In our do'ers profile, we highlight some of the hardworking
and talented individuals in public human services. This issue featur
Name: Uma Ahluwalia
Title: Director, Department of Health and Human Services,
Montgomery County, Maryland
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Years of Service: 18 months in current job; over 18 years of . . .
Without any changes federal law.(numbers in the news)(health care
spending)(Brief article)
* Without any changes in federal law, total spending on health care
will rise from 16 percent of gross domestic product in 2007 to 25
percent in 2025 and 49 percent in 2082.
At the same time, net . . .
The June 2008 employment rate.(numbers in the news)(Brief
article)
* U.S. payroll employment declined by 62,000 in June 2008, which
represents the sixth straight month of job losses.
The June 2008 employment rate of the nation's teens was only
37 percent, 2.5 . . .
Pregnancies.(numbers in the news)(Brief article)
* Half of all pregnancies in the United States are reported by the
mother as being unintended. More than one-third of these (1.1 million
pregnancies in 2001) are to unmarried women in their . . .
Health care.(numbers in the news)(Brief article)
* Increasingly, children in Head Start are receiving health care
through public programs, even though 70 percent of families had one or
both parents working in 2006.
The percentage of children . . .
Head Start.(numbers in the news)(Brief article)
* In 2006, the Head Start Program served 1, 080, 627 young children
and 10, 825 pregnant women through 2, 696 grantees throughout the
country, about 26, 000 more children and 340 more pregnant . . .
Children's share.(numbers in the news)(Brief
article)
* The children's share of the federal budget inched up 0.7
percent from fiscal year 2006 to 2007 (1.6 percentage points slower than
the gross domestic product) while the non-child portions of three . . .
Social enterprise collaboration for improved client
outcomes.(making things happen)
Record high gas prices, the rising cost of food and a struggling
economy are only a few of the realities facing families across the
country today. For many, the only alternative is to seek . . .
Low-income working families face the greatest risks, according to
the authors.(Brief article)
This essay synthesizes an integrated set of policy proposals
designed to fulfill these goals and based on four principles:
* Work should pay enough to cover the basic costs of everyday
family . . .
A new safety net for low-income families.(Brief article)
Low-income families have not progressed much in the past two
decades. One-third of America's families with children are low
income, meaning their incomes fall below twice the federal poverty . . .
Reducing unplanned pregnancies through Medicaid family planning
services.(Brief article)
There is widespread consensus among the American public that rates
of teen pregnancy and unintended pregnancies to young, unmarried women
are too high. Approximately 30 percent of teenage girls in . . .
CLASP studies Low-Income Babies.(noted studies)(Center for Law
and Social Policy's report Ensuring Quality Care for Low-Income
B
"Ensuring Quality Care for Low-Income Babies: Contracting
Directly with Providers to Expand and Improve Infant and Toddler
Care," says that the supply of high-quality infant and toddler
child care . . .
Kids to receive declining share of federal spending.(noted
studies)(Brief article)
"Kids' Share 2008: How Children Fare in the Federal
Building," a study from the Urban Institute and New America
Foundation, demonstrates that children are a diminishing priority in the
federal . . .
Turn your clients into advocates.(communications corner)
Marketing isn't usually the main focus of human service
agencies. It isn't even one of the top 10 priorities. Hampered by
budget cuts, high employee turnover, a tidal wave of paperwork and . . .
Most common writing mistakes.(words on words)
Most writing errors are a mixture of misspellings and grammatical
errors, although these days there is an increasingly thin line between
what is right and what is acceptable as proper usage, what . . .
Family centered in all that he does, Hendrick shares.(news
markers)(Brief article)(Photograph)
Family centered in all that he does, Hendrick shares an emotional
moment after three of his four children, from left, Christiana, Cally
and Hudson thanked the audience for honoring their father. . . .
Jeff Woodard.(news markers)
Jeff Woodard is the new director for Warren County Social Services,
Warrenton, N.C. He replaced Henry . . .
Page Walley.(news markers)(Alabama Department of Human
Resources)(Brief article)
Alabama Department of Human Resources Commissioner Page Walley has
resigned, effective Sept. 1, to take the position as managing director
at Casey Family Programs after the Seattle-based foundation . . .
Don Thompson.(news markers)
Don Thompson has been named head of the Mississippi Department of
Human Services, replacing Don Taylor who retired on July . . .
Kimberly Ricketts.(news markers)
Kimberly Ricketts was appointed to lead the New Jersey Department
of Children and Families in . . .
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