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This case focuses on the contractual relationship between a state''s office charged with forestalling child abuse and neglect and one non- profit provider of social services for those purposes. The case points out the reasons the state of Massachusetts decided to contract for services and how it chose to define that contractual relationship. At the same time, the case also allows for discussion of whether the non- profit provider -- La Alianza Hispana -- would be well-advised to take on the work proffered by the state, given its organizational mission and capacity. Ultimately, the final part of the case reveals the disastrous end to which the Massachusetts-Alianza contract led. [See also High Stakes and Frightening Lapses: DSS, La Alianza Hispana and the Public- Private Question in Child Protection Work (C16-94-1265.0).]