Policy & Practice articles from March 1999

Policy & Practice archives from March 1999

Letter from the executive director.(challenges involved in providing health care and social services to aged individuals)
March 1, 1999... America faces an extraordinary challenge in the provision of health care and social services to seniors, both now and in the coming millennium. Some basic facts illuminate the stark dimensions of this challenge: * The U.S. population of...

Ensuring that eligible families receive Medicaid when cash assistance is denied or terminated.
March 1, 1999... One of the big stories of welfare reform is the dramatic drop in the number of families receiving cash welfare. Many states are reporting that as welfare caseloads drop, the number of people enrolled in Medicaid is declining.(1) The...

Mississippi.(media campaign aimed at promoting moral responsibility)
March 1, 1999... "My boyfriend is pressuring me to have sex. What can I do?" "How can we increase the involvement and role of fathers in the family?" "How can we assist noncustodial parents with access to and visitation with their children?" ...

Getting down to business: matching welfare recipients' skills to jobs that train.
March 1, 1999... Having moved 1.4 million families off the nation's welfare rolls during the past two years, federal, state, and local policymakers can take pride in the progress they have made through their "workfirst" initiatives. With many of the more...

Combining child welfare and welfare reform at a local level.
March 1, 1999... Over the years, we have heard the lament that virtually all of the money and resources in child welfare are used for expensive deep-end services such as institutionalization or other forms of out-of-home care. It is argued that if we gave more...

A conversation with Gary J. Stangler.(chair of Steering Committee of American Public Human Services Association's Executive Leadership Institute)(Interview)
March 1, 1999... This year, the American Public Human Services Association will launch its Executive Leadership Institute (ELI), a series of programs and services for public human services managers. To learn more about the institute, Policy & Practice talked...

Medicaid and mental health care: can this relationship thrive?
March 1, 1999... The Medicaid program and mental health care are inextricably related. Unfortunately, this relationship is not well understood by many professionals and advocates of either program. Despite increased sophistication in both the Medicaid and...