Karleen Jackson.(newsmakers)(Brief article)
Karleen Jackson, Alaska commissioner of health and social services,
resigned in May. She has been with the department since 2003, when she
became deputy HSS commissioner in the Murkowski . . .
Alan Levine.(newsmakers)
Alan Levine is the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health
and Hospitals; he replaced Frederick . . .
Susan Loew.(newsmakers)
Susan Loew is the director of the Riverside County Department of
Public Social Services in California. She replaced Dennis . . .
Patricia Wilson.(newsmakers)
Patricia Wilson is the new commissioner at the Kentucky Department
for Community Based Services. She replaced Mark . . .
Elliott Robinson.(newsmakers)(Hocking County Children's
Services)(Brief article)
Elliott Robinson, director of social services at the Monterey
(Calif.) County Department of Social and Employment Services, now serves
on the National Policy Council of the American Public Human . . .
Julie Mogavero.(newsmakers)(Hocking County Children's
Services)(Brief article)
Julie Mogavero, executive director of Hocking County (Ohio)
Children's Services, retired in May after having served in that
capacity for the past 26 years. She began working for Hocking . . .
Karen Timberlake.(newsmakers)
Karen Timberlake is now secretary at the Wisconsin Department of
Health and Family Services. She replaced Kevin . . .
David Maxwell-Jolly.(newsmakers)
David Maxwell-Jolly has been named director of the California
Department of Child Support Services. He replaced Greta Wallace.
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Pierre Vigilance.(newsmakers)
Pierre Vigilance is the acting director of the District of Columbia
Department of Health. He replaced Carlos . . .
Eileen Crummy.(newsmakers)
Eileen Crummy is the acting commissioner at the New Jersey
Department of Children and Families. She replaced Kevin . . .
Adelita Orefice.(newsmakers)
Adelita Orefice has been named deputy secretary of the Rhode Island
Executive Office of Health and Human Services. She replaced Jane
Hayward, who was . . .
Kevin Concannon.(newsmakers)(Brief article)
Kevin Concannon has retired effective the end of June from the Iowa
Department of Human Services. Concannon has 42 years of experience in
human services, including heading agencies in Oregon and . . .
Textbook of social administration: the consumer-centered
approach.(Brief article)(Book review)
This classroom resource is a how-to guide to developing the
management abilities needed to maintain an effective client-centered
approach by using a social program framework that uses . . .
Child welfare in the legal setting.(Book review)
This is a revolutionary study of the child welfare system for
practitioners, educators and students interested in public child welfare
work. The book examines standardization of the organizational . . .
Say what?
Lawyers love to lay it on. A friend in the federal government
showed me a lawsuit settlement document drafted by a young legal scribe
in which the federal agency was called on to "concur, assent . . .
The future of social services.(the field works)
The ongoing debate on the future of social policy is dominated by
discussion of devolution and privatization. Yet the discourse of
devolution and privatization masks the extent to which the . . .
National Association of State Medicaid Directors to get new
director.(affiliates' corner)(Ann Kohler)(Brief article)
Ann Kohler, deputy commissioner at the New Jersey Department of
Human Services, will lead the National Association of State Medicaid
Directors, an affiliate of the American Public Human . . .
IT solutions management for human services releases 'ISM
NEWS'.(affiliates' corner)(information technology)(Brief
article)
One of the ISM goals for this year is to keep its membership more
engaged during the time between its annual conferences. Toward that end,
ISM released its first electronic newsletter in April . . .
Public welfare attorneys' September
conference.(affiliates' corner)
Planning is under way for the 41st Annual National Training and
Continuing Education Conference of the AAPWA, which will be held in
Minneapolis on Sept. 21-24, 2008. The conference will be located . . .
Washington revamps 'flawed' office to help black
children in welfare system.(state and local news)(Office of
African-American Ch
OLYMPIA, Wash. - The Office of African-American Children's
Services, once considered a national model in the way it tried to
address the high number of black kids in the child welfare system, . . .
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