Policy & Practice articles from June 2001

Policy & Practice archives from June 2001

Letter from the Executive Director.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Prior to the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, participation in work was a volunteer activity for clients receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Under the new Temporary...

Inside Story.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Our cover story on Medicaid plan options for workers with disabilities made me recall a newspaper article I read two years ago. The article told of the plight of a woman who was in an accident and, as a result, had no use of her legs and...

Time to take A Closer Look at Hispanic Children and Families.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... The census results for the nations Hispanic population seem to have taken many people by surprise. It's not that they did not expect the 2000 census to show growth in this population. They just did not expect that growth to be so large and to...

UTAH: Private Foundation Helps Utah Recruit, Train, Retain Foster Parents.
June 1, 2001... Respect for my foster family," is the immediate response when a 13-year-old boy with brooding brown eyes is asked what he learned in the past year. What he learned is exactly what foster mom Michaela Sanders hopes for from the children who live...

DHR Escaping Child Care Fines.(Department of Human Resources)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Birmingham News Alabama apparently will escape fines for a child welfare worker shortage after reaching an agreement with lawyers who wanted the state punished for failing to follow a court agreement. The state Department of Human...

Prescription Drug Limit Comes under Fire.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Kennehec Journal A plan to save $10 million a year by limiting poor Mainers' access to some prescription drugs came under fire from health care providers. The policy; called prior authorization, is complex and confusing, they said, and can...

Minnesota Poll: Welfare Exception Favored.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Minnesota Star Tribune Most residents of Minnesota believe some welfare recipients should get a break from the five-year lifetime limit on benefits, the Minnesota Star Tribune Poll has found. A large majority of people surveyed, 76...

Jobless Forecast Brings Warning.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Seattle Times The number of people on welfare will rise sharply with unemployment levels in the next three years, requiring far more state support than lawmakers are contemplating, according to a new forecast from the Daniel J. Evans...

Medicaid Plan Options for Persons with Disabilities.
June 1, 2001... For years, millions of Americans with disabilities faced a frustrating dilemma. They have wanted to work, but would lose vital federal health care benefits if they earned even a meager salary. The loss of their Medicaid and Medicare benefits...

For Better or Worse? Faith-Based Social Services.
June 1, 2001... From the White House to state houses, public officials nationwide are debating the role of faith-based institutions as social service providers. Fueling the debate is President George W. Bush's executive order establishing the Office of...

Learning Our Way Through Welfare Reform.
June 1, 2001... Like many skeptics, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) anticipated welfare reform would have a disproportionately negative effect on substance-affected mothers receiving public assistance. On the...

Food Stamp Leavers: An Untold Story?(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... Moving public assistance recipients from welfare to work and economic self-sufficiency was a major goal of the welfare reform legislation of 1996. Many recent studies have highlighted the status of "welfare leavers"--former recipients who have...

Social Policy and Policymaking by the Branches of Government and the Public at-Large.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Theodore J. Stein A resource for students of social policy and social welfare as well as for social welfare practitioners and other human services professionals, this book examines the policymaking activity of the different branches of...

A Limited Partnership: The Politics of Religion, Welfare, and Social Service.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Bob Wineburg Explores an important undercurrent in the new welfare policy. The author argues that the present policy with its emphasis on services increasingly being delivered by the faith community, cannot work the way its architects...

Extraordinary Behavior: A Case Study Approach to Understanding Social Problems.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Dennis L. Peck Norman A. Dolch Examines many of the common yet extraordinary social problems in contemporary society. Employing a symbolic interactions approach to the case studies, the authors identify the origins of the problems,...

Balancing Family-Centered Services and Child Well-Being: Exploring Issues in Policy, Practice, Theory, and Research.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Elaine Walton Patricia Sandau-Beckler Marc Mannes Explores the development of family-centered services, the process by which these services are implemented, the problems the field now faces, and prospects for the future....

The Empowerment Approach to Social Work Practice (Second Edition).(Review)
June 1, 2001... By Judith A.B. Lee Presents five perspectives of understanding both individual and group oppression: historical, ecological, critical, ethical, and feminist. This edition emphasizes how-to skills and introduces more material on the...

Nicholas Scoppetta.(social worker)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... In "Our Do'ers Profile," we highlight some of the hard-working and talented individuals in the public human services field. This issue features Nicholas Scoppetta, commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services in New York, New...