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Articles in Sept, 2007 issue of Policy & Practice

• New rules lead to Medicaid decline
• Missouri No. 1 at delivering food stamps
• Susan Dreyfus is now executive vice president of strategy for Rogers Behavioral Health System Inc., Oconomowoc, Wis
• From poverty to prosperity: a national strategy to cut poverty in half
• The vast majority of adoption tax recipients completed private or foreign adoptions rather than adoptions from foster care
• Low-income families can't afford to follow USDA dietary guidelines
• Information technology is NOT about technology
  by John Cuddy
• NASTA to hold annual conference
• The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy
  by Frank Solomon
• The child tax credit is a $1,000 partially refundable federal income tax credit for each qualifying child under age 17
• Uninsured women much more likely not to get Pap smears
• Number of minority kids in foster care draws concern in Oregon
• Ismael Ahmed has been named director of the Michigan Department of Human Services
• Basic facts about child support
• Each year, about 50,000 children are adopted from foster care
• Musings on policy
  by Jerry W. Friedman
• Disabled face multiple barriers to employment
  by Russell Sykes
• Pennsylvania county child welfare agency draws praise
• Emma Forkner is the new Medicaid director of the South Carolina Health and Human Services Department
• Boomers are ready for nonprofits, but are nonprofits ready for them?
• Girls ages 12-17 made up less than one-third of adolescent treatment admissions in 2005, began treatment at a younger age than boys and were more likely to have a co-occurring psychiatric disorder
• Family Services Technology Council to identify best practices for adopting caseworker technologies
• Interactive process for hiring the disabled
  by David Wachtel
• What gets measured gets done
• Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes Are Affecting Low-Wage Workers
  by Frank Solomon
• Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, food stamps, child care subsidies and the earned income tax credit form the core work-support system for America's low-income working families
• Domestic, intercountry adoptions increase
• Connecticut addresses high number of black and Hispanics in foster care
• Worker safety: a hidden issue
  by Stephen Fox
• Reauthorizing SCHIP: opportunities for promoting effective health coverage and high-quality care for children and adolescents
• Disconnected families have the highest incidence of multiple barriers to employment
• APHSA conferences and major meetings in 2007
• Rachel Demma
• Allegheny County Mental Health Court viable alternative to jailing mentally III
• Kate Houston has been named deputy undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services at the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service
• FY 2008 forecast provides look ahead at SAMHSA grant opportunities
• Continuing a 14-year decline, the U.S. teen birth rate reached an all-time low in 2005
• Troubled homes better than foster care
• Food stamp challenges sweep the country: new "diet" taken by governors, administrators and members of Congress draws national spotlight
  by Laura Hayes
• Two get NAPCWA awards for excellent work
• How to write a board report
  by Frank Solomon
• In 1992, federal policy for cash welfare allowed families to exempt $1,500 in vehicle value from the asset limit
• Reaching for new heights
  by Frank Solomon
• Calling for consumer directed and inclusively designed technology
  by Jeff Rosen
• ISM's 40th annual conference a smashing success
• Marsha Morris is the new Medicaid commissioner in West Virginia
• Don't hide when the news turns ugly
  by Carol Sisco
• Our do'ers profile
• My turn
  by Gary Stangler
• Quality through equality: people with disabilities as employees and customers
  by Dale S. Brown
• NASMD holds Spring meeting, Plans for fall
• Michael Coulson has joined the American Public Human Services Association as ISM Associate
• Finances and affordability of caregiving
  by Tracy Davenport