTRY, DANIEL, RUNDALL, THOMAS G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - epidemiology
AIDS
AIDS/HIV
California
Community associations
Delivery of Health Care
Health administration
Health care organizations
Health Manpower
Health Services Research
Humans
Job Satisfaction
Nonprofit organizations
Patient care
Private Sector
Public Sector
Service organizations
Social services
Social Work
Staffing
Surveys and Questionnaires
Task Performance and Analysis
Time and Motion Studies
Voluntary Health Agencies - statistics & numerical data
Volunteer labor
Volunteerism
Volunteers - statistics & numerical data
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Summary:This article reports results from a survey of AIDS service organizations (ASOs) that provide medical and social services to people with AIDS in the Oakland, California, area. The survey was designed to assess organizational and staffing characteristics of ASOs. Forty-two of sixty-seven (62.7% response rate) ASOs responded, providing detailed data on their staffing patterns. ASOs that provided social services reported 48.5 percent of their total full-time equivalents (FTEs) as volunteers while medical organizations reported only 9.5 percent of their total FTEs as volunteers. Among the social service providers, ASOs that self-identified as private, non-profit community-based organizations (CBOs) reported greater than half (50.8 percent) of their total FTEs as volunteer staff. All CBOs that reported utilizing more than five volunteer FTEs were AIDS-specific providers and had designated a full-time, paid staff position as volunteer coordinator/director.
ISSN:1079-3739