Policy & Practice articles from December 1999

Policy & Practice archives from December 1999

Letter from the Executive Director.(Editorial)
December 1, 1999... As our nation's welfare rolls continue at historic lows, the attention of the public has and will continue to shift to the well-being of children and families. Child welfare issues in particular are moving to center stage. The soon to be...

Inside Story.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The onset of December finds us in the midst of the winter holiday season--a time to share with families. Many of us gathered with families to feast on turkey and its trimmings at Thanksgiving. This month, some of us will discuss the seven...

1998 Federal Housing Legislation: Reality and Potential.
December 1, 1999... Everyone wants their housing and neighborhoods to be decent, safe, affordable, and close to job opportunities. Yet, many of our nation's housing assistance programs have fallen short of those goals. With the enactment of P.L. 105-276 (The,...

Flexible Computing Systems Can Help Provide Answers to Welfare Changes.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Recently Louisiana's Department of Health and Hospitals faced two major challenges. The first was to design and develop a Medicaid eligibility system that would meet the requirements of the eligibility determination process, not just for today...

Faces & Places.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Rochelle Chronister, secretary of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS), retired October 1. Chronister, a biologist and former state legislator, served as a member of APHSA's policy-making body, the National Council...

FAMILY TO FAMILY: Building Bridges for Child Welfare with Families, Neighborhoods, and Communities.
December 1, 1999... In the field of child welfare, the list of migraines can be a long one. Agency frontline workers are laboring at or past capacity and yet have great difficulty achieving desired outcomes. Caseloads can be enormous and seem only to be growing....

The Increasing Colorization of America's Child Welfare System: The Overrepresentation of African-American Children.(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 1999... Although African-American children constituted only 15 percent of the U.S. child population in 1995, they accounted for 28 percent of founded allegations of abuse or neglect and represented 41 percent of the child welfare population (Petit &...

A Conversation with JESS McDONALD.
December 1, 1999... In September, President Clinton announced the first award of $20 million to states that increased the number of children adopted from public foster care. Illinois, which received almost one-third of the $20 million, led the nation in matching...

How States Can Make Work Pay.
December 1, 1999... For more than a decade, two well-used slogans have dominated the national welfare debate: work first and make work pay. Now, three years after landmark welfare reform legislation was enacted, the goal of work first has largely been...

Social Science, Social Policy, and the Law.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Social science has been an important influence on legal thought since the legal realists of the 1930s began arguing that laws should be socially workable as well as legally valid. With the expansion of legal rights in the 1960s, the law and...

Aging Public Policy: Bonding the Generations.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Discusses the formation of public policy in the United States over much of this century. The four chapters of the book discuss social security, health care, employment and retirement, and housing and social services. If you want to understand...

Fathers' Fair Share: Helping Poor Men Manage Child Support and Fatherhood.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Examines in detail the Parents' Fair Share program. The voices heard in Fathers' Fair Share provide a rare look into the lives of low-income fathers and what they think about their struggles and prospects. This book is a valuable resource to...

Our Do'ers Profile.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... In "Our Do'ers Profile," we highlight some of the hard working and talented individuals in the public human services field. This issue features Linda A. Wolf, who retired after 20 years of service as APHSA's deputy executive director. ...

The Home Front: Implications of Welfare Reform for Housing Policy.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Provides information and advice from leading housing and welfare experts on the projected impacts of welfare reform on housing. This valuable book outlines lessons learned from past employment-focused welfare programs and documents the need for...